As the title says. In PvE, they are capable of doing a lot of damage around their area. If there's a Knight or something around, he's probably going to get pretty roughed up by them, especially if you're using Verity's Brow or charging the grenade with top-tree Voidwalker.
But once again in PvP, we have another inconsistent Warlock ability. I have seen Guardians stand directly in the middle of regular Scatter Grenades and get tickled for half of their [i]shields.[/i] And in some cases, I've seen Guardians like that take enough damage to compare it to a Fusion Grenade stick.
Let's not forget the fact that for some absurd reason, [I]Scatter Grenades sometimes love to BOUNCE on the ground a couple of times before they actually detonate.[/I] They're weak enough, they don't have to BOUNCE for no reason on top of that.
Now enough with the negatives, Magris. You don't mean to say that they're completely useless, right?
Right. They're not totally bad. For starters, they don't BOUNCE off of walls. And in smaller corridors, they're pretty good at finishing targets. When they're not BONCING, they can be used to clean up a shotgun rusher that's charging you while you're lighting them up with a primary weapon pretty fast. They do have their utility and you can make them work.
But as grenades in PvP, they're pretty bad and inconsistent. Someone that's standing directly in the middle of a Scatter Grenade should not be taking a bunch of 2s and 4s as damage values.
And they BOUNCE.
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Lol they've been doing this since D1 sadly. Nothing Manacles would fix this problem somewhat but until the underlying coding problems are fixed it'll always be a problem.
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Warlocks need nothing manicles back so it won't be niche. I love scatter but 100% agree that its garbage outside of pve,charged with top tree nova or not still bad.
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and axion is just trash, they disappear in pvp
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Skip grenades are inconsistent also. I think both scatter grenades and skip grenade types need polishing. I can't tell you how many times I toss a skip grenade just to watch it stick to the ground and do absolutely nothing and not skip.
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Another awesome bug that's been around since d1 supposedly fixed like everything else.
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MTNdewtop
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The bounce glitch has been around since D1 launch.
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Such is the way of warlocks, never truly get buffed and every ignorant hunter that plays warlocks every once in a while say warlocks are fine. There are a ton of issues with warlocks that bungie refuse to fix, have you used blink on pvp? You don’t teleport the way we used to like in D1. What happens in D2 is your hitbox simply expands. You can actually deal damage to a blink warlock if you shoot the center of their blink. Its stupid