1-1-2-2 Balance Thread

General Discussion
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General

  • Reverted the change that made knockback the same to all heroes regardless if they had some form of knockback resistance.
  • Damage reduction from armor now increased from -5 damage to -7 damage

Tanks

Orisa

  • Protective Barrier
    • Cooldown decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
    • Health increased from 600 to 900
  • Fortify
    • Cooldown decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
    • Damage reduction increased from 40% to 50%
  • Supercharger
    • Health increased from 200 to 250

Reinhardt

  • Rocket Hammer
    • Rate of fire increased from 0.95 seconds per swing to 0.8 seconds per swing
  • Barrier Field
    • Regeneration rate increased from 200 to 250

Sigma

  • General
    • Shield Health increased from 100 to 200 (300/200)
  • Hyperspheres
    • Rate of Fire increased from 1.5 seconds per burst to 1.3 seconds per burst
  • Experimental Barrier
    • Recall cooldown removed
    • Health increased from 900 to 1200
    • Regeneration rate increased from 120 to 160 per second
  • Gravatic Flux
    • Can no longer be stunned out of Gravatic Flux if he has already lifted his targets

Winston

  • General
    • Armor health increased from 100 to 200 (400/200)
  • Barrier Projector
    • Cooldown decreased from 13 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Primal Rage
    • Health decreased from 900 to 700
    • Armor health increased from 100 to 300 (700/300)
    • Maximum range increased from 4 meters to 5 meters

Wrecking Ball

  • Piledriver
    • Air stun time increased from 0.5 seconds to 1 second

Zarya

  • General
    • Shields health pool increased from 200 to 300. (Total health is now 500)
    • Maximum energy gain per barrier decreased from 40 to 30
  • Particle Cannon (Primary Fire)
    • Maximum primary fire damage per second reduced from 170 to 140
  • Particle Cannon (Secondary Fire)
    • Maximum secondary fire damage reduced from 95 to 80
  • Particle Barrier (Self)
    • Cooldown decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds
  • Particle Barrier (Ally)
    • Now creates barriers on all allies within 8 meters of your target
    • Duration increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds

Heavy Damage

Bastion

  • General
    • Armor health increased from 100 to 200 (200/200)
  • Configuration: Recon
    • Rate of Fire increased from 8 to 9 per second
  • Configuration: Tank
    • Self-Healing casting time delay removed
    • Ironclad now gives 25% damage resistance instead of 20%

D.Va

  • General
    • Health decreased by 100 (300/200)
  • Defense Matrix
    • Cooldown increased from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds

Doomfist (if you don’t want these changes just yell at me in the comments and ill revert everything but universal DPS nerfs)

  • General
    • Health increased from 250 to 300
  • The Best Defense…
    • Shields gained increased from 30 to 45
    • Shields gained from Meteor Strike increased from 75 to 100
    • Maximum amount of shields increased from 150 to 250
  • Hand Cannon
    • Damage decreased from 6 to 5
    • Weapon spread decreased by 10%
  • Seismic Slam
    • Cooldown decreased from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
    • Range decreased from 15 meters to 12 meters
    • Damage ramp-up decreased by 10%
  • Rising uppercut
    • Cooldown decreased from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
    • Horizontal knockback increased by 30%
  • Rocket Punch
    • Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds
    • Maximum initial damage increased from 100 to 150
    • Wall impact damage removed
    • Maximum charge time decreased from 1.4 seconds to 1.1 seconds
    • Knockback increased by 20%
  • Meteor Strike
    • Inner Ring damage increased from 300 to 350
    • Outer Ring knockback increased by 25%

Mei

  • Endothermic Blaster
    • Ammo increased from 120 to 200
    • Icicle damage now has damage falloff starting from 20 meters and ends at 40 meters (35-75)
  • Cryo-Freeze
    • Cooldown decreased from 12 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Ice Wall
    • Cooldown decreased from 13 seconds to 10 seconds

Reaper

  • Hellfire shotguns
    • Damage decreased from 7 to 6
    • Rate of Fire decreased from 2 shots per second to 1.75 shots per second
  • New ability: Vampiric Fiery
    • If reaper confirms a kill, a glowing orb will appear in the eliminated hero. Reaper can wish to consume that soul to increase its damage attack, speed, and resistance for 10 seconds, but self-destructs when its over.
    • Only when Reaper lands the finishing blow
    • Hellfire shotgun damage increased from 6 to 9
    • Hellfire shotgun rate of fire increased by 30%
    • Ammo becomes infinite
    • Ultimate becomes unusable
    • Damage reduction of 20%
    • Cooldown of 15 seconds; only starts after Reaper eliminates another target

