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Womp womp Dante nerf
So we are once again heading towards pure damage meta like the old days when Vauban and the other CC frames were considered trash tier?
I mean, they still are, right?
Warframe is completely built upon a mass killing meta. Yeah, I could stop an enemy in its tracks, but I could also kill it. There is no benefit in stopping the enemy, except for making it easier to kill it. But then, I could also just use a way to kill that enemy and more much faster.
Killing an enemy gives loot, experience and with that focus. Cc'ing an enemy gives... Nothing. It's an error in the game's core design, just as healer frames are completely useless these days.
The benefit used to be that they were dangerous enough to warrant cc/healing but power creep do be like that
Even back then, enemies were one if two kinds, either
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Negligible damage
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Enough damage to tear you apart in potential one shot
For most players and their warframes, there was only a very small intervall of levels where certain types of enemies did the "right amount" of damage. If you went below that, it was like picking flowers in the garden, if you went above it, everything could potentially oneshot you.
However, if the enemy was killed before he could damage you, even these stronger enemies weren't dangerous. Kill meta is kill meta and Digital Extremes designed one, from the ground up.
But yes, the power creep made it only worse. And I won't even start how introducing things like Overguard made healer frames completely irrelevant, as it actively hurts them: Either by getting useless or by this feature circumventing their actual ability use.
This is the opinion of a player who’s been playing for years , my new player friends have been having a horrid time trying to catch up ,Everytime they switch how something they thought they understood functions it changes.
Still, CC and softCC got a bit more reliable after a few reworks, but DE being unable to make actual dynamic difficulty they tend to only give enemies immunities, like how they kept nerfing Limbo and Venari during Scarlet Spear.