Since I earned the kitty-face Ana skin, I decided to play her a little more.  I’m really trying to figure out her toolkit though.

NO mobility.  She’s a sniper, but she doesn’t have a climb (Hanzo) or a grapple (Widow).

She cannot self heal passively like Lucio, Mercy, Zenyatta, Symmetra.  Like Moria she can heal herself with a cool down BUT it’s at a loss of using it’s other abilities, most of the time.  Moria can throw her healing ball to heal herself and as it travels, hit other players.

Her heal bomb has 3 potential effects but it’s a single use on a long cd.  Throw it at your own feet and heal yourself.  Throw it at someone else and heal them.  That’s typically an OR.  You’re a SNIPER, what the ever loving fuck are you doing close enough to your team to hit you and them? OR you can throw it on an enemy and they cannot heal themselves or get healing for the duration.  So that’s 3 “OR’s” but only 1 grenade.  Junkrat has a bomb that pushes back/damages enemies OR allows him mobility.  So what did they do? Oh they gave him 2 charges.  Ana has 3 choices but gets 1 chance.

She has to aim her god damn heals.  Have you ever tried to snipe heal a Tracer, Genji, or some other crackhead skinny minny? Come on. I’m talking both with the gun and throwing the healing bomb, which is tossed in an arc  with no good way (maybe because I suck I dunno) to see where it’s going to land.

On top of that, she has ammo so may need to reload at a critical moment.

And sleep dart you have to aim, so GL hitting anyone smaller than a D.va. I don’t really have a problem with this though.

If it were up to me, I would give her double heal grenade,  and Zen’s targeting for friendlies.  You’d still have to legit aim for enemies.  Call it a day.

I heard with this expansion people aren’t too happy with all the RNG.  That made me think of my favorite way loot occurred, during Cata. You ran dungeons to get justice points. Once you had enough of that, you could buy up to 2 pieces of your 4 piece set bonus.  You raided in BLUES.  I raided in blues!!  Then if you wanted your 4 piece, you raided.

Of course when Dragon Soul came out, you could kind of just go into LFR and get your welfare 4 piece but still.

Currently as I seem to understand it in Legion, you do dungeons and RNG on loot type and drops.  Then you do mythics with +10 being desirable.  Then you.. also raid?  And possible lfr?  And the loot drops are entirely rng.  I don’t believe sets even exist any more either.  I could be wrong, it’s been a while since I’ve raided.  I miss those though.

My gosh mage is fun, specifically FIRE mage.  I loved playing frost of course, very much so, but just the spells and the burning is just the absolute tits.  I’m stealing mobs bubble shields, stealing other mages combustion (shouldn’t be allowed let’s be honest), frost shields, interrupting healers (and GOD DAMN WARLOCKS just ‘cuz!!), and hurling flaming enormous boulders of pure ouchyness at people.  It’s flipping GLORIOUS.  Plus setting Horde on fire is FANTASTIC.

That rotation, yo.

Lately, when I queue for a dungeon as dps, the queue is 20-30 mins.  Then  you get in an in-progress one so if you wanted gear, you might miss a boss or three.  Or like tonight, we wiped over and over and over until we kicked the warrior and healer who were terrible.  25 min queue, plus 45 mins in a dungeon, plus a ton of repair costs is not a good time.