We’ve been getting around 3 heroes per year so far. That means if Blizzard releases nothing but Tanks and Healers, we’ll have DPS, Tanks and Healers in equal amounts by 2024!
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Ill be content if heals/tank together equal dps.
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Only 1 year to wait then!
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They should just release like 5 supports* and 5 tanks in one go, basing each hero’s weapons ad abilities on niches in the current game, and balance after the fact.
I know it would be a nightmarish chaos in comp, but it would also be fun, and we could finally put to bed this issue of way too many DPS.
*And I do mean support, not just “healer”; at least one of the new supports should be a utility support that does not heal, like Sym.
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Lol if only half the tanks and healers were balanced.
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All the tanks and most of the healers are balanced.
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Torb and mei aren’t much of a dps
A valid point. my only counter would be that mei can (in theory) still swiftly deal with low-health targets and torb (in theory) can deliver a lot of damage from headshots or close shotgunning them. But overall i’d agree not dps.
ITS also more common to have more dps builds then healer or tank with mmo. ESO has 1 class that is dedicated to heals
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Yes, I fully agree we could always use more tanks and healers but:
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When Overwatch first came out, Blizzard probably thought there would be more than 2 dps in the average “balanced” team comp. They might have thought 4dps, 1 tank, and 1 healer would form the average team comp. Thats how the game was mostly being played for the first couple of weeks at launch anyways.
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Most players are dps players. Not because there are more dps characters (it is one factor), but I feel like the main reason is because this is an FPS game so many players come from an FPS background so the dps role is more familiar to them.
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True, not only are multiple DPS comps popular in QP and were popular early on, but there are more DPS players than other roles.
However, multiple DPS comps have never been particularly meta. Much more frequently it is triple tank or quad tank that is the meta, and yet there are many more DPS heroes than there are tanks.
DPS heroes have about a 55% pickrate compared to around 25% for supports and 20% for tanks. Those numbers line up almost perfectly with how many heroes there are for each role.
If you want more players to play tanks and healers, you need to add more tanks and healers. There are more than enough DPS heroes in the game and not enough of the other two.
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Symm isn’t much of a support either though.
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Yeah but I only stated them because he was trying to be dramatic
I know. 6 tanks, 6 healers and 15 DPS includes Sym as a DPS, because she does fill a DPS role.
You have an incredibly loose definition of DPS, the majority of that number do not fit the role of DPS in a comp.
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The majority? You’re saying more than half of the offence and defence category aren’t DPS? I’m sorry, which of those heroes do you run in the tank or healer role?
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To be fair, I think a major issue is that this game is advertised as a shooter, and people buy it for that. I mean the poster child is Tracer and her Pulse Pistol are very traditional shootery weapons. But its only really the DPS that use those kinds of weapons.
If you look at the supports, only Ana uses a proper gun, and the only tanks who do are DVA, Hog and Orisa.
If they made more tanks and supports with weapons like these they’d probably be more popular. I mean how cool would it be to heal ur team with a healing version of Sombra’s Machine Pistol, with an ability that was like a healing Helix Rocket, for example?
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She has 5 support abilities. That is more than Zenyatta, Lucio and Mercy.
Funny enough, the only time when running 1 support on your team wasn’t seen as terrible was right after the Mercy’s rework.
Maybe all supports are weak after all.
For support, I thought she has the shield, and 2 ults.
Everything else is defence (zoning), and direct damage.
Zen has the same number. 2 orbs, and an ult.
Mercy has 4, the 2 beams, ult and rez.
what are the 5 support abilities Sym has?
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