Strand feels really really weak

[Trankhanhduyh]

Even with strand empowering i still wish man i can use a void subclass rn which have never happen when im doing beyond light campaign and when they forced me to use stasis i have never complain about it because it was strong and crazy strong with empowering stasis on but strand is just weak, they give me 2 charge of nades but i always feel like i can only use 1 and even with empowering on the melee regen is really slow.
The only way strand can be strong is through unintended bug so dont link me those video, this subclass is a disaster and more so when they forced me to use it without any aspect in hard mission.

[loitertude]

Should have saved it for a further expansion in the future, that's what all the "veteran players" like to believe. I've played a "REALLY LONG TIME" though and I'm sure exotic mutators will make your whims better, or it attracts a new demographic and your whims will be terrible again. Certainly be alot different than normal whims.........

[Cozy]

My main issue is that the grapple regen is _sooooo slow_ in stock, otherwise I find the Berserker class (titan) to be very powerful and effective, you just need to play really aggressively with it. I hope the upcoming artifacts and maybe even new exotics can open up the possibilities. I think Strand has loads of potential that we are only just seeing in its beginning stages.

[R A Z E R]

Strand seems to be completely glass cannon, it's entire purpose is to clear rooms fast with minimal healing. Sure the warlock one is played more defensively compared to the others but it doesn't have the same strengths that the other classes have.. It's just all add clear (Hunter one is good for single target damage though) and nothing else, it doesn't excel in anything and neither is it weak except for the lack of healing.

Strand however is fun to use.

[Ixamesh]

It's better with fragments. Suspension is great vs barrier and unstoppable champions. The grapple melee seems to count as both grenade and melee. The grapple CD is a bit high, yes, but between Thread of Generation, armor mods and Tangles with 15s spawn CD, you won't have issues with it.

Woven Mail and Recuperation mod should help with survivability.

To create a Tangle you need to kill strand debuffed enemy. All abilities apply debuffs one way or another. There're also fragments.

Thread of Isolation takes a bit too many hits to proc, the target has to survive ~5 HC crits, ~16 SMG or ~12 Pulse and die before debuff runs out.

Thread of Transmutation is good if you can upkeep Woven Mail, Titans and Hunters should not have issues with it, but Warlocks will have to rely on Titans and Thread of Warding.

Thread of Propagation or Allied Unraveling artifact mod to apply Unraveling Rounds.

All classes can make use of Thread of Mind for class ability regen, especially with Untangler artifact mod

[hegleezy]

I don't think strand will ever be more viable than void

[trukr]

Maybe they were so afraid of repeating the situation they had with Stasis they overcorrected.

[Mez Koo]

Story mode strand is weak, get the new exotic and build into it.

[DarkRedeemer]

strand + necrotic grips + striga = suspension heaven

[rad_knight]

my only real complaint is that there's only 2 aspects.

like why even ♥♥♥♥♥♥' have aspects if everyone has to use the same two?