So that’s the one where
(+) The Laser Drill deals splash damage and slows (2/3/5 spell damage (ignore armor) every 0.1 seconds in a 1.5 area for half damage, -50% movement speed to main target and splash; for comparison, it has the collision size of an uprooted Primal Warden).
(-) The Laser Drill’s abilities are unavailable.
In lieu of reducing the cd for acquiring a new target, change 1 or more of the following:
A) Make it a multi-turret laser that can shoot 3 beams simultaneously
B) Make the beam a “mini-Concentrated Beam”. It shoots a laser beam that has some width, with sustained fire, but does damage to everything in that straight line. The laser can still acquire targets on its own that it can see, or you can target a point on the map. But the full beam will always do damage to whatever is in its path.
I think in order to make it worth the loss of massive AOE damage that the abilities provided, they should consider some of the following:
-Remove the Lock On timer that always starts to kill something right when it seems to die anyway, thus underperforming your overall DPS. Having an near-instant laser would go a long way in helping this feel fun and compensatory. Either a completely reduced timer, or reduced in 3 stages with each laser upgrade; base (prestiged), lv1 and lv2.
- Double the splash radius & increase to full damage. Right now, even when you seem to manual target the middle enemy, it doesn’t seem very effective, especially when the old nuke was so much better at it.
-Or, remove splash entirely and replace it with a splitter beam, like a prismatic void ray: The longer it fires on the same target, the more beams break off to hit nearby targets, at reduced damage. Variables like number of secondary targets and secondary beam damage could be scaled to the upgrades.
Although I have to say your idea about multiple beams sounds fun and effective too; (although it would prolly cause blizzard to have to redesign a new 3 headed drill model)
I think massive single target might be good, remove the aoe dmg (keep the slow, aoe or target)…and increase the dps 5-10x (so a full drill has 250-500 dps)
The slow effect is actually the best feature of the Drill. Damage can be done in other ways and even compensated for more than adequately via different units, more turrets, etc. but the slow effect is the main reason to select this Prestige. IMO, this is the most “powerful” part of the Prestige. It CAN use some more rapid targeting I guess, but if you expand the radius to be able to cover the entire wave or something, it’s OP. It already can cover most of an Air wave. You have to remember that a theme of Swann is “long range”, so that’s what you have to take advantage of to use this feature as his units already do high damage.
Make his Thors shoot Laser Drill lasers.
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Best version of heavy weapons specialist -
Benefit: Laser upgrade cost and upgrade time are reduced by 50%. Laser does 100% more damage. Cooldown of topbar abilities are removed.
Penalty: ARES bot is unavailable. Units besides SCV’s are unavailable.