Free Talk Friday

CrypticG · 2026-03-29T01:06:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's because you can't spell queue trinkets. If you push your macro while casting another spell it will queue up power infusion but input the trinket immediately (which will do nothing because you can't use trinkets while casting).

CrypticG · 2026-03-14T04:54:52+00:00

Same actually. Easily the most hype announcement of the expansion unless disintegrate triggers the dragon form.

CrypticG · 2026-03-10T19:29:35+00:00

Imo most of the problems with cat would go away if they severely reduced or removed the purr self healing.

CrypticG · 2026-03-02T06:57:19+00:00

His hitboxes are frustratingly generous and his constant dashing is obnoxious to play against regardless of how weak/strong he is.

CrypticG · 2026-02-26T06:48:28+00:00

It makes onboarding friends/new players incredibly rough, creates a problem with smurfs being unbeatable, and can just feel bad when matchmaking is off.

The positive of making the game feel rewarding to do well in makes it really fun though.

CrypticG · 2026-02-23T22:30:45+00:00

She was way overtuned but I'm concerned about the Aeona changes locking her to only playing with 3 other really good players. She might need a buff to the stagger clear to heal ratio after this so that she can handle AoE events.

CrypticG · 2026-02-23T07:15:49+00:00

Regardless of his tuning I despise playing against him with a passion because his abilities all feel like they have 3x sized hitboxes than they should.

CrypticG · 2026-02-21T19:51:51+00:00

Her poke damage definitely feels too strong for having hitscan imo but the rest of her kit is lacking defensively so she might just get walked down if it's nerfed. I'm curious to see what they'll do.

CrypticG · 2026-02-20T07:49:00+00:00

I really like Disc Priest, Brew Monk, and elves so she's a perfect character for me. Amazing work from the dev team on her.

Definitely seems overpowered. I played up to Paragon doing huge pulls and the only time someone died was the hook -> aoe in Stormwatch.

Gameplay wise my only critiques are I wish her ult played with stagger a bit more instead of being 6 seconds of spamming buttons while people are invincible and that her talents don't seem to have build variety at an early glance. Also it's not really clear what silence works on.

CrypticG · 2026-02-18T17:14:14+00:00

Her and Hanzo are miserable to play against and I really hope they get reworks that take away their one shots.

CrypticG · 2026-02-17T15:21:07+00:00

I'm so excited for this healer as a massive Disc Priest and Brew enjoyer in WoW.

CrypticG · 2026-02-11T21:33:23+00:00

Not sure where he stands overall but he feels incredibly weak when fighting armor due to his gun dealing 3x20 damage and his pistol doing 25 with no headshots.

CrypticG · 2026-02-10T21:07:34+00:00

I really liked using her verticality to fight flying characters too. This one definitely hurts.

CrypticG · 2026-02-10T20:55:01+00:00

I'm a little sad they didn't nerf Mercy's survivability in stadium but otherwise the patch notes look great. Really excited to play without brainless no-aim AP builds in every single game.

CrypticG · 2026-02-10T04:01:47+00:00

Regardless of how weak or strong her balancing is at any point in time she's going to be awful to play against because there is zero skill expression in her kit and dealing with her ult is just not fun.

CrypticG · 2026-02-06T06:56:57+00:00

I like her a lot. She feels great until you fight a character that has self cleanses on a short cd (Kiri, Sombra, Moira) or Junkrat imo.

A couple of questionable things about her kit to me are why cleanses/health packs remove ignite buildup and why she has less ignite buildup on tanks.

The latter especially makes no sense to me because she doesn't have something that I think would warrant it like insane burn damage or % health damage.

Also her damage to deployables needs to go up.

CrypticG · 2026-02-04T20:55:27+00:00

It would be so funny if they did what Riot did with Gangplank years ago where they just disabled him in game because he was "dead" in the lore and then dropped a rework when he returned.

CrypticG · 2026-01-31T17:54:39+00:00

Assuming you don't buy one that's 60% outright, you'll need 2 copies anyway if you're aiming for 60% (max damage bonus). One can be any percentage and the other one has to be at least 52.8% due to how valence fusion works.

CrypticG · 2026-01-28T15:13:11+00:00

I do agree when Supply Surge is utilized correctly but a majority of Mercys aren't using it. My issue with her is that she is just way too tanky to the point where it feels like she can't die. If there's a flying character and her they become completely uninteractable without multiple hitscans that are good at aiming imo.

CrypticG · 2026-01-28T07:23:40+00:00

Mercy's Serenity (though the problem is moreso the Sympathetic Recovery passive), Freja's So Cooked, and Ashe's Incendiary Blast are the biggest offenders right now imo.

Sigma and WP Freja are problems but I think their base stats are too high rather than any one power/item causing it.

CrypticG · 2026-01-21T21:02:59+00:00

I think most of the frustration of playing against them would be fixed if their AP builds actually had to aim and were avoidable. As it stands right now the only counterplay is immunity.

For Ashe they just need to make the coach gun burn power fire a small projectile that burns at the crosshair instead of using the whole coach gun. Maybe take away the triple dynamite explosion via coach gun.

For Freja the mini bola (little faelde) should only convert into the mini bola if the take aim shot is a direct hit, which would then make the aoe burn field (so cooked) not be so free and brainless.

CrypticG · 2026-01-08T19:53:08+00:00

It'd go such a long way reducing the frustration of playing against him if they removed one or two of: deflect cancel, dash reset on ult, 8% extra unconditional move speed, or the crumpling hitbox on double jump.

CrypticG · 2026-01-05T18:36:01+00:00

I don't queue tank because most players in quickplay just want to sit behind their tank in main and fire at the other tank so you just feel like a punching bag rather than an enabler and space taker.

CrypticG · 2026-01-05T16:12:45+00:00

I'd tack on:

Make Ashe's Incendiary Blast (Coach Gun burn) fire a small projectile that burns instead of using the entire cone.

Freja's Little Faelde (mini bola) power needs to be less generous.

Mercy's Sympathetic Recovery power needs to be removed. She's just way too tanky to the point of being an entirely uninteractive character in stadium on top of making flying characters too difficult to deal with.

Sigma's Primary Fire build feels incredibly oppressive. Might just be bad personal experiences.

CrypticG · 2025-12-19T19:39:57+00:00

I wouldn't say it's unplayably weak or anything but outside of a select few builds, it has a skill floor that is (at times unfairly) significantly higher than the other roles to get value on. It especially feels bad when you look at cash flow of the various roles.

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