Witchy healer Moira now spooking Overwatch

“Do no harm”, online game healers swear, “unless you want to.” The newest healer arriving in Overwatch exists on this identical break up state. On one hand, she will blast liferays and free bouncing healballs. On the opposite, she will zap deathrays and blorp killballs. Each of her fingers has completely different zapbeams, see. After a stretch on the take a look at server, Moira has now arrived in the primary model of Overwatch (although she received’t hit Competitive Play till Thursday).

Overwatch is operating a free trial weekend from tonight, when you’re curious.

Is Moira a witch? Is she a dracula? A pixie? We can argue ceaselessly over her exact classification however she’s some form of ghost for positive. Most of her powers are available therapeutic or harming variants, from common zap beams, via bouncing regen/decay balls, as much as her Ultimate megabeam which does each on the identical time. She additionally has a blink potential teleporting her a brief distance. Here, meet her on this video:

Moira arrived in Overwatch correct yesterday. As with all new heroes, she has to attend every week earlier than hitting the Competitive mode.

Yesterday’s patch additionally boosted Ana’s rifle harm, added a well being bar to Winston’s barrier so pals and foes can see its energy, and made Mercy rather less highly effective. Mercy’s remade Resurrect now has a 1.75 casting time, up from zero, and he or she additionally strikes 75% slower whereas casting and could be interrupted – although it’s nonetheless instant-cast whereas Vaklyrie is lively.

“We feel that Mercy’s recent rework has been successful, but her Resurrect ability still feels too strong and frustrating to play against,” Blizzard mentioned. “Now that it has a cast time, enemies are more able to counter the ability.”

Read the patch note for full particulars on all that plus some fixes.

As for the free weekend, yup, everyone seems to be invited to play Overwatch via the Battle.internet consumer. It’ll begin at 7pm tonight (UK time) and finish at 7:59am on Tuesday. See Blizzard’s announcement for extra particulars and worldwide instances.