And you guys want to buff winston?

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@GeoffGoodman

The armor change I am referring looks like it isn’t going to make this next patch, so it will probably the patch after.

Those particular changes won’t be massive, but right now all “channeled” effects (Zarya, Symmetra, Moira, Winston, etc) are reduced by a flat amount like any other source of damage, but the size of the damage packets is purely based on how fast they tick, even though the tuning of the weapons are done via a general DPS calculation. For example, Winston’s tesla cannon was initially tuned way back when to have a faster update rate because it felt a lot better to use that way. However, currently that also means he does a lot less damage to armor.

We’re getting some new tech which allows us to separate armor reduction amounts for these effects from their update rate. This doesn’t mean we’re going to just go through and buff all of these weapons necessarily but we are going to go through them all and make sure we’re happy with how much damage they are all doing to armored targets.

@GoatOfLegend-21728

Will this result in a net damage buff against non armored targets/enemies too? If so, that seems a bit much.

@GeoffGoodman

No this only affects how much armor reduces these weapons.

He used Winston as an example and by the sounds of it, he doesn’t want to straight up buff “beam heroes”, just re-evaluate how much damage they should be doing to armored targets.

The math behind the damage is too sloppy so they want to straighten it out. Winston may walk away doing roughly the same damage where as maybe Symmetra herself would get a buff against armor. We should wait to see what direction they decide to take Winston/Symmetra/Zarya before getting hyped up that they’ll all get some damage buff.