Can someone explain why Shadebinder got so much nerfs in this last patch even if it was more or less fine?
Seriously, Shadebinder got totally destroyed now.
They removed Grenade regen in Iceflare bolts. This is really big, because Grenade regen was really important to Shadebinder to keep chaining freeze and clean areas. Now it is hard to keep it up, and the add clear feels so much worse now.
Plus, they didn't mentioned it in the patch notes for whatever reasons, Penumbral blast damage got a huge nerf. Now it does 38, and it was 80. This is slighty more than half! You can't oneshot anymore low rank enemies like dregs, you can oneshot only Shanks.
These 2 nerfs alone made Shadebinder A LOT worse in PvE without a real reason, it was fine before and not broken. It was competing with the light subclasses and now there is little reasons to bring Shadebinder in PvE.
The new aspect isn't that good to make up for the nerf to Iceflare bolts. The turret is bad, the projectile are REALLY slow and warlocks focus is on freezing not slowing (i know that the turret freeze enemies, but it takes ages to do that).
In PvP, the nerfs to frezee hurted Shadebinder more than the other 2 classes, the 200 HP damage to shatter enemies and 50% damage reduction while frezeed combined with the fact that Shadebinder is the only subclass that frezee for 1,3s make really hard to kill frezeed guardians without using a Special.
Don't get me wrong, i don't mind much PvP and I'M NOT against these nerfs to general freezing in PvP, but if you want to make them truly efficient, you need to nerf to 1,3s even the other souces of freezing, or this will be mainly a nerf only to Shadebinder.
Anyway, without considering the general freeze nerf in PvP (that, again i say i'm not against them), these Nerfs to Shadebinder maded the class REALLY weak, and are hurting the class in PvE a lot.
Please, reconsider them...
TLDR: the nerfs directed at Shadebinder were too much and so out of place, Shadebinder was more or less fine before all of this and now these nerfs are hurting the class a lot in PvE. You can't kill anymore enemies like dregs and goblin with Penumbral blast and it is really hard to keep the chain freeze going in PvE now.
(Sorry for bad english and wall of text)
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