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Edited by yungluke222:
10/28/2025 8:31:55 PM
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Void soul buddy buff
After the changes to allow buddies to scale with grenade Stat was implemented I and many other warlocks I'm sure are grateful. That was a great change to add some power back to our class that we have been sorely lacking. That said I've used all the buddies at this point extensively and there is one buddy that is underperforming by a large margin compared to the others and that is the void souls buddies.
Void souls with briarbinds is not on par with the other two buddies or even close for that matter. Even with briar binds equipped and 200 grenade Stat they simply don't do enough damage. As such I have some suggestions that I think would vastly improve them. One an out right damage buff is the most obvious. However I don't really think that alone is enough. I believe a tick rate buff coupled with a 50% damage buff would fix the issue.
I also thought that if you don't want to give damage buff because of briarbinds scaling then allowing briarbinds to also -blam!- suppress to void souls coupled with a slow and tick rate buff would be even better honestly. A big problem with void souls is that enemies just walk outside of their range especially the fallen with their teleportation.
Giving them a slow would ensure the void souls actually have time to do some damage coupled with a faster tick rate. Giving them the ability to suppress as well would add more utility while simultaneously giving void more access to that particular void debuff that imo we don't have enough access to outside of the suppress grenade.
Void unlike the other subclasses has no easy access to champion stun for overload suppression only comes from the suppress grenade so it would give void warlock easier access to one of its unique debuff. Void souls also need to have their tracking fixed and probably a speed boost. If an enemy dies before the soul gets to them it just flys off in a random direction often times to inaccessbile areas of the map making them unretrievable. They also travel at a very slow pace and because of it enemies tend to die before they get to them.
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2 RepliesI think they need to relocate by default if there is no longer an enemy that it can attack. Keep the same duration. And then tweak briarbinds for the picking up no longer being needed.
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Bungie should modify the briar binds to make the void buddy become heat seeking and one of those stupid tormentor mini hurricanes at full power that can start seeking out enemies on its own that are made volatile and are volatile through the little slices it starts shooting out. I guarantee that would be an iconic buff for it to be a void “whirling maelstrom” that aggressively tracks anything that has been marked volatile.
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1 ReplyWarlock wanting an ability buff 😆 You already have so many tracking damage abilities that you don't have to shoot to kill. Now you want MORE free damage?
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7 RepliesYou do realise its not meant for damage. Damage is a passive extra for this ability. It literally refunds ability energy, weakens everything around it and also heals you. It is a hybrid CC and sustain ability that happens to also do some damage. You could probably say its a hybrid of all 3. Helion is damage. Arc soul is damage. Bleak watcher is CC.
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1 ReplyVoid buddy isn't meant for damage, but my briarbinds suggestion is to let you recall the buddy by shooting it instead of having to go pick it up.
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6 RepliesI whole heartedly agree as they are super weak; especially in PvP. I've watched players literally just stand next to them while still engaging in fire fights because they present little too no threat at all. It would be nice if they did more such as suppression or even poison. I also need them to have aggressive tracking and too shuttle off after shooting a viable target. Half the time they don't seem to shuttle of with hit registration.
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Child of the old gods isn’t exactly a damage ability. It gives you healing, ability energy and debuffs targets.
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14 RepliesThe point of it is support, not offense. It acts as a short range tether that poisons while it's spawned and gives you nade+melee or health back depending on rift type. The other light buddies are pure offense.
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Its suppression
