Talk:Volt (Warframe)/@comment-88.231.241.120-20150208224030/@comment-74.109.192.124-20150304033345

I can see you're very comfortable with your playstyle of E shield, but I have to wonder if being so set in your ways has made you biased against the possibilites of a volt with expanded potential into the power damage zone, especially if it were to mean trading away shield power.

Not arguing for being a frame "focused" on damage but I do believe his power damage should be strong enough so that it can be at least built into one if modded so. And to offset that buff I do believe volt's shield should have a ceiling of how much punishment it can take. I don't know why it doesn't now because frost's shield does. The only time that even comes into play as a factor though is when an absurd amount of numbers are overpowering it (2 hour survivals) so trading away the infinite durability or volt's shield should not be too big of a deal if he receives buffs to make him more well rounded in trade.

However, "we already have a thing for x so we don't need x" is absolutely among the weakest stances to have. How many weapons in the game perform similarly to another one, would you have one of each type of gun? Roles of a thing should be chosen and applied by the players and developers should faciliate this as well as potential for different builds where it's applicable. We're already starting to see movement towards this with the introduction of power augment mods.

Obviously if there was some new guardian themed frame that had some bulky shield arm no one would be batting an eye when it was outperformed in damage by a gunslinger frame. Volt's theme is electricity though so it should definitely have the potential to build into a power damage engine.