Title: Bastion feels awful after this perk patch
After this season’s perk changes, I can definitely feel my winrate dropping hard.
In Master and above, Bastion is basically a throw pick at this point. Unless I find a duo and play Cat Bastion, it feels almost impossible to win games. Most of the time I’m just getting carried instead of actually being able to do anything meaningful.
I hope this doesn’t just get dismissed as one Bastion player whining for selfish reasons. Please look at the actual stats. I’m willing to bet Bastion is performing much worse than he did last season.
I really liked the original minor perk setup when perks were first added. Being able to choose between Armored Artillery and Smart Bomb was great.
Please roll it back and let Bastion choose between Armored Artillery and Smart Bomb again.
They need to decide what bastions supposed to be good at and lean into it, with two realistic pathways that don’t cross for perks.
Like, mini tank with high sustain so he can be his own heavy pressure and not drain support resources so much
And then something else
And the design needs to work. Like I know I’m going to sound crazy, but he should be able to toggle his heal and not have it consume his actions (so, turn heal on and start shooting, being his own support briefly) and have a much more limited resource. Perhaps don’t let him do so in turret form.
Then, decide on another set of perks that make sense for some other playstyle. Maybe a super damage play style (the grenade cooldown one WAS good until they nerfed it, they could have just made it a major perk and put tank shell blasts in the minor since that one is truly worse than the grenade one was and sometimes a throw to even use depending on enemy comp and has worse dps making it a heavy drawback in a lot of cases)
And then this way bastion could pick the armor ult perm AND the healing perk to be a highly self sufficient dps unit, or pick the tank blast perm and grenade perk to be a predictable but massive tank buster (at the cost of being a lot worse against an array of enemy dps!! See that’s called balance)
And he’d never be annoying for the dps AND tank (unless the player was really good)
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Bastion is still one of the most annoying, dishonest heroes with 350hp+ armour=400hp+ironclad
I wish he was deleted from the game and people had to play a real hitscan
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