Season 9 DPS and Tank passives. What are we getting?

[GreyFalcon-11737]

@Jígglypuff-1218

Let’s think what we can expect from these changes

Well how about this:

@GreyFalcon-11737

Tank/DPS regen:

• 5 sec activation
• Heals 20% of max health (maximum 5 sec)
• However that 20% is split up in to 5% pieces.
• 5% for each 1x teammate within 20m range (through walls)

@GreyFalcon-11737

• Everybody gets regen, but with limitations, and overall midcombat bulk heals are reduced by some large fraction.
• -Problem: Generally, “make sure compositions don’t get too durable” is your upper limit for most things. And will all the heal spam flying around, it’s hard to avoid too much of it at high ELO, without making lower ELOs feel like there’s not enough healing.
• -Solution: Here’s how you could solve the “there’s too much healing”, while generally making everybody happier and less ragey aggro about it.
• Reduce big heals by 20%-ish. Hero specific, not a one-size fits all. Probably leave Supports that do 55hps or lower alone.
• Increase healing speed on teammates, where the teammate hasn’t received damage for 5sec, by 50%. (i.e. Team Fortress 2 “Crit Heals”)
• Here’s the tricky part. It takes 5 seconds of not taking damage for this TankDPS Regen Passive to kick in. And it heals 20% of the Hero’s MaxHP per second. So in 10 seconds, they are back to full.
• However the catch, is that benefit is split into 4 pieces.
• Each teammate you are nearby (within 20m range, through walls), give you 5% of that 20% regen speed.
• -Result: You’ve gained a ton of room away from the top end of “Too much durability” and “Teamfights last too long”. But in a way that most people will be happier with. Also it makes the game way more accessible to people coming from other FPS games, or games similar to Overwatch where this is a standard feature. Healing isn’t much fun, if there’s no danger. It’s just tedious boring downtime for everybody. So cut down on the mid-combat heals, and pump up on the out-of-combat heals.
• -I’m basically just ripping a mechanic out of DarkTide called their Coherency system. It works really well. But also Paladins and Gundam Evolution both had this.
• -Oh and one more result. Supports, with more “free time” get to actually participate more in the fun parts of the game. Imagine that.