Can Bard's heal get some love late game?

RisenFromTheAsh·7/11/2019, 1:25:34 PM·11 votes·7,957 views

Bard is one of my favorite support's to play, but i don't usually play him in ranked, only for fun. His heal is fantastic in lane, but mid-late game my point and click heal is still only healing for less then 75 hp. That's next to nothing, and nobody has time or space to wait and path back to a shrine in a team-fight.

If there was a small buff we could give to his base heal I would be able to play him without feeling like i'm letting my team down.

I have had my carries ask why i didn't heal them, just to say "yeah that was my heal, sorry."

Thanks for reading!

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19 Comments

BurakkuRozu97/11/2019, 1:43:04 PM3 votes

Bard shrine heals for so much. If you are only using the heal pre 10 seconds, you are not playing bard right.

Bârd7/11/2019, 6:08:45 PM2 votes

If you want to heal people with W late game, you need Heal power and an Athenes.

It's not the best for healing on the spot.

Where it shines in that department is laning phase; start with W if you're certain nothing is gonna happen level 1, and you can take a bad trade in levels 1-3 since you have 3 shrines for free you placed before minions spawned. If you have an hard lane, put two points in it and the healing becomes pretty damn good.

Aside from that... 50% decaying MS for 1.5 seconds is pretty OK.

I memba balance 7/11/2019, 7:48:37 PM2 votes

Honestly not even a buff to the amount of the heal but I'll never understand why leveling up Bard's W doesn't cut down the time for the shrine to charge to full capacity heal. I'll never understand that at all. Or maxing W grants you the ability to place more shrines. Maybe instead of the 3 at Rank 1 W you get 1 and then it scales up to being able to place 5 but also starts with a higher base/max heal.

Wild Geese7/12/2019, 5:02:49 AM2 votes

Perhaps a little %max health heal should be added that scales with his meeps or chimes or something like that..

VentusKing7/11/2019, 2:25:42 PM2 votes

It's good enough lategame because it peels for your adc very well as a instant movespeed buff.

Posui Gart7/11/2019, 1:32:41 PM1 votes

Idk, my shrines usually heal for quite a bit, maybe because i max them 2nd and build full ap.

PlsRitoRepairS107/15/2019, 11:44:32 AM1 votes

Additional Chimney scaling?

FakeGravity7/11/2019, 6:22:48 PM1 votes

just make his base shrine healing scale with chimes collected but never be higher than the charged amount

basically the more chimes he collects the closer min and max values get

Raiyza7/11/2019, 7:39:22 PM1 votes

Only if his Q gets an early game nerf.

Tobykachu7/11/2019, 7:44:26 PM1 votes

What's really annoying is how they're nerfing his E on the PBE, the spell most players max second, in what I'm assuming is only to make players max his W second instead. The thing is, most of the time when they do this, they also buff the playstyle they're trying to promote. For example, they are nerfing Lux's shielding, but buffing her damage - to promote AP mid lane Lux opposed to enchanter, support Lux.

The thing is, why is Bard not getting the same treatment? He is nowhere near as problematic as Lux is and his E max playstyle. that most Bard mains prefer, is nowhere near as broken or problematic as Lux's shield spam. So why is Bard w not being buffed if that's the playstyle they want for Bard?

KETSU07/11/2019, 10:42:34 PM1 votes

imo i think they should reduce the charge time for the upgraded heal by 1 sec each rank. Down to 5 sec at max rank instead of 10.