Moira's launch nostalgia

I remember that i start playing ow after the launch of moira, i was in love with her
A easy character that heals so much and do damage, she was so cool
Then, they nerfed her to the floor.
Sometimes feels like you arent even healing or doing damage, i enjoy playing her today, but why if i have much betters characters
I hope the devs give her some love

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I hope they give her a rework

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That faced is cursed.
MORE.

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Oh my god playing moira on ptr was a blast. She was the first “new hero” I’d ever experienced I think.

Seeing 12 moiras in no limits with damage orbs flying everywhere was brilliant.

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Overtuned characters are usually very fun.

Not speaking on her current balance but her previous balance? She was literally easy value everything that virtually anyone could play with very little effort.

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Except she has never been overtuned in her existence. And if you played Moira at launch all you would hear every game is to switch off her and stop throwing. It’s obvious you didn’t.

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I loved how sassy Jeff was during the blizzcon where Moira was announced.

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We’ve already seen many reworks.
How many of them were successful?

  • Symmetra 3.0 - no
  • Brig - no
  • D.va - no
  • Mercy - no
  • Torb - yes

Just fix Moira without rework - revert her healing changes.

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Imo,

Mercy- yes

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The thing is he said “If you don’t know how to spell Moira it goes “Opaf” and the thing is… she isn’t. You look at other support heroes who were added after the game launch (in this case, Ana) and you can see she has so much… her kit is extremely relevant even to this very day, but you looked at Moira… and she didn’t had anything special… she heals,and she heals, and guess what she heals a little bit more. And then they added Brigitte and baptiste and those 2 have way more utility that 10 Moira’s combined. Nothing about her ever screamed op, maybe the “lock on beam” as they like to call it.

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I miss launch Moira so much, it was actually fun. Your heals mattered and your resource management mattered. Everything afterward was watered down into brainlessness.

Moira needs a new ability to her kit. Something useful. A reason to be picked. Not only heals or dmg.

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What about Mass Rez to MOTH?
Totally successful right?
Must pick for every rank and number of Rez doubled.

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Well their balance team considered Hamster’s Minefield into Piledriver (literally pressing two buttons) “a high skill combo and very few in our team could pull it off”. No wonder Moira was “OPAF”.

I remember those nights, I just might remember those nights for the rest of my days

I remember those Damage Mains tripping over themselves to win our praise

I remember that barrier-piercing healing, like a Tank that you can’t replace

But Moira mains, we’ll never forget the first time they buffed our fade

We have never been the same

Team-wide cleansing and and an invulnerablility frame

And when it said “bye”, META forgot our dang Main

Set our heart aflame, every part aflame, this is not a game

This is on par with those pining for Brig 1.0… Moira was as Jeff introduced her at Blizzcon that year as “OPAF”. No, he really did, watch it on Youtube. I understand wanting easy access to power; its addicting, but its not healthy for the game or the player really, you never learn.

Moira is no question underperforming, but I think that is in large part due to people not upping their play to for changes intended to raise her skill floor, and less about a need for buffs. OTOH, she could use a utility ability.

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I play moira with my friend who just hard feeds to stat pad my healing done

Rn I’m sitting at 19k healing per 10 mins on moira. She may have no utility but she does the most raw healing :sunglasses:

Moira was never really overtuned though.

Maybe you could argue she had too much heal/sec, but even then it was compensation for having 0 utility that wasn’t healing. She doesn’t have any CC, no buffs for allies or debuffs for enemies, no status effects, and the third most expensive ult in the game

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Give back launch Moira with healing through shields but keep the attach angle nerf :+1:

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