This is the only part of her kit they I have a problem with. Not saying it should be nerfed, but just wanted it post it here for discussion.
As of now, Dynamite stat is:
Damage: Explosion : 30-75
Burn: 100
Self: 50%
Burn duration: 5 seconds
Aoe: 5 meters
The burn causing 100 damage is a little over the top. Her scoped primary does 42.5 - 85 (no scope is: 20-40). Hit the back line with a dynamite, Ashe won’t even have to scope to finish them off, and as difficult as she is to aim with while scoped, it’s darn easy to shoot while unscoped.
Another thing about dynamite that bothers me is how quickly it helps charge her ultimate. Bob in my opinion isn’t as op as he seems, yet, Ashe already charges Bob fast enough with her primary and dynamite only expedites the process and this makes him a bit unfair at times. Although Bob isn’t an op ultimate, he’s still one of the strongest ultimates in the game. Being able to charge him up as fast as a good Ashe player does now is a bit overwhelming at times, especially because of dynamite. You land one on the entire enemy team, it’s at least 30%-40% ult charge easy.
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I agree. Burn duration feels too long. Three seconds would be enough.
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I have played Ashe a lot since she came out and at first I thought the same. But getting some playtime in I realized that the duration is so long because it gives the victim time to heal or use defensive skills. Dynamite is a very easy projectile to dodge if it is just thrown on the ground and it leaves Ashe vulnerable when she tries to shoot it as she is not shooting you.
Couple of season back I played Ashe in masters and learned it the hard way that smart players kill her when she is aiming for her dynamite, she’s just a sitting duck even if it’s for a second or two.
As far as the ultimate charging goes, I agree that it charges it quite fast. However, it is also an ult charge heaven for the enemy team healers/Roadhog
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Some say that dynamite burns for a whole year… Even.
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I mean really, is there gasoline in dynamite? It shouldn’t burn the victim that long.
Dynamites burn can easily be cleansed by a healthpack or be outhealed by pretty much every healer except brigittes self heal I believe.
Bob needs more ult charge than Dragon Strike and quite a few other DPS Ultimates.
But with her ult yea it charges fast but bob is so easily countered
If you just throw dynamite it’s easy to move out the way. 8/10 times it has no effect. However an Ashe who can throw and skilfully shoot the dynamite deserves that pay off. IMI
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Ashe needs this tho she doesnt have the one shot potential unlike hanzo or widowmaker and also with the amount of burst healing in the game it sorta balance it out. I actaully think she needs a buff i think there should change coach gun to be like a junkrat mine so you have 2 on cooldown increase mobility and survivability because widow and hanzo both have better mobility id argue
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Lord help me I hate that excuse. There is no excuse for 5 seconds of agonizing burning effect. I would like to see the burn effect lowered to 3 seconds.
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I like the idea of her boop having 2 shots. Im all for that.
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While keeping her 100 burn damage? That would be a buff.
Keeping it on 20 dps? You would have to lower Bobs Ult Charge requirement for Ashe to stay in line with the other DPS Heroes where she already is a suboptimal pick to beginn with. Which means you would need bob even more which again means that people will start to complain about ashe being a no skill hero because she needs to rely on bob more.
To clarify, 5 seconds of burn damage is too long. Lowering it to 3 seconds would not allow 100 damage.
Do the math I geuss. Lowering it to 3 seconds should not compress the 100 damage in to a 3 second duration. I am sure it won’t equal 100 damage if the duration is reduced to 3 seconds.
The problem is that most of Ashe’s value is rolled into Dynamite, so while it is an OPAF ability by itself the character is still awful overall because she isn’t Hanzo.
Yet another design failure…
Meh, delete Widowmaker and Hanzo and then Ashe wouod be a perfect character, it’s all relative.
There’s nothing more satisfying than setting a team on fire with a dynamite or two tapping a squishy with dynamite, scoped combo.
Burn duration is far too long. She’s got another one ready by the time it ends.
… weird necro… I could have sworn I saw a post about Ashe needing a ult time buff not too long ago.