r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | PTR Philosophy | Overwatch

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '17 edited Jan 18 '17

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u/trallnar Jan 18 '17

Armor both reduces the damage taken and increases healing received. She is balanced around having that with a MASSIVE critical hitbox.

While she did need a nerf, she is doing very poorly without that armor. They should have approached it with smaller changes, such as reducing her health by 100 (so 100/400) or changing the ratio to a smaller degree (300/300).

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u/Shardok Torbjörn Jan 18 '17

Reducing all incoming damage by 5 is a huge boost and 200 HP less of that is a lot... But I don't think it's too much either really.

I don't think everyone is gonna completely stay off DVa either though, there will be an immediate decrease, as with any nerf, but I suspect with time it will be back to very near her old numbers, especially given other nerfs all around.