No, it’s absolutely god awful. The problem is high burst dmg and snipers. No one goes double shield for fun, we go double shield so we can survive dps powercreep.
These changes go from barrier watch to sniper/burstwatch
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I’d rather just have hero pools back in for M+GM and keep Sigma and Orisa banned up there than have Orisa punished like this.
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No I don’t like it.
The changes to Sigma, i can agree, he is the main problem of double shield.
The Orisa and Brig changes should not happen though. The halt would be useless and the Brig changes are very severe for a support who has to work at close range and who would barely see other play in other metas they intend to make…
They dumpster this hero for every rank (where she barely sees play) under GM and it’s really sad. They really have to try less harsh changes.
dumpstering 8-9 heroes just to have a playable game is very questionable for me…but what do i know, same as blizzard probably
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Sigma yes, it was expected and he still is a strong tank.
About Orisa I have no clue, they introduced Sigma to the game and they slowly wrecked her… can’t pair her with any other tank
I’ll be really happy when your favorite character is gutted too. 
no, i hate it, just limit the game to 1 main tank per person and stop making orisa and sigma garbage.
wish i could say that, but tracer is a dps and dps get wrists slap
Not directed at you. Funny because that’s why I started playing tracer yesterday.
It’s not cool to wish ANYONEs hero to be gutted. To be balanced and fair yes- to be dumpstered hell no.
IMO they’re mostly on the wrong direction, but it has some things right
Orisa is a huge step in the wrong direction
I think half changes are ok, but nerfing her armor is just deadly, she already sucks as solo main tank, she NEEDS a sigma, and rein doesn’t pare well with her because of the lack of damage, so she NEEDS sigma, nerfing her tank capabilities MORE just means that she’ll straight up be the worst tank in the game
Sigma
I think kinetic grasp changes are good, however, if they want to get rid of double barrier, they need to reduce sigma’s damage and perhaps Increase the rock cooldown, I can almost guarantee that after the patch, the meta will shift from orisa sigma to rein sigma, because sigma still does lots of damage for having a barrier
Again, they could make him an off tank instead, by (in this case) not pushing the kinetic grasp change (perhaps even buff it to like 8sec CD) but massively nerf his barrier
Sigma is just an off tank with the barrier of a main tank, that’s why he’s powerful and IMO they’re mostly a step in the wrong direction