Despite Valve’s recent announcement that future Deadlock patches would be less frequent but greater in size, this latest update only introduces a few minor changes to some core Deadlock items, and a few nerfs for the otherwise B tier Deadlock hero Yamato.
- Alchemical Fire
- Effectiveness reduction (40%) vs buildings/midboss now affects the Weapon Damage bonus too (instead of just DPS)
- Berserker
- Weapon Damage per Stack reduced from 6% to 5%
- Bullet Resistance reduced from 9% to 8%
- Frenzy
- Weapon Damage per Stack reduced from 8% to 7%
- Bullet Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%
- Fire Rate reduced from 40% to 35%
- Low Health Bullet Resistance reduced from 55% to 50%
- Restorative Shot
- Cooldown increased from 7s to 9s
- Unstoppable
- Ability state no longer blocks anti-heal effects
- Yamato
- Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.33 to 0.27
- Shadow Transformation T1 reduced from +20% Fire Rate to +15%
Hopefully, this is the last minor patch we see, and the next one comes with much more content in the near future. We can also only pray that the nerfs for Yamato’s damage growth doesn’t drop the otherwise B tier hero down a rank.
