Some balance adjustments that I’d request be included in the next patch:
-Please remove the vertical slash from the mk6 power sword light attack moveset, which make its light combos unnecessarily awkward to use for clearing and lacks a real benefit given the nature of the powersword. Given that the mk6 has objectively worse heavy attacks in every way compared to the mk3, it should at least have objectively better light attacks in every way. Although I suppose this is only a problem if you have power cycler, in which case you won’t ever get to the vertical swing in practice if you don’t.
Also, the charged vertical swing on the mk6 lights do LESS damage that the other swings, for some reason. The charging animation also seems longer than the mk3, which is rather annoying.
-PLEASE finally buff the recon lasguns, the entire line has been languishing in the dumpster for months now. The removal of infernus infinite stacking exposed them as being terribly subpar in multiple aspects. Comparatively low dps, highly ammo inefficient, and low stagger/suppression despite having a collateral stat.
Despite being extremely difficult to get, infernus (even t4) is mediocre now and does not make up for their glaring numerical problems, much less give them a power level proportional to the difficulty of getting it or even make them actually competitive with other options without extremely rare blessings. Gating the guns ability to be only “somewhat” useable in high difficulty to a very rare blessing is poor game design, assuming the intention is to have them be bad on purpose only for infernus to carry them.
I wrote a very detailed post on their problems and possible fixes here: Recon lasguns need a boost, but were ignored in latest patch
TL;DR A simple per shot damage boost would help alleviate their low dps and ammo efficiency problems. Adjusting their typically very bad damage to maniac AND unyielding would also help. Adding more appropriate and useful blessings to their pool (blaze away, cavalcade, crucian roulette?) and removing less appropriate and useful blessings (sustained fire, punishing salvo) would also be great. Attached is more info on their dps and damage relative to ammo usage.
