#role requeue

[lazyvase]

Role Requeue: Reinhardt, Part 1

As my dear friend @purplekoop pointed out: when trying to fit Reinhardt into Role Requeue, we run into a massive problem, literally. He is too big. Shrinking him down would be the most unreasonable change due to the fact that he is already comically massive. The change in size would be jarring. So, what if we leaned into that?

All we need to do is change a single event ever so slightly.

In Operation White Dome, a team featuring Reinhardt and Torbjorn went to Istanbul to weed out omnic forces. The team was attacked immediately. Reinhardt was lightly injured. Torbjorn lost his arm. He only survived the battle because Reinhardt came to his rescue. As Torbjorn recovered in the hospital, Reinhardt spent a great deal of his time at Torbjorn's beside. To ease his friend, Torbjorn let Reinhardt name his newest daughter. And the rest is history.

Now let's rewind.

In Operation White Dome, a team featuring Reinhardt and Torbjorn went to Istanbul to weed out omnic forces. The team was attacked immediately. Reinhardt was lightly injured, at first. Torbjorn lost his arm. He only survived the battle because Reinhardt came to his rescue. Unfortunately, while rescuing his friend, Reinhardt took too much damage. While Torbjorn made it to the hospital, Reinhardt never did.

After recovering, Torbjorn went through Reinhardt's things. He found a name etched into a journal: "Brigitte". He named his daughter in Reinhardt's honor. While going through Reinhardt's stuff, something came to Torbjorn.

Reinhardt was not a restful spirit in any way. He had never given up. No matter the odds or circumstances. He kept fighting. Never staying with a failure. So neither could Torbjorn. He had to do something! Reinhardt was his friend. He was going to be his daughter's godfather! Torbjorn knew what he had to do.

It took months, years of hard work. But it payed off. Using Ziegler's, Liao's, and even O'deorain's research, along with his own engineering know-how, Torbjorn brought Reinhardt back. He couldn't bring his body back, it was far too damaged. But Torbjorn built the most powerful vessel he could.

Unfortunately, Torbjorn can really make only one thing soooooo

Reinhardt looks like this. Forever.

he can walk around and stuff. The turret's legs can walk. If he becomes a support he can spray out healing fluid like a freezing turret.

I think this idea speaks for itself. If you want to go an entirely different direction feel free to. Just know that Turret-hardt will always be there for you. If I feel like it I'll make a moveset for either damage or support Turret-hardt.

[myrfing]

to this day have never voted yes on a vote abandon. this is why i’m hydaelyn’s psionic warrior

[wildwinterlunas]

ans MW Bob is his own character a la purplekoop role requeue and Ashe has that three drones ult you made

YES!!!

I could totally see one of the consequences of Ashe choosing to stay with her parents in the Mirrorwatch Universe is that BOB gets fired. This being when Ashe realizes that her parents manipulated her and that she has made a big mistake.

And to keep on the the theme of Ashe joining Overwatch, BOB gets a job as security with Overwatch shortly after he's fired. So when Ashe joins Blackwatch they reunite and it's very sappy and sweetand Ashe eventually also goes into security work when she's not doing Blackwatch stuff. Also I 100% see this version of Ashe being more of a close ranged fighter, she's still primarily long ranged but she would be able to knock a person on their ass if needed.

Also, MW!Frankie joins Blackwatch too because I said so and she made Ashe's drones.

[daggerfall]

Like sorry not sorry for being the meanie endgame who takes a no exceptions stance on fake queuing with strangers.

It's unfair to cut in line for the dps queue by faking your role as support because the other dps waited their turn fair and square. Its unfair to your team who didnt consent to a 3 dps run when they queued in the dungeon finder, and putting them on the spot to accept you as a fake is incredibly rude and guilt trapping. It's unfair to queue over level 45, get dlc that requires a tank or a healer or at least is a pain without a tank to hold stuff in place or a healer to provide you with resources, and make your group brick wall on a boss fight that would be easily doable with a tank to hold taunt. Its unfair to make them either have to abandon the run and their daily random normal, or kick you and requeue and once again wait 40 minutes for a real support role.

I dont care if you pull 100k dps, spirit slayer flawless conqueror godslayer gryphon heart Whatever. Either get friends to queue with who can handle whatever level of skill your PUGed teammates are at or a full team who agrees to a nonstandard team makeup like 3 dps 1 tank, or accept that your dungeon finder team might not be as good as you and use this time to teach and help them while playing your role correctly.

