Ashe’s B.O.B. ult damage per shot went from 14 to 17, which is a 21.43% damage per shot increase, because all hero health is going up.
However, Torb & Sym got no compensatory buffs at all. You’d imagine they would buff their turrets so they’re not weak sauce after the global buffs to all heroes.
I think the turrets will still reduce healing via the new damage role passive but yeah they’re not changed. I’m not sure they intend to give all the heroes or all aspects of their kits compensatory changes since the general goal is to reduce damage overall and I think they only buffed Ashe’s BOB because it’s an ultimate ability.
Sym turrets are abysmal now too.
It’s like going from bad to garbage.
This isnt confirmed but I hope they do.
I hope they leave Turrets alone and just buff Symmetra/Torbjorn themselves.
Better to have reliable abilities that are always useable than a cooldown that can be shutdown before it even has a chance to fully deploy.
They could’ve just buffed Torb’s turret deploy time then and for Sym they could increase the travel speed so they’ll get to a wall faster to deploy.
Every patch the turrets get more and more useless. The dev team clearly doesn’t want to facilitate a builder playstyle, and they’re homogenizing them as a result.
In a realistic combat setting with people who can actually play and not be terrorized by a single Turret.
Those recommendations are useless.
Blizzard slowly eroding anything that makes dps heroes unique. Eventually torb and sym will be just straight up left click heroes, they are on the brink of this already.
That’s crazy Bob is getting buffed, thank Warn for that thinking Bob should get buffed when he’s way stronger than Deadeye.
Deadeye got buffed as well, but my god can Cassidy get a new ultimate already.
Arm cannon: 112 per second, 14 per bullet, 1092 overall
to
Arm cannon: 136 per second, 17 per bullet, 1360 overall
Torbjorn and Symmetra have turrets and devices that have no limited duration compared to BOB. Moreover, Torbjorn is capable of critical hits, and Symmetra is already one of hardest hitting or higher damage per second heroes on the game.
Further tweaking may be necessary, but at the current moment, this change is mainly there to maintain time-to-kill for ultimates and abilities like BOB. Torbjorn and Symmetra are not quite so limited.
Already did ages ago.
Wouldn’t really explain why they developed Lifeweaver or Illari.
Again, it’s just there to keep TTK the same, that’s it. This is not some grand conspiracy to buff BOB.
They are doing a crappy job at it. Sym never felt so bad to play
inb4 wait and see.
I would enjoy Torb turret having out of combat repairing so you can get more creative with its placement without having to either babysit it or leave it to die.
Never saw the BOB buff, no wonder some streamers are saying ashe is going to be pretty good in season 9