I have no problem with aiming, but this new symmetra beam is terrible. You need RIDICULOUS tracking in order to charge your weapon! Her beam on level 1 of charge is so thin that makes it hard for her to track and kill enemy DPS… I don’t know why they increased her tickrate on her primary. It literally ruined her
Edit: I’m not saying symmetra does LOW damage. I know she does insane damage, I never said she didnt. I’m saying in order to get full use out of her primary u need to have insane tracking due to her tick rate
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I’m mean she also has her turrets that do very decent damage with lock on. And large projectiles. Maybe her main weapon is too small but maybe the reason why you can’t do enough damage is because your not using her entire kit?
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Have you brought her into a custom match with AI so you can test how wildly overpowered it is at max charge? It’s like max charge Zarya on steroids. There’s a reason its manual now and harder to get full potential out of
Fire your beam into shields until it’s maxed out. Then attack enemies. Symm is made to help take down shields.
One would think that the beam should start out huge and gradually turn smaller, instead like the opposite it does now. I mean, little damage should be easier to hit while lethal should be harder. I kinda want them to change how it works but I guess visually it’s easier to see “big beam big damage”.
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I agree op. Maintains a constant 60% accuracy to see any decent value is absolutely rediculous even for a pro. They need to fix her primary
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That’s not my point, I use her kit, im talking about charging her weapon up. It’s super hard considering you need reallllllyy good tracking in order to level it up. It takes like 6 seconds to charge her weapon up to the highest charge
Secondary is the primary. Beam is for shields and then punishing people after the shield goes down. Charging it outside of shields is a nightmare. At least that’s how I use it.
I know she can do massive amounts of damage lol I never said she has low DPS. that’s not my point. I’m saying in order to GET to that high amount of damage input (aka max charge on her beam) you need to have insane accuracy and tracking due to her tickrate
Buff her initial damage, nerf her end damage. Yah?
Or shoot shields, big, give you ammo, and don’t shoot back (unless its orisa i guess)
Shoot shields… that’s cute and all until u get focused on by the tanks due to her short range beam. When the enemy team isn’t just focusing on you, that’s a whole different story, since she is very useful and you can get the most out of her primary that way
Maybe it’s so that she gets that high dps when fighting tanks and has lower dps on squishies. Her max dps is 180 instead instead of 120 and minimum is 60 instead of 30. Ramping up easily on small target with 200 or less hp plus her turret damage (which was buffed, plus slow which was buffed) and a large and fast secondary with 60damahe and 60 explosive damage could be too over powering to those heroes.
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You shouldn’t be front lining with beam if you don’t have the protection of a shield. Using beam in duels and such is not a good choice imo, you should be using orbs.
True, but she’s a dps hero now. Compare her survivability with other dps heroes (when you’re 1v1ing squishies) for example 1v1ing a Moira or tracer with the current sym’s primary would be super hard, since you need god like tracking. This would then force you to use her orbs as a primary. Yes u can place ur turrets while 1v1ing, but then again, what’s the point of her primary beam if I can just spam my orbs instead and not use her beam at all. Why call It a Primary weapon If in order to get full potential out of it, you need to track like a pro?
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Primary beam, how I use it, is for shield break or against tank targets then turned on other targets. Orbs are your primary when on squish vs squish. Should be utilizing turrets etc as well.
And new Sym, just like old Sym, will be rekt by Tracers so don’t mess with them.
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But then that defeats the whole purpose a primary weapon… why not make her orbs her primary? The primary weapon (in this case, her beam) is what you should be using when engaged in a fight, since it does the most damage! Everyone’s saying use her orbs in 1v1’s. But why would I just use that if my beam does 10x more damage?
You can swap the bindings if you want. M1 for orb, m2 for beam.
And I’m not saying things are fine with Sym or anything like that. I’m just outlining how I’ve approached it in my limited play time. It’ll be weeks before I have an opinion on Sym.
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Lmaooo I know but like still. They should’ve reworked her whole weapon and made her orbs a primary if you are only supposed to use her beam as a tank shredder
Fair enough. I don’t put much thought toward primary vs secondary, categorizations, etc etc. I just try to find the best ways and best situations in which a kit can be applied/utilized.