a healer with good potential.
i never played ana, until her recent shots-go-through-teammate buffs. i think it was a really good idea on blizzard’s part, and good ideas aren’t usually their forte. i think this made her significantly easier. so id like to know peoples opinions on that.
secondly, the hints that blizzard have been giving about her possible mobility buffs- what do yall think they’ll be?
id also like less cooldown time on her abilities, since she doesn’t have passive healing. thoughts?
oh yeah, and skins. id really like some ana legendaries that aren’t… you know, all the same except for the colour scheme.
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Awesome, it seems like I’m not the only one that knows Ana has potential 
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Change her top 75 HP to shields, so she’s less vulnerable to chip damage but not a sustain monster
Give her some kind of grappling or wall climb that lets her access sniper nests. It doesn’t need to let her escape enemies, just have a chance to actually work like a sniper
And I’d love more young Ana skins!
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I’m not sure if that’s allowed on h… oh wait you typed Ana.
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I was playing a game on Oasis and the sym teleported me to that snipers nest window at the top of the long tower thingy. And as I was healing my team during team fights from above, for the first time I felt, wow this is how ana should be able to play. To grapple to higher ground and be a sniper healer.
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It made her easier to keep the team up and harder to keep who you want up. In other words, a bit of a trade-off that gave her more impact which is what she needs considering the toxicity you get for playing her.
Really? I thought they were opposed to mobility changes on Ana. I would be very surprised if they just caved and went that direction with her.
I honestly just prefer the passive healing. Make her consistent with all of the heroes and keep the skill-based kit. Cool-down management is a skill and one that is excessively hard when you need your grenade to heal yourself, amp teammates and anti enemies. So, while decreasing the cool-down would certainly help, it would make her feel more spammy. But then again, maybe that is the best course of action to make her less of a troll pick.
Huh? Young Ana is nothing like Wasteland which is nothing like Pirate which is nothing like OWL. No idea what kind of fine substance you are on. But Ana has the best skins in the game. Even her purples are quite different relative to the rest of the cast and she gets some of the less used colors on her blues. If you are not happy with the diversity now, I doubt you ever will be.
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i dont speak ana-ese, wasnt in my GSCE options
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yes, I agree. definitely a good idea.
I think I saw a mod post saying they were going to look into it, I might be wrong however.
passive healing is nice n all, but all the healers have it. something more unique would be nice, although if blizzard added it I wouldn’t complain lul.
if you think about it, wadjet and wasteland are very similar. young ana and horus are very similar. snow owl and pirate are the only ones with any uniqueness, really. so 2/3 of her skins are copies w/ different colour schemes.
The only buff I could ever see Ana getting a brief sprint ability to escape situations because while she can defend herself very well, sometimes she’d be better off expending her high cooldown, game-changing abilities in a situation other than getting cornered by every mobile/one-shot hero in the cast.
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I mean, just think about, buffing something like biotic grenade would make supports effectively useless and Ana a must-pick (or just lowering the hero’s skill ceiling by making the ability an area-targeting deployable), buffing sleep dart just adds to the already prominent cc meta (and could if overbuffed keep a single player permanently out of the fight if the cooldown’s reduced by a significant degree), and there’s not much more firepower you can give to a hero that can very rapidly 3-shot opponents without making the hero Widowmaker with healing.
I have not seen any mention of them wanting to give mobility buffs to her. They did say that they wanted to give her more buffs but they required new technology to be developed first so it was going to take time. I suspect this means healing through barriers while not being able to do damage.
I love the shooting through teammates change, it was something I wanted for a really long time. I’m also hoping they’ll do the same to Bionic Grenade at some point, but that’s a bit more controversial amongst Ana players. I never understood the complaint that you can no longer pre-heal your target, that seems like a placebo effect to me.
I don’t think Ana will ever get any form of mobility buff, and I don’t think she needs it either. The only aspects that needs to be looked at is Ana’s self-healing, preferably by giving her a passive healing like Mercy, and the fact that Sleep Dart is so unreliable to use that even the best players can’t hit with it consistently. Other then that Ana is a pretty solid hero.
I think the cooldown time on Sleep Dart is way too high, considering how difficult it is to use, and the fact that you need it both for defending yourself and saving your team from ultimates. Bionic Grenade’s cooldown time is fine. The reload time on her rifle should be faster.
Ana has some of the best epic and legendary skins in the game, I don’t think you can really complain about it considering what other heroes have. Merciful, Shrike, Tal, Ghoul, Wasteland, Captain Amari, Corsair, and Snow Owl, are all awesome skins!
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I don’t think there’s much to talk about ana, I just came in here because that “!” looked like an L …
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Don’t do this. It’s hard for me to take anything after a statement like this seriously. We’re all here playing a game we like, right? What does this help?
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I mean, it’s great and makes more sense, but I really liked pre-healing.
After spending some time on these forums, I really doubt it.
My God, I would pee everywhere with happiness if Ana could actually get to high ground.
They could try giving her shields in her hp or a secondary fire that eats up to two or three of her ammo to allow her to shoot through barriers/shields
ok so I have a headache at the moment and it’s making my vision a bit fuzzy and I misread the title as let’s talk anal… which will likely be filtered. an al
oh, no it wasn’t filtered lol