Ana buff: secondary weapon idea

dbzhalol-1709 · September 12, 2018, 7:07am

Secondary Weapon : Biotic Buckshot- Ana pulls out a pistol that does spread damage, but also heals Ana for a certain amount. 4 rounds, 3-6 damage per pellet, 20 pellets per shots, 10 degree spread and 3 heals her for each pellet hit. Fire rate 1.5 per second. 1.5 reload time Any other ideas for Ana?

Haceous-1431 · September 12, 2018, 7:08am

Why? 20 characters.!

dbzhalol-1709 · September 12, 2018, 7:11am

She was in need of a self heal so I decided to give her one in the form of a close range weapon.

Guffiolo-2496 · September 12, 2018, 7:11am

She don’t need a buff.

Haceous-1431 · September 12, 2018, 7:13am

She has nade. 20 characters.!

Skald-1493 · September 12, 2018, 7:13am

They won’t do it. They want Ana weak on self heals and personal mobility. Anything else is fair game but they want her to be an open door and easy prey to dive.

PTR Ana Question!

I think its worth talking a little about our balance philosophy here. People often will post things such as “why doesn’t Blizzard see that this hero has X as a weakness and that is what should be fixed.”

One aspect of our heroes that is very important is that they all have various strengths and weaknesses. This is a core aspect of what makes teamplay so important in Overwatch. If you have an Ana on your team, this gives you certain advantages such as being able to be healed from very long range, having a more offensive-favored ultimate, and having the ability to disable healing on enemies (which can be especially vital against heroes that really rely on healing such as Roadhog). That said, she also brings her own weaknesses that must be managed, such as low mobility and lower self-healing. A team may opt to run Brigitte or Lucio with Ana to help peel attackers off of her, for example.

When we want to buff a hero, sometimes it can be the right call reduce these weaknesses. For example, if a weakness is just too overbearing or a hero just has too many weaknesses compared to their strengths. But more often we would rather amplify a heroes strengths and make the hero just better at what they do, which leaves their weaknesses still around for enemies to exploit and for allies to try to manage.

I hope this helps explain how we look at balance issues and heroes in Overwatch in general.

If you’re looking to buff her it’s going to have to stay within these margins or they’ll outright discount it. At least with regard to Ana they will. Sorry.

Kristal-11786 · September 12, 2018, 7:14am

She doesn’t need a buff. She’s Meta right now

dbzhalol-1709 · September 12, 2018, 7:21am

Thank you for showing me that because I been wondering what the heck has been going on in that department. They rarely post anything anymore so ya know I haven’t been paying attention. I may have to come up with a different idea.

DELETEBRIG-1258 · September 12, 2018, 7:23am

Ana buff should really just be increasing friendly hitbox size a bit. It’ll make her more viable in all elo’s especially lower ones, where people can’t aim if their life depended on it. Another minor buff i’d like would be to increase reload speed BUT by very very little