Ha, go figure, two of my mains being reworked in the new game. I’m open to both ideas and seeing as Bastion looks fun I’m curious what they’ve got in store for my beloved horse.
Maybe having Fortify on a resource meter, or making Halt! single target but with a bigger radius… or maybe something new outright? She’s kinda too stagnant and slow for OW2 so I get why they’re reworking her, I hope she can play more aggressively on Attack phases.
Any thoughts?
She will not even play remotely the same, I’m calling it now. She is a proper tank, and those won’t exist anymore. I’m a SadOrisaMain on this day
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but I think her gun and Fortify will remain mostly intact
Which does not matter if she doesn’t have the space enforcement of her barrier or the mitigation that an offtank provides. I don’t play Orisa for her gun. I play her for angle positioning. I suspect positing is about to matter nil soon. Just who flicks faster.
Fortify is a great damage mitigation source. She can safely absorb CCs like Sigma’s boulder or sleep darts.
The barrier I feel will have less health and a shorter cooldown, to perform more as burst blocking and less for continuous blocking
Not really, considering just how much damage there is, and seeing as dps are getting buffs and supports are getting in combat heal nerfs. What is fortify going to do against that?
Being perhaps bound to a resource meter will give it more uptime as needed.
I am hoping for increased personal power at the cost of some team defense.
Honestly all tanks in OW2 should be more self reliant.
Like shield no longer is for the team but only a personal shield for Orisa that moves with her for more aggressive combat.
I really think you are giving too much credit to this team to balance her. She sucks NOW in most ranks.
So you’d kinda play her like a one man bastion bunker that slowly advances? Neat concept
I’m willing to at least see what they have to offer before I go discrediting their efforts
Yes but remove the slow. I would also increase her movement speed so she is no longer a slow moving bovine.
Yeah I think we can do away with her movement penalty while firing her gun. As the only tank, she needs to be able to move with her team while applying pressure
I’m not since the very premise is flawed. There is no contenxt in which one tank will ever feel good, barring mega super buffs.
Which they seem to be doing, so all is well, yes?
Not based on what I saw. Rein got massive sustain nerfs. He had to hug the corner and never aggress in the demos we’ve been shown. DVA popped of of mech very quickly too. And that’s without all the negative changes I mentioned. I have yet to see tanks being better off for WHAT WE’VE BEEN SHOWN
Well also consider that all numbers are still subject to change, as we were told after witnessing Bastion’s poor performance in the OWL finals, as well as Sombra’s massively overpowering performance, heh.
So what we’ve seen with our eyes is less viable to form an opinion on than your sense of hope? That seems a little backwards. I mean hopefully you are right. I sincerely hope you are. I fear you aren’t
They said Orisa was gonna get reworked in OW2 months ago, not a surprise
Oh did they? I hadn’t heard that one, haha. Still cool regardless