Seriously, Buff Wattson Already
I don't care if she's meta in Scrims. Wattson is lowkey bad!!!! I am so sick of using my ultimate and the enemies still spam grenades at me. I just died because they throw 6 grenades into the buildi...
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Searched the forums for a post about Wattson and this was the most relevant one I found.
What could be improved about the fences:
I believe that the biggest weakness here is that people can see them a mile away. This leads to several negative effects for the team.
1. Your position has just been given away
2. Since they can be destroyed so easily (even by hiding them in corners), no one really cares that you put them down.
3. Like you mentioned - people just walk through them and shoot you in the face(laughing that you even bothered to place your fences :D)
4. Considering all of the above - kind of a waste of time.
Ideas for improvement:
1. As many have stated before - make the fences activate only when someone walks through them. This would hide your position but people could still spot the nodes on the ground and be careful about just rushing in a place(especially if they spotted a Wattson).
On a side note - Caustic's gas canisters aren't active all the time with a gas cloud that could be spotted and avoided, and shot to instantly dissipate the effects of his traps.
2. Make it so that it gives one large shock to enemies passing through and then the fence would need to charge back up for, say 5 seconds, or whatever time the Devs would consider appropriate. Throw a 2 sec slow in there?
Other ideas(not balanced but throwing them out there for grabs):
1. Give Wattson a passive that recharges shields up to 25% if she has less than that.
2. The extra shields on revive for companions could be cool(but then make the gold bag revive override this effect).
3. Make her fists do more damage(or slow the target) - Fists of lightning fury!! ZAP!!!
4. When she has the ult fully charged, give her an option to choose - place it down for the shield effect or keep it on herself to overcharge her shields or something. Faster shield regen? Does she need it? Probably not.
Bottom line - make fence invisible, please. Thamk! :D
- @Sizbang Wattson has more of an alarm system. By this I mean that her tactical is more of a way to know if someone entered your building. It doesn’t do much damage, but it does slow the enemy down and ping their location, turning them into sitting ducks.
I think it would be cool if Wattson actually did something unusual with her revives, as she shocks them, as opposed to nearly every other character who just jabs them with a syringe.It is also a position revealing system for Wattson's team, though. :/
They don't really get stuck in the fence for a long time, do they? Once you've turned around to spot them, they are already out of the fence. If you're aiming at them and they start walking through, then yes, it works, but then the enemy was just suicidal. :D
- @Sizbang The fence doesn’t make them get stuck, and there is a good amount of time that they are slowed down, enough time to turn and shoot them. Or, move to attack them.
It can be revealing, but if you are in an enclosed building, they won’t know where everything is, and an ignorant player might not even know.
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