Harbor buff/rework concept

I've seen a lot of people share their Harbor change ideas, so I've decided to share my own.

For a bit of context, I've been playing Harbor for 2 full years (190 hours/340 matches in ranked). I've been feeling Harbor's weaknesses since day 1, and have been advocating for Harbor buffs for almost a year now. I've even [submitted a ticket](https://i.imgur.com/ihrwXOi.png) asking if I could help with the changes—to which I was told [they wouldn't accept my ideas](https://i.imgur.com/T9clkNJ.png) because of their Terms of Service (not sure why I can't at least give ideas, but I digress).

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• Major rework (deployment of utility)

  • Pressing E/C/X → right click opens a map (around the same radius as KAY/O ult)
  • Left click on the map to deploy the rotating orb on Harbor's gauntlet
    • Takes about 0.5 seconds to deploy
  • This orb will be the origin point of High Tide/Cascade/Reckoning
  • The orb can be recalled using F (similar to Astra stars)
    • 0.5 second recall animation
    • No cooldown on the orb (can be repositioned as soon as it's recalled and press E/C/X → right click again)

• Minor additional rework (team/enemy slow)

  • Slow effect is removed entirely from the wall/cascade
  • A 0.5 second hinder effect is added for enemies passing through
    • As with the current slow, the hinder will be in place as long as you're in contact with the wall/cascade

• High Tide (E) updates

  • Cooldown reduced from 40 >> 30 seconds
    • This puts it in line with the smokes of currently meta controllers (e.g. Omen)

• Cove (Q) updates

  • Cost decreased from 350 >> 300 seconds
    • This lets you buy Cove with a Ghost on pistol rounds (very useful, can single-handedly win pistols)
  • HP increased from 500 >> 700
    • Cove is broken too easily to find value in a lot of instances, especially when multiple enemies are alive. This change aims to amend that

• Reckoning (X) updates

  • Stun windup decreased from 1.35 >> 1 second
    • This makes Harbor's ultimate not as easy to dodge, and gives it more guaranteed value beyond soft recon

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If you have any questions/concerns/feedback, feel free to let me know. I'll try to respond to everything 👍

Interesting

allat
just make it so when harbor gets a kill he teleports to the corpse and teabags
boom, most popular agent overnight

i like this but i think he should have postplant mollies that you can control like a brim smoke

for real tho, most of the difficulty of playing harbor comes from positioning yourself well enough that your utility finds value and it often makes for a lot of awkward walls on thin doorways, these changes make the skill floor and skill ceiling much higher and closer to smt like astra

I can vouch
best harbor i've seen

So the prognosis is the player base will always be ape.

Also double dashes my friend... i see you.

Fully agree with the cove buffs. I feel like that ability lacks the hp to do its job and lowering the cost is just a good quality of life buff.

and most importantly have the cove (in the pre broken phase) have the ability to block all mollies. offer a counter to that type of play style

bruv, tspmo sm icl, can we stop having the open ipad --> click --> deploy utils, this is why i like viper so much, theres actually interesting ways to lineup you wall, not just open ipad and place

whos harbor? is that a character in ow or what

Wait wait, so if I'm playing ascent tree Def, I can iPad place a wall origin in mid/market, then curve the wall to block b main, or even almost to boathouse? How do I see where my wall is showing up while curving, just minimap?

Actually that does sound kinda cool. Semi global util would be a massive harbor buff without being op or changing the agent completely.