Overwatch 2 Dev Blog - The Current State of Lifeweaver
Game Director Aaron Keller recently put out a blog post going in-depth about Lifeweaver's performance, the affect of his recent changes, and upcoming changes for him. Here's a brief summary of the blog:
Lifeweaver is under performing, despite his recent buffs and control changes. Increasing his healing ammo capacity and ultimate healing worked, he has one of the highest healing outputs in the game currently, and Blizzard is happy with that. Tightening the weapon spread on Thorn Volley only marginally raised his eliminations. Lifeweaver has one of the lowest death rates of all supports. Despite his strong stats, Lifeweaver still has a very low win rate, especially in higher ranks. Petal Platform and Life Grip aren't consistently valuable compared to other Support abilities. Blizzard wants to provide a more clear reason for why Lifeweaver should be picked over other heroes. They are considering buffing his Thorn Volley, but the main goal is to clearly define his role and strengths. They are hoping to have Lifeweaver changes ready for Season 5. Blizzard May 5, 2023Last Director's Take, we talked about the state of Lifeweaver and the changes that we were making to the hero in order to strengthen him. They had a positive effect but didn't do nearly as much as we had hoped. We're going to continue that topic again this week. I'd like to look at what some of those changes accomplished, what we think he's missing, and some possible solutions we're looking at for the hero.
Over the last few weeks, we've made a number of buffs, tweaks, and modifications to Lifeweaver. In short, we modified his control scheme, making it more fluid and intuitive, and we buffed him across several different categories. We upped his healing ammo
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