If you're greedy and impatient and cut in line, you're the reason people hate PUGs. I hate it on principle and I dont care what justification you have, I'll always think you're in the wrong and if I ever get good drops that you want, I'll decon them right in front of you.

[arcaneloki]

there's no reason why in overwatch 2 we can't fucking auto requeue for any mode except qp role queue wtf

[flexmains]

i was invited to join a gold/plat team for hunters of artemis and i’m actually so excited 0:

a) cool fckin’ concept and discord

b) i have literally wanted to zen so much, but when i play with the dead inside server, i hate to say that there was literally no one i trusted to tank when we did placements except for fromaj on dva, which was a godsend, so i ended up playing winston and orisa a lot. 

but now i’m a starter on the roster for one of the teams and i’m locked into support only and they actually WANT me to play zen bc they said i was fragging out sometimes during tryouts and...........

that makes me... feel happy, actually nndbmmndmnm ; v; 

and now i’m gonna have a plat 2-2-2 team ALL the time when i practice and i’m just genuinely so excited?? 

one of the gm coaches watched us during tryouts and gave us all feedback, and ????? oh my god, it was super insightful and it all made sense as good advice that i’d never particularly worded in my mind before and i was....... so glad T 3T

i also joined w.ow (women in ovw), and they’re gonna practice less as structured comp teams maybe and more like “practicing doing callouts and coordinating and working as a team” practice, so i’m. basically ready for the next few months of life. all i need is for one of these legal assistant applications to go through and i will. be set for the next month. and if the pay is good enough, i’ll pay my mother back for the polisci class i dropped after graduation last year and then...... i’ll save up a fund....... to get a cat.

but tmrw i start practice with hunters and next week with w.ow and i’m.............. super excited i wanna GIT GUD at my favorite game

tryouts were rough bc we were trying out for specific roles, so we always ran 1 healer 1 tank 3 dps and one rando. a hanzo was throwing during our dive comp test round, so the coaches flamed him in match chat and told us to requeue, which was immensely funny, actually. i kind of tanked, but i........ messed up ALL MY DVA BOOSTS and winston leaps and it was....... bad. 

but tbh, i love playing zen so much and i’m so glad this team wants me to practice with them T ___T there are literally so many admins of the server on this team too dbfndbfnmbd I GUESS MURDERING THEM IN FFA BEFORE TRYOUTS WORKED? i feel.... warm and fuzzy. this is exactly what i was hoping to rekindle my interest in overwatch and help me divest it from weird old memories and i dbfndbnfdbfb i recognize why i placed in gold, but i do think with practice i can earn a plat sr, and i finally found a team that’s even more into comp and mechanics and everything than i am and i’m :’D

i also went back again to my school for a pre-law dinner thing, which was...... horrific, but in a good way, i guess. i talked to all those lawyerly alums after standing awkwardly in a corner upon realizing i knew not a single person in that dining room... and it was fine... it was definitely nice talking to them about their specific paths, and it definitely settled my nerves about applications, but i still wonder..... what i’m gonna do with it... 

i feel like i believe that if i fell in love with what i could do, i’d really make myself learn public speaking to finally get to shout all these pent-up frustrations and thoughts as coherent sentences... and i’d love it. it’s dumb, but i also wanted to do this ovw team thing because of the communication thing and speaking up and knowing when to listen and when maybe it’s okay for me to bark something with the intention of getting someone else to listen to me and help me out :’D

how malleable is my personality? i like when i kind of dissociate myself from my fears and decide sometimes that there are some people whose opinions of me i just don’t care about, and i try to mold myself into presenting my personality differently...... but i guess rn i still err on the side of sitting aside and listening rather than speaking B’)

i just feel like i don’t know enough to talk, you know? i don’t deserve that voice yet... but if i just edjumacate myself enough...... the right time to share what little i do  know will come up. hopefully.

this is all because i saw a shelter profile for a cat named jude who has the sweetest face and most beautiful photos and i want to adopt him so badly, but the time...... is not now...... ; ___; and that fucking breaks my heart, because he sounds and looks like my dream cat.......

[odessii-dragonblade]

TALES FROM LFG

Queue specifically for Seat of the Triumvirate because I have a quest to continue the Argus storyline, and I wanna be learning more about the void for a plot I’m plotting.

