Blizzard dosen’t have time for elaborate reworks but I think there is a very simple way to make bastion better.
Swap Bastion’s sentry and tank modes. Make sentry the ultimate and tank the shift ability.
Also, bring back the shield to bastion’s sentry because it would be fair in an ultimate.
Sentry is meant to be a fun ability but without a shield tank and pocket healer, it is virtually useless. If the Devs changed it into an ultimate there would be more flexibility to make it more strong without the requirement of a shield tank. Giving bastion his old shield back would make the ability actually viable without being too OP (because it would be an ultimate)
Tank more would need lots of changes to make it balanced but I think that it should be a rapid fire, burst damage similar to the damage of Hanzo’s storm arrow. It also could be improved to be similar to Pharah’s blast where it is used as a mobility tool for bastion when he shoots himself.
Adding another configuration for bastions E ability would also be good but it’s not necessary to make him viable.
To conclude, this is quite a drastic rework but due to the limited development time that blizzard has, it would be easy to introduce. I’d love to here you guys’ thoughts.
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just make bastion be able to move in sentry mode. he wouldnt be a sitting duck nor need a shield tank just to be picked
granted, this would probably make him OP but the PTR is for testing thnigs. They gave moira the ability to fade out of stuns and got rid of that, they can test this out with bastion
I feel like making sentry turret mobile would remove the uniqueness of the ability. It is meant to be a stationary, high damage turret but adding mobility would break the ability, in my opinion. The damage would need to be nerfed and I think the ability would be boring.
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he is already fixed, play low elo where he belongs
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Don’t you want every hero to be viable at most ranks? Bastion deserves some love from the Devs so that he is actually playable and not useless. Why would you not want every hero to be good to use most of the time?
aha gl in wold of fairy tales, the only way to make this game competitive and fun at the same time is by having heroes for low elos and higher elos. So skill demand will define your sr. Wanna climb to diamond as support? Use moira bc no skill required and don’t even start arguing. Wanna climb higher? use anna or zen/lucio and start doing actual stuff, same with dps, mei = plat, widow = gm. gitgud or get rolled. Better explaination is here Twitch
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Bastion is the 4th least picked hero in bronze so he isn’t even viable in low ranks. Bastion is never picked and in my opinion that is waste. All of the time and effort that goes into designing a hero and for them never to get played is a waste. I’m proposing changes to him to make him decent. Why would we want a hero who is under powered at all ranks? low and high ranks? He is not a hero for low elos because his pick rate is low there as well.
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who cares? this hero is not require any skill but working around him and it is barely looks like teamplay, but cheesy play. I can barely say “bastion carry” in one sentence, bc it even feels wrong to say, bc this hero is purely designed for low elo when u just wana do tra-ta-ta-at-at-ta sitting somwhere in comfort. And comfort is not about competing, that’s why he had that lowest pickrate, they’ve fix this cheese comp by nerfing 2x shields and it’s actually right thing it is healthy for competitive.
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I can’t imagine why you would pick any other DPS when you can just have a mobile Gatling gun
Yup, he needs buffs. He already provides damage, just needs to be slightly more independent and rewarded for repositioning.
Bastion could be made more skilled if they change him. They could make him skilled and not cheese. Surely that would make the game better than just leaving him as a hero that no-one plays.
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You didn’t really need to engage this follow up, he provided proof that he needed buffs. If he’s low elo and not performing in low elos = he needs buffs. If he’s meant to be viable in higher elos = he needs buffs. Who cares is not a talkin point and not worth your time.
why reinvent the wheel if it already rides on roads specially designed for it, it just called low elo. Again, You have heroes for low sr and for high sr just use this knowledge, don’t ask for being pleased with every whim. We already have broken stuff like reapper, mei, df, orisa, bap to work on.
Doom reaper mei and hanzo are seriously op. These nerfs should be a priority but I’m saying that bastion shouldn’t be forgotten about.
Personally I want his personal barrier back but with serious changes. 1000 was too much, it recharging when taking no damage was too much, and it’s size was just slightly too large so peeps using him as a tank was too much. Reduce the shield numbers more, recharge only in sentry or tank mode, and making it’s size more aligned with brig is all it needs. This rewards his higher elos mains, reduces his sit there metric, and makes him slightly less dependent on tanks.
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It’s hard to balance a hero who is meant to be stationary the way he is. Because then he gets protected and he can become unstoppable.
Idk. He needs a rework. I know they said they don’t want to do reworks, but he needs it.
That’s the idea. Its meant to be used for teamplays in this team game.
Its not my fault people don’t like that.
That’s a good idea. I think that could work but they would have to nerf his sentry damage quite a bit
I don’t think they really need to nerf his damage by much (if at all) for such a change, he already has no utility and sacrifices movement for damage. Giving him rewards for not just sitting there is what he needs and to help his good players out.
Yes but no other hero is as dependent as bastion. He requires a specific team comp and this makes him very poor in most situations. I think that heroes working as a team is very important but no hero should be as dependent on the team as bastion is.