PTR massive changes

Competitive Discussion
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Just seen the PTR tank nerfs…

Rein shield to 1600
Orisa shield to 600
Sigma shield to 900

On upside, Orisa fortify on 8 second cool down. Down from 10.
Orisa now 200 hp, 250 armour.
Orisa faster when firing.
Sigma grasp shorter cool down. Gives more shields.
Rein moves faster with shield up.
Rein anti cc passive up from 30 to 50%
Armour reverted back to 5 damage resist.

DVA DM cool down reduced from 2 to 1.5.

Going to be interesting…

Also Moira heals down from 80 to 65.

Widow grapple nerf to 12 seconds.

Torb buff 12 to 10 second overload cool down.

Genji gets more ammo.

Zarya blast bigger and now costs 20 ammo. (From 25).

Trialing ability to play other modes whilst comp queuing.

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Doomfist - no changes.

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He’s fine.

People just gotta git gud. :,-)

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Doomfist was meta to bypass shields. Since shields are very weak, other DPS picks are more viable. Also, Brig is strong now.

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Don’t you just LOVE the fact that Orisa’s huge barrier has now the same amount of HP that Brigitte’s personal little barrier used to have? It’s hilarious and I love it! Down with barriers :grin:

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Makes me glad that I’m starting to pick up Rein. He’s a lot more challenging and fun to play than Orisa.

And I’m also picking up Hog and Zarya. Bronze tier with them, but I’ll improve.

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wtf?! no Bastion nerf in addition to all this? So now Bastion can melt shields faster, Moira heals less but Bastion still just obliterating away?!

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Its just annoying that they make us wait 2 weeks before we get the changes in comp. Just give them to us now, its not like they ever change anything from the ptr version, anyway

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Weaker shields means better chance of dealing with him before his teams shields recharge.

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I can’t believe they’re lowering Reins shields. It’s shredded in 3secs anyways. Why bother even using it at that point. Flash city here we come.

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You ALL thought I was crazy.

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Because part of why he’s strong is damage through barriers. Pretty much ALL of the DPS besides him got a relative buff in this patch so he doesn’t really need a nerf. I hate Doom as much as the next person but I’m trying to be reasonable.

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I’m so excited for the Zarya patch. That sounds like a GAME CHANGER - instant boost to Ult combo damage and poke game.

I am a little worried about how Widow and Pharah are both going to have a much easier time with the shield nerfs.

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Great changes. I especially loved the speed buff for Rein. As much as I hate shields, I gotta say that Orisa should get her shield cd nerf reverted.

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I am still missing hanzo nerfs. He is still too strong. I miss old hanzo who was more about skill and less about dmg spam.

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Nope nope nope nope nope.

Doom isn’t meta because of shields, he’s meta because he’s straight up OP. The difference in relative output between Doom and other DPS drops significantly, and things end there. That difference will remain vast, causing Doom to continue to outclass others by massive margins.

All this will do is feed the delusion that alternatives can pull the value that Doom/Snipers can: Hopeful people will pick something else thinking they can match his output, and they will fail miserably. That’s all we get: We’ll deal with him a bit less due to his PR dropping. It’s something :man_shrugging:

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now winston has a stronger shield then orisa… wtf is wrong with blizz

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It’s a bad time to be a Sigma main.

His barrier gets destroyed super quick as is, so Blizz’s answer is to reduce it’s health.

Sigh.

Remind me again why I’m playing this game?

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No tank main misses scatter arrow.

There was no skill involved with that at all.

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Expecting to one trick the same char forever is unrealistic. Nerfs have to be applied to change the meta without creating power creep