Brig nerf is inconsistent and should not be applied

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This change for brigitte should not make it to live. Overall, it is not the right thing to change about the hero, not to mention how inconsistent and buggy it is…

And then it brings us into the other problem of: What else shouldn’t go through shields that happens to be melee? Should rein not be able to hit through shields? Genji blade? No. So why brig’s bash? (Rhetorical, I know why, but this change doesn’t solve it in a productive way. It’s a bandaid fix. We don’t need any more bloody bandaid fixes for this game. It has enough of them as is.)

What should be changed in place of this, is simply this:

Brigitte

Shield Bash

  • Stun replaced with a decaying 1 second 100% movement speed slow, and a 1 second mobility ability disable.

Now brig can’t bash rein’s shield down, but still does her job against dive, and prevents the inconsistency presented by the idea of her being unable to bash through barriers, while other melee heroes get to continue as they were.

Objectively, this is not a good design choice. It shows just how broken the interaction is by her being given an exclusion from the norm. Fix the interaction to make it fair instead of this. Same for doom actually, get rid of the stun on his punch and replace it with a decaying 1 second 100% movement speed slow for when his targets hit a wall, and disable mobility abilities while influenced by rocket punch.

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I agree, that would be a lot more consistent at least and it’s a pretty good idea.

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Did you even read the whole thing greyfalcon? I highlighted what should be changed instead of this.

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Nope, and genuinely surprised that there’s a workable idea on here.

Congrats.

Most of these types of threads don’t even try.

You might wasn’t to move your solution above the GIF because I scrolled right by.

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I’ve been advocating for this change for months now… It’s a much better thing to apply to her than this. And I will adjust it, thanks.

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Maybe you should drop that gif in the PTR feedback section as well?

I cannot believe that the balance team actually dared to put something so unpolished onto the PTR. :joy:

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Meh just one of very few things I have to keep in mind. From a Brig one tricking perspective, ain’t no thing.

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This very change you claim to be okay with, is all but confirming that her interaction between herself and reinhardt is broken. That is in and of itself, blizzard acknowledging that she is broken and needs special attention, but it’s a bandaid fix. It doesn’t solve the problem in a way that fixes the character.

The fact that they are going with this, a concept which would immediately sound buggy and unreliable to anyone of competence, is inexcusable.