1-3-2: Introduce the "Heavy" Damage role

The 1-1-2-2 variant I would prefer to see is Tank, Support (off-tank + control dps), Damage, and Healer:

It’s a pretty similar idea though. You can pool the queues into either 2-2-2 or 1-3-2 and you basically end up with the same situation we have now in the Tank queue, where someone locking off-tank forces you to pick a barrier tank. It’d be more explicit, and require a UI change, but no worse than how Tank picks current work.

Though, I’m not convinced 4 queues would actually be that bad. Sure, it’s absolutely true that 4 queues will make for longer matchmaking searches than 3 queues. But, that’s something they could reduce by removing role-specific MMR, which are 3 extra hidden buckets. So, plus 1 bucket for 1-1-2-2, but minus 2 buckets by just having a single MMR.

I think they could get it to work.

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