I'm not convinced. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 01:57 (3390 days ago) @ Durandal

I mean two guys escape Arc blade in this video just by jumping off the ground.

Yep. Part of that is I suck with Arc Blade, but as I said Arc Blade is one of the weaker over-all supers. Thing is, 95% of your crucible gameplay is not spent using a super ;)

But really, other then Blink still being good to get into and out of places, I'm not really seeing anything here outstanding from a class perspective. You don't stealth, and it didn't look like you got much use out of hungering blade. The arc grenade really only setup a double kill once and failed several times. Is the passive weapon swap buff that good? Do you have the quickdraw BD perk plus the snapshot perk on your sniper?

Yes, the weapon swap is that good. Hunter jumps are all very good for PvP because of the quick rise and fall; your movement and trajectory never slows down like the other classes do. Blink has the additional advantages of ring less predictable and breaking line of sight. That's really important when it comes to changing directions quickly; pushing to advance, then pulling back hard all of a sudden, for example. That's where the quick-draw perk comes in. You can move to shotgun range and fire off a shot or two while your opponent is still trying to switch weapons. Or fake a shotgun rush, jump back and swap to your primary and get shots off before your opponent has time to swap back.

Check out the 2nd video I posted. I run shotgun instead of sniper, I think it illustrates my points a bit better.

Case in point, in mayhem modes I see Shadowstalkers staying cloaked all the time, and Titans spamming the hammers, and both are really effective. I rarely, if ever see people blade dancing, and if they do any other super seems to cancel it. Heck, I ran around as a striker titan and shoulder charged on a mayhem rumble match and managed to get over a 1.0 KD.

Basically, I think without the strength of Blink, BDs would be the worst class by far in PVP.

If I'm playing Mayhem, I'd agree. That's because Mayhem is like 70% about supers. It's a very different game from the rest of Destiny's PvP.