Let me start off by saying that this is a bit of a rant, but there are some merits to what I’m gonna say. If you disagree with any of my points, feel free to respond.
Hunters need some sort of a nerf in PvP, getting real tired of playing trials, getting to the lighthouse match, and facing a hunter 3 stack that abuses the evade and triple jump abilities. What’s even more frustrating is when I shoulder charge, shotgun blast, or do any sort of damage to a hunter, they can just dodge at the right moment and negate all damage. Definitely a crutch for sure. It’s not fun going up against someone that with one button press can immediately get behind and above you in one motion. Not to mention the exotics for hunters are tailor made for PvP for the most part.
My clan and I have had plenty of discussions on this topic, we are made up of titans, hunters, and warlocks. We did a rough estimate, just from exotics, hunters have 85%-90% PvP exotics (exotics that are made just for PvP or can be used for PvP or PvE) , warlocks are the same (mostly gauntlets), and titans have 30% PvP focused/ are good in crucible.
I have no idea what could be done to change the hunters to make them more balanced but, there is a reason why most PvP content creators and most of the PvP community uses hunters. It’s because hunters are easy mode for PvP.
Edit: almost forgot the fact that middle tree arc staff can block missile Titan super and not lose the super
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I would say that the thing that makes hunter so great is their jump and dodge. The dodge nor jump does not negate any damage, other than a glitch with at bolt Grenades that I have seen. One reason that you may be finding little success while trying to shoulder charge is because it uses destiny’s melee physics and I think we all know that they are terrible, also unless utilized very well it is pretty easy to dodge, especially when facing high tier player like u said you were facing at lighthouse games. One thing that I think is wrong about your post is when you said that hunters had almost all of the pvp exotics. I would just like to point out that in reality hunter mains only use stompees or worm husk bc the others are quite underwhelming. All of the classes are in a similar situation with titans only really having three, oem, dunemarchers, and synthoceps. Warlocks also only really have three, ophidian aspect, transversives, and ophidia spade.