Are Phantoms really that weak?

Yes the nerf that we had gotten was severely uncalled for (my previous main was a Phantom). Bossing wise you're still going to need a stupidly high amount of funding to get anywhere with a Phantom (I have full empress minus the shoulder and I'm barely hitting 120k). The drop buff does stack with the spider buff, idk why the spider rebuffs however. Phantom's are horribly glitched atm (they can not use their loudout skill right now thanks to the recent Xenon patch). Anyways you should be doing around 120k-180k(?) with that sort of equipment (while I have empress My empress is clean and does not have very good pot on it). But if you're going to play a Phantom you better be prepared to simply have fun and not care about damage .