You don’t deal with Boldur. He’s been brokenly overpowered for wayyyyy to long now.
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I’m not saying the DR/rage doesn’t do a whole lot, it’s just that he’s not usually without it and even then he’s still hard to take down.
2000pt shield that blocks 145 degrees (Feels like 180, but we’ll call it 145. I mean he is blocked from front + diagonal left and right). Very fast charge rate and low charge delay.
He has Boldurdash to activate rage, plus an overshield. That, combined with rage on kill, lets you have Rage for a while. Even if you kill something with Boldurdash, in other words only getting 6 seconds of Rage, you should be safe while Boldurdash recharges.
This doesn’t even take into account his small height, Ghalt-level width, and ridiculous speed (Rage gone? That’s okay, just throw your axe!) And if he starts primary attacking, his flailing arms make it difficult to crit him. Not that difficult, but it doesn’t help. This isn’t a main talking point, but it’s just extra…
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why would he flail his arms at you though? qm has better dps AND reach!
Lol yeah. Even better, a stone slab on his arm shaking violently
Not to mention if an AOE field is small enough his shield will block it if standing on it. you have to put the AOE field completely behind him to hit him. Literally no downsides to shields.
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It makes no sense that shields block Orendi’s ult but Reyna’s bubble doesn’t…
Shields block both orendi’s paradigm and shadow fire pillar. I know what you mean about Reyna’s bubble, Although as and orendi main I hate her because burst healers really mess with my ability to kill.
Orendi’s ult is a hitbox, not a projectile - this means it hits everything within its range, and is not subject to projectile collision or projectile-specific effects like Rotating Wards or Photonic Ward. Shields can block it like any other directed damage though.
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I understand Rotating Wards since that’s just a skill. But it should be offhand shields don’t block Paradigm Shift, but Photonic Ward does.
I just think they should alter it a little bit. An offhand shield that has numerous health and comes back every like 3-5 seconds vs. Ultimate AOE teammate protection bubble… I think i know which one SHOULD block Paradigm Shift…
And which of the 2 has CC, stops Ghalt hooks and Gali stuns, all while you can simultaneously attack behind an infinite hp barrier?
You simply shouldn’t compare things in this manner.
Now IMO Reyna’s shield should block Paradigm Shift, but again, you always seem to ask for someone’s nerf before you ask for a buff. Of which you want to nerf 3 characters, and 2 of which aren’t even top tier.
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The funniest thing about this is the fact that when I play these characters with shields ( Rare mind you, cuz I can’t stop playing her until I perfect my Alani.) I usually stack DR and it feels like my shield just melts! But when I’m against these characters, It’s like their shields soak up team’s worth of damage! Of course with Boldur he WOULD get the added benefit of getting healed from it, though that’s why I usually don’t bother trying to hit him at all.
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I’ve been telling everyone this LONG before it was this big of an issue. My cousin used to play Boldur more than anyone I knew and I saw him 1v6 the sentry and the enemy team and almost kill their support in the process and I’d always say wow…that’s stupid. Of course he thought it was balanced at the time, now all he does is complain about him XD
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Yep, my dude haloblade showed me how stupid he was and it’s absurd.
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I don’t want to get into this, as it never ends well, so this is the last time I’m responding to you in this thread.
Reyna’s ult is an ULT. It SHOULD be powerful. It’s okay that it lets you attack behind an infinite HP barrier (that does nothing to melee heroes but push them back upon deployment). However, it’s a small change to let one ult block another. I will compare things as I please in this manner, because I think the ULTIMATE should be stronger than the offhand shield that comes back very quickly.
I mean, there’s several ways to approach this. They can nerf the offhand shields to let Orendi’s ult pass through, or they make Reyna’s ult block Orendi’s ult. It’s an ultimate designed to block attacks and skills. Orendi’s ult is hitbox, yes, but it is still blocked by offhand shields, which is inconsistent. I’d love to see ISIC buffed and Gali tweaked a wee bit, but that’s another discussion.
I feel like there’s something I’m forgetting… something i was going to put down but didn’t…
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