Healer is a Prot Pally (like moi) who runs in before people have even loaded the dungeon and starts tanking. I think they may have queued as both and didn’t realize what they got, so I give them a heads up, and get the response “It’s heroic. Easy XD”

I figure, fine, I just wanna get it done and get some lore along the way. She is RUSHING through it, like one of those people who has ten minutes DAILY to do anything in WoW. It’s chaos, she’s basically leaving everyone behind her struggling to keep up, I’m missing the lore in the dungeon to keep up.

At one point, every DPS dies because she pulled a massive group and couldn’t manage to hold aggro. I chime in “Gee three people died. If only we had, I dunno. A healer.”

Res one of the DPS myself, she’s already on the next mob before everyone is up. One of the DPS dies AGAIN because she can’t hold aggro or she’s rushing too much to pay attention. I rez him, move on to the next boss, and I chime in again with: “You know, if you’re going to play a role you didn’t queue for, at least do it well?”

And I get kicked. I don’t have the 30 minute penalty, so I figure I’ll just requeue and get a better group, but nope. Heroics can only be specific-queued once daily. Seat of the Triumvirate is only a heroic, and Legion has 14 heroic dungeons total, so there’s no way I’m gonna do randoms until I chance upon it. Guess I’ll try again tomorrow. Fuck LFG sometimes, man.

[zephiraz]

Got into a timewalking dungeon that was just on the final boss and had already pulled Afterward the tank and one DPS left, but the healer initiated role check the requeue. The other DPS doesn’t accept. Healer initiates role check again. Other DPS doesn’t accept, says he’s gonna turn in quests and take bathroom break. Healer cancels role check and leaves.

Thanks a lot you fucking asshole, if you’re not ready to queue then leave the group. Now I have to wait ten minutes again.

[scxrred-prince]

rules.

all these rules are subject to change at any time. if i rp with you, i trust that you have read my rules and know my boundaries. blatant disregard for my rules will first result in a warning before a hard-block. respect me and i will respect you– it’s as simple as that. just want to skim? read the bold text!

ROLE-PLAYING

nsfw is an iffy topic when it comes to my muse. canonically during the show, zuko is said to be the age of 16, which deems him underage by modern standards. in the comics (post-show, “the search” trilogy) he would be around 18-19. with this being said, i do not rp nsfw publically on this blog but if you would like to delve into that territory and have a plot that possibly involves smut/nsfw, i only rp smut on discord, but also with the characters that have aged 18+, as well as my muse being 18+ himself.

SHIPPING

i’m 100% fine with shipping, as long as both of our muses have chemistry. this means that i’m not okay with pre-established relationships that are not already canon. for example, sokka is katara’s brother, and princess yue is sokka’s past love interest. plotting will be required for relationships otherwise not agreed on/canon/specific to that au or verse.

ABOUT THREADS

i welcome multiple threads and multiple verses. i love crossovers, au’s, anything! i do not have any ‘mains’ or 'exclusives’ because i appreciate all takes on muses. if you have a problem with me rp'ing with a duplicate muse, i’m sorry, this isn’t the blog for you.

my pinned post will have a link to view queued threads & owed replies. queued threads will be under the #requeue my honor tag!

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THANK YOU FOR READING~

[lazyvase]

@purplekoop

One of the role swaps in your tier quickly caught my curiosity: Widowmaker as a tank. She would have not been one of my first picks for tank. She’s a sniper. She’s rather skinny. She’s not well padded in the slightest. Making her a tank would be impossible. Which is exactly what makes this so fun. I quickly began brainstorming. Trying to wrap my head around how someone with her body type and play style could be a tank. Then, I had the idea of continuing her spider motif in a brand new exciting way.

First of all, there’s no reason for Widowmaker to be a sniper. The name Widowmaker came from having killed her husband in his sleep. I doubt she used a sniper rifle for that. So instead of being genetically altered to become a better sniper, she is modified in a different way.

Amelie Lacroix is given giant robotic spider legs.

They would attach around her torso. Completely enveloping her normal legs. She would have eight legs, not six. I hate it when they do that. (Although if we're being realistic Blizzard would only give her four). She would also have a rectangular, almost coffin-shaped, abdomen. The normal parts of her body could still be her usual outfit. She absolutely must keep her helmet. Her right arm is a gun, like Megaman. He left arm has a shining purple blade attached to it.

