Petition to buff Machete Wraith

[Malitias]

I really, really like the look and feel of this crude chop-chop. It doesn't even have half of the damage of most other melee weapons and is not exactly thrown at you for free..
Please, show it some love!

[Fishyflakes]

I have no idea why they didn't just add Stats to the new machete skin and call it a day.

[Malitias]

7 minutes ago, Fishyflakes said:

I have no idea why they didn't just add Stats to the new machete skin and call it a day.

There shouldn't ever be any stats on a skin.
It's a shame this, imo, awesome weapon design goes to waste on a weapon that will never actually be used.

[DarkRuler2500]

Almost all machetes (except Zaws) are pretty mediocre statwise in my opinion.
Machete, Kama, Prova appear pretty weak comparable to other weapons.
Only Nami Solo and Zaws are pretty good tbh.

Melee 3.0 will hopefully do something about that. 🙂

[Fishyflakes]

5 minutes ago, Malitias said:

There shouldn't ever be any stats on a skin.
It's a shame this, imo, awesome weapon design goes to waste on a weapon that will never actually be used.

Ok yeah you got half of what I meant yeah.

They should've made the skin into a Fully-Fledged weapon 😠

[GrayArchon]

5 minutes ago, Malitias said:

There shouldn't ever be any stats on a skin.
It's a shame this, imo, awesome weapon design goes to waste on a weapon that will never actually be used.

I think they mean they wanted the new Machete skin to just be a new Machete. The answer is that DE doesn't like to release new weapons these days unless they offer something new. They couldn't (or didn't bother trying to) come up with a fresh approach to Machetes, so they just made it a skin instead.

If this comes across as negative, I'm not trying to dev bash; I'm just noting what I've heard DE say on their own streams.

[Malitias]

Just now, DarkRuler2500 said:

Almost all machetes (except Zaws) are pretty mediocre statwise in my opinion.
Machete, Kama, Prova appear pretty weak comparable to other weapons.
Only Nami Solo and Zaws are pretty good tbh.

Melee 3.0 will hopefully do something about that. 🙂

Nami Solo is even worse than machete wraith. ^^'
But yes, all zaws are good, but apart from that, machetes are in a seriously pathetic state right now.

[xXDeadsinxX]

Don’t you worry, it will probably receive a buff once melee 3.0 comes out.

Edited October 14, 2018 by xXDeadsinxX

[Malitias]

What makes you guys think melee 3.0 will have any affect on the balance between machetes and the rest of the melee weapons?

[Fishyflakes]

7 minutes ago, Malitias said:

What makes you guys think melee 3.0 will have any affect on the balance between machetes and the rest of the melee weapons?

Well hello, they reworked the stats of All Primaries, Secondaries, and Shotguns. They even changed how Beam weapons work.

Melee weapons are going to get their stats reworked in a package deal with Melee 3.0 combat.