Talk:Gneiss (Alpha)/@comment-32863256-20180711023546

I can't think of any reason to play this guy. Gneiss has to be the most confusing class to me. His biggest strength and main fighting style is his biggest weakness, why? His motto is fighting enemies at medium range, but his x and v damage increases the further away his enemies is. So im guessing to maximize damage you're going to want to stay at about medium range from your enemy, throwing a couple z's for 100 or so damage.

On paper that sounds completely logical, yet in game it's a flaming hot mess. The huge problem about "Staying medium range" is that medium range is a very fickle thing. No one is going to let you fight them at medium range. The moment a close range fighter even smells you at medium range, they will gladly take your z to face to rush you down and slam their face onto the keyboard. God help you if you're ever slowed. You don't have any form of real knockbock to keep people off of you so anytime someone uses their movement ability and dashes to get on top of you, your practically done for.

Long range fighters are just going to stay out of your range, you don't have any real form of cc to lock people down. (No a dash is not cc, and off balance to too short to honestly to be considered a threat. Enchanced x does help a bit if you manage to get close.)

I don't get this guy's motto. Are you suppose to stand their like a fool spamming z and x and trying to get a v in, because if you are, it takes 1 vulca with a brain to just rush you down. Enchanced z Does do over 200 damage which is nice, but after that you're all out of spice. The cooldowns ae god long, this character chews through mana. Your x and v only do more damage based off how far someone is. Doing pisspoor damage at close range, your c is unlikely to help you get away. 9/10 someones going to lag on top of our c, but even then since gneiss is a slow basterd it doesn't really matter.