Her primary fire is still kinda a sniper shot. It's a hitscan with a very thin area, and you can't headshot with it. However, you can charge it (akin to Winston, Illari, or Symmetra), and once fully charged it afflicts poison on the hero hit. It's unleashed from the gun on her arm. It's called Bite.

To fully capture her spider side, Widowmaker is more focused on disruption than protection. Her secondary fire is Web Wall. Two pairs of her legs lift up and create a spiderweb wall right in front of Widowmaker. There's a little animation of her creating the web, so it doesn't create instantly. However, she has two charges of it. I don't the size of it, but I imagine it to be taller than Sigma's shield but not longer. More of a square shape. The properties of the web wall are my favorite. The web wall does not stop any projectiles or bullets. All damage thrown at the wall passes straight through it. However, enemies cannot pass through it. In fact, touching an enemy web wall applies the hindered status effect. The webs will have a timer for how long they stay up (similar to Ramattra). I'm also considering the walls ending early based on how many people touch them. Putting them on flank routes can be really effective. Tracer might be able to blink through them (to fuel the rivalry). Allies are not affected by the web wall. They can pass through as they please.

Widowmaker's primary ability is rather simple. Lunge has you dash forward a set distance. If you collide with an enemy, Widowmaker slashes them with her blade, inflicting poison.

Widowmaker's secondary ability is Web Swing. It functions similarly to Wrecking Ball's grappling hook. However, it deals much less damage and you don't really gain momentum. Any enemy you collide with does get afflicted with hindered.

Ensnare is her ultimate ability. A circular web bursts from her and covers the floor. All enemies in the circle are afflicted with poison and hindered as long as they remain inside the circle. The effect also briefly lasts after the enemy leaves.

Also, if we want to be funny, she can have a passive similar to Genji, Hanzo, and [third hero i don't like]'s wall climb. Widowmaker could very well have Wall Crawl as a passive.

I don't know how much health she should have or what type. But I would like her to have a faster walking speed than most tanks.

TLDR:

Let's really make Widowmaker a spider.

[projecteve1]

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Top 5 Social Media Tools that Offer Content Libraries to Reuse Content

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The top 5 social media tools that offer this service are:

1. DrumUp

This tool is a social media manager which also has content curation and storage features Keyword based content suggestions, RSS feed posts, and custom content can all be stored in its libraries.

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2. MeetEdgar

This content library tool allows you to reuse your content on your social media pages.

It allows you to create your own library or use their default set up. You can either upload manually or through CSV.

You can schedule time slots for each content for automatic posting from your content library.

It allows you to store content for one time usage and for evergreen storage for you to be able to manage the content better.

Ideally you should have slots for content to run all day so that there’s ample engagement opportunities.

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This is essentially a social media automation tool that also has features of content library.

You can create multiple tweets for each post so that it doesn’t repetitive.

It gives you the opportunity to save evergreen content on their Queue Reservoir from where you can use it as many times and whenever you want. Create sharing schedules that allow your posts to have healthy engagement at all times.

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This tool is mostly used as a social media and blog calendar and has the added feature of content library.

Create templates for your promotional activities.

Create promotion schedule which includes date and time, the different formats to be used and the intervals at which the posts are to be promoted.

Evergreen content which will be repeatedly used can be saved in the ReQueue list.

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5. Sendible

This is a social media scheduler. It supports Google Plus and YouTube, along with the other social media platforms.

In the content libraries, you can add contributors (who can add content) and consumers (who can schedule the added content).

All content suggestions can also be saved.

Content can be added in their SmartQueue feature or be set on auto-feed.

Make sure your content suggestions are included in your SmartQueue so that it doesn’t appear as overly promotional.

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There’s a lot of exchange over points and ideas between the writers, editors and the SEO or design teams till the content is approved and deemed final.

Even after all this effort there isn’t a guarantee that you’d get adequate results. However, sharing the content over and over can increase the visits and increase the engagement on the posts. And that is where these content libraries play the biggest role.

[wildwinterlunas]

So I love purplekoop's old Role Requeue project, but my favorite is making Bob a playable character! However, if this was in the game, this would require Ashe to have a new Ultimate. Any ideas? I still think it should be a mobile build (by build I mean Bob, turrets, barriers, traps, etc).

God I loved that old project too, it gave me a lot of inspiration for my "Venice Tragedy" AU when I was switching Ana and Cassidy's roles of DPS and Support. It's probably something I'm still going to reference if I do anymore role swap AU's.

