Better second ability ideas for Waymaker
Just a random thought post. Please keep in mind that Waymaker is an awesome titan with the potential to become a top tier f2p titan, but this is literally just because the hunter effect is OP. The design behind Waymaker is a bit disappointing for three main reasons:
- It has awful stats. Low firepower and speed can be made up for with Hunter stacks, but the durability is just awful… so much so that it can *almost* justify running the defense specialization (THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT IT SHOULD, JUST THAT IT WOULD BE MUCH LESS OF A MISTAKE TO DO SO THAN ON OTHER TITANS). Also, since the stats are so awful at base, you really want to scale up Waymaker with hunter, meaning it is quite weak early in the match.
- The Hunter effect that it gives is the same as Pathfinder. The idea here is “why run pathfinder as your entire titan when you could just run pathfinder the robot and do basically the same thing?” though I will note that one slight benefit to Waymaker’s Hunter is that it has much stronger grey healing, so if you really wanted a reason, this would be it. Waymaker is a better healer than pathfinder but unfortunately not a better buffer.
- The blind guard ability SUCKS. This is what I’ll be going over in this post. Blindguard is a weak and unreliable form of defense that can be countered by most motherships. It also doesn’t really last all too long, and the pilot giving it another charge is pretty much useless because it’s bottlenecked by the blind immunity that people get after being blinded.
So, here’s two ability concepts for Waymaker that way make may make it a better titan.
Concept one: Evasive ability.
Something missing in Waymaker’s kit is movement. To be fair, not every titan needs a movement ability, but since we’re trying to replace a defensive ability, why not try to replace it with a disengage tool?
My idea for an evasive ability would be something kind of unique to War Robots but recognizable for those who have played other games before: Rewind. The most popular example is tracer from Fortnite Overwatch. The rewind ability tracks your robot’s position 15 seconds ago at all times, and when activated, it blinks you back to that position. Additionally, it restores you to the state you were in when you were in that position, so it can heal you and cleanse debuffs, but it can also damage you (if you were high on HP 15 seconds ago you are healed to that amount, but if you are were low then you’re damaged to that amount). That being said, the pilot skill that used to give another charge of blind guard could prevent it from damaging you, causing it to always heal and cleanse you when used.
Concept two: Additional support ability.
Another option is to go the direction that they went with Nodens and give it two support abilities, solidifying it as a backliner support. Seeing as Waymaker copied Pathfinder for its first ability, why not copy another support bot for the second?
My idea for a second support ability would be a “super link” of sorts. This would combine all the benefits of a Lio link, a Nuo link, and Khepri link into one single ally (can’t link three like with Nodens) and also add some extra tricks. Something like 50% damage, 250 defense points, 15kph speed, constant heals, and a charge of “Counter EMP” which does exactly what you think it does. Additionally, the pilot skill that once gave Blindguard an extra charge would now provide the ally with DMI instead. To balance this out, Waymaker receives none of these buffs (unlike how most support bots also buff themselves when using this type of ability).
What do you guys think?
