Please fix the Eviscerator

[Nish]

Shamelessly plugging my ideas from another thread here.

@Nish

For elites, it doesn’t one-shot heavies including both ragers, the mauler, and does pretty meh dps against crushers. It also doesn’t kill mutants. This doesn’t happen even with +25% damage boost (although the headshot does clear armored rager with it).

Design-wise it looks like an immobile all-arounder damage option for Zealot. Performance wise evis is usable, but it’s currently way below the curve. It should have better clear (but not as good as the nimble HS), a better single target, and all this with pretty low mobility (it’s already there).

It should feel like it’s the heaviest, deadliest, and bloodiest piece of weapon ever wielded.

I’d also increase the hit mass of infested against chain weapons in general, not to nerf them but to emphasize a pretty thematical downside (getting it stuck in pox walker hordes).

Adding just baseline bleed to the weapon would also be fine, even if it would probably be overpowered (but it would be super thematical).

@Nish

I mean Evis should be more of a generalist damage dealer instead of being single-target focused like the thunder hammer.

It should sit between HS and TH in a way. It should have:

• Better single target on non-special than both (somewhere close Caxe)
• Lower anti-horde than HS but better than currently
• Same killing power on elites as TH outside Ogryns (meaning you can one-shot everything)
• Lower Boss damage than TH

I’m fine if you have to spec for it btw with either blessings or perks, but currently I’m running Rampager + whatever I’m trying right now, with maniacs and flak and it doesn’t even clear flak ragers without headshot while locking you up similarly as TH self stun, and it feels bad.

Some additional stuff:

• Perfect Strike should be reverted now that elites automatically get stuck by rev attack. It should give a buff with ignore hit mass effect similar to BM on crit.
• You can actually slide while doing the rev attack making you less vulnerable, but I don’t think this is an intended interaction (or if it is, it’s weird).
• Rev heavy damage boost on cleaved targets could be buffed substantially. I like this interaction a lot, but it isn’t very impactful. (Yeah it’s around a 20% damage boost on infected and unarmored targets, but you can just swing more instead of revving…)
• My main problem with giving it baseline bleed is that it would force the weapon into bleed build pretty much.