I’ve been tinkering with creating a new ability (again) for Moira (again) in the workshop mode for a while now:
The first lets Moira drain her own health to restore Biotic energy.
The second is one where Moira completely empties her tank of Biotic energy to fuel some sort of power-up. The powerup’s duration depends on how much was left in Moira’s tank before emptying it, and it even comes with an HUD bar to show how much time is left.
There’s only one problem left…
What should this ability actually do?
It’s 1am at the time of writing this, and so my head is bereft of thoughts in general at the moment, let alone ideas for what this modded ability should do.
Ideas please!
NEXT DAY EDIT: I’ve decided that the effect will be “turn Moira’s damage beam into a shrink ray.”
Shrinking an enemy reduces their damage dealt (and also turns their voice hilariously squeaky).
Bear in mind that I don’t really know the extent of what you can do in the Workshop. The most I’ve done is faff around with HPS/DPS meters and distance indicators.
They tried necrotic orb. Why don’t you try necrotic noodle? The power up drains her resource but adds a -25% damage done debuff to the target when she right clicks. Debuff lasts around half a second and is refreshed by damage ticks, not extended/stacked.
Sometimes raw healing isn’t going to get the job done and negation is better.
If you don’t care about any sort of utility or balance but you want something fun, you could have the ability not be a powerup, but instead a way of trading resource for knocking time off one of her cooldowns. So at full resource you could do Fade → Ability → Fade for some shenanigans. Or instead at full resource do something like Orb → Ability → Orb.
I haven’t found a way to mess with resource guages (that functioned) in the workshop.
Ability concept depends on what is it you believe Moira is lacking or what she can provide.
Since it sounds like an “Install ability” (fighting game term that functions like a nanoboost) maybe her Primary changes to fire Projectiles that deal more damage at longer ranges? Targets that are hit, have a debuff put on them that allows Moira’s allies to lifesteal the debuffed enemy?