Dream patch - share yours below!

Morningstar-12853 · October 23, 2022, 4:11pm

Muh dream OW2 patch notes with the current meta in mind

Tanks

Zarya
(–) Energy gained per bubble damage reduced by 20%.
(–) HP reduced by 50 (200 health and 225 shields).

D.va
(–) Defence Matrix duration reduced by 1s
(–) HP changed to 400 + 250 armor (50 armor convertion to normal)

Winston
(–) Barrier HP reduced by 50
(–) HP reduced by 50 (350 Heatlh and 150 armor)

Sigma
(–) Projected Barrier HP reduced by 100
(–) Projected Barrier HP regeneration reduced by 10/s (90hp/s)
(–) Kinectic Grap damage to hp convertion reduced by 5%.

Doomfist
(–) Power Block frontal damage reduction reduced by 20%
(+) Power Block now has 0.5s of CC invulnerability on the start.
(+) Power Block now reduces 100% frontal damage received for its first 0.5s
(+) Seismic Slam’s slows targets hit by 25% for 1s
(+) Meteor Strike vertical range on epicenter greatly extended.
(+) Meteor Strike charge required reduced by 10%

Roadhog
(–) Maximum HP reduced back to 600
(–) Take a Breather now heals 300 HP
(–) Take a Breather cooldown increased by 2 seconds.
(+) Take a Breather now cleanses Roadhog of every debuff on him around its halfway point (after healing 200 HP)

Junker Queen
(+) Carnage cooldown decreased by 2 s
(+) Rampage now deals an extra 50 damage on impact
(+) Rampage now allows for better control after cast, meaning better handling with left and right + distance you gain with back and foward.

Wrecking Ball
(±) This one i’m not too sure about, he’d prolly be okay with a tiny burf, specially considering that Sombra is also gonna get bonked.

Reinhardt
(–) Reinhardt can no longer be sped up while he has his Shield up.
(+) Firestrike now does 30 melee damage with its swing.
(+) Barrier Field’s movement penalty reduced by 5% (25% total)

Orisa
(–) Energy Javelin cooldown increased by 2s
(–) Energy Javelin impact damage decreased by 20
(–) Javelin Spin cooldown increased by 1s
(±) Now has two charges shared between her Javelin Spin and Energy Javelin
(+) Energy Javelin can now headshot
(+) Terra Surge now gives back one charge of Energy Javelin/Spin on conclusion.

DPS

Sombra
(–) Hack’s Ability lock down reduced back to 1.25s
(–) Hack’s auto-tracking reduced by 30%
(–) Hack now goes on cooldown if connection is broken through any means (instead of just damage)
(–) EMP damage reduced to 30% of targets current health.
(+) Hack requires at least 15 damage dealt to break.
(+) Cloak now goes first on Detected state for 1s if damage dealt is less than 15, then breaks on any hit.

Tracer
(–) Fall off reduced to 10 - 18 m
(–) Recall cooldown increased by 1s
(–) Pulse bomb’s damage decreased by 50 points.

Genji
(–) Damage per shuriken decreased to 28
(–) Alternate fire spread angle increased by 1
(–) Swift Strike’s hit detection range (hitbox) decreased by 20%.

Soujourn
(–) Railgun’s secondary fire’s projectile hit detection size decreased by 0.5
(–) Railgun’s secondary fire now consummes 4 ammo per use.
(–) Disruptor’s shot damage per second reduced to 45 (total 180)

Reaper
(–) Lifesteal reduced by 5%
(–) Death Blossom damage reduced to 170/s
(+) Shadow Step cooldown reduced by 4s

Bastion
(–) Mortar shot (ult) shots takes 0.25s longer to hit.
(+) Self Repair reincluded - Now functions as following:
Heals for a total of 100 hp in a span of 2s (50HP/s) has 8s cooldown, can fire while using it but gets interrupted by taking at least 15 damage while using it.
(+) Mortar Shot now has two more shots total.

Hanzo
(+) DPS Passive now makes it so Hanzo knocks his arrows faster by 25%
(+) Dragonstrike total startup reduced by 0.7s
(+) Dragonstrike’s arrow flies 10% faster
(±) Dragonstrike’s Dragons fly 25% faster.
(–) Dragonstrike’s Dragons disappear after traveling a total of 100m
(–) Dragonstrike now charges 15% slower.

Pharah
(–) Hover Jets movement speed reduced by 10%
(–) Rocket Launcher explosion radius reduced by 0.3m
(+) Pharah now takes 20% less damage while on Barrage.

Echo
(–) Ammo reduced by 2
(–) Focusing beam range decreased by 1m

Ashe
(–) ADS recovery time increased by (not sure)
(–) Semi automatic recovery time increased by (not sure)
(–) Coach gun damage per pellet reduced to 5.4

Cassidy
(–) Magnetic Grenade’s tracking ability reduced by 40%
(–) Magnetic Grenade damage decreased by 70
(+) Manetic Grenade explodes 0.4 s faster now
(+) Magnetic Grenade now aplies a 25% slow for 1s on the stuck target, on explosion.
(Thats about it for ideas for DPS but i know Junkrat needs a small rework, Symm prolly needs a bit more of love, so does Mei.)

Support

Ana
(–) Biotic Grenade self healing reduced by 50
(–) Biotic Grenade no longer ups the regeneration of Projected Barrier and Barrier Field (needs confirmation)
(–) Nano Boost heals 50 less hp on activation
(–) Nano Boost damage bonus and reduction reduced to 40%

Lúcio
(–) Soundwave (Boop) Damage decreased by 10
(–) Soundwave now consumes 4 ammo again.
(–) Sonic Amplifier damage decreased by 2 per shot.

Brigitte
(–) Rally overhealth gain speed decreased by 0.2s per tick.
(–) Rally AOE reduced by 0.5m
(+) Rally duration increased by 2s
(+) Rally ultimate cost decreased by 10%

Zenyatta
(–) Orb of Discord damage bonus dealt reduced to 20%
(+) Orb Of Detruction damage increased by 2 per shot

Baptiste
(–) Immortality Field health decreased by 50
(–) Amplification Matrix damage and healing bonus reduced to 90%
(–) Regenerative Burst instant HP healed reduced to 40 (HP>50%) and 80 (HP<50%)

Moira
(±) Blizzard has been working on a rework for her atm, i’m also sort of at a loss on how to do with her… at least make her a bit more skill intensive i guess?

Mercy
(±) This hero is so difficult to change since she is so popular… i do still think changing her ultimate and E abilities around with the right numerical change, would make for a more interesting design.

So…a whole lot of nerfs, yep, i believe that 1- the game’s plagued by a bit too much power creep 2- making it so the devs overbuffed the tanks and Sombra - 3 the time to kill is also a bit much so nefing is required instead of many buffs.

Aaand yes, i know you cant push that many changes at once and expect to have even the slightest bit of a balanced game, its overral all changes that i think would make sense in the long run, finding the right ones to implement at what time is the challenge.

There ya go, just a small one.