Easy changes to improve game balance

There are a lot of problems that are more difficult to solve (challenge grind, GW timing, etc.), but there are some easy changes that NG can make in order to create some more survivor balance and to improve the viability of some gear that players worked hard to obtain in season campaigns.
What do you all think? Any other suggestions?
Weapon improvements:
New weapon releases (money-makers) or GW-exclusive weapons:
Class balance improvements to improve viability of ranged survivors (currently, only Sasha/Assault/Assault or Sasha/Hunter/Hunter are viable on the highest levels):
What do you all think? Any other suggestions?
Weapon improvements:
- Deadly Spike: Threat reduction only on charge attack is just not that useful. Threat Reduction on any kill would be OP. Change the special trait to: Guaranteed threat reduction on charged kill, 75% chance on a non-charged kill.
- Bayonet Musket: Absolutely useless. Make the regular attack hit up to 3 enemies (just like a normal Spear) and reduce the cost of the charge attack to only 2 charge points.
- Festive Road Sign: This is out-classed by the Dragon's Tongue. Add special functionality, like built-in Destructive trait or massively increase the base damage to make it more viable.
- Zweihänder: Offensive Bruiser builds are not that viable, so this weapon has no place in the game meta. That being said, tweaking the traits to switch Lethal for Interrupt could make it more viable.
- Pickle Jar: Simply not that useful. Remove the threat from the charge attack to make it slightly more viable (but it's still just a worse version of the Decimator).
New weapon releases (money-makers) or GW-exclusive weapons:
- Decimator with Charging/Lucky/Concussion traits.
- Morgan's Staff with Interrupt/Lucky/Razor traits.
- Festive Shotgun with Lucky/Destructive/Incendiary traits.
Class balance improvements to improve viability of ranged survivors (currently, only Sasha/Assault/Assault or Sasha/Hunter/Hunter are viable on the highest levels):
- Increase Shooter damage to be comparable to Scout damage (Scouts are still better because of Power Strike, Threat Reduction, Prowl, bigger movement, etc. but it will at least make Shooters more useful)
- Make Hazard Suit available on all ranged armor
- Increase Piercing trait bonuses from 20% Silver/30% Gold to 30% Silver/45% Gold (like Razor) [except this might hurt Sasha's LT]
- Increase Silence trait bonuses from 30% Silver/40% Gold to 40% Silver/60% Gold (will increase effectiveness, but still not allow for 100% unless Hunter Daryl leading, but Hunter Daryl is not useful in the end-game so it won't be OP IMO)
- Give Sure Shot a damage bonus, like Power Strike
- Increase chances of Critical Aim
- Update Strong/Marksman to affect TOTAL damage, not just WEAPONS damage
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I don't think piercing should match razor though, maybe slightly below at 20/30/40. We have Alpha to further reduce body shot chances.
Increased shooter damage and CA chances would lessen the dominance that bruisers and scouts currently have.
Edit to add: if you did buff piercing then you would need to add a harpoon gun to the shops without it and nearly everyone would buy it
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Zweihänder crap weapon right? Simple way to make it useful
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Zweihänder
Luck /tactical
Razor
Interrupt
Would turn a weapon that nobody uses into something that would be the best interrupt weapon in the game + not over powered.
@WellyLuga yeah, but how often does any all-ranged team use Alpha instead of Sasha? point taken though, that increasing Piercing too much could have a negative side effect of hurting Harpoon charging. Perhaps the better option is for Piercing to add a "Ignores damage reduction" option like Razor.
@Pic nice one, will add to original post. Totally forgot about that crap weapon because it's useless lol.
I added one more suggestion, which was to buff Strong and Marksman as they currently add negligible amounts of additional damage.
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Will take it from useless to top class in under 5 seconds.
NextGames should put him under non-disclosure, and he should work to coordinate with them on future changes to the game before they are implemented.
There have been thousands of hours of developer time wasted on useless stuff in this game. Having an experienced player like @JayZ sign off on ideas before they are implemented would make this a much better game in the long run.
I would even be happy with 50% threat reduction on the Deadly Spike to be honest (add that to the Hunting Bow too please!). I also think the Bayonet having 2 charge points is good enough as well. See NG, it won't take much to make us happy.
We'll look over them and discuss!
I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on the forums, Marksman should also increase damage from critical hits.
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spike since we already have the Daryl’s
knife that does a good job for removing threats. But for the Hunting Bow I think I’d give it high-powered in its special functionality with destructive/TR/Piercing.
I like Zweihänder. I have rerolled RGG into an offensive bruiser and now just a couple of hundred tokens away from making him a 7 star bruiser. The weapon should have in built stun like all other bruiser weapons. With its long reach, this would make it a great weapon. Tweaking the traits to switch Lethal for Interrupt would not be required.
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I have a good defensive bruiser team comprising of a 8 star survivor and 7 star Morgan. Sorry I did not reroll RGG into a offensive bruiser. Rather I have badged RGG with 3 DR, 2 D and 1 H badge for Zweihänder. He has retaliate, strong, iron skin and punish as traits.
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My suggestions aren't coming as often as they use to , but here's one that's pretty solid.
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I suggested a small $10 or less bundle like the original Harpoon.
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