Healing has become faaaar to influential in this game, tanks can’t even exist without it. In order for a support to exist as a none healer, healing needs to be less prevalent.
Roadhog - DPS: Fine, I dislike hog but he’d be more bearable in DPS. Problem is then he’d just be reaper with a little less dmg.
Mei - Tank: NO. I love playing Mei and 3 of my most hated heroes (Hog, D.Va, ball) or tanks. Don’t put Mei there.
Brig - Tank: Well… I used to play Brig a lot. But putting her to tank would probs just make her Reinhardt-Mini. Keep her as she is, and nerf her if necessary.
Sym - Support: YES YES YES finally. I quit sym because she’s a turret hero, but if they remove her Torb-like aspects and make her a support hero, I WILL play her.
The problem with Tank Brig is that she needs to be distinctly different from Reinhardt. Knowing Blizzard, they’d take the lazy approach and go with Mini-Reinhardt.
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Definitely true, they’d have to give her something to differentiate her from Rein. Not sure what that could be. An ability that would replace Repair Packs I guess…
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im down for hog being dps, i think he would function better there as a whole.
I dont think mei tank will work without more significant changes then people think, i think she is fine under the dps roster.
I like the sym support, may be an unpopular opinion, but just ditch the turret gimmick on sym and do something else for minor healing, tp is good enough utility, her ult is fine under the support roster. along with a few MINOR damage nerfs, i think she could function well as an main support with a tp, a minor healing ability, and a fair amount of damage.
Idk about brig, the thought has crossed my mind, but idk how to approach her, she is still crazy strong.
Bastion, Sym, Mei, Hog, I’d add Doomfist to being a Tank honestly or even just classifying the difference between shield, dive, and bruiser style tanks a lot better. Bruiser styles like Hog and really Zarya are fine and I don’t think it is too bad if we add more of those honestly, so reworking Hog out of tank doesn’t seem like it needs to happen. A special mention here for Torb and I don’t think he needs a rework but perhaps some extra QoL changes instead to just keep him in line and on par with the inevitable newer heroes.
I don’t know about these 3 in particular: Sombra, Mercy, and Pharah. Do they need reworks? Or do they need QoL changes? I wonder if another Mercy rework to change how damage boost functions so other heroes(like Pharah) can get buffed is a necessary thing to happen at this point or not. Sombra being reworked to being a support sounds okay but would require such an extensive rework. And Pharah, I don’t know how to change her other than adding armor of some kind to her health or just allowing movement or even cancelling of her ult if she wants to do that. But those would fall more in line with QoL changes. So up for debate but those heroes probably also need to be looked at.
A final mention for Baptiste and his ability to negate damage as an ability, which is similar to Rez. I personally think these 2 abilities need to be passives instead in some form.
While I know it will be difficult/impossible to implement, I would like to see custom loadouts for heroes.
That way you can play the same hero in different ways based on scenarios (i.e. Tank Mei/DPS Mei)