Bastion Power Distribution

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So in no way am I saying bastions an OP menace that needs to be nerfed but I’m so confused why the devs decide to keep buffing the best part of his kit instead of giving meaningful buffs to the weak parts. Giving iron claud back to him is fitting and fine in my eyes but the two second cooldown reduction on assault form was just so unnecessary and irrational. Why not actually make his normal recon form better? Why not actually make his ugly bomb ball useful? Why not make his ult actually scary to go against? Nah let’s just buff assault mode again.

Honestly they could just give him self repair back and then do some little nerfs to assault form and I think he’d be in a much better place. Currently he gets such an insane power spike during those five to six seconds he’s in assault form and it’s kinda laughable that he goes from being beyond underwhelming to a beast and then that’s all he’s good for. Even if they don’t wanna give him self repair back (which they had no good reason to remove in the first place considering there’s an open button for it) at least give him two charges of the ugly bomb ball cause it’s such a hit or miss ability (quite literally) and when you compare to other abilities like it with mccrees magnetic grenade and junks two charged 130 damage bombs it’s downright sad.

TDLR: Devs are confused on how to balance bastion post rework and it’s funny but also kinda embarrassing

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Man, I want self-repair back so badly. Grenade feels good, but I am ready to lost it for self-repair. Ultimate is much better now (after patch, of course), but, yeah, tank ult was better.

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Last I checked they just slam dunked it over and over again. No headshots increased spread, slightly better but still horrible spread, now the damage was flatly reduced still with no headshots. That was a 50% potential damage reduction and now I think it’s another 20% flat reduction. They’ve been and still are beating him with a steel nerf bat for years. Also recon does less damage as well so they ruined what made Bastion, Bastion. They removed self repair and tank too for no reason at all. I wanted to word this way stronger but I’d probably be temp banned from the forums.

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Assault form is objectively better in OW 2 than it was in OW 1 just cause it isn’t situational now. I mean in terms of the balancing post rework they’ve buffed his assault form more than his grenade and just as much as his ultimate which was hot garbage so it needed the buffs, unlike assault form. Also while yes his recon form does less damage cause the fire rate is slower he has no spread anymore so that’s a pretty big buff but I do think he needs more ammo than what he currently has