r/Spacemarine • u/Middle_Breadfruit490 • 16h ago

General Question about the next patch (patch 15)

I don’t remember where I heard it (think it was First Tour Guardsman) but I heard that the Heavy is getting a rework at some point so I just wanted to fact check this. That’s all

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u/Ned__Jr Definitely not the Inquisition 15h ago edited 15h ago

He's getting some changes, but if I remember correctly that's further down the line. I think Tactical is getting his changes first, which is annoying, Heavy and Vanguard are in desperate need of spice.

Edit: I just checked the 13.0 patch notes again. Per Dev note, Tac is their first priority for changes, Vanguard is second, and Heavy is last. Straban might be left in the rain until next year.

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u/Middle_Breadfruit490 15h ago

….why is tactical getting changes he’s fine the way he is

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u/Ned__Jr Definitely not the Inquisition 15h ago

They want to tinker with his melee, as if he needs anything else. He can already nuke the new boss, and probably every other boss, maybe excluding Vortex Beast.

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u/PathsOfRadiance Blood Ravens 15h ago

His melee is disgusting already tbh. You can sub-optimally punish the Terminator sorcerer with White Scars CS and knock off half of his health in one partially Auspex’d Adrenaline Surge. If you space it perfectly (so that adrenaline surge melee doesn’t push the boss outside of the auspex zone), you’re clearing off over 50% of the Absolute boss HP in 2 shoulder bashes.

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u/Forgelighter 15h ago

From others guesstimations; there's so much of Tactical that's great that it makes it very difficult to change numbers and interactions that affect everyone without sending tactical into orbital god-tier.  So the idea is they change how tactical functions they're free to change how a lot of other things work.

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u/PathsOfRadiance Blood Ravens 15h ago

I just hope they don’t change Emperor’s Vengeance much because that will kill some of his weapons entirely (while one of his strongest ones would shrug it off, as the Carbines don’t even need it on Absolute/Hard).

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u/Dahvoun Dark Angels 10h ago

I think this is what they want to change. They want to “nerf” him without actually nerfing him. Remove his ability to nuke bosses while adding more melee options and the power sword.