Roadhog

  • General
    • Health decreased from 600 to 500
  • Take-A-Breather
    • Healing decreased from 300 to 250

Damage

Ashe

  • The Viper
    • Ammo decreased from 15 to 12
    • Scoped damage decreased from 85 to 75

Echo

  • Tri-Shot
    • Damage decreased from 17 to 15
  • Sticky Bombs
    • Damage decreased from 25 to 20
    • Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds
  • Focusing Beam
    • No longer cancelable
    • Duration decreased from 2.5 seconds to 2 seconds
    • Cooldown increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Duplicate
    • Echo returns with 30% health if her duplicated form is destroyed

Genji

Hanzo

  • Storm Bow
    • Damage decreased from 125 to 100
  • Storm Arrows
    • Rate of Fire decreased from 0.3 seconds to 0.45 seconds per shot

Junkrat

  • Frag Launcher
    • Projectile size increased from 0.2 to 0.26

McCree

  • Peacekeeper (Primary Fire)
    • Recovery rate increased from 0.42 seconds to 0.46 seconds
    • Damage decreased from 70 to 65

Pharah

  • Health Adjustments
    • Health decreased from 200 to 150
    • Shield Health increased from 0 to 100 (150/100)
  • Rocket Launcher
    • Explosion damage decreased from 80 to 70 (Direct damage = 110)
  • Hover Jets
    • Horizontal speed increased by 15%

Soldier76

Sombra

  • Hack
    • Hacking anyone with greater than 400 health will only be hacked for 3 seconds
    • Hacking anyone else will otherwise last for 6 seconds
    • Applies to EMP

Symmetra

  • Photon Projector (Primary Fire)
    • Range increased from 12 meters to 13 meters
  • Photon Projector (Secondary Fire)
    • Splash Damage decreased from 70 to 50
    • Maximum charge time decreased from 1 second to 0.8 second
  • Teleporter
    • Cooldown starts when deployed

Torbjorn

Tracer

  • Pulse Pistols
    • Falloff range starts at 11 meters instead of 13 meters

Widowmaker

  • Widow’s Kiss (Sniper)
    • Receiving any burst damage greater than 55 will knock her out of scope
      • (ex: Genji’s shurikens cannot knock her out because they individually do 28 (or 30 if you count this) damage but Junkrat’s mines will because they do 130 damage)
    • Damage decreased from 120 to 100
    • Headshot multiplier removed
  • Venom Mine
    • Damage over time increased from 75 to 80
    • Can now hold 2 Venom Mines

Supports

Ana

Baptiste

Brigitte

Lucio

Mercy

Moira

Zenyatta

please give me more ideas i made these very late and some changes aren’t too well done

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It’s probably going to take me a while to read through all of this.

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go ahead. i didn’t finish the supports yet btw and i doubt im keeping torb where he is. also if some of these changes aren’t good, they probably aren’t. I’ll update this when im actually awake. sorry lol

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Respect, I like the ideas and where your head is thinking anyways! Prob harder to speculate in my head, need more time to read and process, would be cool to have them throw this all into an experimental for the heck of it.

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I’m gonna give you some feedback from the tank category

Orisa: Ok

Reinhardt: Ok

Sigma: I wouldn’t increase his barrier health to 1500 if Rein’s is still 1600. I would make it 1200 or 1300. Sigma has 22 meters ranged shots, his barrier should have at least less 300 HP difference from Rein’s barrier IMHO.

Winston: I wouldn’t reduce his barrier CD to 10, otherwise it would only have 1 sec of down time, I would rather leave it 13 secs, but decrease his jump to 5 secs CD instead of 6.

Wrecking Ball: ok

Zarya: Lower her gains to 20 per bubble, otherwise she would be at 100 charge pretty quick with 40 gains per bubble. Also I would make self bubble the team bubble ability on a radius, so you are not disturbed to look behind if you are leading ahead and keep Ally bubble still only single target.

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Believe me, I read through everything. I disagree with most of this, except:

  • Echo
  • McCree
  • Junkrat
  • Sombra
  • Widowmaker

Everything else, especially the tanks, is an absolute hard no. They’d be absolutely busted and broken.

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Well the context here would be that you’d have 1Barrier-3DPS-2Heal, where 1 of the DPS could optionally go OffTank.
But usually it would be SoloBarrierTank.
With no possibility of DoubleBarrierTank.
✅ Modified 1-3-2 that can be 1-1-2-2

Which leaves open the potential to buff BarrierTanks as much as is needed to make them more popular.

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I guess that’s my bias coming in, I’m against 1-3-2. I’d rather take slight buffs to off-tanks and give them actual tanking abilities so that we can have more variety that moves away from shields.

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No, thank you. I am fine without these changes. Rofl.