Two suggestions for Bard

1 Wing··1 votes·420 views

I've been play a lot of Bard since he was released. I've noticed 2 things that I think should be tweaked.

1: healthpack pick-up range Time and time again, my allies walk just up to the healthpack, not quite activating it, before they turn around, wasting valuable seconds. It just feels like the healthpack pick-up range should be larger than it is. Meanwhile, Bard is so dang fat, that when I try to throw down a health pack under tower, I keep healing myself, instead!!!

2: Ult statis is half a second too long. The statis length is the same as Zonyas. But while many players are extremely good at timing their skills to strike just as Zonyas ends, those same players will flub and throw their shots off half a second too early for Bard's ult. What's up with that? I don't know, but I also think that Bard's ult just feels like it goes on for a little too long; even though it's actually the same length as Zonyas.

These are the tweaks I most want to see, because they're about how other players are interacting with Bard, and aren't about "Bard needs more damage" or anything to do with how well you, alone, are playing Bard.

4 Comments

Zmuecat1 votes

1: Practice placing them.

2: They'll learn.

1 Wing1 votes

People have already learned to time Zonyas. However that knowledge isn't carrying over to this effectively identical skill. I just think the natural rhythm people have for timing skills, should be what many features of the game are based around. This goes for picking up a health pack on the ground, too.

Zmuecat1 votes

And they'll learn bard, and so will you.

That's no reason to change him.

1 Wing1 votes

Right, but "learning Bard" should mean "remember his medipacks have a small pickup radius."

I think so many skills have a larger hitbox than the graphic--Jinx's lazer pistol, Morg and Amumu's shots, heck, almost any skill shot--that it feels wrong to have to get so close to anything to activate it. I want Bard's W to line up with how the rest of the game feels.

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