- Mercy
- Guardian Angel
- Active duration on jump and crouch bonus movement cancelation reduced from 1.5 to 1 second
- Sympathetic Recovery
- Health recovered from healing dealt increased from 25% to 40%
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Honestly they can get rid of sympathetic healing for all i care, i only want that movement buff to be real
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oh for sure its real, its same patch as leaked yesterday with 250 hp
4 content creator allready hinted hp change even before patch are leaked
either they work together to TROLL EVERYONE or simply its real patch
That’s wild honestly, though i am more excited for the movement revert than for the extra health, hp regen, and bullet size increase
They could’ve just done the movement revert and i think I’d be satisfied
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I predicted global hp buffs. They said they willd evalue burst healing and damage… This was the only way for them to do ir
Yess finally GA is back to 1.5 sec CD where it belongs 
All this does is keep her self healing the same as it is now.
The support passive just got nerfed to take longer to kick in to 2.5 seconds (reminder her regen was 1 sec in OW1), and her healing is always gonna be reduced because of the new DPS passive so this change makes it so she still gets decent self healing.
It also further pushes Mercy in the direction where you get more value from flying around healing and less hiding behind stuff
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oh yeah i forgot about that new dps passive
make sense
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Not only that, but it fixes a lot of other problems such as one shots. Kiriko or Hanzo damage is not so much of a problem anymore, while giving people more time in the fight.
Not to mention that a lot of people asked for a HP increase for all heroes, because the HP was the only thing that is still on “launch OW1 levels”, while everything has gone up.
I just fear that Moira will be useless, without a damage buff.
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She got one! 
"
Moira
– Biotic Grasp –
Secondary fire damage increased from 50 to 65 damage per second
Secondary fire target acquisition radius increased from 0.6 to 0.7 meters
"
From the new patch notes leak ^
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This patch will be fire (and the forum will hate it, but I dont care)! Cant wait for the next season. 
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I just can’t believe that for the first time in a YEAR Mercy’s GA CD will be back to what it was for the first 6 years of the game…oh how I have missed my hero feeling fluid 
And Im def excited to see how OW plays with a slower TTK in 5v5!
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Is it just me who noticed that there is no mention of the self-healing passive on dps and tanks mentioned in the devs blog? or that the health balance is too generalist?
Frankly, before I worry about what the developers are up to, think first of all that we are talking about previews of the second hacked mode (the quicker play one, remember?) which must arrive before the end of season 8. 
of which the only sensible preview to note is the weekend test on the soft rework on pharah.
its mentioned
its 20 hps after 5 sec for all heroes
support passive is now half the duration so its 2.5 (nerfed from 2 sec on live)
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I mean, Mercy kind of needs this buff with cauterize now being the DPS passive (reduce/stop healing when hitting enemies). We can only hope that the cauterize effect is only 0.25 seconds or has a 50% healing reduction. Otherwise, it would destroy Mercys complete playstyle.
Seems fair.
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I actually read another mod with this statement. from dexerto article: https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/overwatch-2-season-9-everything-we-know-2502568/
- Reload speed bonus on elim removed
- [NEW] Role Passive: Dealing damage reduces healing received by 20% for 2 seconds
and for all heroes
- The total Hero health pool for all heroes, including health, armor, and shields, are increased from around 15% to 20%.
- All hero ultimate costs are increased by 10%.
I can’t find this note you mention, except the one about supports. 
Valk will be unkillable tho
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/1addd4k/season_9_leaked_patch_notes/?rdt=45259
its before the tank changes
dps passive is:
20% healing reduction for 2 sec for every target they hit
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oh ok, I read it. It probably wasn’t transcribed in the article I read.
in any case, I find this global increase in health really strange considering that it greatly upsets the delicate balance of some historical heroes (such as Tracer).
Tell me if you can’t link it, but do you have the updated notes to hand? As far as individual support changes I only saw the version with the Kiriko kunai size nerf and the Lucio adjustments.
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tracer will be far weaker
she easier to hit
she only got 25 extra hp
her gun vs 250 target will be just like 5 damage bullet at 200 hp
even at 5.5 she kinda bad, imagine 5 damage