Greetings Guardians and allow me to introduce myself, I am zero and I am one of the few who actually use this exotic. All I can say is that after the recent melee changes that were announced going forward I am mixed about it. Let me explain; This warlock exotic is literally the warlock version of pre-rework WormGod Caress. Which although did have some funny bugs with Raid bosses eventually got looked at to be reworked since the gameplay loop goes as follows; get melee kill(charged/uncharged/glaive melee) = get bonus melee stacking damage up to x5 for 4 seconds. Problem is with this that warlocks have no real way of having a real melee exotic build shine.
Fret not fellow guardians for I come with an idea. Now I see this 400% bonus melee damage cap increase in EoF is nice and all but again we run into a 4 sec problem of being able to use it properly not to mention how many console players there are who cannot or are very limited in rebinding their button inputs.
So I purpose a few suggestions;
1. We copy and paste wormgod rework on winter Guile and call it a day. (Personally, not my favorite option but a better option nonetheless from the current form of this exotic)
2. It forgos the melee bonus damage and focus on the second part of the exotic where it focus' on Penumbral Blast. Maybe just make this the shatter exotic for warlocks since that is what they lack in stasis heavily. Keep the instant shatter effect it has with the melee but instead make it able to regenerate melee energy from getting kills with your melee. Hell why not say melee kills against frozen or slowed enemies(which warlocks can very much do) regain some melee energy. It would syngerize well with a pure stasis build with some of the fragments. (Side note make stasis warlocks have 5 fragments slots to stasis bro tired of prismatic being the only way to get 5 on walrock. Please and thank you.)
3. For the funny memes, rework it to be the point contact cannot brace. Why? Cause I like the chargeable melee and think it would be pretty cool if I equipped my Winter's Guile to take my icy staff melee from a simple freeze to a chargeable frost shatter storm in either a line or small yet generous AoE(Enhanced damage while frost armor is active)
Anywhos, those are just my thoughts on the matter. Thank you for reading and have a good day/evening/night.
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Edited by Iron Lord Zero: 6/25/2025 3:13:00 AM[quote]Greetings Guardians and allow me to introduce myself, I am zero and I am one of the few who actually use this exotic. All I can say is that after the recent melee changes that were announced going forward I am mixed about it. Let me explain; This warlock exotic is literally the warlock version of pre-rework WormGod Caress. Which although did have some funny bugs with Raid bosses eventually got looked at to be reworked since the gameplay loop goes as follows; get melee kill(charged/uncharged/glaive melee) = get bonus melee stacking damage up to x5 for 4 seconds. Problem is with this that warlocks have no real way of having a real melee exotic build shine. Fret not fellow guardians for I come with an idea. Now I see this 400% bonus melee damage cap increase in EoF is nice and all but again we run into a 4 sec problem of being able to use it properly not to mention how many console players there are who cannot or are very limited in rebinding their button inputs. So I purpose a few suggestions; 1. We copy and paste wormgod rework on winter Guile and call it a day. (Personally, not my favorite option but a better option nonetheless from the current form of this exotic) 2. It forgos the melee bonus damage and focus on the second part of the exotic where it focus' on Penumbral Blast. Maybe just make this the shatter exotic for warlocks since that is what they lack in stasis heavily. Keep the instant shatter effect it has with the melee but instead make it able to regenerate melee energy from getting kills with your melee. Hell why not say melee kills against frozen or slowed enemies(which warlocks can very much do) regain some melee energy. It would syngerize well with a pure stasis build with some of the fragments. (Side note make stasis warlocks have 5 fragments slots to stasis bro tired of prismatic being the only way to get 5 on warlock. Please and thank you.) 3. For the funny memes, rework it to be the point contact cannot brace. Why? Cause I like the chargeable melee and think it would be pretty cool if I equipped my Winter's Guile to take my icy staff melee from a simple freeze to a chargeable frost shatter storm in either a line or small yet generous AoE(Enhanced damage while frost armor is active) Anywhos, those are just my thoughts on the matter. Thank you for reading and have a good day/evening/night.[/quote]