Itll be useless to the majority of you all!! Wooo! You still arent that good at aiming, you are still moving, the enemy is still moving, and spread is still the same! Unless dive tanks are viable again. Then its a huge buff. But please discuss if and where im wrong.
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It’s a small buff in my opinion. The biggest impact is just the psychological effect that will encourage people to play Tracer more. The real Tracer buff in this patch is actually the Winston buff. 
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I do have a hard time calling a 30% increase small. However I get what you are saying.
Its gonna be great against Reaper, Brigitte, and Reinhardt; and I think it’ll help Tracers play more safely.
Its a good, solid buff, nothing to sneeze at.
(But then again, I almost lost it over Hog getting one more shot in his magazine so don’t mind me XD)
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Can’t wait for people to start crying over how “op” Tracer is, when the real reason they cry is because they can’t hit her.
As I wrote here already - this buff is meaningless and against the character identity. I don’t like it. Tracer is not Soldier 
This “30%” floating around is a massive misconception. It’s not a 30% increase to her damage at any location. It’s not a 30% reduction in her spread. It’s merely a 30% increase to the distance at which her damage begins to decrease.
To put it very simply… PTR Tracer at 13m still does less damage than live Tracer at 10m against an average-sized squishy hitbox. This is due to bullet spread, which will always be a far more significant issue for Tracer than falloff. Falloff may now start at 13m, but spread still starts at 0m.
The Tracer buff is only effective against large hitboxes and only relevant if Tracer chooses to shoot from further away than she normally would.
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Remember when people said Tracer wasn’t a problem, and then they introduced Brig, who only countered her because she also countered everyone else?
Yeah, these same people think this change is meaningless…
The people who said Tracer is a problem aren’t the same people who championed for a character like Brig to exist. That would be the people(like you I’m guessing) that endlessly whined that Tracer was a problem when in reality she wasn’t.
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But there are stuff that Tracer has to shoot further away from and those things will be taking either more damage or will have a much harder time finding a punishable mistake.
Brigitte in particular comes to mind. Which makes me want some of her bash damage even more since the only reason it lost 90% of it’s damage is Tracer.
Symmetra and Pharah are others.
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Which is good, since Tracer is a garbage character. She needed the buff.
All of these arguments against the buff endlessly ignore that she needed something. You guys just don’t want to see her viable.
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I’d like to see her viable. I just think she needed Winston and D.va to be good. I don’t know if it’s too strong or not yet because I haven’t seen her it in action or in a meta that’s supposed to favor Tracer.
Right but a PTR Tracer at 13m does more than a Live Tracer at 13m.
It’s like saying a Widow in scope does more damage per bullet than a Widow with no scope.
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Why specifically her though? Why are we scared of her more than any other hero? Answer me that.
Pharah is a good example, since Tracer often lacks the option to shoot from any closer than Pharah allows.
I’ve never felt compelled to keep my distance from Brig or Sym though. The closer the better actually, because you want to reduce your TTK by mitigating the impact of bullet spread.
I’m skeptical from the endless complaints and brow furrowing.
Characters with the lowest winrates of the game don’t need to be relying on other characters to be viable. To say that Tracer shoul only be able to perform when Winston/Dva are in play is nonsensical.
Because people who lack aim at the lower ranks think that mobile heroes were the devil back in the day. Even if those mobile characters were largely ineffective(shown concretely through winrate) people who have a hard time hitting any character are going to hate mobile ones even more.
The game has changed since then, Moira, Brig, Bap, the threats from power creeped DPS and burst healing render a lot of Tracer/Genji “scariness” moot. Back in the day if you were in plat or lower you absolutely had zero right to complain about Tracer because low ranked Tracers were annoying but not winning. In 2019 thinking she’s the devil just shows you lack confidence in your own skills. You can’t miss with Moira, Brig armor is still going to screw her over.
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Except I said specifically her. Not high mobility heroes, her. I don’t have a problem with mobility, just her. Explain that.
I’m not going to explain your reasoning or irrational fears. I’m just telling you it’s not justified. It wasn’t justified back then and it’s surely not justified now with the new characters and changes to the game.
It’s still a piddly low amount of damage.
Because you seem to have this idea that all Tracer haters need to “git gud”, when she is the only problem to them, no one else. I have no problem with Genji, but I do with Tracer. Aren’t you even a little bit curious as to why?