Golite

the other two frames that give overguard haven't really been a problem because they generally have enough dead time between bursts of overguard that you can bait enemies into breaking it temporarily if you need to. the way Dante's overguard is implemented you flicker between 400 overguard and the overguard gate. Especially because Styanax and Frost play into using weapons and things other than just the abilities, whereas dante's play is all about the skill rotation.

If the dante player was frantically attempting to negate all damage for the team that would be one case, revenant could do the same thing by casting mesmer skin with the augment every 6 seconds. but as it stands on a halfway decent build dante's overguard regeneration nearly passively makes the squad nothing less than immortal. you literally cannot pass the overguard gate as long dante is maintaining a reasonable rotation.

the problem isn't so much getting the overgaurd it is the speed of getting the overgaurd. Dante as launched is disruptive in that he will just turn off the kit of frames that require health interaction. literally spent minutes baiting enemies as chroma to try to break though the overgaurd on SP above lvl 300 and couldn't force it to break. That might speak more to how early buffer frames like chroma and oberon need a solid uplift pass, but these frames are incompatible with dante nonetheless.

casting larva with particle effects in netracell causing framedrops into low 70s on 3090.

I was under the impression that the rhino stomp was allowed to slow as a thematic choice. There are two control effects on stomp and only one applies through overguard. Firstly the ability causes a knockdown effect, which is prevented by overgaurd, then the slow occurs. In Rhino's ability description this is portrayed as an effect on local spacetime, which if overguard was able to bypass would indicate capabilities for overgaurded enemies that exceed the acceleration given to Manics. Do we really want Eximi with access to the speedforce? Por que no los dos? Step 1: Stomp Step 2: Align weapon barrel with eyeball at 2" in 12 sec of leisure Step 3: Explode face (Roar always on)

would be nice to be able to use saxum set for something,