Bite:

The weapon's base damage is 4-14, which can be either crazy or just a regular attack. At resolve level 6, that dmg becomes a range of 10-24. Sure, the randomness of its nature is similar to how the leper works, but the leper can be patched with acc trinkets, unlike the drowner. But then bite has this DMG mod growth of 5% per level, leading up to 20%. I haven't done the math, but this can get out of hand with the right dmg trinkets.

What would I change? There's nothing wrong with having high dmg, actually, but the fact that her lvl 5 armor has 60 hp is way too much. I'd nerf the damage output for bite (instead of having no DMG mod at base level, I'd give her a negative DMG mod and then soothe it as it levels up).

Assault:

It feels a little bit strong for an attack that moves forward from the rear. I'd reduce the damage a bit more (since the skill already has utility for repositioning herself and disrupting the enemy).

Exodia:

It stuns, knockbacks and marks. And damage. I'd lower the attack to a permanent -90% and buff the accuracy to make up for it, and lower the stun and knockback chance back to a base 100%.

Bombard:

A limited uses aoe that is weak against non-marked enemies, but great against marked ones. Also, self damage. No crit chance. Increased usages at higher levels. I'm ok with this one.

Hammer:

I knew this one was op as I read its effect. Restricted to position 1, attacks both 1 and 2, has armor penetration, good accuracy, debuffs prot and great crit chance. It even has a positive DMG mod up to 20%.

Normally, enemies with high prot always occupy positions 1 or 2, so having an attack that targets multiple positions while ignoring prot is already crazy good. But then it also scales the dmg, debuffs and has great crit chance. I'd limit it to a single target to position 1 or 2, lower the dmg and crit scaling and remove the debuff. Or keep the multiple targeting, destroy the damage potential and keep the debuff, as a way to help companions killing the heavy enemies.

Contagion:

It's a party heal. At base level, it stresses for 8, blights and bleeds everyone for 2 over 2, and heals a fixed amount of hp of 6. On top of it, she self-heals for an additional 4 hp (in higher levels, she also cures bligh/bleed and stress heals). The theme with this ability is to heal for massive quantities, but inflicting higher damage over time in the form of blights and bleeds that must be cured quickly, as well as that stress payment to activate it.

It's really good as a panic button that enables a last push to end the fight, but comes with the risk of great failure in managing to end it and curing everyone with bandages and blight cures.
I like the concept of it, and I'd even add a low chance of getting a disease. I'd put a scaling to the stress dmg taken, so that at higher levels is even riskier to use it. The dots can be cured with companion synergies, but the party stress is harder to fight against. And this skill shouldn't be used as the primary healing method, more like a last resource.

And lastly, Purify:

It's THE aoe. I ran into a spider fight, drowner moved first, used Purify and killed everything. Only took 5 dmg in exchange. Her other skills buff this one's output (I guess because of a growth in the livelyness of her inner infection). The debuff of -30% dmg after it's usage only last three battles, and can be easily recovered with the usage of her other skills anyway.

Much can be done to this skill. If its mechanism is unchanged, then I'd give a higher penalty to its usage and possibly a greater backlash in the hp loss. Other possibility would be augmenting the negative dmg mod, so that it can only be used after buffing it a lot.


That's it for the skills. As for the camping skills, I'd add 1 cost to each of them. They are really good, more so as they are incredibly cheap. An additional time cost would balance it out.


As it stands, as a class, she's great at both attack power and hp, so I'd heavily nerf the hp to make her into a squishy offensive character or lower her weapon attack power and hp a bit, so that she's still good at attack and tanking, but not excelent. If the crazy damage is kept, there must be some kind of retribution to it (kind of like Muscarine's Fawn). Doing so would help her being the middle ground between the Fawn and the Slayer. Although a bit closer to the Slayer, changes can be proggresively done until she gains a more unique identity gameplay-wise.

Bear in mind this is just my opinion. Feel free to use any of this as reference. It's your mod. A really promising mod, too!