New PTR patch nerfed Reaper, not buffed him

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No it isn’t? He’s not getting more pellets per shot. If you’re very close and can aim, you get the same amount of damage pre-patch. If you’re further away and can aim, you get LESS damage.

The patched moved a bunch of the pellets towards the outer ring, not towards the center.

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He should be fighting in close range, but the problem is most people think melee range is only considered close range. Reaper should still be consistently effective up to 9 metres. Tracer’s effective range is around 13 metres, and she’s a close range fighter.

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Meanwhile Tracer has thrice the range and the same damage.

Its a nerf, unless you are face-to-face point blank. but good luck hitting anything there.

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Yes exactly. What I’m worried about is that Blizzard’s mentality is “well Reaper is so strong when he does get closer than 9 meters, why worry about what happens AT 9 meters”

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Yeah. But he’s the exactly just as effective at point blank range as he is now. This PTR patch just makes him more consistent at close/medium range. At point blank range it changes almost nothing.

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Consistently weaker at close/medium range… Number of pellets stayed the same and more of them are now shot on the outer ring of spread. It means the further you are, the less pellets will hit for sure. It might even negate his leech buff, because it depends on how much dmg you make…

All in all when it comes to this reaper “buff” blizz just seems incompetent when it comes to understanding what is the definition of “buff” and what are the problems reaper is having as a playable character.

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Exactly my thoughts. Thank you for portraying it so clearly.
This is going to hurt an already low tier character. I’m not sure why they didn’t just give hima fixed spread and very slightly lowered his spread as a whole. Why did they give Torb and Doom fixed spreads, but not Reaper and Hog. Color me confused

New reaper voiceline confirmed: “sadness consumes me”

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Im really happy if doomfist and reaper get a nerf.

Doomfist because he is the worst experience to play against

And reaper because he is on almost all matchs on gold to low diamond on my Server SA.

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Reaper is kinda consistent now, but became somehow worse… I don’t know, what should people do to fix him.
Fixed spread pattern for Hog and Reaper pls?

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yeah this is the sick idea of blizzard of “buffing” low tier characters, and to anyone who say its a buff, please at least have 10+ hours on reaper to know how the character it works before ensuring this is a buff, people like me who like play reaper a lot knows this is a massive nerf, basically now 40-50% of our pellets miss yet when we are aiming perfectly, already tested this in PTR on bots, before this “buff” i can kill a bot staying around of 3 mts aiming to the head, now he survive with 15-20% of its health… and its worse each meter, this is a sick joke calling it a buff

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It’s a straight nerf there’s a video someone linked here before showing how it works on PTR, it got worse.

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We’ve changed the spread pattern and adjusted the distribution of the bullets. This will go to PTR with the next update. All of the changes to Reaper were done with the intention of making him more reliable. None were intended as nerfs.

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:question: Maybe I’ll be Tracer :stuck_out_tongue::dash::mantelpiece_clock:️
:exclamation: I’m already Tracer :rainbow_flag::couplekiss_woman_woman:
:grey_question: What about Widowmaker :purple_heart::spider:️
:grey_exclamation: I’m already Widowmaker :spider_web:️
:ok_hand:t6::100:I’ll be Bastion :robot:
:no_entry_sign: N͘͞E͞͠R̷͘F͟ ͞͠BAS̢͞Ţ͢IO̢N͟҉҉ :coffin:️
🤷 You’re right; so, Winston :monkey_face::+1:t6:
:banana: I wanna be Winston :monkey:
:dagger:️ I guess I’ll be Genji :cat:‍:bust_in_silhouette:
:smirk: I’m already Genji :bust_in_silhouette:
:skull: Then I’ll be McCree :cowboy_hat_face::ok_hand:
:gun: I already chose McCree :clock12::skull_and_crossbones:️
:raised_hand: I have an idea :raising_hand_woman:
:question: What’s your idea? :thinking:
:raised_hands: You should be— :innocent::foot:
:no_good_woman: Mercy? Ok. :sparkles:

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nice

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Nice thanks for the fast response and fix!

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I knew the Devs weren’t trying to nerf him. Cheers Jeff.

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thanks for address this, we reaper mains feared this change gonna go live and totally ruin the character to us despite some people defending the nerf. thanks daddy jeff.

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Can you explain to us what was that Mercy “buff”? Because it will not do anything to help her, and while Ana is dominating, I don’t think its because she is OP, but because the other two main healers are mediocre.

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Thank you! For both listening and caring about the quality of your game. It’s appreciated, even when it may not seem like it

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I knew it, it happens again.

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