Talk:Banshee/@comment-196.221.222.176-20160328101823/@comment-24820404-20160413032601

A sonic boom is just a sound dude. Its effective range isnt even that far. Like a few feet. You can look this up yourself. It also doesnt actually do much on a physical level. Also tested on both humans and animals, also something you can look up. It causes involuntary muscle spasms and disorientation at worst. In this game, blindness is a very logical way to display disorientation. And in this game, blindness is never permanent, its always temporary unless u spam it so the only one bringing up damaged retinas is you lol.

Your point about covert lethality is moot. Banshee has savage silence. If thats what i really wanted i'd just play that way, and i do sometimes. Maxed narrow minded, roll from enemy to enemy. One shots everywhere.

A stationary target also isnt more reliable for me, its just a better target for damage in general. If you're playing at range, and enemies are knocked down, there is no damage bonus for a crotch shot. There is however a bonus for a head shot. also, you may knock them down, and your sonar spots end up on the other side of them. Its not even a subjective thing to discuss. A standing incapacitated target is better than a knocked down one. Period.

And like i said earlier, just because one frame has it, doesnt mean that another frame cant have it. Its about the sum of the parts, not the parts themselves. Excal has radial blind. guess Mirage doesnt get prism. Rhino has rhino stomp. Guess Nezha doesnt get divine spears. Loki has invisibilty, guess Ash doesnt get smoke bomb. There are SOOO many comparable skills in this game, to say that banshee would suddenly become inaros because of one move is (no offense) dumb as shit.

Silence is far from useless. Its banshees best skill outside of sonar. I personaly consider it the best stun in the game. (stun, not knockdown, blind,panic etc)

I dont know if that silence idea would be the greatest though. Think about what kind of power creep that would establish. Banshee would go from the least used frame to becoming the meta and then every frame would start needing powers that make their other powers stronger. Granted, warframe is "power creep:the game" by design, so that just may work once de runs out of ideas.