Barriss was (accidentally?) double-nerfed.
December 17, 2015 2:08PM
edited December 2015
Before today, Barriss seemed to heal based on a percentage of her own health. I thought this was intended, but it seems it wasn't, at least based on the descriptions at SWOGHCantina. This is part of why she healed so much.
It appears they fixed this to be a percentage of the target's health (as it should have been). That would probably have been enough to balance her (along with nerfing her base attack). But then they also cut the percentages.
So what this means is that some characters that were formerly healed for ~2800 are now being healed for 600 or 700. This is unacceptably low for a high-level character, especially one sold in a premium package.
They should either undo the percentage nerf or go back to basing it on her health instead of the target's. Because right now my gear VII 4* level 54 Barriss is healing some characters for less than my 3* Level 40 Consular was.
It appears they fixed this to be a percentage of the target's health (as it should have been). That would probably have been enough to balance her (along with nerfing her base attack). But then they also cut the percentages.
So what this means is that some characters that were formerly healed for ~2800 are now being healed for 600 or 700. This is unacceptably low for a high-level character, especially one sold in a premium package.
They should either undo the percentage nerf or go back to basing it on her health instead of the target's. Because right now my gear VII 4* level 54 Barriss is healing some characters for less than my 3* Level 40 Consular was.
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But that's not the current meta of all the P2P, aye?
Rethinking strategy here, I'd say 1 tank 1 heal (barris) 1heal/supp 2 attackers will become a very legit strategy that they are building towards! (which seems very well thought through)
Speaking from a person who buys Barriss off the pack as well.
Her main heal has been overnerfed. Given that healing is ALL SHE DOES, having a heal that weak is unacceptable.
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Nobody can disagree with this logic. You know things are bad when F2P players like myself feel bad for those who paid exorbitant amounts of money to purchase Bariss and upgrade her so this is not good business EA, regardless of her nerfs......
What strategy? just throwing in Darth Maul.. You'll be done.. or build a first order 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!
Barriss should have been adjusted slightly. Not destroyed.
Imo lumi was a stronger overall hero then bariss pre nerf, now she is just a useful hero not a lineup staple. They should have buffed her damage to compensate a bit.
People don't realize how easy chewie and Bariss made Galactic War lol
Nobody cares about damage from Barriss, that's not why she is there. But right now she's a healer who doesn't do much healing when it is needed and has no other special ability.
Pretty sure anyone could 1hit your 3* team
Yes and unfortunately most people have given up chewy on higher lvls... So i guess now we need to see more obi wans or fetts lol. Even in arena those chars gave me more probs then bariss, although obi did get a little nerf there it seems.
The percentages were just so much higher before that I never noticed.
At any rate, I just used Barriss in GW and it is said how ineffective her heal is now. At the same time they boost Sith AoE damage, they made the healing specialist horribly bad at dealing with AoE damage. Annoyingly short-sighted move.
Nerf to Barriss and buff to Sidious which is considered the top tier character available to F2P players.
It would seem the buff to Sidious was done to appease the F2P players but a lot of them are still complaining only now it's about the buff to Sidious because they realise they don't have teams strong enough to handle his damage boosts
I'm not directly affected by the Barriss change since I never used her, but I can see how frustrating it is for others.
I always missed Sidious' AoE damage from back in beta after the game launched so I kind of like the damage buff, but they have gone a bit too high with the evade chance.
I love it...I've been following these forums all day just waiting for them to finally bite. It's been entertaining and hope they learn from their mishap
Its a little sad when the only healer worth bringing in a F2P game is part of a $50 purchase. And thats all I'm really reading from these complaints. Its not "I bought Barris and they nerfed her" that people are saying. Its "I paid $50 to win".
For those newbies, like myself, that were not around when the Barriss nerf happened.