Has Isida been nerfed recently?

[Gabe2607 215]

It seems slower in healing and less effective in killing, but I did not read anything on the Patch Updates.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 7/19/2023 at 6:31 PM, Gabe2607 said:

It seems slower in healing and less effective in killing, but I did not read anything on the Patch Updates.

It depends on what you think was its previous state. 

 

The last time Isida received a big change was on January 2019 where the healing was near halved and the energy paramaters were shuffled. In that patch, Isida had an extra second of attacking energy while the healing was lower but you healed for a bit longer. 

On February 2021, it received a direct damage buff (everything else was getting buffs as well).

Two months ago in May 2023, it received a buff to the healing and neutral energy consumption, which allows it to heal for longer periods of time and is more attractive for offensive Isidas to use some energy to heal allies since it won't be tapping too much into their attacking energy. The way I see it, they want Isida's gimmick pushed more towards its ability to heal while pushing the other melee turrets more into damage-dealing options. 

 

Has Isida itself gotten weaker? No. Has its offensive power been restrained since the critical damage update? Yes. Isida is the only turret that hasn't gotten any notable changes related to its critical damage since the update. The critical hit itself doesn't have any special properties. Isida has no damage drop-off so it doesn't help there. It can only damage one person at a time while the other melees can damage multiple. It has a very limited energy pool while the others have either infinite or near infinite ammo. There's no increase in damage. It's still basically x1 critical damage. 

 

Firebird, Freeze and Tesla are better damage-wise so if you're looking for something to deal damage with, you would use one of those instead of Isida. If you're comparing Isida to those other three then yes, Isida has become weaker.

 

[Helios 727]

On 7/19/2023 at 11:31 PM, Gabe2607 said:

It seems slower in healing and less effective in killing, but I did not read anything on the Patch Updates.

Since they buffed Defender drone, it maybe due to this you feel its slower to kill

[Gabe2607 215]

On 7/19/2023 at 8:28 PM, TheCongoSpider said:

It depends on what you think was its previous state. 

 

The last time Isida received a big change was on January 2019 where the healing was near halved and the energy paramaters were shuffled. In that patch, Isida had an extra second of attacking energy while the healing was lower but you healed for a bit longer. 

On February 2021, it received a direct damage buff (everything else was getting buffs as well).

Two months ago in May 2023, it received a buff to the healing and neutral energy consumption, which allows it to heal for longer periods of time and is more attractive for offensive Isidas to use some energy to heal allies since it won't be tapping too much into their attacking energy. The way I see it, they want Isida's gimmick pushed more towards its ability to heal while pushing the other melee turrets more into damage-dealing options. 

 

Has Isida itself gotten weaker? No. Has its offensive power been restrained since the critical damage update? Yes. Isida is the only turret that hasn't gotten any notable changes related to its critical damage since the update. The critical hit itself doesn't have any special properties. Isida has no damage drop-off so it doesn't help there. It can only damage one person at a time while the other melees can damage multiple. It has a very limited energy pool while the others have either infinite or near infinite ammo. There's no increase in damage. It's still basically x1 critical damage. 

 

Firebird, Freeze and Tesla are better damage-wise so if you're looking for something to deal damage with, you would use one of those instead of Isida. If you're comparing Isida to those other three then yes, Isida has become weaker.

 

Thank you for a summary of the facts. Mine is a recent feeling and I almost play every day since a long time with isida. I do not have Fire, freeze and Tesla, but yes they are most damaging, especially fire which makes the immediate damage plus more for few seconds later.

[Gabe2607 215]

On 7/20/2023 at 4:26 AM, NightCity said:

Since they buffed Defender drone, it maybe due to this you feel its slower to kill

Thank you, but I am playing PRO battles, with no drones.

[Ghost 279]

@Gabe2607, are you happy with the answers you received ? 

[Gabe2607 215]

On 7/31/2023 at 5:05 AM, Ghost said:

@Gabe2607, are you happy with the answers you received ? 

You may close the thread and thanks for asking, Ghost.

[Ghost 279]

Answered, closed.