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Cain is fine and all, but could we please get a balance patch?
I'm not gonna kid myself, the game (at least in Grandmaster level) is at a horrible spot in terms of balance.
Assasin pool has regressed back to the cancer trinity, Medivh and Fenix is god awfully broken; Medivh might look fine if you look at the statistics from other MMR, but he's extremely overpowered and gets higher ban priority than Fenix higher your MMR goes.
Healers are literally Stuv/Malf, yes Jun plays Ana heal sometimes but that's on his alt account.
Pro teams are actually banning DIABLO over every other tank because of how bursty games become, who cares if your tank can do XYZ? Just charge in and kill everyone.
Surely there's going to be a balance patch this week right?
azgaz
Hey everyone,
We're already working on our regularly scheduled balance patch (two weeks after a major release) which means we should have something for you next week baring any unforeseen circumstances.
While we occasionally tweak balance outside of our normal balance patches, spinning up hotfixes is actually quite expensive in terms of dev time since it takes away from other things we have in progress. That doesn't mean it will never happen (eg. Maiev) but just trying to set expectations when it comes to how often we tweak balance. We also don't want to shift the meta every week by changing things too often since that makes things more volatile and comes with its own set of frustrations.