they lost me at "we removed blink to encourage skill" (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, July 07, 2015, 15:30 (3663 days ago) @ someotherguy

Blink --> Shotgun is actually really, really difficult to pull off consistently, and requires a high degree of skill to use with maximum effectiveness.

No.

Maybe if your look sensitivity is 3 you'd have trouble adjusting in time(?), but otherwise it's just "I have to be next to you. Now I'm next to you".

I rarely run Voidwalker or Bladedancer because I don't like their supers or melee abilities as much as I like Gunslingers and Sunsingers, but when I do I blink, and it makes 1v1 fights easy mode. Maybe that's because not enough people have enough "understanding" of the mechanics, and how to counter it, but a semi-invulnerable insta-teleport move is ridiculous in a game where Shotguns are so... Umm... "creatively balanced".

But how long did it take you to figure out exactly where you'd go after each blink? When to do it to make that perfect jump right next to the guy? When to blink behind him? That blinking cancels reloads and you have to think about that? That you can't blink 3 times in a row? That's all skill. When I first unlocked blink I never used it because I couldn't figure out how to jump onto any platform that was higher than ground level.

On the defensive side, there's a slight delay (it's really short, like .25 seconds, but if you're not lagging, you can hit it every time) after a blink in which you can counter-shotgun them (and it feels so good to just see a corpse pop out of mid-air). Also, the blink shotgun guys are screwed at long range, so if you see one approaching your best bet is to start backing up (or to jump into the air so when they blink they'll be below you). In my recent experience, blinking attackers tend to use it to flank more often that directly approach you, so it's a game of tracking them like ___/-___/-___ as they bounce into the air. You get used to the motion. But again, that's skill.

In the interest of full disclosure, I also use blink on my hunter, but I'm a hawkmoon / sniper / HMG blinker rather than a shotgun guy. I use it to close the distance to capture points more quickly, and occasionally to try and dodge incoming fire. It's not really an offensive tool for me as my strength when attacking is in the mid to long ranges. Though I just ran my Sunsinger to rank 5 IB without blink, and that was fine, too. I really like the burst of speed jump for warlocks in PvP.