Zarya's buffs caused an undiscussed nerf?

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I’ve been a Zarya enthusiast for a long time. Especially Q build. U can imagine I was happy to see the slight increase to her Q damage on the latest patch notes.

But she got a different change that the patch notes don’t talk about; her pinpoint accuracy talent in level 7 got changed from dealing 40% more damage in the center to a flat amount of 26 extra dmg in level 1.

But this straight up amounts to a nerf. Her Q does 83 damage in level 1 on 0 energy. 26/83 = 31,3% damage increase. That means pinpoint accuracy got a 9% damage nerf.

Am I missing something? I guess the calculations can be a bit complicated, as her damage scales with energy, levels and pinpoint accuracy, but I feel like this wasn’t intentional. And if that’s the case, Zarya is about the last character that needs a nerf.

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It’s actually been like that for a while I’m afraid.

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Really? Are you sure?

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Yep

https://heroespatchnotes.com/hero/zarya.html

Granted, i havent done the math but beacuse its a flat number instead of a % increase, pinpoint accuracy gets full scaling from zaryas trait.

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Pinpoint Accuracy wasn’t nerfed, the other talents on the tier were buffed. It’ll do just as much damage as it was doing before.

The way it works is it increases the damage to a number, and that increased number wasn’t adjusted.

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