134 - Omnic Lab: Armor Takes a Hit

This week Andres & Rob take a long look at the big news for the week. We cover the Bastet Ana event, Hero rebalances on PTR Jan. 7th, 2019, and talk all about the new Armor in the game. ANNOUNCEMENTS: GAME NIGHT: 1/25 SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions “Omnic Lab is presented in part by Top Score Solutions, an esports oriented community for business education, and analytics. If you want to develop a business, service, org, or just create content about gaming or esports, they're here to help! Their flagship podcast is the Esports Business Podcast, which you can find on Podbean and iTunes. Additionally, they run a blog at TopScoreSolutions.com and a regular "In Case You Missed It" brief news update. Be sure to check out their active Discord community if you have any questions for follow up or just talk more about esports and gaming! Don't forget all links are on their website at topscoresolutions.com." Omnic Meta: (Homepage) Humble Bundle Monthy Affiliate! Our Affiliate Link: https://www.humblebundle.com/monthly?partner=omniclab Ashe scope sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link News: BASTET Ana event! NEW Bastet Written Lore segment Jan. 8 - 21 Win 9 total games for all in-game rewards: Icon, Victory Pose, Skin 2, 4, and 6 hour viewing twitch drops for select streamers for 5 total sprays FRAN & Emongg doing streams for the new Bastet Event Jeff Kaplan appeared on the streams! Armor & PTR: PTR Changes Link Jan. 7, 2019 Known Issues list updated to 1.32 Armor Explained by OW Central CompOW Subreddit post from ClumsyLi Armor now reduces damage differently -3 dmg per “tick” of dmg now on PTR -5 dmg per “tick” of dmg  previously Also, this change means that anything 6 dmg and below per dmg source will be half. Before the threshhold before dmg was halved was 10 (because of the -5) So the calculations reduce dmg done to Armor targets by half, until the dmg exceeds 6. This is most noticeable on units with machine guns and shotguns using many shots in quick succession or lots of pellets spreading in a single shot. Brigitte - Rally - Duration of the effect down to 30 sec. DVa - Defense Matrix - Cooldown between uses increased from 1 sec to 2 sec. Reaper - Shotgun/Passive - Lifesteal increased from 30% to 50% of dmg dealt.(edited) Lifesteal Gif example New Killfeed updates Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons: Top Score Solutions, Anthony E. (SilvarLoki), Solo (PS4), Lisome, JanJinkle, DurandaL, Roger B., Britmus, Shazear, Chrisdaplaya, TragicZac, Matthew Z., Connall M. Omnic Lab Links: Omnic Lab is now a Twitch Affiliate! Sub now with Twitch/Amazon Prime!Twitter,Facebook, Patreon Twitch,Youtube,MERCH Discord:discord.me/omniclab Email: [email protected] Website:http://www.omniclab.com iTunes,Google Play Music, RSS-->Full Extended Show Notes<-- Rob:Twitter,Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft PodcastAndres:Twitter,OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud