Yo devs, wtf is this?

Pharah:
Concussive Blast
Explosion damage reduced from 30 to 0.
Explosion knockback radius increased from 6 to 8 meters.
Knockback increased by 11%.

This is nice, except the part where you gave her 2 buffs for the 1 Nerf to the ability that needed no compensation buffs, nor any buffs ever again for that matter.

But even more important, is the fact that YOU FORGOT THE OTHER 80% OF THE NERFS PHARAH WAS SUPPOSED TO GET!

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Still no nerf to her dmg fall off :man_facepalming:

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concussive already felt super oppressive with its knockback, awesome job

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I’m sorry, maybe it’s actually the fault of we, the players.

Maybe we somehow convinced the devs that we all enjoy playing Pharahwatch, and it wasn’t just the Pharah mains and their Mercy kitten duo that they found on discord and are now boosting that enjoy it.

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Heh I never knew concussive blast did damage.

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with these tank buffs i think pharah getting a slap on the wrist are the least of our issues now :sob:

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She didn’t really even get a slap on the wrist. It was more like a finger wagging, immediately followed by a piece of candy as compensation for having to endure said finger wagging.

I’m not nearly as worried about the tank buffs, although the fact that literally all of them got buffs, when maybe half needed some kind of buff or two, is crazy. Almost as crazy as Pharah dodging nerfs like she did this patch.

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OW devs after giving even more knockback potential to the best boop in the dps roster and one of the best boops in the game :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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The issue with Pharah is that she has to be comparatively overpowered to most of the cast to be viable because she is being balanced around overpowered Godscans existing and dominating from bronze to GM.

As long as Widow, Sojourn, Soldier, Cassidy and Ashe continue to be all be artificially enforced into being ALL top tier in some point of the ladder, Pharah’s only way to be viable is to be equally overpowered.

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No revert to her rocket speed, no CD increase on her mobility lol! Cowboy getting his range nerfed instead of his projectile size making Pharah even less countered overall, lmao!

These people have NO IDEA what they’re doing!

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I’m starting to think they ask their kids for ideas for the patch.

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This patch had to be the exclusive work of a fresh, absolutely brand new, group of interns. “What’s the worst that could happen?”.

This patch. This patch is what could happen…

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It’s a concussion blast revert to pre-rework. This kills her ttk a little, unless she’s pocket-boosted.

With tanks giga buffed, we’ll see if it changes something.

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Widow is situational, sojourn is terrible, soldier is ok, ashe is ok, and cassidy was overtuned but keeping pharah in check

I just wanna ask real quick

Do you expect these Pharah changes to have anything more than minimal impact?

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It was a recent change and a hefty buff to her lethality, considering the current breakpoint paradigm.

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We are cooked dude, how did we get an even worse patch. Its suppose to fix things. :skull:

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Words cannot describe the anger I feel regarding this patch and the devs’ balance choices since the launch of OW2.

Here’s to at least another year of horrible balance patches by a team of delusional, apathetic and useless devs.

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Symmetra is situational.

Widow is good in all maps and broken in some.

She was meta for 90% of her existence.

Soldier is overpowered in 90% of the ladder thanks to being absurdly easy.

Ashe caused Double Shields in the first place.

Cassidy has been overtuned and happened to keep Pharah in check. Not the other way around.

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What a silver take LOL :rofl: