🤖 Bastion Rework Coming Next?

General Discussion
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Take a long hard look at the past heroes that have been reworked. Do you really want them to do the same to Bastion?

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No one has started freaking out about a flying Bastion.

Consider me impressed.

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I mean you’ve gotten a nice hard roasting a few times but overall the record is good :joy:

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I just commented on Stylosa’s new video a link to this thread. Figured if we could convince any YouTuber to do a video on it it would be him.

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YES PLEASE ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN WHERE WE ARE NOW

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plz stop. I’ve said this before but can we not keep nerfing his damage? Headshots or not this is still a huge nerf from before.

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Why does Bastion exist if your suggestion is to just straight up not use sentry?

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That’s ultra way over the top. 35% was OP, imagine what 50% would do.

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Actually I do because they keep moving ults to E and that’s actually one of my favorite ideas for him. He would have all 3 modes available at any time.

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terran calm down!!! this thread is too new, so stop with the early outrage!!!
save that for atleast when we reach 100 replys

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Why do rework suggestions always seem to come with fake developer notes? It’s one thing to describe why the changes are being suggested, and another to model it in the exact tone and tense of the actual comments.

That said, I think any conversation about Bastion should be prefaced with a design idea about what you think Bastion’s role should be, in totality. Obviously Blizzard has their own ideas, but every character has a core purpose. I get it, Bastion should bust barriers. What else? What’s the point of recon? Tank? Who should be strong against him, and after he’s reworked, is that still the case?

Frankly, those questions are far more important than an info-dump of ability reworks and flavor text. The faux developer comments kind of address this, but in the wrong direction. Don’t start from the rework and go backwards, start from the core and go forwards.

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were just throwing ideas out in the wind dude, nothing more, nothing less.
the devs jobs is to look at the reworks cited above and see if any of those is worth. if not then they will just follow with what is planned for him. the counter action is on their part to think of.

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No, the dev’s job is see that people aren’t happy with Bastion and figure out how to fix him. They’re never going to look at your suggested solutions and act on them, or even consider them.

There’s a popular aphorism among developers that players are very good at identifying problems, and very bad at identifying solutions.

So yeah, if you’re fielding fixes to suggest to Blizzard, rather than trying to foster community discussion, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

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i sorry, kind forgot they dont take ideas from us :unamused:
yeah, but this thread serves more to shine a light on bastion current state for the community and try to get devs atention(maybe a response :smirk:) on him

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Put that change in context with the other changes. It’s actually an enormous buff to his damage potential

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im good with anything, as long as i can hit my shots and not spray n pray

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It’s still a damage nerf, even with headshots he still doesn’t simply get normal 2 degree max bloom because 3 is still the max and it takes 2 seconds to return to normal.

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So you don’t hold down the fire button for multiple seconds at a time, and aim for crits. This is meant to nerf spray-and-pray and buff good aim with Sentry. The maximum DPS is increased from 450 to 720.

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I can hold the button down and aim for crits, what’s wrong with that? Spray and pray only works if the enemy is stupid. That’s why he’s okay in bronze because people keep WM1ning at him.