Grineer Seekers: Their Damage Is Really Off

[Sarmon]

These guys have latchers which attach to you and explode with almost no damage, and a pistol which does more damage in a single shot than a grineer bombard's rocket of the same level.

 

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Latcher explosions should deal higher damage and pistol shouldn't do that amount of damage considering it's hitscan?

 

Getting sick of getting a new warframe to level, having 4 latchers attached to me and explode dealing no damage, and then be killed in 4 shots by the seeker's kraken.

 

Where there's a potential challenge in the latchers, there's artificial difficulty instead with the hitscan high damage.

 

Seekers on Earth and Phobos are more acceptable because they use a low damage viper, but they still have barely any damage with their latchers.

[Nijuroku]

Hear, hear.

 

I was actually about to post this soon. 

Edited June 7, 2014 by Nijuroku

[ArmyUnit]

+1 is all there is to say.

[Detheroc]

Speaking of explosions with no damage: Infested runners.

[taiiat]

ye. Seekers are singlehandedly the most dangerous Enemy in the entire game - yet they give Trash Unit XP.

 

as i mentioned in MV's thread, we should swap the Damage and Accuracy values of Ballista and Seekers. i'd also be okay with those exploding latchers being more dangerous.

 

while at the same time increasing the XP awardment of both units. Ballista are already medium XP, buf if they were actually high Damage accurate Enemies, we may want to bump it up higher. but Seekers definitely need to be medium XP considering they're far from a Trash Unit.

 

https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/167096-damage-values-for-grineer-seekers-broken/

[Sarmon]

Speaking of explosions with no damage: Infested runners.

 

They need to have the same damage as now, but their stun chance needs to be higher.

 

I liked them how they were before. They would deal barely any damage but would always stun you and sometimes knock you over.

[Archistopheles]

Just get rid of Slash bleed, and all will be right with the world.

[Paradoxbomb]

I find it silly how the Seekers deal more damage with their pistols than a Ballista of the same level with a sniper rifle. I agree with Taiiat that the Bastillas should be the ones dealing crazy high damage per hit, while Seekers should be more reliant on their Latchers to deal heavy damage.

Edited June 7, 2014 by Paradoxbomb

[Sarmon]

Just get rid of Slash bleed, and all will be right with the world.

 

Seekers don't even proc bleed. That's elite lancers and eviscerators.

[Archistopheles]

Seekers don't even proc bleed. That's elite lancers and eviscerators.

 

So the Kraken has 0 Slash damage on it?