Any balance changes coming?

I feel like we’re overdue for major balance fixes.

Come on, fix tanks already! Are you waiting for every non Reinhardt tank to quit or something?

Buff Baptiste. I think in his entire lifespan as a playable hero there were maybe two months where I didn’t feel actively bad picking him for a team. Just raise some numbers, but by less than last time.

And maybe tune up some of the worse DPS, like Junkrat and Symmetra.

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There’s literally no reason not have patches every two weeks as long as characters are garbage. The EXPEIRMENTAL card is there for a reason.

Experimental wasn’t intended for balance changes tho o frequent use.

I would rather number tweaks just…hit live.

Weekly :joy::joy:

Yeah, and they’ve even reeled in bad changes on expeirmental, which they never did much on PTR.

Remember when they nerfed Roadhog right click damage against barriers, when he was already underpowered?

Then a few weeks later he got some big buffs.

Well they nerfed Sigma’s rock.

And the balance patch after that had zero tank changes.

even better. do it cowards

Yeah, they might be planning something. I dunno.

If Reinhardt was any other hero I’d say this is right about the point where they give up and sledgehammer him out of the meta, but he might be immune.

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My guess is a “Tank Balance Pass” is coming either this next patch or next after.

Well, I’d love to see it.

Personally I think I’ve been permanently soured on playing tanks, but at least then every Orisa I see won’t be a useless throw pick.

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I can’t feel my face from all the burns I’ve got by playing tank

Well, I’m really happy with the general concept of “make doublebarrier weak at close range” as the way that they can have strong barriers again.

And giving BarrierTanks similar firepower to OffTanks means they can have more similar levels of Fun, that offtanks already get.

At this point I don’t even care anymore so long as the DPS queue shortens up and half my tank players don’t throw the game in spawn.

I don’t like what they did with the rock :frowning: I loved the satisfaction of hitting a rock from far away and knocking someone down for a long time.

But I guess they had to do it to reduce stuns across the board

And that is why removing role queue is realistically the only viable solution.

Not really because I still need someone to play Reinhardt for the team.

Well if they put both of these ideas in the game, then queue times would go down a lot.

And even if you get DoubleOffTank, it wouldn’t be as much of a handicap.

✅ Fixing BarrierTanks and OffTanks

✅ Competitive 222 vs Competitive Classic

Btw remember that “aggressive balancing” thing?

They were quick to kill Double-barrier and Bap, that’s for sure. And then it was time for Rein-Zarya. Whoops, can’t “balance” these two.

Yeah… 5 potential Reinhardt is better than 1. Simple math.

Or we just don’t put a team together until we’ve found someone willing to Reinhardt.

I used to be forced onto tank constantly in non role queue and I hated it.

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They were not quick at all. I endured it for months, and then I quit for months, and I had to deal with it for another month. That is at least half a year for all you Counts out there.