Swapping this with her Tactical Cooldown now makes our interdimensional skirmisher’s choices less one-dimensional as you now have to choose between Tactical improvements.There are several ultimate abilities getting cooldown adjustments and a few more changes as well. These changes push Seer to make a choice on his Ultimate early on, and then tap into one direction of his Tactical in the late game-which has been adjusted to hit more frequently.ĭev Note: Wraith was one of a couple legends with a Level 3 Ultimate related cooldown option, but this didn’t give her enough time to maximize the Ult’s effectiveness as a rotational tool in earlier stages of the game. NEW Ultimate Cooldown: reduces Ult Cooldown by 30s (Level 2)ĭev Note: Seer’s upgrades were seeing one-sided pushes to regain his lost range and scan duration, and Tactical upgrades didn’t change how hard the ability is to land consistently.Racing Hearts: removed (now integrated into base Tactical).Focus of Attention: decreased activation delay to 1.2s (was 1.4).Rapid Response was also a popular choice let’s see if a cooldown-free DOC makes this decision more interesting. We’ve replaced this with a more deterministic draw for gold items that Lifeline can use to support her squad. However, it didn’t feel entirely on brand for our combat medic and it led to some issues controlling the power spike and frequency of Care Package weapons. Also contains 1 Shield Battery, 1 Medkit, and either a Phoenix Kit or a Mobile Respawn Beaconĭev Note: Gift Wrapped was a pretty strong choice that revived a lacking Support pick in higher levels of play.EVO Cache, Gold Knockdown Shield, Gold Backpack.NEW Gold-Plated: next Package spawns with Golden Gear.NEW Tactical Cooldown++: Tactical Cooldown reduced by 25s (making the cooldown time equal to its deployment duration, so you always have DOC).

Upgrade – Wreckless: explosive damage is now reduced by 50% (was 25%).Increasing this delay not only stops the regen for longer, it also cuts into the overall duration of the regen and its potential healing-making it more possible to combat her total healing output. Part of the counterplay is to interrupt her shield regen with damage, but we are seeing that it’s all too easy to evade briefly and have the regen kick back in almost immediately. She continues to be a strong pick, given her ability to maintain pressure by supporting aggressive allies in flights. Regen Interruption delay time increased to 2s (was 1)ĭev Note: Ahh yes, Revenant’s best friend Octane Conduit.The Cover Me tracking potential was doing more work than intended, especially through smoke, so we’ve dialed this back to point you in the right direction rather than provide perfect positional info.

Adding the Tactical Cooldown in place of the Ultimate Cooldown promotes a more meaningful choice between two core components of her kit. We thought about reducing smoke charges, but keeping two with a shorter lifetime encourages more plays with the smoke than longer plays IN the smoke (limiting its omnipresence in fights).

Refuge : Heal Rate increased to 3.5 HP/s (was 3HP/s)ĭev Note: Bangalore’s smoke has been dominant for a while now.

Cover Me: Auto-Ping no longer tracks the player who triggered double time.

NEW Tactical Cooldown: reduces Tactical cooldown by 5s.

Smoke duration decreased to 11s (was 18).

Rolling Thunder: Cooldown increased to 4.5 min (was 4).

Decoupling Extra Bullet and Lasting Bullet (alongside the addition of Speedy Whistler) creates more versatility with the Tactical on a Legend that’s more one-dimensional than some.

NEW Speedy Whistler: successful hits with Tactical give a 2s burst of speed (Level 3)ĭev Note: Ballistic didn’t receive the full suite of upgrades we wanted to give him on launch, and these upgrades won’t be his last.

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