IMO they messed up balancing more than improved it.
For example the dps role passives, are only effective and is only an improvement to curtain dps heroes while being irrelevant to others.
They shouldve looked at passives more and did more of a “hero passive” ability instead of role passives.
Okay what would Hanzo’s be? The reload passive is useless on him.
Eagle Eye
Revealed enemies have their location revealed longer for Hanzo.
It works because it’s one of his abilities and extends for other hero combinations present and future.
Does Hanzo really need more wallhacks tho
It’s not like he has anything else going for him.
Besides a few number changes, he’s relatively fine: he just needs a further established concept.
The problem with passives is that DPS don’t need a passive. Tanks and supports got passives to help deal with problems 5v5 created.
The game would be even more of an absolute nightmare if supports didn’t get a health regen trait.
Yup.
Role specific passives suck.
What is balanced on one hero, is too strong on another, and does nothing for another.
I dont know why they decided to go with it. Theres no way it didnt occur to them.
Thats also true.
I sure love the extra reload speed as hanzo. It’s SO FUN!
But yes, hero passives is standard in games like these. Role passive makes no sense. Same role heroes have nothing in common except a general purpose.
The support passive makes sense. They should all have it. There’s one less tank and there’s very little CC in the game.
Lets not pretend there isnt a whole lot of DPS heroes that were hurt by 5v5 either.
Sure, Sojourn and Tracer dont need one. In fact the current passive is too strong on Tracer.
But yes, a DPS role passive exists purely because popular DPS players got pissy that tanks and supports were getting something and they werent. And the DPS heroes hurt by 5v5 actually should get individually buffed and not a passive.
He needs his old arrow speed back.
They should have just made reload speed include bow draw speed and scoped charge speed. Easy solution. Hell for all I know this is already the case. I don’t play Hanzo or Widow. 