Plz bring back chunky knives. I miss gracie. It was fun to kill people with a skillshot and removing the chunky knives gets rid of some of her most fun kills. It helped against long range heroes too.
Here’s what I suggest be done, starting with a revert:
Gracie’s 80 damage counts towards self heals. Boom, gives her the self heal buff without removing chunky knives and without making gracie broken by stacking the buffed bleeds on top of the 80 damage.
Edit: alternatively, keep the changes, but let gracie headshot!
I miss gracie plz let me land beautiful knife kills again.
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It was a tragic loss. Now, as I watch the knife smack their face, I feel very little satisfaction. It actually feels as though I literally tossed a knife at them instead of a bowling ball. So at least the immersion was improved?
wait what? they removed her knife??
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Agreed, landing a kill from far away with the knife is the most satisfying thing about her. It’s also the most reliable way to kill a lot of backline chars if you’re good with it (kiriko, flyers, zen with his damn kick).
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The knife is almost as big as a machete, it’s pretty believable that throwing it into someone’s guts or head would get them a third of the way to dead.
At the very least, if there is no revert, then let gracie headshot
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Unbelievable!!! Just never enough!!!
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It sucks because junkerqueen’s main problem is how hard countered she is by range, and the change literally makes that worse despite technically being a buff 
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They reduced the damage done from 80 to 50 with that difference going into wound damage
I wish they did reduced damage during the axe swing wind up like someone suggested for things like that.
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I haven’t played it much but the changes from the patch notes look pretty amazing!
CDR
more healing
more healing
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I thought of doing that when she ults, it is a magnetic vortex so it would make sense if it also hoovered bullets and you had to shoot her from the side not head on. Might be op tho.
I see you’re looking for an excuse to have more Defense Matrix in your life 
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Neurotically clicking right-click is less rewarding now, my dva onetrick skills transfering to knife kills has been nerfed
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I dunno. I find it more fun getting those juicy axe kills, and getting more self-sustain is a good tradeoff imo. Damage was never her problem, she deals a lot of damage as is. Surviving is her problem. Especially since they made her hitbox bigger.
Yes i love the other changes but it’s not a good tradeoff as those axe changes are only helping her in niche situations at the cost of losing long range snipes. I don’t think she needed to lose long range in order to be stronger at short range. She could have had both.
Oh I’m not referring to the axe changes when I say it’s a good tradeoff. I’m referring to the knife DoT change. Direct hitting with the knife now does overall the same damage (albeit weaker to healer since 30 of it is a DoT now), but the bleed effect from it also stacks on top of the bleed effect from the quick melee and the axe swing, meaning in a duel she can double up on the DoT and self sustain.
Is it enough of a self-sustain change to make her survivable enough? Probably not, especially with the hitbox size increase. But it’s a good start. I think it’s ok for her to be weaker at a longer range because she’s incredibly strong and brawly in close range. There’s other tanks to use for dealing with longer ranged enemies. It’s ok to not be capable at everything.
Now imagine your hundreds of hours of Brigitte and her whipshot skills that transferred over nerfed. I did enjoy getting a kill I didn’t expect on someone like Zen when I throw that knife so I know how you’re feeling.
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Lol, no, it really isn’t. This is precisely why some tanks are utterly unplayable, and some tanks are dominating. It comes down to “you’re not allowed everything”, but it doesn’t apply for the favoured tanks.
…but no tank can do everything. Even Roadhog’s not good at long range fights. He does need some solid nerfing though.
The only bad tank right now is Hammond, and that’s really only because he just rolls around doing his own thing and is pretty easy to hard counter. Doomfist still needs a little adjusting, Junkerqueen needs a little more survivability… then besides Roadhog who needs some serious nerfing I’d consider the rest of the tanks to all be in pretty good spots with their own niche situational advantages.
Absolutely false. All favoured tanks do EVERYTHING. Only tanks out if favour have limitations. Sigma does EVERYTHING. Orisa does EVERYTHING. Roadhog is a TWENTY METER SNIPER.
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Idk reducing her knife’s damage slightly for more axe potential and the bleed heal buff seems like a fair trade.
The Hog rework is coming in a couple weeks, probably with Orisa nerfs too, JQ is better to play now.
I wasn’t too keen on this patch at first but it’s not the worst one they’ve done. I think people were just annoyed that we were lead to believe that this patch would be the Hog rework and Sojourn nerf patch.