Rejoice! Dva nerf incoming on Tuesday!
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Yeah with the compensation buff so she’s better against beams lol
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Hopefully they give her no buffs. She is destroying the game at the moment for most people.
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They already said they are buffing her armor against beams. So it isn’t the win you think it is going to be.
Like most mid-season patches, they address one thing while creating 3 more new problems
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Its like they are trying to ruin their own game. Creating more problems every patch.
Yes but Blizzard needs to have a busted tank so who’s turn is it?
I’m thinking Orisa is making a comeback 
Thats a dream dva players make often.
But that will never happen because beams are the only weakness of dva.
Meaning basically 3 or 4 heroes at best can do something about her.
Meanwhile other tanks have a ton of counters against their defensive abilities
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Her armor number is definitely going down.
It’s just gonna tone down beam damage a little during matrix, as long as she’s nerfed otherwise it’s probably fine.
I personally think giving her any additional beam resistance on top of the existing 30% she has on her 375 armor is incredibly stupid. That’s still 535 effective health against beams, along with 350 base health. She’s still walking around with 885 effective health against beam heroes who do not have crit multipliers lmao
I think as long as she has 100% reduction against projectiles and hitscan on her defence matrix, giving her any sort of buff to it against beams is a braindead decision and it’s going to backfire. She’s still going to delete <300hp heroes, she’s still going to have more health than all the brawl tanks as a DIVE tank, she’s still going to mitigate projectiles just as good as she did before, and now she’ll also be able to mitigate beams. To what extent, I don’t know but overall, it’s not looking good brev
Hopefully I’m completely wrong with my assumptions but given the track record, yeah I’m not optimistic this will fix anything. It’s going to make her even more of a mainstay pick. Unless they nerf her unnecessary damage buffs (spread, missiles, boosters) nothing will change
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She’s not gonna have 375 armor after the patch at least. They will probably put it down to 300, maybe raise her regular hp by 25 or something.
Did they confirm that? I read it as a global change to armor and tank defence passives and not really a change to armor values
They didn’t confirm it but it’s the logical conclusion to the survivability nerf they talked about.
Hm you could be right. Even then I think armor globally is a huge issue right now and my guess is they’ll change how it works again so it isn’t mitigating so much damage passively
I’m really hoping this shuts down dive and makes multiple compositions good on the latter again, brawl and poke comps are struggling against dive rn.
Its really weird that they are touching beam resistance, when there are literally … 5 heroes with beams? realistically only 3 that can be a “threat” to Dva ?
Hail Mary attempt at RNG balancing imho.
DVA is getting a slap on the wrist and they will call it a nerf … How many times has ANA been NERFED?
I hope they bring armor back to straight 30% damage reduction or similar - the weirdness about being better against some characters than others is stupid and any issues with a few characters like bastion is better dealt with a spread buff and a damage nerf to make them better against squishes and worse against tanks, not a global armor change.
Boo. I miss 2016 DVA.
Good. Weaker/more balanced DVA overall but with less glaring counters. That should be the goal of every Tank in OW2. Instead of giga buffing them, make them solid and well rounded so you don’t have to swap the tank you’re on every 10 seconds.
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Say it louder for the people in the back, Aurora!
You’ve got people who go “I can’t believe we’re making D. Va’s glaring weakness less prominent!” and then in the same breath go “I’m so SICK of tanks just being Counterwatch!”.
Just because D. Va is broken right now doesn’t mean we suddenly give up on the design philosophy that tanks shouldn’t be so easily countered.
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