Overwatch 2 most recently released the brand new Season 10 for players, which has been off to a blast thus far.
Now, Blizzard has outlined some of the changes that are coming to improve the life of tank players.
Here's what we know.
Overwatch 2 Tank Changes: All Updates Coming
The new changes are coming to Overwatch 2 during the mid-season update, and they aim at improving the overall gameplay of tank players.
This will involve damage mitigation and reduction to certain areas, and all the changes are noted below.
So, our midseason update is going to help balance how many hits tanks can take to stay in the fight better. First, we’re specifically buffing the Tank passive to have a 25% damage reduction from headshots, which should help cut down on being burst down in a fight. We’re also increasing the knockback resistance for tanks from 30% to 50%, which should allow them to hold the front line a lot more and not feel as subjected to displacement abilities.
We’re also making some global gameplay changes that impact tanks. One is that we’re reverting the Armor damage reduction back to reducing five damage per projectile with up to a 50% maximum. This means heroes like Reaper or Tracer will have more work to do to take down heroes like Reinhardt. Heroes with high burst damage per projectile will still be effective but these kinds of Tanks have better means to counterplay that type of damage.
Next, we made a light change to our overall HP recovery passive that will enable mobile tanks to get back to the front lines faster: The health regeneration passive for all heroes will no longer recover 20 HP per second out of combat but instead recover 10 Health + 5% of their maximum HP per second. This means a hero like Reinhardt will recover their health at 45 health per second in a Role Queue match.
Altogether, these changes should have an impact on some of the pain points our tank players are experiencing, as well as the balance of the game. I have a feeling we’ll see a lot of movement in the meta over the remainder of Season 10.
