Blizzard published the Overwatch 2 Season 12 midseason patch notes, and while the multiplayer game’s World of Warcraft collaboration is the headline feature, there’s a handful of balance changes across the board as well. Unlike in previous patches, there’s no obvious pattern to the midseason changes. Some are corrections for previous fixes, some are just cases of Blizzard still struggling to find the right mix of armor and health for characters such as D.Va, and a few are meant to encourage specific types of playstyles.
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Tank nerfs and buffs
The tank passive is getting tweaked again, this time dropping knockback resistance from 40 percent to 25 percent.
D.Va nerf and buff
Orisa buff
Roadhog buff
Sigma buffs
Damage nerfs and buffs
The damage passive remains the same, for now, but a few heroes are getting a small number of tweaks.
Bastion buffs
Cassidy nerfs and buffs
Hanzo buffs and nerfs
Venture nerf
Support buffs
There’s not a whole lot going on with the support role this patch, but a few heroes get some small buffs.
Moira buff
Lifeweaver buff
Zenyatta buffs
There’s also a small number of bug fixes and an update to Mystery Heroes that replaces open queue with role queue, which kind of takes the mystery out of Mystery Heroes. If you want the open queue experience, though, you can still create it as a custom game.