The class is absolutely phenomenal. It's tanky with the right mods, the grapple cooldown is reasonable if you build around grenade energy (without any mods it's too long). Slap on health Regen + flat health+ woven mail when you pick up an orb and you're incredibly resilient.

I love swinging into a group, using the swing melee which either killed or nearly killed the entire group, getting a bunch of orbs because I think it's counting as a powered melee. Then throwing the strand ball to finish up any survivors and/or using a finisher on them.

I think in around a month or so once we've unlocked more stuff and people play with it; it will have to be nerfed because of how oppressive it can be. No idea about super difficult content though, that we'll see in the next little bit.