I mean, I get it, but lemme put it this way:
All through the shield patch I was giving my opinions but HEAVILY stressing that we should all wait and see.
The Shield Patch has ended up being great for me, not entirely perfect, but pretty dang great.
I just don’t think its a good look being “but why tho?” Immediately after getting the news.
Tracer’s Blink is three seconds, now D.va’s might be too. Try testing out how the change would feel in a custom game against bots and stuff. Practice the routines, try some new stuff.
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This is kinda off topic minus the kinda but do you want to join the Winky Face Discord?
It’s not. I’m just spitballing.
I’m fully always down to try and see on the PTR–I’ve given that caveat in prior theorycrafting posts of D.Va buffs.
I forgot that disclaimer because I was, as you can expect, in a rush (and also in a WoW BG lol). So that’s my apologies.
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Does anyone know when the next ptr update is?
My game theory is Wednesday or Thursday, honestly. Leaning more towards Thursday just based off of the verbiage Josh gave about it tho… I’d hope not any longer than that.
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I mean.
I’m gonna give it a shot–I think I’m moderately less skeptical than my post might make it seem.
But D.Va’s mobility isn’t getting her picked over Sigma at all ever as it stands. Because Sigma doesn’t need mobility to outdo her. So idk.
Maybe they tried faster walking speed, then thought faster booster would be more fun.
Also the near constant boosters combos well with Hammond.
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Yeah some people said the same with last buff. I learned from that error.
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Guilty of saying that with the DM CD buff but not the recharge rate buff
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Oh god so it’s not gonna be just the frikken hamster booping you constantly, it’s going to be dva in the mix too. Because hamster booping you around constantly wasn’t bad enough. Toss a doomfist in there too for maximum fun times.
I swear to god why does this balance team want MORE GODFORSAKEN CC?
I knew it was useless the moment I read it. I was entirely correct. =p
But man blizzard is actually making her boop far more often too. I’d rather pilot a mech and not an annoying boop bot. More boops makes this game even worse to play.
The one thing this game doesn’t need is more boops. Come on…
more mobility means more running away, instead of tanking
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Hey, this makes nabbing hp packs easier too, right? Like, a lot easier.
i think this actually might work, depending on how if they nerf the problem heroes for her like reaper, hanzo, mei. if they give them a light and clever nerf like this clever buff, this could actually be just what she needs.
she may still need a bit of durability, but at least she’ll be at the pace of the new game. so good flying, good dm usage (aided by more flying making up for distance lost in previous nerf), good tracking of your primary when in someone’s mouth, you could really stretch a buff like this tbh.
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I got a couple minutes, but I’m in bed 
I suspect I’ll be yoinked for WoW Arenas but I’ll feel some of it out.
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mei/reaper will still invalidate her + double shields is still better than her
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For those of us who are curious but don’t pay much attention to Dva, what exactly are these changes?
As an aside, if Dva becomes zuper zippitty, I don’t think her having super knockback powers is gonna go down well…
He means dva being knocked around like ping pong ball, not dva herself having knockback powers.
At best, dva will become a pest and annoyance people just want gone, but spamming boosters isn’t gonna inherently do anything to help her survive a lot or kill things. But booping people every 3 seconds alongside other boopers like ball and doomfist may make them go crazy.
I’d rather have a useful dva than just annoying dva though. We got enough annoyances in this game.
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Alleged booster cooldown reduction up to a 3 second cooldown.