Classic Rein can keep his 2000 shield HP, but why Classic Orisa shield HP is 600 instead of 900? 600 shield HP is weak as Winton’s bubble during early launch days.
On an extra note, “the enemy team has a teleporter / shield generator” voicelines don’t trigger when the enemy Sym builds one.
Because you need to be a GM player to understand how OW1 worked.
Sounds like an oversight. I distinctly remember she used to have 900 shields for the longest time before it finally got hit in a patch very late int Overwatch’s life span with Sigma and Rein and her for reduced barrier health trying to break ladder’s dominance on Sigma/Orisa teams.
Because unlike Rein she can also shoot and do other things while her barrier is up, and it recharges (via cooldown) during this time as well.
If her barrier was 2k HP she’d be so broken.
Iirc the old Orisa Shield used to last like 20 seconds once it was placed down, but in Classic it only lasts 10 seconds. And the HP used to be 900 back in 2017, I think it was nerfed sometime when Sigma was released cuz of double shield meta. But still that was 2019, definitely not moth meta
I believe the correct answers are fortify and bastion.
If she had something similar to rein shield Orisa would have far too much sustain, probably as hard to kill as ball while also providing peels for supports.
Also the game would be ridden with bunker cancer. No thank you…
Her shield was nerfed because Sigma was too versatile. But that also made it so you wouldn’t ever play her without him.
Also, part of me thinks they just did some tweaking instead of just giving it to us straight. Otherwise, sombra would be getting ult near every fight because it was the second cheapest ult and you could farm it off a large health pack and a d.va.
Orisa was super-underpowered at release. She was marketed as the next anchor tank, the first new tank with a shield that had released, and it took them a long time of small buffs before she was actually decent on her own. Then, Sigma released and double-shield became the law of the land.
Everything about her barrier in this event is wrong. The 12 second cooldown got changed to 8 seconds fours months prior to the Moth patch and she did not have a duration timer on it, that’s just plain out-of-the-left-field nonsense.
Double Shield with Rein was a thing before Sigma.
I think Sigma’s ability to directionally shield and do damage concurrently was an upgrade off of rein, but the addition of heroes like Baptiste and Brigitte really turbocharged double sheild into the stratosphere.
2 Barriers (one Directional, and Sigma’s barrier had a lot more HP before it was nerfed), Grasp, Fortify, Immortality Field, Regenerative Burst, 2 AoE healers…
Everyone but Blizzard could see where this was going, it seems.
This is fixed now! 