What does she need? Her old photon barrier / photon shield hand animation of course! It was so iconic and fit her aesthetic marvelously.
What could we use this for? Lots of ideas!
1. The ability to manually destroy sentry turrets using the weapon swap or interact key. - This is a QoL change that Sym could definitely use to control which turrets get replaced when trying to re-position them. In extreme cases, you may have to burn 30 seconds of cooldowns just to move one turret! The gesture really fits the idea too, of sort of “turning off the light” that made the sentry functional.
2. Photon Shield 1.0 - A favourite of mine. This ability is what made me pick up Symmetra initially. I always gravitate towards “buffer” classes in video games.
3. An emote? - A cute emote that could use the gesture and maybe even put a cute blue glow on someone for a second?
4. Old Photon Barrier - Not something I’m a fan of, but people really miss this so I’ll list it out of respect.
Who else misses this gesture? Am I absolutely nuts? (Probably.)