Barriss nerf
Great timing on the massive nerf to her heal. I would have bought the $99.99 pack but since Barriss' heal was neutered, which I'm not sure really was that much better than any other healer especially considering the pain it is to farm her shards, I don't really think I want to drop $100 on a pack that will give great characters and then ultimately get nerfed in a few weeks. She has nearly zero offense and her only real saving grace was her better than average heal. She's basically now a bullet soak with a good heal. The only good portion of her heal is that the healing equalizer goes through healing immunity.
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May the force be with you.
And yes this IS a substantial nerf. Her healing effects were all she brought to the table and we paid for her.
Lesson : don't buy character packs. Good job, EA.
Actually it's a very severe nerf... As the heal used to be based on a percentage of Barriss's health, now it's based off the health of the target... Barriss has the highest health not sure if she still does with all the new characters... In addition to this change the percentages have been reduced by over 60% on each level of the skill... It's a much bigger nerf than you think
I'm guess you used the heal on a very high health character to think it hasn't been nerfed as badly
Game used to be fun when it wasn't a grind... if I wanted a grind I would have went and played old school Everquest or some Korean MMO!
It isn't about the ultimate team, it's about her having always been an one dimensional character. All she could do was heal. The heal is no better than any one else's heal now. I'm not saying that that is necessarily a bad thing, except she brings nothing else to the table. The Consular does better damage and has a good heal on a shorter cooldown. Luminara's heal is a bit weaker but brings vastly better offense.
I'm not saying her heal didn't need to be lowered a bit, but her proc heal was cut in half and so was her main heal. If it was 3%/6% and max of 15% of Barriss' maximum health I'd feel better about it, but it is of the character's max health. I was doing a GW and she healed. After the health equalizer, a low health character regained a massive +432 health. He lost roughly 400 health AFTER BEING HEALED. The equalizer took him down about 800 points of health and only regened 432. Since the health equalizer is based on health percentage, the heal may not even make up for the loss from that heal.
She's a healer who can't heal. What were they thinking?!
As the matter of fact, we have been used to get all toons hp to the max after Barriss heal. But that wasn't balanced. Now her heal is not that bad as you say it is. I know that this is a char that is bought but nerf will come all the way down. She still has the best heal in this game, and she might not heal to the max but she is still pretty dem OP. That's my thoughts and i dont want to disturb anyone with this, but this is how i see her atm. I am willing to take criticism and want to learn more stuff so if i am mistaken please excuse me and explain me where i go wrong.
Problem is she doesn't do anything outside of her heal, which isn't even strong enough to justify her uselessness outside of healing. I don't have Barriss, but I think her heal is a 5 cooldown. So basically all she does now is heal someone/team(might not even heal to full anymore) and do nothing for 5 turns.
And she is still hard to farm and BRINGS NOTHING TO THE TABLE other than a nerfed heal.
I've not used her yet but looking at the description its a very very severe nerf... A friend told me it literally does nothing and said that the ewok elder heals better than her even without the elder geared up... Elder has one of the worst heals in game and now Barriss's heal is according to my friend worse than that?! Then yeah I'm inclined to believe it was way over nerfed....
Don't get me wrong it needed to be bought down from what it was but not by as much as it has been. Cause like others said Barriss doesn't bring anything else to the table... If the ewok elder can heal better than her, I might as well bring the elder because he can actually revive dead people.. What can Barriss do?
Game used to be fun when it wasn't a grind... if I wanted a grind I would have went and played old school Everquest or some Korean MMO!
No, you're wrong. Her heal is slightly better than average and only because of the healing equalizer. But you are also missing the point. It isn't just that her healing was nerfed. It was the fact that she now has a good heal with still zero offense. Every other healer has a similar total heal but brings offense or other utility to the table. Barriss offers none of that. She has zero utility outside of her heal.
Good thing i dont have Barris
I was so close to buying Bariss too lol everyone in my PVP is using her heavily.
Even before this the top guys said consular was better. Now?
nope, you just have to worry about everyone swtiching their Barriss for Darth Maul now... Trust me if you think it's bad on paper, wait til you see him in action, especially if you have any jedi in your team!
Game used to be fun when it wasn't a grind... if I wanted a grind I would have went and played old school Everquest or some Korean MMO!
Good news is I won't be spending anymore ... So you probably saved me $2000+. Thanks!
Pre patch:2500-3000(leader)
Post patch:800
thats are only 32% from the old heal
My Lumi with same skill level heals for 3000+1500 next round=4500
50€ for nothing.
I don't own Barriss, but well done, EA. Just like VW who claimed to be environment-friendly, but sold a dirty diesel engine, you just angered perhaps your most important customer base (i.e. people who actually pays real cash) by charging a premium for an hero that does not deliver up to the value that people paid for. Well done. It is beyond my understanding as to who would pay £80 for the latest pack when you have already set a wrong precedence. Good luck winning back the broken trust.
Barriss shouldn't be that good in the star wars universe.
But hey, please you buff up mace windu. He is a legendary jedai master, you know?
On barriss; I don't think the nerf was done appropriately. Yes, she was OP, but not hard to counter and her damage created a trade off scenario. The normalization part of her heal is still decent especially if paired with another healer like JC. She will still do well in GW so it's not a total waste.
I think they should have simply nerfed her HP a bit to weaken the second part of the heal and kept her the same otherwise or maybe a slight nerf to the % heal of her health. This way she still hits weakly but her heal is worth it and with lower hp she could still be handled.
That was so the point, right? Every P2P used her because even on 4 star she would heal up to 8,5k hp (on level 55) on one champ and quite a substantial amount on all the others. Now they balanced that one out to still an impressive heal-balancing (saw 5,5k (3,8+1,7) earlier today). Makes it all a bit more fairer.
Yet although I neither have her nor fancy her I'd say she deserves her attack to be more valuable, maybe grant her a little higher percentage of the heal proccing. That would ultimately make her still pretty useful all around.
Until then though, I just grin at all richkids whining their butts off because someone laid hand on their favorite toy