But onto the actual topic;

I think something that needs to stay the same is Ashe asking someone in her gang for help, as it shows that she isn't just a leader but relies and trusts her gang. So I present her new hypothetical ult to be her asking Frankie for assistance and three battle drones come out and spread around a targeted point, they would function similarly to BOB but do less damage individually. I don't know what her voice line would be for this ult though.

[purplekoop]

idea for role requeue: similar to how you did BOB in place of Ashe, maybe you could do Mina in place of Echo? Maybe the explosion came from the other side and she used the salvaged tech to be a hero. Plus I've wanted to see her fight since I found out she was one of the founders of the team.

Ooooohhh... I actually hadn't thought of that, but to be honest I think I'm content with going forward with Echo still being the hero, just reworked.

The main reason is that I've had Echo as one of the "easy mode" requeues in my head for a while, since I think her normal design could work literally unchanged for a Support hero, like Sombra and Symmetra. I mentioned it in a recent post about one of my War Bots characters, but I find Echo's current gameplay design really lacking in cohesion, both with itself and with Echo as a personality and design. "Hyper mobile aggro assassin" doesn't fit with how Echo acts or looks, she's extremely gentle-natured and cares for others, and her visual design is similarly gentle and pleasant. It's a similar issue to Mei's ruthless killer role in-game compared to her as a character, but less excusable since Mei was the fifth or so Defense hero while Echo was the 16th or so Damage hero back when the Support role was very much starving for options.

So Echo herself being the hero for this AU is sort of me settling a personal score I've had with the game, to put it one way. Making the hero I think she always should've been. Of course, this contrasts a bit with other heroes in this AU, such as B.O.B., who's the playable hero both because of the novelty and because it was easier to make a kit out of him than Ashe herself as a Support or especially a DPS.

Admittedly, I think I'd also like to see a take on Liao's kit, I think she's a cool character who's sadly both dead in the canon's present day and also wasn't revealed as part of the story until right before Overwatch's biggest dark period in terms of new activity, so she's kind of never had much of a spot to shine. Neither has Echo really, but at least she's playable. I just personally wanna go with this direction in my ""official"" take on the AU, but obviously anybody else can do what they want too!

I do have another planned swapping of who's playable in a human-robot pair of NPC and playable hero, it's just not gonna be Echo and Liao. By process of elimination, I think you can figure out who it's gonna be. In fact, they'll probably be next after I do Cassidy (whose notes are ready, I just need to reformat them into a post) and D.va (whose kit is... vaguely formulating in my head still, but is close). That next one though is definitely gonna need some brain effort, I'm still piecing together the mechanics in my head, and they're still missing some crucial abilities. Cassidy can be soon though, I just need to sit myself down for it. I've been getting back into a normal routine after the haze of the holidays, and my attention span has been going to War Bots faster because... yeah that's just what happens. Healing Cowboy coming soon though!

[lazyvase]

Role Requeue: Reinhardt

Part 2: Rise of Turret-hardt

(So glad I get use that again.) Now, before we get to his move set, let’s go over some suggestions and questions about Turret-hardt.

Absolute Unit

The most frequent suggestion I got was not making Reinhardt a sentry. @anonymously20-blog recommended that Reinhardt merely lose his limbs, and have them be replaced. They also recommended that Torbjorn make the new body similar to the crusader armor. Both of these answers defeat the whole point of killing Reinhardt. He would still be the size of a tank with either of those suggestions. He needs an entirely new body shape to fit another role.

I myself considered cutting Reinhardt in half and putting him in a futuristic wheelchair. But then I realized the true problem with Reinhardt’s size. He’s not too tall. He’s too wide. Even at half his size he would be too wide.

And it’s not his armor that’s the problem. It’s his natural size. We’ve all seen the Honor and Glory cinematic. Reinhardt perfectly fills out his massive armor. So his body just has to go.

Reinhardt’s jarring size requires a jarring solution: a entirely new body.

Head in the Game

@purplekoop recommended that Reinhardt just be too injured to continue the fight, and having a procedure would be too risky for him or his friends.

I don't see that happening. Reinhardt will let nothing stop him from joining the fight, even when he really should not join in the fight. That's why I considered wheelchair Reinhardt. Reinhardt would absolutely go through a dangerous procedure for a chance to continue the fight. Also, I don't know how a procedure can be dangerous for others.

