it seems lately (for a long time really tho) that the blizz balance team will either do 1 of 2 things
Not nerf a hero enough when they are OP (HANZO)
Or they will way overnerf them (current 5 dmg brig stun on PTR)
NOW these are just recent examples but here is more, the OG Hog rework, Junk getting his projectile size nerfed and these are just the overall latest ones, and don’t even get me started on mercy but seriously I feel that the balance team needs to be fired and some new people needs to get hired
Roadhog 1.0 was a nightmare and at the time he could 1 shot nearly half the heroes. Junkrat was annoying with his spamming which is why they made his grenades more accurate. Junkrats’ change did nothing to the one tricks Junk mains. It did however stopped people from abuse him. I actually know 2 Junkrat one tricks in the top 500. I actually encountered one 3 days ago and sadly lost that 2CP to him. I had a bad team arguing though, but still. A lose is a lose.
Mercy was overpowered for over a year win her moth state. Her mass resurrect was also annoying. Got a team wipe but didn’t find that Mercy hiding? Too late, all 5 enemies are back from the dead. I didn’t enough the game back then in late 2016. I was here since Nov 2016 and never liked seeing that. I adapted to Mercy’s changes to be honest. I wish others moved on and accepted her. She is the reason why Ana and Lucio were hardly used.
Completely true, however, how often do they honestly finetune the initial adjustments on ptr before chucking it on live? More often than not what hits ptr is going to hit live and theyll readjust later.
1.0 was a long time ago, Hog was 2.0 or 2.1 (cant remember) and was in a good spot aside from some buggy hooks (in favor of the one getting hooked) when they decided to ruin him completely.
But that is just what Junkrat did. Having to shoot slow moving projectiles in an arc is not really a weapon you will aim that much with.
thing is tho is that junk was ez to deal with if you had 15IQ and not 300 ping you could easily sidestep his nades, or play pharah/Dva there was plenty of ways to work around him