Everything we have is about FREEZING, and nothing about SHATTERING.
Considering 90% of Warlock builds are grenade builds, please give us a new useful melee to use alongside the buffs to Stasis shard generation.
I propose, just like the current melee, a toned-down version of Winter’s Wrath — This one will be the shockwave.
You’re held in place while you cast, and you can charge up the melee to be more powerful the longer you hold it. On release, you create a shockwave that shatters all nearby targets in a certain radius around you. At maximum charge (2-2.5 seconds to charge), I’d say the shockwave should shatter with damage equal to 75% of a Winter’s Wrath shockwave, with 60% of the range. Without charging, this melee will shatter with damage equal to 40-50% of Winter’s Wrath shatter, with 40% of the range.
This melee should also be buffed by Ballidorse Wrathweavers, similar to how the other classes have it (Eg. Pyrogale with Consecration). This would also create some clean interactions with aspects, such as freeze-rift into shatterpulse, making full use of the Ballidorse exotic (Feel free to keep the surge and frost armour buffs exclusive to freeze-rift, for the sake of balance, so long as this new melee also gains the increased shatter damage like the super does).
I’d say this is a balanced idea, even for PvP (You need to be close-up to use it without charging up due to the range limitation, and you are held in place while charging, and thus vulnerable to being pushed. There is, of course, the biggest limitation that the enemy has to be frozen for it to actually do anything).
Plus, Warlocks generate huge numbers of shards and freeze everything in the room, but can’t do anything with that, unlike the other two classes who have both freeze and shatter capabilities integrated into their subclass kits.
Our Glacial Harvest works completely contradictory to our melee — We freeze some targets, create shards to recharge our melee, so we can… freeze them again? Why? They’re already frozen, I need to be able to do something with that.
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Yes, there is indeed a strong need to add a reliable way for Warlocks to generate shattered ice. I hope the warlock's charged melee can consistently produce shattering ice effects.