For anyone who hasn’t seen the patch notes, the DPS passive has been buffed to block 25% of healing for 3 seconds after applying damage.
This change does not effect supports equally.
For supports with a very high base hps and lots of burst healing on cooldown, this debuff will only slow them down.
For supports who DON’T have both of those things… It’s enough to cripple them.
Older healers who use trickle healing can’t afford harsh penalties to their HPS. Their hps is already low enough as it is, that’s the tradeoff they’ve made for having really consistent heals… but consistency stops being valuable when your HPS falls so far below all damage breakpoints that no matter what you do, no matter how hard you triage, your healing abilities no longer hold any sway over the outcome of a fight.
I know that supports like Ana and Kiriko will be fine, even with this passive in effect. But I don’t like playing those heroes. I like playing supports like Mercy and Brigitte, whose in-combat healing is now so pitiful that they may as well be standing in a corner and twerking for all the difference they make.
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Lucio going to be absolutely dominating healing with…
Checks notes
12 hps.
But don’t worry, with the self-healing buff he’ll be absolutely unkillable with his…
Checks notes again
7.5 hps.
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Stop queing support? Nah start playing Zen/Bap/Backline Kiri etc…
Be the DPS menace that the forum DPS players think you are.
Lock in Mercy and whip out the glock.
They totally should make this a dance emote for everyone. Especially Reinhardt. And Roadhog with his back flabs.
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Kiri chads are going to feel this awful change too. Tf you talking about?
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Stop healing and go full DPS.
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dont worry i already feel alot of team 4 is gonna be lookign for new jobs real soon this season is straight up garbage and team 4 shoudl be ashamed of themselves they cater to dang streamers and honestly im reporting people if they promote thier stream channels in the game chat
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What’s a support? We’re DPS players that have self heal now. :^)
Just do damage. Players that can’t use cover won’t get healed over players that do.
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Going full DPS gets boring fast.
I’m just not gonna play Overwatch for a while, and wait for the Moth Meta Classic mode to drop.
I never did like playing Moth Mercy (I’m still bitter over how rez got reworked into a braindead single-target cooldown, they massacred my poor girl…), but at least that era still had plenty of other fun heroes to play. I’m only interested in playing characters who DON’T shove dps-y head-clicking gameplay down my throat.
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The DPS passive is a band-aid that is pretty much just stopping them from individually balancing support healing. If they would overall just tune healing down, they wouldn’t even need it.
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Reminder that the passive only exists because Blizzard were too scared of the predictable support tears so didn’t hard nerf get out of jail free abilities.
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just gonna have to dps more i fear. I’m sure my team will love that!
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OR MAYBE … Just learn to FOCUS FIRE, or kill the support in the back. When a game needs to give you a crutch to kill the other team, you know its a bad game.
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The current balance team is now making the same mistakes that the old one did with support balance: tiptoing around the problem with indirect “workaround solutions” that gimp unrelated heroes in the crossfire and cause more issues than they actually solve.
For frik’s sake, just nerf burst healing (and burst damage, but that’s it’s own kettle of fish). Rework them into slower Heal-over-Time effects if you really need to. It’s been done before, devs! Ana isn’t going to smother you in your sleep if you touch her grenade!
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There is no support in this game that can keep someone alive even with burst healing, if they are FOCUS FIRED on
DPS passive affects both teams… It’s needed because two OW healers can keep teammate alive forever against typical pub attacks. Blizzard can see games with very low elim counts. Healing in OW is absurd.
Thats the point Pub Attacks they dont focus fire. They just shoot what is in front of them. Blizzard need to make a crutch so that people dont really have to think much. Then the forums says that OW is strategic.
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Crutch? No, they are just making the game a little less terrible. Healers should have never been so obnoxious. Dirty Bomb had much better healing balance, despite having remote resurrections and AoE healing stations. Healers were just part of the team, not masters of life and death.
What makes them terrible or obnoxious? Just the fact that you refuse to Focus Fire on someone and kill them … You want to be able to delete them solo?
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Let healers contribute in other ways. I don’t like it when anything I’ve done can be reverted in 500ms, just because I’m not on Widowmaker or something.
Weird, MR doesn’t have a passive healing debuff on all DPS, has 2 mobile support, 2 with CC abilities and one with a vanish + a blind and the support still die pretty easily in that game. 
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