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I believe zaws in conclave are too overpowered, I have seen many players just running around with a dagger zaw and that's all they use, it one shots people. All they do is do a ground slam to stun and the minute you get up 1 shot with their zaw and you're dead. Has anyone else had these problems running into zaws in conclave? Are they balanced?

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On console zaws are probably more dangerous because aiming is more difficult, unlike PC where aiming pretty much rules over melee except in narrow+short halls.

There are ways to keep from being knocked down...and it usually has something to do with staying near a wall or using powers.

Regardless of the misnomer about the 1-shot (because they ground-slam, which at least makes this a 2-shot), I feel like the best route to balancing them isn't to nerf them, but to make other things equally as powerful.  I want to feel powerful in PvP, the same way I feel powerful in PvE.  I would also like 'winning' to be based around some other objective than killing the most...and not CTF.

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Well, Zaw Nikana is the ONLY nikana that actually get kills. And it's somewhat balanced because in order to get two-shot damage you need to wield a 0.6 speed nikana, which is a snail attack speed and easily dodgeable. The other nikanas are nigh useless wet noodles.

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21 minutes ago, Nazrethim said:

Well, Zaw Nikana is the ONLY nikana that actually get kills.

Not really
Edit: Oh, you meant "Only Nikana". Sleepy me thought "Only zaw". And now I can't delete 😄

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Here's some ingame stats of some zaws I've been observing. I don't know what to make of it since I'm not a meele expert. But maybe relevant to discussion. Those hammer zaws tho.

 

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hace 6 horas, Triplinster dijo:

Not really
Edit: Oh, you meant "Only Nikana". Sleepy me thought "Only zaw". And now I can't delete 😄

Yes, only nikanas. You can easily make the comparison. Try to fight a match with a Nikana prime only, and see how many kills you get vs how much you die trying. Then compare to a Zaw Nikana and you see a big spike. Now, you could make a case of Zaws being overpowered anyway, but then you use other weapons that aren't Zaws, and the kill vs death ratio is similar to Zaw Nikana. So basically a custom made Zaw Nikana isn't overpowered, is in the place Nikanas should be to begin with. My Loadouts are all Melee-only, with Ash (a frame that has zero offensive abilities worth using) so I pretty much rely entirely on my melee. My loadous are: Zaw Nikana (formerly Dragon Nikana), Fang Prime, Jat Kittag, Venka Prime, Sigma&Octanis, Kogake, Guandao, Shaku, Karyst and Dakra Prime. All of them have similar kill v death ratio of 1v1.5 on average, all nikanas used to have that, until they were overnerfed, now the ratio is 1v10 (not missing a dot there). Zaw Nikanas? 1v1.5

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