Sunflower Ability Change...

I like it 🙂

Not a bad idea, but I would like to see her have one of these 2 abilities as well.

A sun sphere shield aura, which makes her invulnerable for a few seconds, so that she can either survive a gun fight with a Scientist better when forced to do so or just be able to revive someone with out being worried about getting killed. You see a fellow plant fall *shields up* time to revive them.

Also the big one I would like to see is a mobile offensive attack high burst dps ability. Again if she she faced with a threat like a Scientist or an incoming All-Star she has one way of actually having a chance of surviving or getting the kill if you want to play as a glass Cannon.

@zaheen

I love it! 🙂

Currently we have the Dark Flower ability as an alternative to the Healing Pot. This little evil flower doesn't feel very useful at all, in just about any situation. She does little damage, with kind of ok range, but definitely not good enough to actually be that effective.

I find if you know how to utilize the dark flower, it can definitely be effective. So you may just need more practice with it.

It is an interesting idea though on the bonkchoy. but that would mean sunflower would be stuck sitting right next to it in order for it to protect her, and since she needs to be moving around to heal others, it's not very practical.

@Trisskiss 

I don't know how you want me to play the Dark Flower ability... Like I said it's limited range makes it an easy harmless target for people. And it's damage is weak. You can attempt to plant it somewhere "hidden" but that rarely ever works. Again, me using the Healing Pot ability is 10,000x more effective as a character than the dark flower simply because I can use it as a obstacle to run around and attempt to get the opposing player to shoot it instead of me, sucking up healing stars all the while... I don't need a very limited damage assistant in the Dark Flower. I'd rather take a status effect Bonk Choy. Much more practical and useful. It would be a situational ability, just like you say the Dark Flower is now. Only I find the Bonk Choy option way more usable. 

Sunflowers do definitely stay stationary for periods of time, on the back lines. Or if you're running with people throw it down at the end of the run where you know your allies are setting up to make a stand. I know so many advancing spots on turf wars maps where you can put a bonk choy effectively to stop rushing zombies. Like around teleporters and chokepoints. And you can leave it there for them! And then go run off to heal others. 

Yea they nerfed the dark flower in PVZGW 2. In PVZGW 1 it had very good range and accuracy. Now it is close range and misses alot. 

@llachie

Valid points, but it's a fail ability that leaves your Sunflower with no self heal at all unless you're the Vampire variant and is more of a defensive ability, it's total garbage on the offensive, and so is a heal pot.

On the defensive a heal flower is alright...but shield would be better as I suggested many times.

'Put it in a bush...'

You keep putting yours in bushes then, I think I've only ever died to one dark flower in both game versions in over 300 hours, and probably 1000 games...because I was too busy looking around for a player and didn't look at the tiny little pot on the ground, oh and I was ridiculously low health when I went near it.

@llachie

Or I could keep on saying it's not a good ability. It doesn't do a lot of damage, or good damage. I'd rather have a stun plant. It'd be much more effective in more situations than trying to hide the Dark Flower and hoping that the opposing player hangs around for like 2 minutes to let the dark flower kill it. I'd rather have a bonk choy, so I can actually use strategy in a more technical way. The stun Bonk Choy would be a perfect counter-ambush weapon instead of an ineffective few points of damage. He's(Bonk Choy) like a legitimate trap option. You're anticipating the rush from the zombie and he'll stun the guy as he turns that corner and you ambush him instead. Or like I said it'll actually stop a rogue scientist. You think a Dark Flower would stop a scientist sneak attacking you? No. He can take all that damage and kill you and your friends well before that Dark Flower takes even half of his life down. I'd rather the stun trigger so we have a real chance to react. Not a small spray of damage while he still kicked your butt into oblivion.

I want the Bonk Choy because I want it to physically stop the movement of an advancing enemy. The Dark Flower doesn't stop anybody from doing anything. It doesn't have stopping power, or killing power. 

 I think I've only ever died to one dark flower in both game versions

Well you've been lucky. In the first game I was picked off several times because of the flower. That's how I knew it was effective. Because at first I too wondered why would anyone use that instead of a heal flower. And then I felt the flower power. It became such an annoyance and hazard that whenever I encountered one along with other players, I went for the flower first.

You all say that it's weakened and not as effective in GW2....well I haven't played all that much as sunflower, so I can really say I've noticed one way or the other, but when I was playing as flower I still chose the dark flower over a heal pot. And still felt it was coming in handy.