@Dusklicious

To be fair, I dislike the concept of having Heal based talent because those are always the ones you are running on support, unless the support managed to exists before supports were more heal-focused, like pip or grohk. So talents like these make the other 2 usually obsolete.

@KicsitCsicska Out of all his problems, his KDA is not something i find to be an issue. At all. If people keep hiding and not contributing to the fight, they wont be winning, since damage boost isnt going to do that for them anymore.

If being able to not die while healing would be overpowered, we would nerf Seris to the ground.

If there was a question who needs a rework from each category, Jenos would definitely be the one, and only, support that I actually want to see have larger changes.

Jenos causes a lot of frustration with his current kit for both his teammates and the other team. His source of uncounterable damage boost modifies damage breakpoints in a way that is difficult to balance and is infuriating to be on its receiving end. On the other hand, his healing output for his teammates is not something that people really like having as their sustain option. Which leads to both teams having uneasy time. Noone wants to deal with him in his current form.

This damage boost alone breaks his internal balance as well. Even developers acknowledged that Luminary is the only reason that Jenos is in the viable category, and thus avoided its nerf hammer. This is quite sad that Devs know this is an issue that locks his other talents from having any spotlight and there was nothing done to address it. Even more sad when we realize that Lumi is the only talent that doesn't change the way he is played.

Then there's this issue where there's literally 1 variation possible of his meta loadout: Max CD reduction and duration on his heal, increased range on lvl 3, self heal 1 and void grip range 1. There's literally no way to level up those cards differently, yet alone change with other cards. The only thing you can do is drop 1 lvl from duration and put it in range. All other builds are simply not viable on Jenos. It's okay to have 1 card that requires maxing on healing build but to need 2 of them maxed, and then requiring third card on at least lvl 3 is unacceptable and limits players choices too much.

Tldr: Jenos luminary is frustrating to go against, very difficult to balance, prevents his healing capabilities from getting any buffs, breaks internal balance to already strict loadouts and is in need of rework.

Because of all this, here are suggestions that will address those issues.

Changes

First thing we need to do is delete Luminary. Then we need to balance talents, buff his healing and make his loadouts less strict.

Talents

Luminary

• Obliterated from the game. You will not be missed.

Binary Star

• No changes

Power Cosmeum

• OLD EFFECT: Enemies affected by Void Grip are crippled and take an additional 360 damage over its duration.
• NEW EFFECT: Void Grip can now target enemies through all obstacles, but its lock-on camera angle is reduced by 75%. Missing Void Grip puts it on 4 seconds cooldown.

NEW: Ascension

• EFFECT: Stellar Wind grants 20% more movement speed bonus and allows you to double jump.

Cards

Astral Cycle
-OLD EFFECT: Increase the duration of Astral Mark by {0.5|0.5}s.
-NEW EFFECT: Activating Astral Mark grants {4|2} ammo.

To make his loadout choices more free and personalizable, his duration card is now moved to his base kit at level 4. I admit I didn't think too much about new effect for this card, so here's 1 suggestion that helps Binary Star. If anyone has better idea for a card that wont become a must pick, please let me know.

Base Kit

Astral Mark

• Initial healing increased {300} --> {350};
• Cooldown reduced {8} --> {7}s;
• Healing per second increased {220} --> {250};
• Duration increased {10} --> {12}

I feel like all those changes would make Jenos much more likeable character, while also making all of his talents more even in power. If that would prove to be success, we can then talk about his underpowered cards. For now, let's make him less of a chore.

Discuss.

I got recognized for doing my Seris guide in one of matches by friendly Buck. He mentioned how my guide helped him a lot. I was so happy.

We also had a Seris with Dusk Walker card (kek), and she said she's going to take a look at it as well. I wonder if she did.... If she did, then she probably has Fade To Black card now, lol.

https://paladins.guru/match/censored/xvH3WXxa9

I was so mad at this game, this could be such an easy win. I was obviously the Seris.

My team was continuously overextending and taking so much damage that even Seris' heals did jack nothing, they all kept dying, so I decided to play more agressively than usual, and guess what, I managed to get 120k dmg in 16 minute match as a Healing Mortal Reach SERIS, outdmging everyone while also doing solid heals, I kept healing off cooldown. I got like above 15 ultimates that game, still lost. Our Vivian first picked Chronos ;-;. If i didn't tell them to go bulldozer they would just get murderred by the Imani ult. God, I felt so helpless that match. How do I even carry my ranked matches...

@KicsitCsicska

At least @TTraw wasn't bot

Yo I suck at Evie 99% of the matches, so I am happy you posted one where I actually didn't do trash.

Also, who was a bot? I know Grohk and our Willo, but other than that?

@Dusklicious I checked it out already, and yeah let's say that I wasn't entirely confident with your Architectonics loadout at all. So a broader explanation would help greatly.

@Dusklicious i definitely could use a Barik guide, so I am more than happy to read that.

@TangAce I feel ya.

Thanks for posting it in the pinned thread.

@M3RC3N4RI0

Definitely a couple hours over the span of 3 days.