In the comments under the patch notes I’m seeing a lot of mixed feelings.
While I also have some strong feelings about the matter I want to see was the general consensus is about them,
Not enough
We saw a lot of players at varying skill levels struggling to land shots with her Alt Fire, so we are making the projectile width wider.
Sojourn is all about mobility, and we wanted her to move around the maps more freely. We think this will help increase her effectiveness and make her even more fun to play.
This sojourn was 0.05 -> 0.1 from unanimously consodered to be underperforming to becoming her most broken state.
Illari projectile size is going the exact opposite direction: from 0.1 to 0.05. I strongly believe that illari is going to be bad. The realization of what a measley 75 dps actually feels like is gonna hit.
not enough.
I’m very disappointed. The two most problematic supporters got a slap on the wrist, two got good nerfs, while the rest got nerfed into oblivion.
Not enough nerfs The main problems with Bap and Illari where their insane survivability, damage, and healing. And almost non of it get nerfed in a substantial way.
A slight lamp nerf being all Bap got is insane. I genuinely don’t understand why his healing burst isn’t being looked at. He’s still going to have 3 health bars while outputting crazy stats.
Illari’s nerfs are much better but still doesn’t address the problem of her insane healing output. The REALLY needed to decrease her healing beam because 105hps is way to much. They need to lower the hps and increase the resource. I’m happy about the projectile size being halfed.
Correctly nerfed
Ana and Kiriko got good nerfs. These where the main problems people complained about. They’ll still be annoying but not as bad.
I’m slightly concerned over Ana but I’ll need to play her to form an opinion.
Overnerfed
Despite Lifeweaver being worse than a good portion of the support cast and FINALLY not being complete trash Blizzard decided he was more problematic than Bap or Illari.
These nerfs are WAY to much. They said his healing was to high but that’s literally all LW does. They created a heal bot character then got mad when he healbotted. I feel so bad for LW players this patch because he’s going to feel bad to play while being banished back to C tier.
Zen nerfs are good. But in a world where Bap and Illari where barely touched he’s still going to be the worst dps/support. Why play a glass cannon when you could be Bap or Illari.
TLDR: All this patch did was cement Bap as the best character in the game while removing any support who was getting close to him. LW only got a glimpse at Bap before being sent back to the shadow realm.
The change to Zen is good for tanks. Zen has no risks to take when he applies discord onto an enemy. Now the risk is that he has to stay and commit to line of sight with an enemy he is discording. I believe Zen will still be oppressive in the right meta, that is how his kit is designed to work, and now he cant just hide behind cover and regen and then expect to rain hell on the enemy tank right after regen.
Looks like the Mercy meta is back on the menu, boys!