Give Dva this buff

General Discussion
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For every 250 damage Dva absorbs with defense matrix, her primary fire attack speed increases for 4s by 10% up to a cap of 30%.

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Sure, and nerf matrix. That’s the real change everyone needs to her to make playing against her more engaging.

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Matrix is the last thing that needs to be nerfed with how easy it is to hit her mech’s massive head hitbox.

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Do you know how long 4 seconds is?
Also, why does she need attack speed?

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First, D.Va doesn’t need more damage.

Second, I don’t like Zarya’s bubble directly increasing her damage output based on damage absorbed. It’s fine for pve as a mechanic to play around, but I think it’s bad design to punish players for playing the game in a pvp setting. I would rather Zarya’s bubbles restore ammo instead and have her do the same dps before factoring reloading, with the ammo restore increasing her effective output in a less swingy and bursty way. Same thing with your proposal for D.Va.

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Isn’t it 3 seconds? It is not necessarily the duration that is the problem, it is the combination of the duration and the time before it can be used again being too short. There is just too little downtime.

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sure, but make dva2 tank available in the roster right next to current dva with decreased damage and burst potentials in exchange for 4 seconds matrix. “im number two”

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I fixed it for you

For every 250 damage Dva absorbs with defense matrix, her cockpit disco ball enlights like the emote and the music that accompanies the disco ball is played.

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Which Bee Gees song would it play?

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I’ve been saying for a long time now that she needs to have a faster rate of fire mechanic after deleting with dm.

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Yea it’s 4 seconds long. If it were much shorter she would barely have any time to attack, especially since she would need to eat another 250 damage or it goes away regardless. She could DM, shoot for 3 seconds, DM again and hope she eats enough to keep it active

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How about defense matrix deleting damage successfully accelerates missile cooldown charge?

It’s a very controlled and observable effect for both sides of combat that also rewards dva in a way she can control but DOESNT increase her sustained damage (that she uses with an unlimited magazine….)

This would also make sure she doesn’t approach tank buster status or turn into a tank bully.

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And while we’re at it at least 4 pellets are needed to decloak Sombra.
:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I don’t think Dva needs a buff, she seems really strong right now.

Although they need to solve the Zarya issue. People like to say that it’s a skill issue but the stats show that she loses to Zarya even in top 500 so how good do Dvas need to be to not have to swap off every game when faced with the inevitable Zarya?

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I think sombra de cloak having a 5 damage threshold or something (so cross field reaper/tracer/dva/etc ticks of garbage damage) don’t reward the player for spam.

I also think garbage damage shouldn’t apply the dps passive…

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Armchair Gamedesigners love micromanagey buffs and percentages.

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Absolutely and fully needed, but these takes are so unpopular that I feel like people don’t want to hear them!

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I think a gentle interaction change could change it enough to feel fair between the two.

Example: defense matrix doesn’t block beam damage but it DOES absorb the excess energy from beam damage and refills defense matrix meter (I.e. spamming beam on dva gives her unlimited matrix so if dva is going to be taking constant unavoidable massive damage she at least continues to prevent other sources)

This would punish beams from spamming dva. And I REALLY don’t think Zarya players would ever be allowed to complain about their enemy tank “punishing spam”. That would be the epitome of hypocrisy.

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Dva doesnt need any buffs

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What will be even the point of zarya if going to make dva the new zarya?