The problem isn’t that he has problem doing Legend. He doesn’t. Nobody does. The problem is that he’s one of the weaker melee centric options directly related to his durability scaled to his damage output. Oblivious to Pain is an actual waste of a slot now, Grimnirs Focus does not’ refresh or apply to the throwing axes and so is unreliable unless spamming charged hits.
He still has mandatory Talents as well which I talk about at length over here
At the absolute best you have a career that does marginally more damage than it’s melee centric foils like Zealot with a sideways comparison to Shade. At its absolute worst you have what is undoubtedly the hardest career to succeed at still being overshadowed by other options.
It’s not the case of Slayer at Launch even before both waves of dodge changes and temp changes (the temp on kill pushing him from balanced to overpowered as he gained the ability to farm elites) where he was hard to play but had high levels of damage output and good enough survivability that he could contend with a ranged centric game at the time (even if it felt awful doing so because ranged did everything better). Now other melee centric careers do great damage as well on top of ranged options being as powerful comparatively as they were in this games first pass. It’s simply an untenable situation.
Leap bugging out on various terrain isn’t the crowning problem. His entire package is.
Look at RV. Tons of different build paths and talent configurations you can take on top of an actually useful DR talent… Look at IB, with the exception of Draki Wrath. Tons of build paths as well with varying degrees of interactivity with different weapon loadouts. Back to Slayer which again I’ve gone at great length to explain the problems with his talent tree.
New leap aside from terrain problems (of which there are many) is pretty good. Enemies no longer automatically upswing at you, you can phase through enemies, and you land a good distance away on top of getting your steroid. Everything else, however, is awful. And I don’t think somebody who created
probably thought things through to well. A passive that directly needs a talent of which there is only ONE choice being Grimnir’s Focus given that Oblivious to Pain doesn’t work on the primary source of damage anybody takes in this game anymore (barring minotaur who deserves his own topic) is an absolutely atrocious Passive.
And we’ll be stuck this way for months. Quite literally the only two requests from Slayers was to make Adrenlaines tree have better talents or else move Adrenaline to a passive and/or give it some in built DR and we got neither. What a laugh.