I feel your pain brother/sister. I quit playing around a year ago after they made specs useless and made everything DPS or Tank Brawl mode because Split Pushing is boring on twitch. I was already contemplating on quitting after the lane changes but everything that came after just made the decision and if I can’t use my favorite hero (Abathur) since they changed the game and its heroes to screw over or make specs irrelevant then there was no point in playing anymore.
I enjoyed playing with Nazeebo and Slappy and did very well with them and not everyone wants to have mindless fornite like lust for playing OW heroes and 2 button killers to show off the preteen epeens. That diversity was what drew me to this game and a lot of other players but now they decided to follow the sheep and changed everything against what they originally stood for because of the Esports and Twitch scene. Oh well we all know people quitting means nothing because we are easily replaced but every now and then I come to the forums to see what Blizzard screwed up this time. The removal of the downvotes was funny in a “laughing at people coddling children” kind of way but I see that things have gotten worse from what I have been reading. Blizzard does not care about any kind of negative views and turned the forums into a one sided echo chamber instead of a place where people who have likes and dislikes can freely show their agreements and disapproval (aka people who like a comment don’t have to explain why they upvoted but those who disagree are forced to provoke people by “verbally” disagreeing instead of doing what upvoters now have the sole privilege of doing.
I doubt specs will be revived and poor Abathur will just suffer more and more. But hell it was fun while it lasted. At least I know im not the only person who has quit the game for these reasons. I was hoping to redownload the game tonight but reading this helped make my decision. To all those who still play im happy for yall that yall haven’t gotten screwed just yet and hope yall continue to have a good time playing till the end.
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Specialists have never been useless, and they certainly aren’t right now.
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Wise choice to leave the game! It’s in a terrible place and doesn’t show any signs of improvement in the near future. Best of luck finding other worthwhile games!
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I feel you thats why I decided to take a undefined break of this game till things gets better or at least normal ( will not get into details )
look like we near end of hots 
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I agree with this. Game is out of whack, a SC2 ff feature would be nice, when QM is acting funky (which is always).
Game has been out of whack for a while. Most of the people still playing this game a lot are just terrible at it anyway.
well I know the feeling unfortunately but the possible bright side is that blizzcon is this weekend so we will either get the final dagger that killed this game for me or some hope for the future… hoping for good news but not holding my breath.
Hoping that in Blizzcon, them devs gon mention about reworking Chen and Tassadar!
No they weren’t and i loved playing specs till they started with the lane changes one by one either reworked the majority of them into either Dps, Tanks or healers and the others just got nerfed into the ground (Around the time I quit playing not too long after Yrel was released). All I played was Nazeebo and Abathur and maybe a few others but they reworked Naz and Abathur has been nerfed directly and indirectly. Yes he has the best healing technically but when I was still playing I was forced to either go full Hat or go Heals+Hat because the game decided Abathur was a solo healer and it was especially irritating on maps like Cursed Hallows where I can do the most damage as a Split Pusher but they keep tweaking things to appease the Twitch/Esports crowd. So instead of b****ing about it like I usually did on the forums I said screw it and left because I played this game for the diversity and how fun it was to actually contribute with my own personal skill with heroes that didn’t rely on being “meta”…now everything is DPS+Heals or Tanks+Heals or DPS+Heals+Tank. This is all from my personal experiences and yours were prolly in a better light but I didn’t want to stick around and watch my favorite Space Slug become more and more of a detriment to my team because I can no longer solo lane against Genjis and Tracers because they get 2 globes and I have less damage against waves.
I’ve been thinking of returning and just embracing a Heal only Abathur. You telling me Specs aren’t completely useless after this long kinda gives me hope so ill see whats up.