My thoughts about that are:
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characters like symmetra, hanzo, junkrat, that weren’t that much played before, got significant buff to contest her (even hanzo being a viable counter with storm arrows)
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her ult barrage is not enough powerful. The barrage should be shorter on time, like 2.5sec with each mini rockets dealing more damage.
It is absolutely not normal that the releasing of the rockets are too long and the path of them so messy zigzagging which allow opponent below her to survive or kill her and get killed too
A well timed and planned barrage should, at any AND every situation, be rewarding. You basically giving your life during 4sec. After 2years of Pharah, it appears she’s getting rekt most of the time before her barrage end, which means half of its power is out of the equation. -
hitscans and mobile characters like tracer, genji, sombra always had an edge over the speed of her rockets. Playing on long distance is not enough effective, and was the only thing that reduced hitscans effectiveness (beside widowmaker)
Blizzard buffing all of this all together is making playing her a real challenge
To me Barrage should be:
- 2 to 2.5sec shooting mini rockets dealing 50-60dmg, and extra 10 on splash
- the path of mini rockets should go in a regular and straight path so the travel time is reduced and the justice can finally rains from above
This two changes would give her better chances to survive by either killing her targets OR only requiring 2sec of burst healing from teammates
Other than that, we could expect some damage resistance like 25-30%, and headshot immune should be the least she has to get. As said, it is absolutely too rough and punitive. You can litteraly take any entrance damage before getting to a good spot. The problem is that its too predictible. A pharah will always go from above to get extra value of the splash damage.
=> so reducing splash damage and increasing impact damage of barrage would allow her to pop Barrage horizontally AND vertically, so Pharah has more options to pop a viable ult
I seriously dont understand why the refuse or dont realize how her ult is actually garbagio. It was very powerful before, its not anymore