Talk:Banshee/@comment-75.187.219.81-20151009055303/@comment-174.94.39.33-20151013121638

i can't tell you because "i want it better" is exactly where i'm going. the stun is fine, and i don't want to remove it, but i don't want silence to be outright a stun spam skill. so alright, there is disorientation from being suddenly put in total silence while in combat, like deafness; that's likely where the stun comes from. sound-based doesn't have to be in the skill itself--it could also be the limiting effects of having the sense of hearing taken away from you. well, you can hear, but there are simply no sounds. i emphasize "improve the silence" because it currently does nothing to enemies, but rather to the environment. the description, in which i admit i overlooked the stun part, says it also should limit their perceptions and tactical response to gunfire and warframe attacks.

what i had in mind is to have affected enemies get forced into their alarmed states--like where they see their buddies get killed on stealth but doesn't know where you are--if on alert, therefore allowing you to slip through and get into a favorable position. if on stealth, then they retain their alertness level, and this is all after the stun you want. and since they can't hear your gunfire, they won't look at you until you actually bump into them or hit them with bullets or whatever. getting seen or hitting them will have a slight delay before completely shooting you or looking where you are respectively; the delay could also be affected by duration. silence, its initial disorienting effect, will also deal a great accuracy loss to the enemy in the first half of the entire duration.

to summarize: you cast silence, they will all get stunned as usual. you can run behind them while they're stunned and still not have them see you. if you hit them, they will stand there for a moment, then look at you stupid before shooting. of course, while they're still disoriented in the first half of the duration, only some bullets will hit you. that should give a lot of survivability to banshee. if it doesn't for some reason, feel free to cast sonic boom.

and you're right, at the rate devs are changing or balancing everything, you might as well just buff banshee with a recastable stun temporarily. however, it doesn't mean they'd approve of it for being too useful or too good (hello mag), but it's a good start. you may live in reality but think about what they're thinking.