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Her favorite thing is the Overwatch League; her second favorite thing is pretending iced coffee is a meal. She specializes in educational content, patch notes that (actually) make sense, and aggressively supporting Tier 2 Overwatch. When she's not writing, Liz is expressing hot takes on Twitter and making bad life choices at Target.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mizlizrichardson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mizliz_"],"url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/author\/lizrichardson1"}]}},"raw_content":"This article is brought to you by\u00a0StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Overwatch is about breaking barriers, but Blizzard means it literally this time. After nearly a month of no important updates, the Overwatch development team has released a huge patch to the Public Test Realm (PTR). Nine heroes are facing changes, shields are getting weaker, and competitive queues are about to get much more interesting.\u00a0 \u201cWhile You Wait\u201d\u00a0 Overwatch players have been asking for this particular feature since queues have existed. The developer team has finally granted wishes everywhere by introducing \u201cWhile You Wait.\u201d During queues, players will now have multiple options to spend their time instead of tabbing out to another window and watching videos. \u00a0 During any queue, a group can enter Practice Range to hone their aim; previously, only single players could enter Practice Range. Skirmish, a free-for-all fight without scores, is still enabled. Most importantly, players can now enter a game of Deathmatch or any Custom Game while waiting for their competitive games to begin. With some players reaching queue times of up to 20 minutes, this is a very necessary change.\u00a0 Shields down?\u00a0 The current meta, or most popular team composition, in Overwatch is based around shields. Orisa, Sigma, and Reinhardt are the most popular tanks to pick because of their strong shielding abilities. Many players have expressed frustration at spending most of their game focused on barriers instead of other players. The Overwatch development team heard players\u2019 cries and added some important changes to shield heroes.\u00a0 Orisa\u00a0 Base armor increased from 200 to 250. Fusion Driver movement speed penalty reduced from 30 percent to 20 percent. Protective Barrier health reduced from 900 to 600. Fortify cooldown decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.\u00a0 While Orisa\u2019s Fortify ability gets a significant buff and she gains armor, her shield\u2019s health has been reduced by a full third. Orisa will be better able to avoid enemies with quicker movements and better self-protection, but her shields will be much weaker.\u00a0 Sigma Experimental Barrier health reduced from 1500 to 900. Barrier health regeneration rate reduced from 150 to 120 health per second.\u00a0Kinetic Grasp cooldown reduced from 13 seconds to 10 seconds.Damage-to-shield gain ratio increased from 40 percent to 60 percent Sigma\u2019s shield gets the biggest reduction of all, losing a full 600 health. The shield also regenerates slower, so Sigma players will have to be more careful about where they place their barriers. As a compromise, Sigma\u2019s defensive ability becomes stronger and more valuable to use. Kinetic Grasp absorbs projectiles and turns them into self-protective shields. Much like Orisa, Sigma\u2019s ability to survive increases at a cost to his ability to protect others.\u00a0 Reinhardt\u00a0 Barrier Field health reduced from 2000 to 1600. Movement speed penalty reduced from 50 percent to 25 percent.\u00a0 Steadfast knockback resistance increased from 30 percent to 50 percent. Reinhardt is the only shield hero to receive more buffs than nerfs in this patch. His shield takes a big hit on health, but his survivability has increased exponentially. When Reinhardt holds his shield, he\u2019s slowed, but with this change, that movement cost is reduced by half. His passive ability, Steadfast, will allow him to withstand knockbacks from heroes like Brigitte and L\u00facio even better than before.\u00a0 The development team noted in the patch notes that these changes\u00a0are \u201caimed at decreasing the overall amount [of] time players spend damaging barriers while improving the individual heroes in other areas.\u201d In other words, they were tired of shooting shields all the time, too.\u00a0 Hero changes\u00a0 Other heroes will also receive some changes in the PTR patch. On a general note, armor damage reduction has been increased from 3 to 5. Essentially, this means heroes with armor will be a bit tankier than they used to be.\u00a0 Moira Biotic Grasp healing reduced from 4 to 3.25 (80 HP per second to 65 HP per second).\u00a0 Moira has been another must-pick hero in the shield meta because of her immense healing and an ultimate, Coalescence, that ignores shields. This nerf makes her primary healing less intense and may encourage the selection of other healers.\u00a0 D.Va Defense Matrix cooldown decreased from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds. This is actually a reverted change from an earlier 2019 patch that increased the cooldown of D.Va\u2019s Defense Matrix to make it less powerful. As D.Va has fallen out of the current meta, she could use a boost.\u00a0 Widowmaker Grappling Hook cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds. The sniper becomes less mobile as the Grappling Hook, which allows her to scale walls and platforms to find the perfect sight line, becomes more costly to use.\u00a0 Torbj\u00f6rn Overload cooldown decreased from 12 to 10 seconds.\u00a0 The developers want Torbj\u00f6rn back in the fight. After decreasing his ultimate cost by 10% in the latest live patch, his defensive ability can now be used more often. This increases both his survivability and damage output.\u00a0 Genji Shuriken ammo increased from 24 to 30. While this seems like a small change, an increase in primary fire ammo allows Genji to have at least three more attempts at finishing off an enemy before his lengthy reload time kicks in. Zarya Particle Cannon\u2019s secondary fire explosion radius increased from 2 to 2.5 meters. Ammo cost also decreased from 25 to 20.\u00a0 The right-click \u201cgrenades\u201d of energy that Zarya can fire will now be a bit more dangerous. Players can also use the ability more often due to the reduced energy cost.