Credit to Baja for finding the summary of Super’s thoughts.
I think its good super shared it, I feel like through opinions of people who impact large portions of the community, they’ll balance it better. But what super said very much proves the CURRENT direction that blizzard devs hasnt fully shown us:
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Massive healing reduction (sounds like mercy is useless that way lol)
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Mei may (ha ha) lost her freeze, but instead deals very high consistent damage with discord. From what I infer it felt like all fights happen close cus of chaos.
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Sombra is as op as we suspected (nice try those who say people just hating on ow2).
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Shared bubbles seems to be all that changed about zarya with now total cd of 20 and not 18 (10 and 8), and as I personally suspected, zarya is bad in 5v5.
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Dva and rein feeling ok is i guess… ok. In tdm aspect dva seems fitting and rein can do decent I guess.
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Zen I thought is gonna be terrible with sombra assassinating him on cd, but Ig discords are still op.
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Ana sleep cd being probably the only cc supports have left is 15 secs, I seriously dont see how supports are gonna self peel.
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Brig bash is basically, idk, useless. It does extra dmg but so little that it doesnt even matter.
Overall seems like supports got MASSIVE nerfs and tanks didnt get nerfed heavily, because tanks are already heavily nerfed by the loss of the second tank. So tanks and supports are probably at half or less of their current power. Dps got huge buffs to the point the teams couldnt play if they were in play.
Offtanks and maintanks seem to have nowhere nearly changed enough to fit as a solo tank, as seen with zarya.
Overall what this shows us is not just the direction the CURRENT balance is taking (yes Im aware it can change, but thats what it is CURRENTLY) but also how early the balance state is, which is worrying considering they set a deadline for OWL, and doesnt seem like OWL players were happy.
This also shows that those who spam “but game isnt out yet” are still just as dumb, because even the balance patches we havent even seen yet are worse than what we already know, or perhaps go on pro player streams and tell them to just wait for the game to come out? Sounds about right.
Besides the early state, the massive tanking and healing nerfs (so much for feeling like a raid boss) and what seems to be like the playtesters are players who have no aim and think that amount of dps is fine, the worst part is that stuff feel WEIRD and CLUNKY as super said. Those are worse than feeling unbalanced, because those make the mechanics feel just wrong regardless of balance, like giving tracer a delay between blinks. And those are feelings that shouldnt be ina game with new engine that is supposed to make the game feel smoother and better.