An ability which you in your bias disagree with, you’ve said that. So I will simply state I’m yet to see a reasonable argument why she shouldn’t have it.
Her main form of heals is from her mace, which she must be in direct contact with the enemy, and recipient be within her aura.
Symmetra is being re-worked, so anything at this stage is hearsay. The point is this isn’t the first time a hero has been miss-classed.
Just as you can have fun in your lala land of opinion. If you put as much effort into avoiding her in-game making her redundant, as you did trying to defend your opinion that she needs to be nerfed on these forums, you wouldn’t have the opinion you do.
Do you know what hearsay means? The developers have flat out stated that they want to give Symettra heals or move her out of the support class altogether. That’s not hearsay that is their plan of action. Either make her a traditional support with heals like every other support, or move her out.
Mercy, Sombra, Junkrat, Zen, Dva, Tracer, Genji. You can play around all of these characters in game, that doesn’t change that they had things that were overtuned and changed. Sadly you will not understand that though, see ya on the flipside.
Geoff Goodman: We’re looking at reworking Symmetra in the short term and then Torbjorn down the line a bit more. It’s not an explicit goal to be constantly reworking older heroes to keep up with the current game, but sometimes when we look at these heroes we can see that they would fit much better into the current game with more significant gameplay changes, rather than just balance tweaks. For example, Symmetra is our only non-healing Support. She feels difficult to fit onto a team of 6, especially when you’re typically building around a 2 damage, 2 tank, and 2 healer team. I don’t have a ton of details for what we’re doing with her yet (as we’re still iterating on her heavily internally), but we started looking at her with the base idea that she should either be able to heal and stay in the Support role, or be given more damage viability and moved to the Defense role.
Again, I know you may have trouble with words seeing as how you call Brigitte an off tank when she is by all definitions a support… However the lead designer of Overwatch saying that they want Symettra to be able to heal and stay in the support role or be moved to defense isn’t hearsay. It’s not a rumor, it’s not second hand info, it was said(with proof) by the lead designer.
They change Tracer or Genji after 2 years.
Moira hit comp (still) unchanged.
Brigitte will hit comp with no shield bash nerf CD or take months after 2-3 seasons stats.