New Merc: Guardian

(Ptiloui) #141

@scrub_lord said:
Her ability is suppose to block rockets right?

Literally just had 3 rockets in a row bypass her shield rofl

Exacly, this is not the sield that block incoming throwables (rocket, nades, stickies, etc) but the drone itself. If the drone doesn’t see the rocket, the rocket won’t be blocked (like if the shield bypass a wall, or the drone is behind some crates).
But after the nade or rocket has passed the shield, if it continues its path and become visible by the drone, it then gets destroyed inside the air shield.
(Hope it is clear enough :blush: )

(woodchip) #142

Is anyone having a ton of fun with her? I’m not a huge fan but maybe she just isn’t for me.

Would be curious to see her funness rated out of 10 by as many of you as possible.

Thanks!

(GatoCommodore) #143

pretty useful since in close firefight you dont have time to shoot the drone while their teammates needs to spam explosive to clear the area and fragger spam is much bearable to defenders now

(OwynTyler) #144

got a question too, about perk "Extra Supplies 20% cooldown reduction to support abilities. "

so… is her drone classified as “support ability” or not? or is it just for the revival dome?

If so, why are her perk slots wasted by inferior “recharge - 10% cooldown reduction to all abilities” when she has that extra supplies one also?

(Xenithos) #145

Funness when playing with a good Phoenix 9/10
Funness when playing with 3 other Guardians that revive you with 28-40 hp. 1/10.

(KayDubz) #146

She does not sound Korean to me at all btw

(RectalTerror) #147

@woodchip said:
Is anyone having a ton of fun with her? I’m not a huge fan but maybe she just isn’t for me.

if your concept of fun is to die all the time while being totally useless, then she’s a lot of fun

(Noir) #148

Yesterday I mostly played her. I am having fun.

The merc itself:
At first I was dying fast cause well, I guess playing ARs gives you the feeling that you are strong when you “only” have 110 HP with no self sustain. But the has a great speed to compensate and I love that. I like the design even if she looks like Javelin a lot. What’s the thing with this haircut SD? The voice acting is great, as often. Well polished merc.

Weapon:
I had trouble to adapt during first couple of games and could not hit shit with the weapon. So I played her with M4 and I felt weak in terms of sustaining myself. Akward for a medic.

So I went back to the new weapon, and God I love it. It feels like it’s right between SMG-9 and Crotzni, having the accuracy of the first and the damage output of the Crotz. Easy to get headshots and I got some Fraggers down real quick and won 1v2, 1v3 situations as I adapted. I still have to play it more to be sure but it felt really good after 30 min. Give it to Kira please <3.

Medic:
Is she a medic? I felt like the Revive ability is quite situational, being either very good or quite bad. I then tried to forget she was classified as a Medic and it all went better, the revive was a cool bonus. In the end, I liked how hybrid she is.
The only thing I dislike is the lack of self sustain but she would be OP with medpacks.
Give her “Tough” as a passive.

Overall, I had trouble to adapt for 30 min but it then went quite well when I played the weapon as if it was an SMG-9. I have no clue about how well she will perform during more competitive games as I could only use her on 7V7 environment. Vs decent players though.

(TheStrangerous) #149

Yeah, seems Guardian to medics, is what Phantom is recons, and what Javelin is to fire Support.
I can see next 3 mercs being hybrid mercs for their group.

(Glot) #150

As i said multiple times before, a medic without a heal is not a medic. She cant even heal herself. So she is not a merc to choose for hard pushes and tough defences.

I say, give her at least a healing ability, like
-faster regen for mercs around her
-or she can switch regeneration for mercs in the buble and herself

medic’s most important ability is to heal, and secondly - to revive.

here is my reddit post on that, if your interested in discussion there:

(Sorotia) #151

@KayDubz said:
She does not sound Korean to me at all btw

Only thing I can think of is maybe she emigrated to the US when she was really young? To me it sounds like she has no accent at all.

(Mc1412013) #152

@Ptiloui said:

@scrub_lord said:
Her ability is suppose to block rockets right?

Literally just had 3 rockets in a row bypass her shield rofl

Exacly, this is not the sield that block incoming throwables (rocket, nades, stickies, etc) but the drone itself. If the drone doesn’t see the rocket, the rocket won’t be blocked (like if the shield bypass a wall, or the drone is behind some crates).
But after the nade or rocket has passed the shield, if it continues its path and become visible by the drone, it then gets destroyed inside the air shield.
(Hope it is clear enough :blush: )

Wait i though i saw in the merc role call nades and rockets were taken down the little guy. Look at the vault scene. When they were throwing every thing at it.