Zarya’s buff is bugged.
Her bubble duration is based on her previous bubble target.
If her last bubble was on an ally, her next bubble will have 8s cooldown.
If her last bubble was on herself, her next bubble will have 10s cooldown.
Her current target will not affect her current cooldown, just the next one. So she can game the system by using bubble on an ally for a single 8s cooldown on herself for her next bubble.
Guys… Stop. Shooting. Bubbles. It’s really that simple.
Too many people have the mindset of burning her bubbles down. She’ll burn you down first, Einstein.
You are wrong. The cooldown is 10 seconds for her self bubble, 8 seconds for allied bubble.
What you probably did was use her allied bubble first (8s cooldown) then used her self bubble (10s cooldown) so the cooldown you were actually seeing come back after the 2nd bubble was for the first bubble you used
Confirmed that only her projected barrier CD is 8s with 225hp & larger. Her self bubble is unchanged.
I’ll be the voice of reason in another thread created by a person that didn’t read the patch notes correctly. The change is for her PROJECTED barrier only! So her self bubble remains unchanged. It’s only when she bubbles her allies that these changes hold. Please READ before you go all keyboard warrior on the forums.
This game is full of projectiles and turrets. The whole, “just don’t shoot her bubbles” shtick that gets dragged out every time Zarya is overtuned is silly. Even in OWL when Zarya has been played she maintained high energy levels against the best players.
They are times when you can avoid shooting her barriers, but more often than not she’s going to get energy off of them if she uses them properly no matter how good her opponents are.
These Zarya buffs are likely a mistake, and like many of the recent changes are going to get partially or fully reverted in the future.
Yeah, Alec had to clarify this on twitter. Imo. the patch notes were not clear at all and majority of ppl and even content creators thought that it’s a general change to her bubbles.
“Crazy” how?
They just changed how the ally bubble works.
Just as before, stop shooting bubbles.
have you tried not shooting the bubble?
I mean, just read. It literally says projected barrier.
Not only that but the ‘avoid doing x’ idea is useless in solo q. Your teammates are just going to shoot the bubbles anyways no matter what you do. Zarya doesn’t require 5 people to shoot her bubbles to become a monster, she just needs a couple (or a really dedicated junkrat). Or in OQ if I’m rein she’ll be shining bright no matter what.
And…what’s the bubbled person doing during this time? Just sitting there waiting to be shot? She only bubbles people actively going in and doing something. It’s just bad advice all around.
I don’t know about stronger than launch Zarya because she was crazy good, but definitely too strong. I guess all us tanks are Zarya mains now. I mean, why wouldn’t you pick her?
I one-trick D.Va. Again, just don’t shoot the bubbles and you’ll be ok.
This is literally a utility buff.
If you guys cant see that, you really dont comprehend the game that well…
…so reaper zarya from season 1 is back but stronger?
kool
I can already see reaper/ bastion double bubble completely destroying tanks like winston/rein and arguably orisa.
“I’m mad Zarya is able to protect her team better as a tank.”
I was thinking Brigitte and Zarya like a budget Rein and Zarya combo from OW1…
People need to do more testing, it’s possible she can self-bubble for 225hp since you can already exploit projected barrier to get an 8s cooldown on yourself.
I think it is fun to see and follow ideas how the player base can use it in the best way.
Hopefully I will see team composition w Zarya that is fun to play with and against…
Okay… I came home. Played… You guys are right. It’s too much. 0 fun. Zarya makes you have to play so damn slow to wait out her bubbles. Through some miracle, my team didn’t charge her. I ate grav, and blizzard and forced zarya to play something else… still ended up losing the game somehow.
I played my best. Felt like I was effective and even still, I was not enjoying myself at any point, because of how I was having to fight against Zarya.
Then, the next game was just insufferable.
0% fun. Too stressful. Not reasonable to expect five people to be able to counterplay against it.
I don’t want to play against it as a tank. I don’t want to have to deal with it on another role. No thanks.
I see my main’s stocks soaring from these buffs tbh