Ability discussion: heal beam
Ability discussion: Heal beam Gw description: If the Sunflower stays close to her target, she can use her heal beam to keep them alive. Bfn: Heal an ally and extend their max health. In gw ...
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Remember in BfN when you could have Cocoon and Blossom at the same time before they changed the values so you couldn't? Along with the fork of the heal beam being able to heal yourself was extremely obnoxious.
Despite healing being too good in BfN, playing Sunflower in the game has somehow been less enjoyable than either GW game, it drove some old friends like Asaibada away from the game over just that alone. Overheal as a concept doesn't bother me, but it just makes things more tedious in BfN. Healing XP is part of the issue, as despite how powerful it is, you don't get all that much XP from it. It feels bad to be top healer and do decently on vanquishes, but be in the lower half of your team because of that.
Sunflowers always felt a bit too vulnerable in GW, but in GW2 they felt so good to play, even before their health was increased by 10. I swapped to the rainbow healing beam in both GW games, because why not?
It's critical to have a Sunflower or 2 when fighting the Yeti King boss hunt in GW2, mostly for that heal beam.
- @Iron_Guard8 It's because despite the fact that healing was buffed everything else with sunflower was nerfed. Her rate of fire and damage were tossed into the trash and sunbeam has no reason to exist in bfn. Sunny side up is a braindead escape ability unlike heal flower where you had to stand your ground and fight.
Both gw games allowed sunflower and scientist to actually have a really powerful dps with scientist needing close range and sunflower needing good aim allowing damage that can rival soldier. Compare this to most shooter games healer philosophy of medic=pathetic weakling in combat.
"Ze healing is not as rewarding as the hurting"- medic tf2. A healer in a shooter that actually rejoices in the slaughter unlike most of the bland pacifists in 90% of shooters nowadays.
We also lost all the variety sunflower got from variants. In gw2 you could choose between a tank, a heal machine, or a vampire that won't die easily but each of them having a respective weakness. There was something there for everyone. Bfn sunflower might as well be discount stuffy flower given that they reused all the sound effects for bfn and certain upgrades just do what stuffy does but with no downsides.
Yeti king shows the value of the beam being able to thaw you out from ice as while its not impossible without healers everything will go your way if you do have one.
