I've been a Bladedancer main since the early days of Destiny, in PvP at least. Over the course of 2.5 years, it has seen nerfs to the following:
Arc Blade damage
Arc Blade duration
Arc Blade swipe super usage
Arc Blade hit detection (now fixed, kind of)
Arc Bolt Grenade damage
Arc Bolt grenade radius
Skip Grenade damage
Skip Grenade tracking duration
Skip Grenade -1 tracker
Flux Grenade magnetism
Blink distance
Blink preparedness time (x2)
Blink cool down
Blink -1 recovery
Blink removes HUD
Quick Draw ready time (x2)
Blink Strike range
Blink Strike Escape Artist activation time
Blink Strike Backstab activation window
Blink Strike Fast Twitch cool down
Stalker activation time
Hungering Blade health regeneration
The only skill perks that haven't seen a nerf are Showstopper, Fleet Footed, Shadow Jack, & Encore.
Staggering, really.
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Sorry m8 but hungering blade got nerfed
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-made bladedancer useless, again
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Bungie 'Don't become legend, don't become op even though your supposed to be a Demi God like Kratos and kill other God's of the universe, we don't want you to feel powerful'
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When was quickdraw nerfed?
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I feel devastated reading this :( rip
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Waaaaa waaaaa waaaaaa
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Sad thing is, a majority of people are happy about all of these nerfs. Rip bladedancer.
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the BladeDancer version of Quickdraw also had snapshot in it but was taken out when they nerfed snapshot
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The blink nerf should be reverted, it's too harsh IMO.
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Edited by Mizo: 6/18/2016 11:29:53 PMHow do you notice the ninja nerf to blink now?[spoiler]I haven't used Bladedancer in a while[/spoiler]
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I feel that encore got its effect nerfed while got the 150% damage boost after a kill for a period of time. You kill some enemies but the bar fill almost nothing. Before, if you killed 4 - 5 enemies in a short period of time you could double the time duration for the super.
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have a list of all nerfs ? Pm me I'd love to see that !
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No other game has this much tinkering and nerfing, does my head in, imagine they used all that time and effort into actually making the game playable and fixing the horrible lag and lack of servers. Smh.
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Came here expecting a list. Got a wall of text. False advertisement
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Edited by ZvSpid: 6/17/2016 8:41:37 AMBecause blade dancer was completly broken? im sorry but sunsingeer was a small child to what bladedancer was when game launched. It was so broken that everyone got called out on forums for using it and they deserved it. Every youtuber/streamer got their KD to 3+ and soon as it was nerfed in TTK their kds started melting down when they had to change subclasses. The fact all these nerfs happened and the class is still one of better classes proves how broken it was.
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You guys are still the most popular sword bearers against crota....you'll always have that.
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You're wrong on several accounts skip grenades have only been buffed and he detection was never nerfed just a glitchy result of other shot that affected all melee hit detection
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I did change up my play style and loving it but yes true BD is feeling played alot in year 2 blink recovery was kinda no reason just like knife and along with the hidden nerfs they do to all classes and guns. Swiping in air kind of confused me of why it got decreased hungry blades health regeneration got nerf hidden lunges are fairly OK encore got buff but hidden nerf the Extra duration doesn't give alot if energy back as it use to on omnigaul the thralls come out and I usually go showstopper encore but it was weird I wasn't getting much super back I felt like I was getting like .90secs back so it felt like you losing more if your super basically what I'm saying in this patch both pvp and pve you lose alot of energy to fast but it is possible to kill 3 or more guardians if your lucky to get the off guard and all close together
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Now make a list of every nerf in the game since day 1...loooooooong list....sad isn't it...we use to be powerful now everything feels so weak...
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And yet, the only non hunter subclass that you could argue is better is stormcaller. Striker [i]could[/i] be considered on par at best. That leaves it better than 4 of the 6 nom-hunter subclasses still. It's still at the point top tier players consider not using a hunter as a disadvantage.
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I was using encore in pve and it's great but not being able to use hungering blade is risky. I think they should revamp the mask of the third man to "grant encore" instead of what is does now, that would make the BD so much better in pve
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Anyone having an issue swiping with BD after jumping? Won't let me swipe until I've hit the ground. Don't know if this was intended or not. Curious to hear if others are experiencing this.
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Yup. Encore received a slight nerf. You can't extend it's duration as long as was possible pre patch. It's a small nerf that is mostly made up by third man. But you really can't miss a single swing. And you have to be near lots of enemies. Honestly encore is still worth choosing just because of the 150% damage increase. But tarantula is the better exotic over third man. At least in most pve situations.
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Edited by Haunter: 6/16/2016 8:31:00 PMBladedancing since launch, thanks for making this. We need alot of buffs again to make us even with other subclasses. But bungie insists on continuing to destroy us All our nades have been nerfed, blink multiple times, backstab, fast twitch, quickdraw. When will it end?
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Yes this is true and the buffs had made it better in pve than ever before,but we have been nerfed a lot compared to other classes. Does anyone else feel like this is residue salt from the early days when we ruled the crucible unchallenged?