Broken Scepter Ability Should be Passive

[(PSN)haphazardlynamed]

 

They need to fix its 'drain' ability to be a passive, not something you have to interact with the corpse to activate.

 

Note: this is how it works in Conclave, just being near a corpse auto activates the ability.

DE has recognized that the prompt system is too cumbersome for Conclave, now they just need to recognize it for PvE as well.

[peterc3]

Then it gets nerfed, probably by a lot. Passive energy and health generation just by holding a melee weapon in PvE is different from PvP.

[Andele3025]

3 hours ago, peterc3 said:

Then it gets nerfed, probably by a lot. Passive energy and health generation just by holding a melee weapon in PvE is different from PvP.

Counter argument: Zenurik+Elevate, Sahasa and Sentinels exist. All of which do it better.

Tho it being 1 orb per x kills instead of on each kill would probably have same results without doing a nekros style "fill the screen in loot/hit item cap in 2 minutes".

[peterc3]

4 hours ago, Andele3025 said:

Zenurik+Elevate

We're just pretending Arcanes and Focus abilities are free? If the time or resource requirements were the same, then sure you'd have a point. Passively getting orbs merely by holding a specific melee weapon, one that is given to you in a quest, is not equivalent to anything you've mentioned.

[Andele3025]

4 hours ago, peterc3 said:

We're just pretending Arcanes and Focus abilities are free? If the time or resource requirements were the same, then sure you'd have a point. Passively getting orbs merely by holding a specific melee weapon, one that is given to you in a quest, is not equivalent to anything you've mentioned.

Focus is till DE buffs the rest of the schools (and for naramon turns combo count decay into a core mechanic it should be instead of bandaiding the school by holding it hostage) you dont pick any other school unless you are the eidolon hunting or masochistically insane.

Operator arcane slot is truly free tho since the rest of options is for eidolon hunting, survival which only ends up being useful for eidolon hunting due to void mode, gimmicks that take too much time and effort for little benefit, bugged versions of said gimmicks like firewall, gimmicks to help the plains k-drive achievement hunters (poor unfortunate souls) and 3 ways of healing (2 of which are slow and 1 of which is elevate).

Note eidolon hunts are not a argument here since 1) they saidly aint designed for melee 2) they already require specific setups for which loadouts exist where that stuff is saved for swapping to. And even if you use the same loadout for the rest of the game as eidolon hunting, chance is either you are a release of overwatch widowmaker+mercy player doing quickscope trinity things OR a chroma in which case you already have elevate slotted on one of the operator slots and use HA for energy - both cases making equipping broken scepter worthless (unless you are a bit of a richard who leeches eidolon hunts).