Holy hell, those patchnotes

If you haven’t read them, you should read them.
There is a lot of very big changes.

Tanks get pretty major buffs.

DPS is a real mixed bag

generally healing nerfs? I’ll have to have a closer look.

But seriously, lots and lots of very meaty changes here.

It is REAL weird that regular play and PvE play are seriously different balancing points.

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Yea, every support in the patchnotes except Lucio and Lifeweaver got nerfed. Mercy’s is meaningless, Ana’s is a revert with compensation, so really just Kiri and Brig are getting nerfed in a way that you’ll maybe notice.

Rip Kiri’s 3x crits 2022-2023, gone but never forgotten.

I think they’re trying to force a meta shake-up personally. Buffs to Dive tanks, nerfs to more Brawl/Poke tanks, buffs to Lucio, nerfs to Brig ect.

What healing nerfs? There are support changes, but I haven;t seen any HEALING nerfs

I mean, specifically nerfs to Healing.

There have been changes to Supports (like Kiriko’s weapon), but it looks like healing in general is going down (except for LW?)

Wait, I got that wrong… I saw the Ana change, and was like… Oh they are dropping healing overall.

Nope, you are right, it is only Ana, and it was to both healing and damage.

Oh, you’re right. Ana got her healing per shot slightly nerfed and Kiri’s “healing” also got nerfed. But those are such small changes I really didn’t pay much attention to them. Especially Kirko’s “nerf” because she can actually heal more than before in certain situations

I quite like this change to be honest.

I am bracing myself for the Genji mains wanting the PvE changes to hit live. I know there have been Mei threads about the same thing.

The Bastion changes though… oh boy they do look like fun.

I would say Kiriko’s changes are probably a net buff, but debatable.

The HS multiplier didn’t really matter much and didnt change any break points on squishies (except Tracer, forgot about that :)). It traded -7.5 HS damage for +5 BS damage and faster fire rate.

Suzu got slightly worse but is also situationally better (70 healing instead of 50 on any target that gets cleansed).

Ya I like the Kiriko heal change but despise the kunai change. It destroys a break point for Tracer that was the reason I played her so much when facing Tracers. She used to be able to head shot punch kill a tracer before she could recall.

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Ah. Yeah, that would do it :slight_smile:

That is really the only change in general I got annoyed with the rest is all good. Nerfs where they need to be. Buffs on LW a little scary though.

One of the biggest buffs to them isn’t under their patch note, but Sombra’s

Tree can’t be EMPed anymore.

Yeah, Tracer didn’t need an indirect buff against Kiriko… that’s rough.

Yea, I think the only real noticeable part was gonna be the crit multiplier going down, but better bodyshot damage will probably be a decent buff for lower rank Kiriko. Faster fire rate is always good.

Shinkie is right though, HS + Melee going away vs Tracer is a thing.

Tracer getting two Ws vs Supps this patch, Ana and Kiri can both no longer two tap her.
Well, Kiri still can but she’s gotta fire twice now and 1 still needs to HS.

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