Midseason balance patch

General Discussion
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wait did this happen already? i think i remember the devs saying they will nerf the homing on mccee’s grenade a bit and increase mei’s freeze damage plus more other unannounced changes…

wonder if it will be this tuesday or like i said…did that happen already?

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that last patch was a mini one that wasn’t actually the mid-season patch. The midseason patch should come this thursday or tuesday.

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i wonder what the unannounced changes will be. i know sombra wont get her rework for a bit so in relieved on that part but i would be worried about the other heroes i play heh

more damage on mei’s primary sounds worth trying out

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im pretty sure they said in the dev-blog that they will be changing 7 other heroes (maybe). I’m interested on the new torb/sym changes.

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Okay, from the blog:

There are more hero balance changes coming in the mid-season patch, which include shifting power for Torbjorn and Symmetra away from their turrets and into the rest of their kit, improving the control over Sojourn’s Railgun primary fire spread, increasing the front-line capability of Reinhardt and Orisa, slight adjustments to weaken Zenyatta’s Discord Orb ability, and several others.

So here’s my guesses on the balance changes. Watch and marvel as I defy the odds, and I turn out to be utterly wrong on every single count!

  • Torbjorn: turret range dropped from 40 to 30m, cooldown on destroyed turret increased to 15s from 10s. Cooldown on Overload decreased to 8s, currently 10s.
  • Symmetra: damage on sentries decreased by 10, orb damage up to 100 from 90.
  • Sojourn primary spread decreased by 10%.
  • Dunno about Rein, maybe increasing his health by 25 or something?
  • I’m hoping that Spin will provide better protection for the team by increasing its width, but it’ll actually be something like 25 HP as well.
  • I’m hoping that they’ll make Discord less effective on tanks than on squishies, but I’ll guess that they’ll just lower it to 20% damage boost from 25%.
  • Others might include a Hanzo nerf? I imagine that if it happens, it’ll be as impactful as the last one was. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Ram ult cost increase by 10% or so, either.
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that one may be a reality, it seems like hanzo pickrate has skyrocketed recently since i see him A LOT and im in low ranks. still i wonder is he really that good in high ranks? maybe and yea seems like a candidate for another nerf

or a powershift and storm arrow will get deleted for scatter shot again?

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they said their making orisa and rein able to frontline better, their nerfing discord, their powershifting torb and sym from their turrets meaning their nerfing their turrets and buffing the rest of their kits, and more. i think their gonna change mercys movement again (hopefully)

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I expect doomfist bug fixes and doomfist balance changes.

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Hanzo’s pick rate has gone up because Widow is literally worse than a throw pick now.

When there’s only 2 DPS Snipers, and ones utter garbage, that only leaves one other Sniper to play.

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How so? Her nerf literally doesnt affect her at all on most maps. There are a handful of spots now where she cannot 1 shot from.

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And Hanzo’s didn’t affect him at all. You’d almost think the developers are throwing out non-nerfs so they can at least say they are trying to address the problems even if they’re not. Either that or they have no clue what they are doing!

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its tuesday as that is when the summer games stuff finally starts

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It didnt affect him much, only in a couple matchups. Same thing with widow, only in a few spots of maps.

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Probably turret power shift they mentioned, some type of discord change, nerf to Queen’s self heals, full draw movement speed nerfed on hanzo, and Doom bug fixes maybe a damage fall off nerf on Baptiste as well

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They mentioned Orisa buff for survivability but at lower ranks she is unkillable and bullies the other tank relentlessly. If they buff her it’s going to suck even more fun out of tanking at lower ranks. She’s one of the stronger tanks there. I’ll be adding her to my short list of “leave if you see this hero” heroes.

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Mei already got her change with more damage lmao it’s been in the game for like a week and a half

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Orisa should never be the primary focus picking off the healers should always be the priority and then orisa will die on her own

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We’re talking about gold- here. They focus the tank. That’s what they do. They can’t get past the tank to the supports on many maps and just get stuck at the choke because of orisa. The enemy tank gets completely bullied by her consistently and she never dies.

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That’s the issue with low elos, they mostly play in big deathballs so they always try to kill Orisa first instead of focusing the supports. They’ll see kiriko teleport away then decide she is no longer a issue

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Putting turret to 15 seconds seems like too much. I dunno.
Symmetra, maybe her turret damage and turret health will go down, and then her orb damage will go up and her beam ramp will be a little faster.
Sojourn, they said they’re gonna make it so the spread can be reduced faster between shots I think?
For Rein, I think they’ll just increase Rein’s shield health to like 1400 maybe.
Zen’s discord better just be 20% on tanks… he’s not even meta. Whiners be whining, though.

And Lifeweaver need REAL changes, not just number changes.

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