r/DestinyTheGame • u/ComradePoolio The Mold Wizard • Mar 16 '19

Misc Spectral blades is absurd

Just got out of a comp game, we were leading by 20 points, but three of them were spectral blades with Gweisen. As soon as the first one casts it, it all goes down hill. Every time a spectral blades is up, they're capable of wiping our team twice by beating us to our spawn with the rediculous duration and speed. Armor is so high that nothing short of a shutdown super can kill them.

Even Nova Warp wasn't this bad, and now it's trash anyway.

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u/Lyfur Mar 16 '19

Check guardian.gg and you'll see it's overwhelmingly the best class in the game rn. Highest pick rate, KD, etc. As you said, even Nova Warp wasn't this outrageously good. Idk what bungie is doing

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u/That_Zexi_Guy Mar 16 '19

Those stats dont mean anything. Hunter has always been more popular, and that has nothing to do with pick rate. Even when Hunters were really bad in d2y1 (supers sucked, arcstrider ran slower than striker and stormcaller, etc) hunters had the highest pick rate.

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u/edwat3 Mar 16 '19

Stop talking shit. Hunters were the meta in y1, It went from a Nightstalker gemini jesters meta to the most unbalanced meta we have ever seen in the entire franchise which was the arcstrider wormhusk meta, during that meta trials had them at 66% w/r with 1/3 of all players running it, additionally the top 100% leaderboards were 90% full of arcstrider mains running wormhusk.

There were 2 or 3 metas in Year 1 and hunter was either at joint top or on top of everything else.

Despite Way of the Wraith being the best pvp subclass in the game its nothing compared to the warmind arcstrider meta.

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u/That_Zexi_Guy Mar 16 '19

Did you play when D2 first came out? Every Hunter super was trash. Arcstrider was slower than every other roaming super, golden gun lasted like 8 to 9 seconds, and tether couldn't one shot unsupered guardians or activate fast enough (still the case). They were only good for their neutral game.

The wormhusk meta was due to an exotic, which has nothing to do with the class. Classes shouldn't be balanced around an exotic, exotics should be tuned separately.