As the title says. Now that Mauga is with us, and i’ve taken the time to test him out along with the Reinhardt matchup, our poor hammer man is severely outclassed by the sheer damage and power creep involved. Fighting Orisa may have been difficult, but you can barely even get a swing in on Mauga before you’re shredded. Reinhardt’s damage just isn’t enough to keep up at this particular moment and it saddens me that this fan favourite tank seems to get constantly disrespected by the game balance.
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well his hammer damage is fine, that doesn’t need to be touched. but he does need some touch up’s. giving him back damage on charge like from 225 to 250-300 and giving him back some armor like instead of the current 350/250 health/armor split, and making it like 300/300.
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the buffs to mauga are likely gonna be reverted real fast i bet this mess will be costing some of the balance team there jobs
I’d agree to something like that. I wonder if a slight buff to his swing speed may also help him compete with the high dps of other tanks. Or perhaps making his barrier a little stronger to help mitigate the incoming hail of bullets…
the armor would help solidify his role as a tank, as tanks soak up damage. swing speed buff could be a nice QoL buff, so possibly. but if we were to buff his shield, then it’s probably gonna have to be only at the 1500 health threshold
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Or it will earn them a raise as BP sales are going to be up even with this one being the lamest yet.
Yeah I would never say revert to OW1 barrier health, but a little more might be nice to soak up firepower for longer than .5 seconds…
honestly im not even impressed with the battle pass i got the premium because of some kiriko and mercy stuff even though i dont tihnk i can play support again
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Gonna be unironically using the Cardboard Rein skin until this nonsense is fixed, to be honest…
They need to buff his shield it goes down in seconds.
Another idea is having the ability to shield while charging in
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That’s a neat idea. Alternatively he could at least have damage reduction during charge. I mean if Mauga gets to have his unstoppable charge…
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Honestly, Rein isn’t at the top of the list of tanks who likely need some love.
I’d put Ball ahead of him, and D.va too. D.va mostly because you are only allowed to play her for five minutes at a time before the enemy tank picks Zarya and you’re basically screwed.
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Well, as I mostly play Rein whenever I play Tank, perhaps I have some bias here. But you’re certainly not wrong.
I’d say D.va’s output is fine as it is, but her Mech’s survivabilty without Def. Matrix needs looking at in my opinion. Sometimes it feels like it’s made of paper.
As for Ball, he and Doomfist fall under the same sort of tier for me. Either they’re godlike, or it’s a throw pick. There’s not really much of an inbetween. Both of them needs some major adjustments to feel like proper tanks in this 5v5 matchup. Roadhog was in a similar spot until recently, so lets hope Blizz makes some smarter decisions.
Nah they intentionally release Mauga aka new heroes super duper OP so they sell more on the battlepass. Then nerf them once BP is over.
I think they learned their lesson pretty hard with Lifeweaver launch, that was probably their least profitable BP i’m guessing.
I feel like Rein should probably have the most armour in the game. Like 3/4 armour 1/4 HP.
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I think between Illari and Mauga, that definitely seems to be the pattern they’re going for to some degree. But Mauga already felt pretty strong in his test run so these buffs of his feel really unnecessary. Hopefully he’ll get dialled back by the time they release him into the Comp scene, or that’s gonna be a real hard time.
I would like to see them experiment with Rein having more HP. It still boggles the mind that one of the only fully armoured characters in the game still has less health than dudes that are literally shirtless. Or just extremely overweight. Rein with his Shield and Armour should feel like punching through a brick wall…
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Rein first of all needs to have his charge damage reverted, not being able to kill his main ground dps counters (mei and reaper) with one charge is just damn retarded, i dont know what the blizz guys are smoking, but it’s either mei or reaper.
other than that, i think a TINY (really TINY) movement boost would fix that. otherwise Rein is just an absolute pain right now.
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You, my friend (in b4), are absolutely correct.
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they wont fire the single person who never even played OW but is theorycrafting in their basement, lol.
Yeah I totally agree. Pins not killing characters that it should has become rather frustrating as of late, and makes taking that risk in the first place feel fruitless. Rein is a Tank that never needs nerfing in my opinion, but nor does he need extravagant buffs. But to keep up with Mauga right now he needs something, because that matchup feels pretty much impossible at present.
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he likelywill get reverted by the time the christmas dlc comes as otherise this game will be dead before the end of the battle pass…mauga in his current state is extremely op like 35k damage some was reporting when playing him that is complete freaking overkill
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