and not recognize the fact that Sojourn is still COMPLETELY broken?
All 9,500 employees at Blizzard are all on the balance team 
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Fun fact, blizzard has a QA team
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They don’t want to upset the people who enjoy playing him-she gets nerfed then you get some nutjobs out there taking it waaaaay too far in the abuse. They get a backlash from her being broken AF, then she gets nerfed-even bigger backlash. Have you seen the abuse they get on social media? Some of it is pretty horrific.
Yeah they screwed up, but my god some people go waaaaaay too far. This is what happens sadly when some of the higher ups become the yes men to the scumbags in the suits and release a game that’s not been properly developed.
And this is why the PTR needs to come back.
No but the team in it’s current form should be jettisoned or reassigned to other roles.
Not deleting this. They can ban me first. The dev team has no idea what they’re doing. It may be because they’re in over their head. But how do we get THIS FAR into season 2 and Soj still has an across-the-map-1shot? They’re braindead.
“Rail Gun is too powerful”
Blizzard: proceeds to nerf every other ability Sojourn has
Revert all her nerfs and make Railgun do 130 damage, without allowing a headshot multiplier, and she’d be perfect. I do not understand how you sidestep an issue THAT hard. I did not care that her E slowed, or that her power slide gave good mobility, I just didn’t want to get one-shot.
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For real. In both the casual AND professional scenes she is DOMINATING because of her ridiculous ability to one-shot right-click across the map. I can only assume the reason that they nerfed every ability BESIDES her one-shot is that they are completely underqualified for their positions.
I think they will come out with a pretty good fix for the character eventually.
But their main problem is that they aren’t giving us placeholder balance changes in the meantime.
Brute force solve the problem now, and fix it “The elegant way” later.
3 months was not enough to change the numbers of the character. They must be “working” a lot.
Well that’s what I’m saying though. If they wanna take 5 months to find the perfect fix. Go for it.
But give us the “Good enough for now” fix as soon as possible. Which now could literally be within a single day of identifying the problem, due to the hotfix system.
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There was actually an article somewhere talking about Sojourn’s development where they kind of stated they want her to always remain relevant because she’s a “first of a kind” character, or something like that.
So… they may recognize that she’s really, really strong. They just may not have any desire to do anything about it.
She’s not as broken as release, she’s easily accessible. Every hero should strive to be as accessible as her and Moira…
the most I would do for her is make her m2 do the amount of damage charged, i.e; if the charge says 90 she should do only 90 damage.
That would explain the poor decisions. Too many cooks in the kitchen.
And still does 195 dmg like wtf
Well idk too much about the second half of that sentence, but If someone would like to become a Blizzard Developer all it takes is a little sexual harassment.
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I feel like Mercy’s damage boost is a big part of the problem.
I’m sick of playing against the Soj-Mercy duo and then a Hog (or Orisa) as a tank to top it all off.
Yes, Sojourn is still an issue by herself but Mercy’s blue beam should disappear from the game. It would solve the Pharmercy problem too and Pharah could get some minor buffs.
You’re right but the irony of a Hog icon saying this can’t be ignored.
Haha, that’s exactly what I thought. In order to join Blizzard you have to have a little bit of a sexual harassment history, otherwise there’s not much of a chance I’m afraid…
QA doesn’t deal with balance. QA’s purpose is finding bugs. Not to mention even the QA is outsourced.