85% lifesteal (MoK (45%) combined with Manslayer (40%)). Red armor + the 40 health trinket (no grenades, no medpack). Gives me around 400 EHP. People rightfully realise that you are slow as fuck and so happily keep shooting you even while you are in your melee-animations. But the moment you actually hit something you heal most of that damage back. Then copious rolling leading into evade attacks. The lower your HP gets, the more people are willing to take hits just to shoot you, meaning that you heal back more as they become careless. One basically becomes a draintank.
a) Ranged is no more 'easymode' than Melee. I mean, EC isn't a hugely difficult game to play, but that's usually true of PVP shooters as a class. But there's no substantive difference in the basic skill-floor/skill-ceiling for the two styles of player. b) Melee was WTFBBQOP a lot longer than Ranged has been overtuned, so I don't think that's an argument you want to go down. Returning Melee to the state it was is not an acceptable solution anymore than leaving 'Ranged' with such a substantial edge is (it's not Ranged though, is it? it's the hybrid tactical/shoota/avenger classes). It's obviously a problem Behaviour are struggling to find a workable and implementable solution to, and a moderately undertuned melee component is far preferable to the days when the entire top half of the kill rankings for a match would be JPAs.
Gotta risk big. I won't deny that I often get shot to pieces while charging my heavy attacks. But if I get them off, I basically heal 200 HP while the poor sod gets stunned and can get hit by a follow-up light attack. I remember one memorable time where I found myself in a swarm of like 10 marines, on Pegasus, while they ran up the stairs in the back of C point. I just randomly attacked in every direction, and whenever people turned towards me I rolled, launched an evade attack at another guy and healed. I had a great time. Then I got killed by an Abaddon's Grace guy that somehow managed to miss the 10 marines around me and hit me in the head. I looked stupefied at the screen for like a minute after that.
Never even considered running that banner, but I wouldn't hold my breath even if I did. 6% isn't all that big when the axe chunks already. Do you want me to record some games? Might be interesting.
Right then, getting ter recording. Will make a thread in the CSM-section in a couple days and tag you.
