love all the tank changes they are all well-needed and we will see if we finally have a queen meta god i hope
echo changes i like but we will have to see if its enough for her to compete with tracer for flanker.
the rat changes are amazing i would like for him to get a 6th shot tho
ana changes are dumb and littarly do nothing to fix the purple problems
baps getting a lot of micro buffs and he might become a huge problem down the road but we will see i like the small buff
kirikos changes we will have to see i think it will only effect higher ranks more then lower ranks for sure
and the life weaver change uis just so weirdly specific
only problem i have is we still have nano blade for the love of god remove nano blade already just remove all damage amps and rush from genji when in ult all of it for every thing
1.JQ got a deserved buff after being left in the dust for 4 seasons
2. Winston buff is ok
3.Wreaking ball nerf is deserved 100%
4.Echo buff is nice to see.Maybe I will see more echos in my games
5.Orisa buff is…strange But eh it’s only a 1 dmg
6.Junkrat buff is ok. It needed something else but ok.
7.Baptiste QoL buff
8.Kiriko the same as bap.
9.Ana . Now as a ana main I say that this nerf is 200000% deserved.She needed a nerf somewhere, anywhere. I would prefer a nerf to anti-heal but this one promotes aggressiveness so it’s my style after all.
10.Shieeeeeeeeeeeee.I forgot about lifeweaver.Here we go…it’s good??The change I mean.The hero is still in a pickle.Yeah.
I’m not thrilled with Bap buffs. Stop making him even stupider and more thoughtless to play. He doesn’t work in 5v5!
Orisa didn’t need a buff and Junkrat didnt need a flat mine damage nerf - they should have just reverted that stupid change they made to begin with and call it done.
I don’t understand why they’re so terrified of making the wrong buff to Weaver. The situation is desperate, your brand new hero is terribly underpowered. Just do something, anything.
Yeah, both this and the previous buff to IF’s threshold make me uneasy. I’m assuming that they don’t like Bap’s win rate below the top ranks, but I’m not convinced that simply buffing IF is the way to go about that; it might even make the problem worse in making Bap better at the top, without helping all that much everywhere else.
I’m glad Orisa got a buff since she doesn’t seem to be doing all that well. Personally I’d prefer giving Orisa a better way of directly protecting her teammates than spin, but we’ll see.
Ball nerfs before Sniper nerfs.
And Lifeweaver still kinda sucks.
And if they are fine nerfing Ana that hard, and are unconcerned about losing players over it. Then that’s the holdup with losing fewer players on Sniper nerfs?
JQ going to be too good now with all of these buffs, all she needed was 130 damage knife back.
Echo ult nerf is just mind boggling.
The following changes increase the flexibility of Echo’s Duplicate ultimate and shift some of its focus away from the allure of building multiple copied ultimates in a single use. This puts more of an emphasis on choosing a Duplicate target based on the hero’s overall utility for a given situation
I take it the devs have not played the character since OW1 because nobody is building multiple copied ultimates in a single use anymore. If you want the ult to be focused on using another character’s base kit, increase the ult duration and the distance you can copy from.
A lot of settings related to hiding the UI and QoL. Personally I wouldn’t turn off anything that hides the numbers such as cancellation durations.
Junker Queen is actually popping off this season which is strange and now she’s getting multiple buffs. That is scary.
Orisa’s +1 damage is okayish.
Winston’s leap impact range makes him even less skillful but why not. I don’t care enough since its already easy to get hits with.
Wrecking Ball’s adaptive shield duration nerf, I can live with 7 seconds still.
Echo ulti CD decrease is pretty big, I don’t mind it.
Ana has less survivability now from 100 to 60. It’s a pretty big nerf tbh.
Baptiste like holy cow… this is a HUGE buff. More frisbees for everyone.
Kiriko has a great QoL change.
Everything else is meh.
I feel they still need to address the issues we currently are having which is being talked about on the forums and subreddit. ahem Snipers, & Lifeweaver,
The Junkerqueen changes seem like they’re a step too far.
Winston’s, Wrecking Ball’s, Kiriko’s, and Lifeweaver’s changes are very marginal.
Ana change is a much bigger nerf than people realize. She’ll be so much easier to dive now that she effectively has 260 health instead of 300 with her nade.
you mean nerfing the most op hero in the game for like 7 years
OP? hardly. She’s one of the few Heroes who can actually counter a tank, and has a direct hard-counter in the style of Kiriko.
ya no shes literary killing the tank role yet again with zen
Doubtful. She can counter tanks, and that counter can be countered. She’s also the target of every Dive character in the game.
Ana is my most played Hero in OW2. As soon as someone realizes that I actually know how to play her, the remainder of the match is “try to avoid the dive”, and so most of the utility is gone because you’re in constant self-preservation mode.
If Blizzard’s goal is to kill off the Support role, they’re well on their way to accomplishing it. It’s already the least picked category by far. Continue to diminish it’s survival ability and watch it tank even further.
You think Que times take a hit now, wait until nobody wants to pick Support anymore.
The ana nerfs are targeting the wrong thing with her kit. The healing is fine, it’s the anti healing that should be looked at. Yes, this makes her weaker but thus isn’t a great way to achieve that.
