Just a suggestion thread. I kinda sympathize with both camps of this debate. Tracer has been my second most played hero but Moira is also my favorite support too. Brig proves it is possible to make balanced anti flankers who flankers don’t despise. Her launch started out rocky but she’s a much better hero now for everyone imo. I’d like to think we can get there with Moira too someday.
So basically I’d take any suggestion to change Moira in a way so she’s still fun to play as a support, can still act as an anti-flanker, but flanker players are ok with it like they are with Brig rn.
Give her a Desert Eagle. I know Jeff said no turning them into CS guns… but he also said no stealth heroes. No death match. Blah, blah, blah. The list goes on.
she would probably be more fun if they simply changed her m2 and orb to not be “free”. she would still remain strong vs flankers because of her healing output + invincible movement cd.
I don’t think there’s a way to do it without reworking the hero. She was rarely used in high ranks before the release of Sigma and the fact that she fit into that meta pretty well. Now you see her often. She still lacks utility which the other supports provide so I think it’s fair that she has better survivability than the other heroes. I don’t play her much anymore, though.
The problem is that she can’t do anything else, which means that what she can do has to be at an acceptable standard (otherwise you get heroes like Sym…) She has no utility, so if you reduce her healing she’s underpowered as a support and will still be used as a 3rd DPS. She’d still used in low ranks, because she’s user-friendly. She still has very low DPS, but her orbs combined with favourable accuracy on her beam still makes her decent at attacking. She’s needs to attack because her healing spray is a resource with otherwise slow regeneration.
Suppose you have the healing as a faster regeneration, (you could drop the spray by 5 HPS, but I don’t think she needs nerfs) and make changes to the beam so it doesn’t have as long of a range, or does slightly less damage, or something. Nerfs for buffs. Someone probably has better ideas but you’d need to rework her, otherwise.
Rework her beams just how they did to Symmetra. Straight very thin beam. Both Secondary and Primary. In this way cuz it’d be more aim required (and less consistent) you can reward her with more healing, more dmg and more selfhealing.
Make her Orbs to only heal or do dmg when She is healing or when She is doing dmg and the Orbs would do healing/dmg to only those players who is Moira doing healing or dmg with her primary and Secondary.
Sure, by nerfing them until they are in fact prey for the flankers they were once meant to counter. Weird balance that is.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s cool to play and I main her, and she’s less vulnerable to flankers than Zenny, but virtually any other healer, Ana, Mercy, obviously Moira, hell even Bap is less vulnerable to most flankers either through disabling, killing or CCing them.
