Don't really like the sound of the nerf to DM, it's kind of a worse Zarya bubble with only 2 seconds on it. It's just not tanky at all, sounds very DPSy now; she's going to need proper babysitting now.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Don't really like the sound of the nerf to DM, it's kind of a worse Zarya bubble with only 2 seconds on it. It's just not tanky at all, sounds very DPSy now; she's going to need proper babysitting now.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
DM has been beyond broken for awhile and basically enabled a lot of the dive while also protecting against dive, feeding into the dive is the best counter to dive situation.
Doomfist-dive actually was really strong against her because she can't protect supports from him but he's getting nerfed too so who knows.
Will have to play PTR to see what's up.
However D.Va flying straight into supports and using those missiles + shooting is going make them protection from herself lol.
Also dislike that it gives her less counterplay to certain ults.
Last edited by Woobels; 2017-08-21 at 08:18 PM.
Oh great, make her even more useless as a tank. Ugh, well at least she can swat Phara out the the sky easier.
What stats? Her pickrate is really high at any good MMR, she's one of the most picked heroes in pro-play together with Winston, I can show plenty of proof of this and it shouldn't be that hard to believe if you've ever watched any stream.
Her DM is NOT comparable with Rein shield whatsoever,
Can't soak a full Soldier or Roadhog ult. You need to be right on your toes to soak Zarya, Hanzo, Tracer, Mei; it very rarely happens intentionally and is on the player to not just shoot into it, same as you wouldn't just shoot a Reaper, McCree, Pharah or 76 ult into Rein's shield - which he'll soak just fine.
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The stats on what DM actually soaks and achieves.
The fact is that DM has such a massive 'soak'box that it's borderline impossible to kill anything that's standing inside it, making it extremely difficult to kill supports, this is why Doomfist has shaken up the pro scene so much because she can't actually stop that at all, which is why I would rather had they waited a little longer with this.
DM is way too much of a total package, Orisa and Rein can't even begin to hope to be able to protect a team the way D.Va does right now.
I also don't think she's necessarily worse, she's just going to be more dive-y, could potentially be stronger than Winston now.
Last edited by Woobels; 2017-08-21 at 09:00 PM.
I'm not super psyched about the sound of these changes. One of the things I've always liked about D.Va is the simplicity of her playstyle, and I'm not really fond of making one of her core abilities weaker while giving her more buttons to compensate. Pushing her into more of a DPS role is also kind of sucky. I don't think these changes will be terrible or anything, but they seem like a sidegrade that'll simultaneously weaken her playstyle identity and tanking niche. If they were going to nerf Defense Matrix I'd have preferred they give her some other tanking utility rather than making her more offensive.
I'm worried it'll go a similar way to the Roadhog changes, where she'll go from having a very unique and well-defined strength to being a bit of a mishmash of "what does this hero do again?"
Awesome, I barely use the defense matrix at all these days, I just play her aggressive from the get go, she's a good character to push with.
If this was easier less people would have complained, from what I'm seeing based on some searching around is that this is a change almost entirely because of the higher ranked players for once which is a good thing.
I'm just gonna wait and base my opinion on her performance on the PTR.
Last edited by Woobels; 2017-08-21 at 09:06 PM.
oops site lagging - double post.
Love how they keep nerfing tanks because DPS just wanna Q and get POTG without thinking about it.
Yeah, pretty much expected this. Defense Matrix is super OP as it totally negates a ton of shit. I'll still play her though.
i like the new ability and shot while flying.
the nerf to defense matrix annoys me
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