Without making Brigitte OP but want her to maintain her core identity, play-style, and mechanics.
As an actual Brigitte main, I prefer to be a sturdy healer with low healing. The play style that many Brigitte were drawn to was a frontline, brawling healer. And I don’t need to be a main healer to do that. A good off-healer can still provide plenty of utility for the team, if they are good.
If Zen is just a DPS hero that has some healing, I want to be a tanky healer with some healing and low damage (but more utility).
Maybe, to balance her, they can limit the range of RP but add just 20 armor to it (just so the ability feels like it has some oomph to it). But limit the range to 20-30 meters so that you can’t yeet it and instantly save a life from across the map. And 20 temporary armor (unlike the previous versions of 75, then 50 armor) isn’t enough to make even flankers OP either.
Give back her HP and make sure the shield isn’t tissue paper anymore but reduce damage of Whip Shot to maybe 60.
That way her weakness are clear. She needs to be with her team to be effective and she can be zoned out pretty easily (essentially, like a mini-Reinhardt but with a lot less HP and barrier HP). Reducing her damage, combined with her lower healing, means she wouldn’t be a must-pick and she can’t combo kill a full health flanker, but be able to shoo off a DPS coming after her support buddy.
And she wouldn’t be just flat out better than Lucio. Because Lucio would not only have speed boost (still one of the best utilities in the game) but he would have higher healing and much more mobility. Brigitte lacks escape mechanics others have, lacks any range, and would lack damage too.
In the end, I just want my favorite hero to be fun to play again. I want to brawl (and survive) and heal my team without everyone hating my favorite hero and constantly calling her OP.
I get what you are going with but I don’t think she would be good at all. You stated all the things Lucio does better than her and those things are very key for importance. You just made her more tanky but with low damage and heals why would I pick her. You would think she is fun but losing isn’t fun. You can’t have a hero low healing and damage and the utilty you gave her was just 25 armour. She needs more than this.
Whether he should stay that way is debatable. Me personally I think Sigma and Orisa should be main tanks. And this “Rein is the only tank that can be a single barrier anchor tank” is gonna get really bland soon enough.
Either way, Brig and Mei were enabling doublebarrier. And that’s why they got nerfed into the ground. Along with turning Orisa and Sigma barriers into tissue paper.
we have 3 and 1/2 main tanks, sigma is a knock off main tank turned off tank. Which stage of double barrier are you talking about? Sigmas barrier isnt that bad and he is a really good solo carry tank right now in low-mid ranks
Tons of posts, a background in FPS server code design, spamming emojis , and trying to fit whatever solution you got into the current trends of upcoming changes.
The analogy I use is that if a boulder is rolling down a hill. It’s a lot easier to nudge it to the left or the right, than to get it to go back up the hill.
So I usually focus on “providing a solution to where devs were already headed”
I very much agree with making some big changes to Repair Pack. I personally think that the ability in its current form is one of Brig’s biggest problems right now. For one thing, its range is way too long. It feels really out-of-place in relation to her overall design, but somehow everything else has been trying to balance around it, instead of the other way around.
I even sat down recently and tried to figure out how to address as many of the ability’s problems as I could think of, coming up with a rough idea of a rework: My take on a Brigitte (Repair Pack) rework idea
, and trying to fit whatever solution you got into the current trends of upcoming changes.