However, you are right that having Reinhardt possess the turret is not the best idea. It flies in the face of Overwatch's themes and lore. If Torbjorn can just "hard work pays off" Reinhardt's soul into a turret, then why can't that happen for characters like Gerard? We need a different solution. I don't want a neural network like Echo. As then it would not be Reinhardt. It would instead be technically a new character. You wouldn't call Echo "just Mina Liao". No, she is her own person.

However, after a bit of brainstorming, I created a solution that allows Reinhardt to be in a new body, still be Reinhardt, and not conflict too much with the lore.

Reinhardt did not die after Operation Whitedome, but he was close. He was barely holding on. His body could not be recovered. Torbjorn went right to work after his own recovery. Through the research of Ziegler, Liao, and even O'Deorain, Torbjorn was able to preserve Reinhardt's brain and insert it into a turret. Reinhardt now lives on through the turret, through a slightly more reasonable way.

Much like how Koop suggested, Reinhardt is linked in with the turret. He can control it with his mind, because it is literally his body.

Appearance

Now, the main reason why its best if Reinhardt's body is a turret is because it creates a clear connection to Torbjorn. If Reinhardt was just some random human-esque machine then you could think that anyone could have built him. But if it's a turret shape, then you instantly know it was Torbjorn.

Now, originally I wanted to just put Reinhardt in one of these special push turrets:

But now I have a slightly different idea. Instead of having some random black block, Reinhardt should have a hammer on the end.

No matter what, I do believe that Turret-hardt should have Crusader Armor plating. It would help match him to his old aesthetics. The hammer should also obviously be similar to his current hammer.

Moveset

His primary fire would be a simple Swing. It would have less range than his normal hammer swing. You can charge a swing to give it more knockback and damage. I decided to to add this charge mechanic because it sounds new and fun. But also because it adds some depth and skill expression than just mindlessly swinging. Mindlessly swinging would also just not be effective in this.

His secondary fire would be Fire Blast. It's similar to fire strike, except that it actually has ammo, and can be fired much more frequently. The shots still pierce, but they do less damage. The come out from little cannons on the side of the turret.

His first ability is Sweep. Reinhardt stands firm and spins around, knocking all enemies back.

His second ability is Dash. Using a vent on his back, Reinhardt dashes forward (akin to a Hanzo lunge, but longer). If you charge a swing beforehand, you can store the charge and carry it with you. You can even release the swing to hit an opponent mid-air!

His ultimate is Earthquake. Reinhardt slams the ground with his hammer. Sending a circular shockwave around him that stuns all enemy players. It's based off that skill shown in one of the initial Overwatch 2 trailers.

Also, much like Torbjorn and Bastion, Reinhardt will have a small amount of armor.

Conclusion

Overall, I like the idea. No matter how good it actually is. And, nonetheless, I will be stealing the idea for my Overwatch ripoff.

I tried my best to preserve the playstyle of rushing in and going ham. I gave what could be the most feasible reason for Reinhardt being smaller. I elaborated on ideas that weren't thought out too well. I'd say Reinhardt is done.

But then I'd be lying. The complexity of this requeue is a source for confusion and new ideas. I am certain that there has been something I've missed as well. And I'm subsequently certain that "that something" will only occur to me after part 2 is released. So, part 3 is not a question of if, but when. Feel free to give any suggestions or questions.

Next, I will focus on a new... matter of perspective. Hahahahaha

[lazyvase]

out of curiosity do you have any interest in doing more of the role requeue project for overwatch?

No

[purplekoop]

Yeah the joke writes itself.

Moira

New Role: Damage Health: 225

I'm sparing the backstory section again because I don't have anything super compelling or distinct in mind. The best idea I have on that front is that Moira's research is more focused around studying entropic decay by subjecting others to it, then drawing upon the power of decay itself. Instead I can first explain Moira's main defining change in this requeue: her weapon.

This should be familiar to anyone else who's savvy about looking at old hero concepts like myself, but Moira in this AU now carries a long two-handed weapon, based on this concept art. It was originally considered to be how her abilities worked in the normal game, but was instead traded out for her using her hands directly to heal and harm.

Here though, I think the addition of the weapon would be important to make her role more visually apparent.

