I like how people start to flam as soon as you say their stuff is OP. The thing is, sorry about that, I have a waki sneak myself and I leveled it to see if it was actually that OP and yes it was. Yes I am talking on 1v1 situations, you can't attack a squad by yourself ? Oh no ! And still if they are scavenging/splitting, you can kill one and leave, as you do not lose stealth again.
I already explained on previous posts how sneaks can be useful on ZC. We even discussed about melees in ZC. Here we were talking about spending 94ap in less than 2 sec. Your 5 sec are not realistic either because
- They don't turn -> you reach target
- They turn while you are coming to them and you still going : First you already click on attack so you don't have to do anything at that point. He on the other hand sees you, then has to target you with his weapon and then look at the scenarii above.
- They turn while you are coming so you just leave. As most of the time you attack (as a sneak) with buildings and other stuff, you can run away more like 3 times out of 4.
So again, as people don't like to read posts, as you can choose your fights, it is not a dangerous playstyle, as you can choose your fights, it is cheap for high rewards, as you can choose your fights, you can go when odds are good for you, as you can choose your fights you won't attack a full squad stick together (then u'll go say on forum that you are not OP coz u had to run away in front of a squad).
Even when you can't reach the high dam coz you hit with enemy facing you, you have high chances to land a KO, with 2 consecutive attacks with no aiming time, while a gun would just be able to do unaimed shots and pray. If you see a solo with ssledge or shotgun, then it's your choice to go against him. He can't kill you if you don't engage.
So I am afraid you are just defending a bit too much your character playstyle. I am not saying anyone can play waki sneak as if you rush every target in the open of course you will die. But as soon as you get some skills, and I don't mean hardcore gamer skills, it's easy peasy to get kills. Ok you'll get a lot of scavengers kills, but even ZC solo people.
EDIT : Myakot I do believe that sneak can have this purpose on AoP. The thing is most people wants to kill. During ZC, they can do a lot of decent jobs, but I don't think it's rewarding enough at the moment. I won't say sneak must be scouts only, but there should be some rewards to scouting as it is a very useful asset. The relic suggestion was also good for that, making sneaks more versatile as they could have some nice jobs to do on that.
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