#Overwatch 2 tracer Patch#

soldier is really oppressive, his damage output is huge and he's basically impossible to duel as a tracer anymore. would be too hard to kill unless your a top 500 ana that can sleep the tracer.ДЄs a tracer main I agree for sure that she'd probably be too good in 5v5 as she is in ow1 but the damage nerf is very very significant, especially when you consider the other dps.

She's pretty bad compared to other DPS you could be running who are thriving in this new open environment. At scrim level she's falling out because of the nerf too. But right now even a scoped in Ana or Widow is hard to 1 clip unless you put the gun right to their head and they have the reaction time of a potato, and with her pitiful sustained DPS you can basically just ignore any non-top500 tracer if there's a healer near you and she'll either have to back out or overstay her welcome and get shot to shit. If they want to nerf her 1 clip potential then move that lost DPS from the nerf into a faster reload speed or something. She's one of my main heroes and when I play her it feels like health bars practically don't even move in most situations. With her even worse sustained DPS and lack of 1 clip potential now combined with the support passive kicking in between every reload on top of healing still being just as strong, even some of the best Tracer streamers often looked like they were accomplishing practically nothing on her. The main pressure on Tracer was always healing to sustain through her poor DPS after the 1st clip and bullets to force her squishy 150hp ass out, and neither of those things got nerfed. She always had the tools to play around, bait, or time her engages around those things. Tanks and shields and CC screwed other DPS way more than Tracer. It all depends on how reactive the supports will be.ДЄs a Tank player I was very skeptical of 1 tank per team, but it seems that Blizzard have actually made it seem fair for the tank player, though for supports remains to be seen. So I was slightly wrong, you probably still go pulse first. Throw a pulse for 1.15 seconds delay before explosion in which time you will be shooting to counter some of the heals with a solid 100 dps, and you have a total of 7.75 seconds to drop. If you try alternative option of pistol, pistol pulse, you need 2 clips + 6 bullets to drop armour which takes 4.3 seconds + 2 reloads for a total of 6.6 seconds. Which means that if you shoot as the pulse explodes it will take 3.3 seconds of damage to drop a Rein, + the reload time to load the second clip, for a total of 4.45 seconds. After 2 seconds Rein still has 130 hp left.

16 pistol shot clear armour for 56 total damage and then 24 shots for 120 into health.

#Overwatch 2 tracer Patch#

With OW2 patch if you try the same thing, 245 damage, 55 armour left. If you start shooting as the pulse explodes, it will take 1.6 seconds to drop a Rein. 345 damage followed by 156 damage from pistols. This is probably a tangent no one cares for but I find it interesting to look at numbers.Д¬urrent tracer goes pulse bomb pistols into Rein. Whittle armour and land big burst which takes longer but will do more into healing, or break armour and try and whittle through health with healing. So now you have to break armour before pulse in order to land big burst, which means whatever option you choose, tanks will live longer. Now pulse will do 245 if on armour with 200 from clip for a total of 445.

345 drops all armour and then 240 damage from 1 clip leads to 585 damage on a tank. This does mean that Tracers want to use pulse as a finisher rather than to drop armour like they do now though. As opposed to 34 shots to drop now it takes 34 + melee to do exactly 200. She has to land every shot before falloff to drop 200hp. This was a change meant for solo tank, but it does hurt dps 1v1s. It just means that once she drops the armour quicker but not the health.

In TracerвЂ™s case she is actually better into armour than she was before, with 140 damage into armour before headshots ( assuming she doesnвЂ™t break the armour with that damage ) compared to 120. This does however make both of them feel worse into other things. The damage nerfs to Tracer and Reaper pellets keep them almost exactly where they were into armour previously while nerfing big burst which tanks donвЂ™t really get a chance to react to. Changing armour to -30% across the board means that big damage like widow headshot or ashe headshot loses a good deal (300 to 210 damage) but it would mean that pellet/tick damage would be better for shredding tanks than before. Right now in live she has her damage reduced by half per bullet into armour because -5 would be less than half. I believe the nerf was due to the armour change.