Glad to see buffs for Sigma and Mei
can we give doomfist anything?
a buff? a revert? a bug fix?
a hero left in the dust
Thank you Blizzard a well derserved buff to her that feels so much better than before. Now I can stay in the air longer and keep in the fight and less touching ground to refuel. Feels way better
Thank’s for keeping us updated Josh! Overall good changes, here’s my thoughts on each one.
Genji:
I don’t think the fire rate is enough of a buff to justify the 15% charge nerf. We’re talking about a <10% damage buff with all of the same breakpoints. [Edit: After testing can confirm it’s even worse than I thought, it’s a really big ult nerf for negligible damage increase.]
Mei:
Love it, she’ll be a very strong pick in brawl comps.
Pharah:
It’s impossible to overstate how big this change is, permanent flight is back and it’s amazing.
Reaper:
It’s good that he’s getting the last experimental’s damage values, he should feel a lot better to play. It’s noteworthy that the lifesteal is still going to be a fair bit lower than pre spread changes, I’d like to see it go from 30% to 35%.
Sigma:
This one is scary but I think it’s justified, will have to test it. [Edit: After testing it seems like it’s still a big enough window but it’s noticible vs rush.]
Zarya:
Great change that she’s needed for a while, fully approve.
we better be looking at mcmeme nerfs soon
Most of these changes raise the question: Why?
The only really understandable, but still not needed change here is the Sigma buff.
Genji is in a rough spot, Mei is also in a bit of a rough spot, Pharah felt bad after her last nerfs (despite the fact that it was supposed to be a buff), Reaper should have never had his damage nerfed to 5.5, Sig felt too clunky, and Zarya is oppressive in ranked as well as being a bit too good in dive comps.
Maybe next experiment, but I am happy they gave buffs to under performing heroes like Mei, Reaper, Pharah
We want her to be targetable for GA
I love how lots of other projectile heroes that are struggling got buffed but doom didn’t…
YO THESE ARE NICE WHAT? good job devs
Very happy about the Sigma changes, It’s still visible nerf from the previous version, but these 0,5 secs bring back a lot of flexibility, Great patch guys
Nani will be so happy.
I don’t think these buffs will help us to escape Rein-Zarya Jail from Master to Bronze, they are not enough. Once again devs just care of GM players and OWL…
Thank you dev team so much for the genji buff
overall good except the zarya nerf I don;t think that is neccessary and I wish they reverted the ball nerf
Wot? Experimentals are usually posted in general chat.
This is a pretty solid experimental update
Uhm… boring.
They could legit ninja ship half of these changes without telling us and most people wouldn’t even feel a difference.
And you call that experimental mode?
Poor Roadhog, being ignored in the back of the group