The April 30th update for OW2 made Orisa weaker and made DPS heroes much stronger. They did this by making a change that boosts the power of DPS heroes. This change reduces the amount of healing an enemy gets after they’ve been hurt.
When this change was first added, it made healing 20% weaker, but then they made it 15% weaker. Now, they’ve put it back to 20% in the latest update. Tank players didn’t like this change at all.
Tanks are the biggest and toughest heroes on the battlefield. Because of this, they often get targeted first. This new change makes it much harder for healers to keep them alive.
Just one day after the update, tank players started questioning why the developers made this change. They remembered how bad it felt when healing was reduced by 20%. One player on Reddit got over 700 likes for asking why they were going back to 20%.
Another player said that playing tanks was already hard at 15% weaker healing, but it got even worse at 20%. They also said it felt bad for support players because they felt powerless.
Alongside the patch tomorrow, team is also working on some Tank changes for the midseason patch. More on those soon.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) April 29, 2024
Someone else agreed that the change was just too much.
People are talking about this on the official Blizzard forums too. Some are asking the developers to undo the change. One player said that all their friends had uninstalled the game because of this change, even though the game was feeling good before.
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Some players even wondered if the developers were making these changes while drunk.
But maybe the developers have a plan. Alec Dawson, the Lead Hero Designer, hinted that there are more changes for tanks coming in the mid-season update. He said we’ll get more information about this soon.
We don’t know exactly what those changes will be, but considering how hard it is for tanks right now, any good changes will be very welcome.