I don’t understand why people think that this rework is somehow going to break the game like release Brig. It seems like you all have forgotten what was actually wrong with release Brig, so I’ll give a quick recap.
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Armor: Rally and Repair Pack provided armor, which had a damage-reduction mechanic that was much stronger back then. Rally also provided PERMANENT 150 armor.
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Sustain: Inspire healed her the same amount as he allies (it’s now halved). She also had 250 hp and a shield with 600 hp.
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Play style: Since there was no forced role queue, she was played in a 3 support-3 tank lineup. Those 3 tanks were able to create a massive amount of space, and coupled with her already high tankiness, Brig was played at the frontline along with her Reinhardt as a brawler. She was a bullier of tanks.
Notice how I didn’t mention her stun? That’s because it wasn’t what made her OP. The stun was only too strong when she was also able to be at the front line, but once that was over, her stun was fine in terms of balance. It was removed in OW2 because they wanted to move away from hard CC, not because it was broken.
With this new rework I really don’t see her shield bash becoming that overpowered considering that she used to already have a stun as part of her base kit at the end of OW1 and she was fine (she was honestly kind of bad tbh). I can understand the fear around the multi-target bashing but like realistically, I don’t think that will happen often. How common is it that two players will be perfectly lined up next to each other just as she has her bash? Furthermore, how is she supposed to even get there in time? Her current kit favors playing in the back lines, so if she wants to rally and go agro, she’d either have to walk towards the enemy while they don’t move or she’d have to use up one of her two shield bashes to cross the distance (and then wait 5 seconds for the second one to come back just as her ult ends). And for what? For a short bash on maybe one target? What playmaking potential is there in that? Maybe get a shatter off in a rein vs rein, but then that’s using two ults for very little reward. Plus, any rein would see her coming from a mile away. I guess she could cancel some ults, but which ones? She won’t be anywhere close to a Cassidy, it’ll take too long to activate rally to cancel a Reaper ult, and Moira can fade away during Coalescence.
idk, I just don’t understand how people think that this will somehow bring back release Brig when they’re just not the same.
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I think her new ult is undeniably a buff and I’m here for it. This is the only season where she is my most played in ranked, the only season where I have more than an hour or two on her, it’s also my highest ranked season. She’s great right now. Hoping the range nerf on heal packs doesn’t feel too bad.
Silly forum users be like “omg it’s double shield all over again”
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As a brig main, I can almost guarantee that this rework won’t actually affect anything because brig’s bash stun was too versatile to be useful to have TWO stuns at the cost of an entire ultimate. She’s now able to, but is much less likely than OW1, stop Death Blossom, Barrage, Dragon Strike, and all the Tank abilities that involve movement or eating bullets for like a total of 40-50 seconds equating to about 10 stuns evey 10 minute game. Brig used to be able to bash literally every 7 seconds and now her kit requires her to ult to have anything close to her her previous effectiveness. Not excited for season 4 but I don’t give this game any money so it doesn’t really matter what I think.
Well yeah, but streamers gotta mald about something for content.
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Let’s also not forget that Rally was bugged for most of OW1 and blocked up to 45% more damage than regular armor.
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Brig is a character that can receive no positive attention, at all, because the bulk of the community blames her solely for GOATS and will lose their minds any time she’s buffed. Despite her only being one factor of it. I think giving her ult power is not going to push her over the edge like people seem to think. It’s an ult, it’s supposed to be impactful.
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Brig haters have always been very low IQ and just start frothing at the mouth whenever she receives a buff. They put very little thought into their dislike for her.
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One thing I like is the synergies that certain tanks will have with Brig tank form now. It will be like having a tank duo for a 10 seconds every once and awhile. Most of the time I can now see her ult more so being used as a backup tank unless you synergize in tank form. This will lets brig turn lost fights where tank fed and died into winning ones. Plus with proper ult tracking she can get some good ult cancels. The downsides to the new ult aren’t talked about as much.
1 being she doesn’t have over health that she holds after rally ends.
2 her speed isn’t as much and with more emphasis on her shield she won’t be going in hyper agressive on the enemies flanks any more
3 if she does she won’t get away with it as she will not have the over health keep being added. (15 every .5 sec was an effecting 300 hp pool potential when played aggressively)
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The original Rally was also bugged for months and the armor from it provided much stronger damage reduction than it was supposed to.
You underestimate the tracer mains who are about to chill around ulting brig who can one shot them again, and then are gonna type muh brig broken i got one shotted watch!
Tbh i do think 750 shield might be overtuned but I’m so glad supports start to have stuns once again, specially brig who’s supposed to be a threat to flankers yet since overwatch 2 she just kinda outhealed them or ran away, like every support
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ill be surprised if the average amount of brig stuns per game will be much higher than average amount of mercy rezs per game, and with the whole transformation period when you activate rally, i dont think itll be a great counter to many ults because split seconds matter
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Even if it is “zomg Brig 1.0”, what’s wrong with having it on an ult? Ults are supposed to be powerful (and rare).
Those poor shivering Tracers were actually able to somewhat work around Brig 1.0 - is it so hard to do it again for ~30 seconds a match?