Should Healing Pulse Revive?

(KattiValk) #1

Phoenix as he is currently is mildly lackluster in pub games due to how poor his healing ability is on one or two targets. Compared to Aura’s station, it is really lacking despite its instantaneous nature and mobility. Maybe it’s just the fact I usually play with randoms, but I’d just much rather have any other medic (besides maybe Sparks, mostly due to how most pubs do not know how she is played) on my team. If Pheonix could revive with the pulse then he could be more unique (give it a long revive time like Sparks).

He definitely can already prove to be a valuable asset with his self-revive, but it is rare to see it pulled off, and it’s not like Nader is any worse at blowing people up than Fragger is.

He’s not as good as the other medics IMO, but he’s not exactly unplayable so I’m split over this.

(Szakalot) #2

short answer: no

(watsyurdeal) #3

No, but I believe the cooldown should be changed

15 second cooldown max, 5 second cooldown minimum, no penalty cooldown

(Drac0rion) #4

I actually think I wouldn’t mind it to be honest, but then again I don’t see a need to such a change.
I’d like it if Phoenix could heal a little bit more often, but other than that I think he’s in a rather good place as of now.

(watsyurdeal) #5

Well the only thing I’d see changed is how the self revive works, could be as simple as changing his Gib Health, or how fast the self revive works in exchange for a longer cooldown or not allowing him to have it immediately upon selecting him.

(PleasantWheat) #6

Just a weird thought (somewhat irrelevant) but what if pheonix’s self revive was tied to the healing pulse? For example; the cooldown for self revive is 1min yeah? So whenever the healing pulse is cooling down the self revive cools down with it. so you use a quick heal and the cooldown is 5sec or however long and the self revive cools 5sec along with it. (probably explained that like trash but it just came to me whilst reading this thread)

(Szakalot) #7

phoenix self-revive is good; 100hp actually allows Phoenix to do sth, 50hp revive was very poor.

maybe he could have higher gib-HP though? would require little more effort to get the phoenix down, making self-revive more relevant.

(Laionidas) #8

Yes, but his name should be changed to ‘Lichy’, ‘Necroman’, or ‘Thriller’.

Also, teammates revived by ‘Reviving Pulse’ should have severely impaired controls/movement, and lose ADS ability. As a trade off, they can only be killed by headshots or explosives.