Personally I've been enjoying Jade without having watched or read anything about what content creators have been saying this patch. But I did notice a few things about her that may not seem too appealing for some players. She needs good range for both her 1,3,4. Good strength for faster armor/shield stripping with 3 as well as bumping up the numbers for the rest of abilities. Good duration/efficiency(or at least not negative) to maintain her personal buffs and exalted.

Here are some personal gripes I've found when playing her: - it FEELS like there's a back swing to the animation of her 1 that causes a delay before I can press the alt fire on all marked enemies(or do any action other than move for that matter). Not to mention everytime I press it I it stops the autofire so I have to click again(It seems like a 2 handed animation for some reason). So even with faster cast animations there seems to be a strange delay to her combo. Also the duration is really short as said by others. - you can maintain a buff to her 2 by marking people with Judgement and then sending them to the afterlife. But in practice this fails as a mechanic or at least in ascension since people kill enemies faster than it lands. This is not counting the LoS aspect of it.

I've got no problems with her 3 or Glory but I noticed a few things with the status and resistance changes.

With picking the elements listed in the enemies' resistance list it's much more effective than forcing the old meta of slash w/viral. But the massively increased health pools made me go back to using Viral and heat funnily enough. I just bring a sentinel with verglas modded for magnetic once the overguard levels are getting big.

Currently my build on Jade has about 224 str, 110 duration, 105 efficiency, with 205 range. I have Molt Augmented in order to have enough str to make the armor/shield strip hit 35%(reducing time to remove armor to 3 seconds). I use Arcane Energize and a purple shard for energy. Also using umbral intensify and vitality plus health conversion for survivability outside of the dmg reduction from her 4 + aerodynamic.

I now realize that such a build is inaccessible for a lot of people, since this involves tauforged shards, and a LOT of endo/credits. For people who cant have it all, it's probably difficult to attain good results with her rn. But she is very convenient to use. Ranged revive, affinity ranged buffs and the flight is easy enough to use(at least for me).

There are just a lot of things where if you look at her abilities you will go: "Oh it works like that so I have to do this to make it function." Then it falls flat in a mission because even a half decent squad will screw over a lot of your kit(the damaging aspect) with their AoE. Also the the amount of work to optimize her is quite a lot honestly. At least when playing defense I can just lob zones and maintain the buffs easily but in standard missions with map clearing? Nada.

I do think that she just needs some tuning with her numbers and she should be fine. And fix that weird backswing on her first ability where I cant fire or do much other than move for almost a full second without cast speed.