First of all I dislike brig however right now she feels useless and the tank changes especially the knockback change will make her feel useless. Brig is not a hero i play however I have ideas.
Suggestions for brig:
Inspire changes:
Duration of inspire is now back to 6 seconds
Whipshot changes:
Increased damage from 70 to 80
Increased range by 2m
Shield bash changes:
Now has a charge mechanic hold button down for up to 0.75 seconds
Charged bash now travels from between 12m to 16m and deals 50 Damage at base up to 65 damage.
Shield bash cooldown is lowered from 5 to 3.5 seconds if brig does not bash an enemy
Rally change:
Double healing from inspire to brig during rally.
These changes should help brig keep her healing up during fights due to more range as well as the increased duration which will allow brig to stay more safe using whipshot.
She also would have more mobility and dmg from the charge mechanic which gives brig the choice to either deal more damage or escape and escape at a lower cooldown.
These changes should help brig escape dive easier and because tanks especially dive are getting buffed and the armour nerf brig will feel very vulnerable during her ult so the ult will make brig more survivable.
Let me know what you think about these changes or how it can be improved?
Yeah i have PTSD from brig but generally she is just awful and i think these changes could help her be more survivable without buffing her dmg too much or adding hp or armour
Love this thread focused on what can be specifically done to help Brig. Lots of nice changes you suggested; all at once might be too much but like two or three focused buffs might go a long way.
The absolute biggest Brig buff in my opinion, though, would actually be removing Winston’s Tesla Cannon damage ignoring armor. Especially with the increased knockback resistance tanks will have, Winston will be unstoppable to pretty much all supports, but especially Brig and she is supposed to fair better against dive heroes.
I get that admittedly i play Winston a bit and i liked that change though idk since the armour change on 14th of may will be 5 less dmg per projectile how will that affect beam weapons and melee like brig and rein?
If the 5 less dmg affects his gun per tick of dmg winston will not be great if his gun did not ignore armour and will be bullied by most other tanks so he actually may still need that.
Though if it affects his weapon i would suggest winstons weapons now ignore 50% of armour so 2.5 dmg less a tick though it depends on how good his damage feels against armour.
I do understand what you are saying though especially with not adding all changes i suggested at once though the passive and whipshot changes definitely should be added together though if brig sufffers add the cooldown reduced on missed bashed and add on if needed
Just buff whipshot and shield bash because they didn’t get adjusted for hp buffs. Still less relatively than before but more than now. 10% on both. Don’t buff inspire I beg. It’s the least interactive part of her kit
I actually still think it would be a good change. Winston should always be prioritizing squishies; ignoring armor encourages brawling with the tank to farm primal which goes against his dive tank design.
Plus he already got a damage buff so he will be doing 7 and a half more damage to armor per second.
Ignoring armor makes Bastion, D.va, and Brig all less threatening when they are supposed to counter him.
Rework her and lean into this in my opinion. Start from near scratch with her kit/numbers. I’d keep the fact that she has a mace and shield and I’d probably keep self-inspire (just to help with her survivability) and then work from there.
Thing about buffing Brig is that giving her bigger numbers healing will feel annoying to play against. I’d like her to get more unique changes to offense/utility. Maybe allow whipshot to crit in some way? I like the mirrorwatch change to let you empower shield bash.
