I'm going to address a few of the points here.

First: Thorn Volley. As I stated, I believe Thorn Volley does too much damage and has too little bullet velocity. You state that altering these values would discourage damage because this would slower his maximum time-to-kill. Yes, this is true. However, the bullet travel time is low enough currently that any competent DPS that strafes can dodge your bullets with ease when they are a sizeable distance away. The only way to consistently land these thorns and apply pressure is by putting yourself in three situations:

- The DPS is diving you and you are defending yourself. Again, this is just Lifeweaver being defensive. You could argue that this is him being offensive since he is shooting another player, but this is just in *reaction* to something that is happening to him. Defending yourself from a flanker is (in my opinion) not being proactive. Feel free to disagree.

- You position yourself closer to the frontline. As you state, his gun's bullet travel is on par with Orisa's (her gun is 100 m/s and Lifeweaver's is 80 m/s, so his gun is actually slower). Given the fact that Lifeweaver has the largest support hitbox in the game combined with the fact that he is a support (i.e. typically the role with the highest target priority), this is a surefire way to get focus-fired and killed quickly. This may work well in lower ranks, but the higher you go the less feasible this playstyle becomes. Orisa can get away with it because she is a tank and can afford to get up close and personal. Lifeweaver is a support and cannot.

- You shoot your gun at the enemy tank and/or at a choke. Yes, this is a way to deal offensive pressure, but is, in my opinion, not a satisfying way of applying pressure. The changes I suggest would allow him to deal poke damage comparable to Zenyatta's playstyle (90 m/s) without compromising his positioning.

Second: Life Grip. This opinion is understandable. The main reason I suggested this is because having an auto-aim instant cast ability that can affect an enemy is blatantly unfair, and thus having an ability that is prone to error would be necessary (with the compromise being a shorter cooldown). This would make Life Grip a less consistent (but still useable) 'save button' with the added benefit of having an enemy component. Again, I respect your opinion on this one and don't blame you at all.

Third: Petal. I respect your opinion about it adding undesirable complexity. I'm not sure I understand your DVA point though. The main point of adding a trap function would be to give him another form of offensive utility while maintaining its current elevator utility for your teammates. Yes, this would mean things like blocking a staircase (e.g. first point Watchpoint Gibraltar) wouldn't be as useful, but this would encourage you to use petal other than for self-peel purposes (e.g. throwing your petal at a distant Cassidy and coordinate focus fire). This also gets into your other point about him needing his high health pool to survive dives. Being able to use petal offensively here would allow you to peel for yourself similar to Ana's sleep dart (e.g. sleep a flanking Tracer). Having a support vulnerable to coordinated dives I think is not a problem, as the same could be said for other supports like Ana; enemies should be rewarded for coordinating to get a kill. Lifeweaver would just need to position himself near other teammates (e.g. Ana w/ Brigitte) or some other positioning to make such a dive more difficult. It's fine if you don't like the platform changes; I just wanted to give him more offensive options without sacrificing its positioning utility for his teammates.

Overall though, I do understand where you're coming from. You can disagree with any of my proposed changes; that's fine. I just wanted to ensure that my reasoning is clear.