They did it with Mercy. Which is the main reason I’ve always thought the rework was a mistake.
It taught people “Hey, if we complain hard enough, Blizz will get rid of it.”
I don’t see many if any complaining with ana so the damand isn’t there, she’s barely mentioned and when she is it’s usually someone who mains mercy and has to do with their agenda and not ana’s balance.
Most of the ana posts seem to be a mercy agenda driven post in disguise.
Not sure what that has to do with what I said.
I’m just saying the outcry doesn’t seem to be there and the nerf ana posts are pretty much just mercy posts themselves.
Also i don’t think they’re going to do a mercy rework 2.0 after what happened the first time so i feel like ana’s future is secure.
but mercy mains are the ones coming for ana…
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If you’re going to claim this is pervasive throughout the forums you could at least cite some threads.
This is literally all anecdotal hearsay likely perpetuated by confirmation bias.
I’ve seen the same amount of “ana op” “nerf ana” threads since season 3.
The burden is on you to show us all of these threads popping up right?
Yeah, okay.
But that still has NOTHING to do with what I said.
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Whoever’s the hero in the top spot, they will be hated by all except the ones who play them.
The rework was a mistake, a big one.
This is what i was responding to, they’re barely complaining let alone hard enough so i don’t think ana is going to be changed, the amount of people who complain about ana is very few, it’s like seeing a post where someone is saying d.va is op in terms of how often they appear.
My post wasn’t restricted to only Ana, or any current complaining that may or may not exist.
It applies to EVERYTHING on this forum. How many threads have we seen saying “Everyone hates Brig, how come Blizz hasn’t nerfed/deleted her yet?”
As I said: the Mercy rework taught people that if they complain enough, Blizzard will give them what they want.
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it was considered OP prior to Ana’s major nerfs. Now that she’s viable, it’s back on the radar because it’s seen in game.
OWL players are asking after a lower amount of HP gained.
Nade was the problem child they never nerfed during Triple tank-- and I say that as an avid defender of Ana during that time.
This has been an issue with many players of many different SRs.
It’s just more harshly pronounced because the sweeping support changes shifted the power out of one support and among the other two-- and dive is weak now due to Brigitte so that Moira’s mobility is not necessary.
Same thing happened to the Damage Boost + Graviton + Dragons combo. It’s existed in the game for a long time, but people only noticed how broken it was after Hanzo and Zarya became viable again.
Basically. These abilities weren’t called ‘OP’ because no one ever saw them used. Now that they’re actively in games again, it jolts their memories.
Regardless-- just like Rez, the devs avoided nerfing the nade as much as possible while nerfing other parts of Ana’s kit. I don’t know if they’ll tackle nade or not this time around…
My guess is that if Ana does get nerfed, it will be to the bonus HP on nano-- to either 150 or 200 HP. The only think I ask is that anti-heal doesn’t get removed. It’s one of my favorite things.
I just assumed you were talking about ana because this post is ana related, sorry😅
And yes, people are a bunch of whiny brats at times, i think blizzard needs to grow a backbone when it comes to things like this.
Brigitte has a very specific problem, she’s too easy to learn but if they nerf her then she’ll be useless in higher ranks because of that same limited skill ceiling.
The other time they gave into the whiners was when they nerfed junkrat’s projectile size, it basically ruined his area denial abilities and he has a bug where his bombs can go through people even though they hit them directly, that’s the other instance i can think of for uncalled for nerfs.
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I was reading a thread earlier which discussed nerfing the nano heal down to 100 because Ana’s currently a must-pick in GM apparently (someone in it said she has an 11% pick rate).
The most unnecessary Ana nerf to me was reducing her damage from 80 to 60. The complaints mostly came from McCree mains who hated that a support could three-shot a Pharah with more damage than they could.
But that overlooks the fact that not only can McCree headshot, but he can actually fire twice in one second compred to Ana’s one shot every 1.25 seconds (longer if she scopes first). Yes, it still takes him 3 bodyshots to kill Pharah, but he can achieve that in less time.
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Ether way a nerf like that would be a tickle, but i believe the reason she’s picked often in higher ranks is because mercy no longer feels like a main healer and moira usually struggles in higher ranks unless there’s a deathball comp built around her or something, maybe overwatch needs a main healer as the next hero then🤔
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Bigger question is who will be picked in lower ranks. Ana is bad for uncoordinated teams, Moira struggles outside of tank comp.
I’d be mercy i assume, or zenyatta would be the main healer because people pick just about anything in lower ranks😂