Nova Rework Suggestion - Remove Snipe Quest, make Snipe like Storm Bow

So Nova is not in a great place right now.

  • Her baseline quest is very frustrating to play around.
  • She doesn’t feel like a sniper
  • Triple Tap is kinda a meme and all or nothing.

Suggestion:

>Remove baseline quest on Snipe

>New baseline quest:

Quest: Hit 20 heroes with snipe Reward: Allows snipe to be channeled for 1 second for 50% range increase
Quest: Hit 40 heroes with snipe. Reward: Allows snipe to be channeled for 2 seconds for 100% range increase

(Would work very similar to Hanzo’s Storm Bow)

>Make Triple Tap into Single Tap

Make it into an ability with 3 charges, 35 seconds cooldown each. Each cast shoots one shot.

Toughts?

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What do you mean her baseline quest is frustrating to play around? It’s a point-and-shoot skill shot. In the hands of a skilled player in QM she carries, in less skilled hands she’s a liability because she can’t do anything. No wave clear and no dmg if she misses, precision is easy to avoid if you pay attention and aren’t stuck in cc and triple tap is sometimes ineffectual and places her in an inescapable position while she channels.

I find that if the team can facilitate her she’s amazing, and if the team can’t they’re stuck 4v5. Sort of like abathur. A good aba controls the whole map, a bad to mid-level one and the team is lost entirely.

It’s frustrating cause all it takes is one miss and you lose all your damage, basically making you useless for a minute or two. And if you get the splash at 16 that also means you can’t waveclear if you miss once.

It punishes you for taking risky shots, and makes the hero even worse for lower level players. And the only reward is basically: you deal AS MUCH dmg as other heroes.