Sniper one shots should be DOT instead of burst

a widow headshot could be quick like 300 damage over one second or a second and a half with compensation buffs.

This makes the snipers have to at least interact with the active healing in the game, and at least would create an illusion like there was something you could have done if you had a lot of heals poured into you or got a zarya bubble or something, you could have lived.

My issue with one shots isn’t that they exist it’s that they supersede and don’t interact with other aspects of the game.

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Nah. Healing is already OP and supports are the current carries. Shifting even more power to supports is a bad idea atm.

Also, making everything damage over time is just lame. Burst damage has to exist. It is necessary for a game with answers to things. You guys want to remove all burst by making it not burst… because you don’t like ever dying. It’d be like GOATS but worse.

Widow is also bottom 3 dps winrate in every rank from Bronze to GM over the last month. She needs buffs not nerfs.

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Yes, headshot a Tracer as Hanzo right as she’s about to kill you…

RECALL. Dead.

No.

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They tried dot dmg widow once in experimental it didnt go well

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Lol imagine being salty about snipers as a sombra main that you have do the same thread twice :joy:

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We can make it DOT, but only if during the DOT, the victim has to go through a cut scene of flying towards the light, maybe seeing their loved ones waiting for them on the other side.

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If sniper headshots were DOT you do realize nothing would die right? Did you forget cleanse exists? Immunity abilities? Healing? Health packs? Snipers would instantly become the very worst dps in the game or in any multiplayer game ever created. You wanna know what you really need? You need to get good, learn how to counter snipers and stop asking for things that make no sense or suggesting changes that would kill these heroes. I promise you if snipers were nerfed to the ground, you guys would start to complain about other things

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I have no sympathy for widow, but burst damage needs to be a thing

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Lol imagine seeing “I don’t like one shots” for 6 years and pointing to a basic solution.

I don’t mind snipers as sombra. I’m the one who told YOU that sombra counters both snipers than vice versa.

And I never posted this thread before.

I mean tracer still would have many things that one shot her, like Torb and mei and Bap. But hanzo would also get compensation buffs…

or maybe it should be burst like every other sniper in every other game

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You dont like 2 shots either from the looks of it :crazy_face:

should we make kiriko a dot too

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Well nothing dying is a seperate issue and the over time can be three bursts of 100 damage every .33 seconds in widow’s case

Hey bud, you have such a bad faith way of arguing, please just miss me on here. Like, I don’t like kiriko and don’t even suggest taking away her 2 shot and you drag that here.

Like if you dissagree that’s fine but you are condescending and not really providing anything constructive to engage with other than “lol your character isn’t skillful” “lol imagine playing sombra and complaining about x” like it’s whatever.

If this was Twitter I’d just block you, but since I don’t think I can do that here, just dodge me on here. You don’t have anything that interesting to say imo.

go play any other first person shooter and you will realise why snipers are a thing

DoT is such a dumb concept on guns or hanzo’s projectile, realistically speaking once you get shot in the head, does it slowly paint the wall with your brain or does it do it the moment it hits your head?

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you can do that here too but i wont tell you how :crazy_face:

I mean when all your recent threads are about hating burst heroes in general, i mean there is one calling ashe easy from you.
How can i not atleast point it out.

Hey that’s great I’ll just figure that out. I truly don’t care about what the rest of your reply says

It would have to be a pretty fast damage over time, honestly. But even then, why bother at that point?

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given how the current team is great and intent on ruining heroes with these cosmetic reworks, i wouldnt be surprised one day to wake up and find they ruined hanzo or widow.

I would enjoy Havana and Circuit Royale if that happened, but then also, who knows what that Pharah rework is going to look like. I want Widow to clip her wings. :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Then once you play two games, people will be like snipers are so weak even in havana next patch, hanzo will be able to bounce headshots off people even after hitting them.
Widow will get one no scope sniper shot when she grapples.

cause guys we still want to keep the hero fantasy in the weird ways we get in our dreams after eating shrooms.

Kinda easy to fix that:

  • Lower Tank health
  • Lower Tank Healing Received
  • Convert Tank Armor into HP
  • Lower the effectivenes of Tank/DPS defensive/escape/sustain abilities
  • Raise the cooldown of Tank/DPS defensive/escape/sustain abilities
  • Buff Support Firepower
  • If the above doesn’t work, Lower some of the heals on Ana/Bap/Moira
  • Reduced amounts of OverTime
  • Also they could offset reduced mid-combat heals, by giving everybody an out-of-combat regen passive and/or out-of-combat healing-received boost
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