Okay so lets sum up what a drone can do really quickly.
Base drone can build, special structure build, melt, phero, weed and shove plasma into you
Gardener can phero, weed, plasma transfer and make heal plants
Healer can special structure build, phero (stronger), melt, weed, heal you directly, shove plasma into you, and make shitty heal plants
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Currently base drone is in an ok state, I'd prefer if we have some kind of acid pylon return that just puts out xenos, no need to hurt marines, spam clicking a beno to remove fire isn't fun and marines all have extinguishers. I think that base drone should have access to shitty heal plants. -Drone could use minor stuff
Gardener is really good, nobody is going to argue that the plants that they can use are good. Thing is that not being able to melt flares or put down special structures REALLY hampers you when a normal drone can just put a pylon down and put a recovery node next to it to do your job but better. - Gardener needs big stuff
Healer is actually okay, the heal is total dogshit and shouldn't rely on both being still, it should be like a channel or a 2 or 3 tile range or something. It's just that the heal making both be still means they need to be back from the front or in crit, and if they're back they're next to a recovery node that you won't be providing more healing than it. The pheros are exceptionally good and heal drone is good for combat drone with frenzy pheros. They also get some shitty heal fruit, that is pretty much just better than your ordinary heal because xenos will go pick it up when they need it
I think that Gardener and Healer should be merged, retaining the manual heal in some form, and having the ability to melt shit as well as special structure. I dunno, the division between Gardener and Healer is unhealthy and arbitrary. I might be losing my marbles, it's super possible. What do you all think?
PS: I think transfer plasma should be a plasma and not something you have to spam click 500 times, you just sit there and channel energy into someone until you want to stop. Allows you to fuel queen without giving yourself carpal tunnel