So let's start by getting into what that weapon, which I'll be calling the Necrotic Cannon, actually can do. The cannon has two firing modes, with both resembling her normal counterpart's. However, instead of a healing spray, the primary fire sprays a horrific chemical compound that eats away at matter, organic or inorganic. Similar to Mei's frost spray, the weapon rapidly fires limited-range projectiles that have a sort of conical area of effect. Each projectile deals modest damage on hit, but also inflicts a small portion of Decay. Decay is a debuff unique to Moira's kit, functioning as a damage over time effect with similar properties to burn inflicted by (main game) Ashe and Mauga, dealing 20 dps. However, Decay builds up over time relative to how many times the victim takes damage from the primary fire, up to a max of 6 seconds. The buildup of Decay is visualized on the victim's health bar, shown as a wispy purple effect over the health it will deplete. Like other DOT effects, picking up a health pack will cleanse all Decay instantly. The Necrotic Cannon has 150 ammo, and a slightly longer than average reload animation.

The cannon's alt fire, which I'll also call Entropic Beam, is a unique supplementary attack designed to combo with the primary fire. Similar to her normal succ secondary fire, it's a hitscan beam with limited range and no ammo requirement. However, the lock-on attribute is gone, requiring more precise aim. In addition, it has the unique property of only working on enemies with a buildup of Decay. Damaging decaying enemies with this attack will also speed up the time it takes for the decay to pass. In exchange, the damage per second here is high, much faster than simply spraying. In addition, you also heal relative to the damage you deal, making Moira's close-range combat style more sustainable if you can weave between attacks competently. You also can't use both attacks at once, so alternating and switching between aim styles is the key to using Moira well here.

Moira's ability 2 is another ability that interacts with decay: Necrotic Orb. While the name may also be familiar to some, its effects are simpler here. Shoot out an orb of necrotic energy, which bursts on impact with an enemy, enemy barricade, or terrain. The explosion does a small burst of 50 initial damage, and also applies 1.5 seconds of Decay, with both the initial burst and decay duration doubling on a direct hit. Decay from either the orb or the cannon can stack, up to that same 6 second limit. This is a simple ability for doing damage at range and also starting fights while spooking a group of enemies. Has an 8 second cooldown.

Ability 1 predictably is another remix to part of her standard kit: Phase Launch. Moira briefly becomes intangible (for about 0.5 seconds), then launches herself in the direction she's facing. The motion is similar to a Winston leap, though more momentum forward rather than arched upwards. The ability is more limited in how you can move and how useful it is for intangibility to account for it being used more aggressively than defensively with the change in role. Its cooldown is also increased to 8 seconds. Honestly these changes aside from the cooldown change feel the most arbitrary, maybe normal Fade would fit this kit just fine, but I'm not sure.

No name changes for this last one though: Coalescence. Moira sets the Necrotic Cannon to full power, creating a powerful piercing beam that applies both the primary and secondary effects at once. The beam causes rapid buildup of Decay, does high damage to Decaying enemies, and heals Moira based on the damage dealt. The beam has limited range but can damage any enemies in its path, and bypasses barriers, though is blocked by terrain. While firing, you can fly freely through the air, but have reduced movement speed. You can use Phase Launch while the ultimate is active, stopping the beam briefly while intangible, but not other abilities. The ultimate lasts for 6 seconds, but can be disrupted by stunning effects.

So that's Moira! Again, the jokes write themselves about how not much really needed to be changed to make her a DPS, this is probably gonna be the simplest Support to Damage conversion even with other damage-happy supports like Illari and Kiriko being added more recently. Seriously, her entire kit is intact, just not the exact execution of each ability. That said, I think the whole Decay mechanic both fits Moira's character and also gives this kit the spice it needs to not feel boring "W+M1" spray spam. I don't know if I made it obvious that this basically turns Moira into the roster's Pyro, though the exact mechanics of decay and the composition of the kit are more based on Velenna, my War Bots character who's incidentally somewhere between Moira and Pyro in a lot of ways. This isn't exactly like Velenna though, since the combo-based alt fires are relatively distinct, their secondary means of applying DOT debuffs are very different, and also just more contextual factors like the fact War Bots doesn't have ultimates but does have alt weapons make them distinct enough.

But yes, at long last, I got off my butt and did one of these. Today was a bit rough in terms of productivity, so unless I stay up tonight or make time out of thin air tomorrow, it may be a bit again until next time, especially since the next couple I have in mind are still gonna need some work. Until next time though, whenever that may be, hope you enjoyed!