Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-29781728-20170210221925

Knee-jerk response.

If you don't know, the Electric Elm is extremely powerful.

Its touch one shots anyone wearing anything except Bulldozer 2 (I think).

Its left click has a very large hitbox, and fires out a projectile. When it latches onto a survivor, it deals a lot of damage overtime (~65) and completely stuns the survivor.

The shockwave (Rebirth) also does ~65 and fully restores HP.

Just a tad bit ridiculous, don't you think?

Suggestions:

Nerf touch damage to 30, and add a 1 second stun on touch. You can't get stunned for one second after recovering from the stun.

Make it so that the stun of the left click is shorter than the duration of the damage over time. This makes it so that ElElms can't permastun everyone.

And that's it. If ElElm is still too strong after that change, then the LMB attack should also be nerfed. However, removing the one shot should be fine.

To summarize just how much stronger the ElElm is compared to a lot of other zombies:

He has a stun

HP regen

Fast movespeed

And can one shot everything.

It's basically a faster, glass-cannon Brute.

But I can see Place's reasoning if he thought about it. Forcing survivors to choose between Firevest and Bulldozer...

But a reliable one shot that requires no skill to use is very unbalanced. 