\u00a0 This patch is now available for testing on Overwatch\u2019s Public Test Realm. Over the course of a few weeks, developers will track the usefulness of these changes and decide whether they make it to live servers. Not every change is guaranteed to make it to the retail patch. 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Her favorite thing is the Overwatch League; her second favorite thing is pretending iced coffee is a meal. She specializes in educational content, patch notes that (actually) make sense, and aggressively supporting Tier 2 Overwatch. When she's not writing, Liz is expressing hot takes on Twitter and making bad life choices at Target.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mizlizrichardson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mizliz_"],"url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/author\/lizrichardson1"}]}},"raw_content":"This article is brought to you by\u00a0StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Overwatch is about breaking barriers, but Blizzard means it literally this time. After nearly a month of no important updates, the Overwatch development team has released a huge patch to the Public Test Realm (PTR). Nine heroes are facing changes, shields are getting weaker, and competitive queues are about to get much more interesting.\u00a0 \u201cWhile You Wait\u201d\u00a0 Overwatch players have been asking for this particular feature since queues have existed. The developer team has finally granted wishes everywhere by introducing \u201cWhile You Wait.\u201d During queues, players will now have multiple options to spend their time instead of tabbing out to another window and watching videos. \u00a0 During any queue, a group can enter Practice Range to hone their aim; previously, only single players could enter Practice Range. Skirmish, a free-for-all fight without scores, is still enabled. Most importantly, players can now enter a game of Deathmatch or any Custom Game while waiting for their competitive games to begin. With some players reaching queue times of up to 20 minutes, this is a very necessary change.\u00a0 Shields down?\u00a0 The current meta, or most popular team composition, in Overwatch is based around shields. Orisa, Sigma, and Reinhardt are the most popular tanks to pick because of their strong shielding abilities. Many players have expressed frustration at spending most of their game focused on barriers instead of other players. The Overwatch development team heard players\u2019 cries and added some important changes to shield heroes.\u00a0 Orisa\u00a0 Base armor increased from 200 to 250. Fusion Driver movement speed penalty reduced from 30 percent to 20 percent. Protective Barrier health reduced from 900 to 600. Fortify cooldown decreased from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.\u00a0 While Orisa\u2019s Fortify ability gets a significant buff and she gains armor, her shield\u2019s health has been reduced by a full third. Orisa will be better able to avoid enemies with quicker movements and better self-protection, but her shields will be much weaker.\u00a0 Sigma Experimental Barrier health reduced from 1500 to 900. Barrier health regeneration rate reduced from 150 to 120 health per second.\u00a0Kinetic Grasp cooldown reduced from 13 seconds to 10 seconds.Damage-to-shield gain ratio increased from 40 percent to 60 percent Sigma\u2019s shield gets the biggest reduction of all, losing a full 600 health. The shield also regenerates slower, so Sigma players will have to be more careful about where they place their barriers. As a compromise, Sigma\u2019s defensive ability becomes stronger and more valuable to use. Kinetic Grasp absorbs projectiles and turns them into self-protective shields. Much like Orisa, Sigma\u2019s ability to survive increases at a cost to his ability to protect others.\u00a0 Reinhardt\u00a0 Barrier Field health reduced from 2000 to 1600. Movement speed penalty reduced from 50 percent to 25 percent.\u00a0 Steadfast knockback resistance increased from 30 percent to 50 percent. Reinhardt is the only shield hero to receive more buffs than nerfs in this patch. His shield takes a big hit on health, but his survivability has increased exponentially. When Reinhardt holds his shield, he\u2019s slowed, but with this change, that movement cost is reduced by half. His passive ability, Steadfast, will allow him to withstand knockbacks from heroes like Brigitte and L\u00facio even better than before.\u00a0 The development team noted in the patch notes that these changes\u00a0are \u201caimed at decreasing the overall amount [of] time players spend damaging barriers while improving the individual heroes in other areas.\u201d In other words, they were tired of shooting shields all the time, too.\u00a0 Hero changes\u00a0 Other heroes will also receive some changes in the PTR patch. On a general note, armor damage reduction has been increased from 3 to 5. Essentially, this means heroes with armor will be a bit tankier than they used to be.\u00a0 Moira Biotic Grasp healing reduced from 4 to 3.25 (80 HP per second to 65 HP per second).\u00a0 Moira has been another must-pick hero in the shield meta because of her immense healing and an ultimate, Coalescence, that ignores shields. This nerf makes her primary healing less intense and may encourage the selection of other healers.\u00a0 D.Va Defense Matrix cooldown decreased from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds. This is actually a reverted change from an earlier 2019 patch that increased the cooldown of D.Va\u2019s Defense Matrix to make it less powerful. As D.Va has fallen out of the current meta, she could use a boost.\u00a0 Widowmaker Grappling Hook cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds. The sniper becomes less mobile as the Grappling Hook, which allows her to scale walls and platforms to find the perfect sight line, becomes more costly to use.\u00a0 Torbj\u00f6rn Overload cooldown decreased from 12 to 10 seconds.\u00a0 The developers want Torbj\u00f6rn back in the fight. After decreasing his ultimate cost by 10% in the latest live patch, his defensive ability can now be used more often. This increases both his survivability and damage output.\u00a0 Genji Shuriken ammo increased from 24 to 30. While this seems like a small change, an increase in primary fire ammo allows Genji to have at least three more attempts at finishing off an enemy before his lengthy reload time kicks in. Zarya Particle Cannon\u2019s secondary fire explosion radius increased from 2 to 2.5 meters. Ammo cost also decreased from 25 to 20.\u00a0 The right-click \u201cgrenades\u201d of energy that Zarya can fire will now be a bit more dangerous. 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