It's a nerf wouthout nerfing. It happens on my rockets now too. They did a similar thing back when swords were viable, lets make bosses repeatedly stomp you accross the map. It actually began when we first got Ikelos shotty from Mars Protocol with trench barrel, the stomp was dialled up back then, now the stomp applies slow or scroch stacks to you as well. So now we keep a little distance and take advantage of BaitnSwitch... except the chance of blowing your own face off is the new risk.