Does this increase how fast you can heal/drain things? or just shotgun fire i know it works on assassin but ive never actually tested to see if gold rate = quick death with support
Does not effect heal/hurt gun. DOES effect shotgun. This changes next patch. It will effect both the heal/hurt and shotgun, and I think the Support's basic heal/hurt rate/damage will be slightly nerfed to make rate of fire balanced/viable for the class.
nerf the range of the hurt gun, heal is fine because well your healing someone but hurt gun has so much range, i can't remember the amount of times playing with lag i've been killed by a support being able to keep up with me, even if i have the speed upgrade on, its annoying.
Most of the classes in the game can out damage the hurt gun and health leach, especially if you combo an ability with your normal attack. The assassin can just cloak and be immune to it. Anyway, next patch, supports will have to rock Rate of Fire if they want to keep/improve their existing level of heal/hurt, so we should see some kind of variation in support builds now.
No, endorsements do not affect firebases. After the patch Rate of Fire endorsements will affect the Heal/Hurt gun.