Is it me or is Brigitte’s shield kinda broken/bad.
It honestly feels like Brigitte’s shield is pointless, and it honestly feels like I am able to be damaged through my shield via splash/radius damage. Like I think pharah can damage brigitte if pharah hits the lower part of her shield. and the fact that hanzo can just shoot scatter at the bottom corners of where the shield isnt and hits you makes the shield kinda pointless.
Its a single purpose shield, that doesnt get used that much so i dont understand why it doesnt have more health, but this is besides the point.
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Heres the thing. Splash is our dear briggy’s main weakness. I believe every part of what you speak is a design choice. It sucks, but every character has their weaknesses, and thats her big one.
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I mean it shouldnt go through her shield, it doesnt go through rein’s shield cus rein’s goes all the way to the bottom unlike brigitte’s.
and I understand counters and stuff like that, but like, shooting her shield and damaging her shouldnt be a thing, pharah can still fly and get directly above her and she cant doo anything about it.
I personally dont think this to be a design choice, i think they didnt test it since it only occurs during the bottom half of the shield. and the shield doesnt go all the way to the bottom unlike Rein’s. so I believe the gap between the shield and the ground causes the splash to hit brigitte and I believe it to be a flaw because I have seen similar problems in other games when it comes to personal shields failing in ways that it shouldnt have.
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It will go through your shield if it hits the lower half, I don’t really think it feels great since I still technically blocked the hit but it’s something I’m learning to adapt to where I try to guide shots to the top area of my shield. RIP-Tire still feels awful to try and block though.
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Ehh… she can use it to close in on hog’s ult and cancel it.
It’s not weak… You just dont use it like Rein’s.
i mean rein’s shield is multi purpose so it makes sense for it to be weak because he has his team behind it. this promotes counterplay and the team actually attacking. Meanwhile brigitte’s is at like 600 and her likely hood of protecting someone with her shield is pretty to happen every single game so i dont understand having it so weak because its mainly only used for shield bashing and retreating and even then to retreat successfully she can shield dash away, shoot her mace at you and knock you back and essentially retreat with little trouble.
The thing is, behind that shield lies a 250 hp pool, with a stun and guaranteed 150 damage combo. You don’t really want to give the character too much health on the shield. If that’s not enough, she can get up to 400 hp from her ult.
She gets 16 health per second for 5 seconds every time she damages people with her mace, but she can easily swap and stall between health/shield. Imagine if her shield had 1200 hp. She’s be able to toggle it on and off again as her health regenerates. Do you really want to fight a hero who can flick their effective health up with a shield like that?
eh when u put it like that yeah you’re right.
But she still shouldnt be getting splashed through her shield because that honestly feels unintentional.
She’s relatively new so I’m pretty sure they’ll tweak her shield eventually. Something along the lines of:
“Fixed a bug where Brigitte’s shield would not block damage when it should be”
It’s kind of counter intuitive to her design.
Shield is just big enough to protect herself so she can position between an ally and an enemy to soak some damage, yet frontal splash damage hits her so easily it’s practical suicide trying to play her as intended. Pretty silly to lose half your health to a damage boosted Pharah after successfully blocking her rocket.
To everyone saying splash is her weaknes…
Yes everyone knows that. But getting splashed through the shield on a rocket or grenade you blocked isn’t intended and is most likely a bug.
Thanks for bringing it up ConnieAmore I thought I was going crazy being the only one to notice
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I personally think its getting splashed UNDER the shield, cus rein’s slightly goes through the ground and when u play brigitte and you move, you can slightly see a gap between the shield and the ground.
edit: I believe under because of how certain AOE effects occur. Like mei’s AOE ult. when u put it on a lip and it activates somewhat above the ground, You see the ult being flat in the air yet someone can still get froze underneath mei’s ult. Thats kinda why I think splash damage kinda works like that, it can go down and around and if ur in that radius, you still receive the appropriate damage as if you got splashed without shield.
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it’s not just you, I died earlier because a hog clicked my shield while it was up, it went straight thru it or something, it definitely doesn’t block all damage like rein, or even 75% of damage
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That must be it. Perhaps if they fixed either the size to make it go through the ground or actually make the hitbox and model ratio 1:1
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There are lots of interactions that basically ignore the shield and I’m kinda hoping they’re just bugs to be fixed (because we all know Blizzard doesn’t address real bugs till they’re on the live servers, only fun quirks, screw using the PTR)
im starting to think brigitte needs less health on her shield.
I’m pretty sure her shield is more meant to protect her as she is a support and not meant to be a full block because she isn’t a tank. If it has a hard counter then that’s the way it is. We knew going into her as a new hero that splash damage was her hard counter.
Seriously though, she has ample health, a 600hp shield with crazy fast regen rate for a non tank, a stun, decent damage output while also generating healing. Not to mention a range on a 1 foot mace Rein cant touch with a 6 foot hammer. What more can you ask for?
im asking for no bugs please.
I’m pretty sure that’s the caveat for having all that utility. That it is by design.
there are like five threads on the bug forum about this.
So idk. Asked jeff if it was part of the design. No response yet. It’ll probably be changed.
One person is even saying on there that Melee attacks are going through it.