Is the ratio of the roles going to remain heavily weighted towards DPS or are the next few heroes going to be healers and tanks to better balance the roster?
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Make Mei into an OffTank.
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unfortunately yes, Its a shame bc now i bet we wont see a new dps for a long time. I just hope they make more skill heavy Tanks and Healers to have some variation from the easy ones like Rein,Dva,Mercy and Lucio.
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I think there will always be way less tanks and healers. Because healers and tanks individually in a real team can get way more done than one DPS. I do enjoy tanks and support more partially for this reason.
Also a dps kit can be limitless as compared to a tank/healers who need a few core things that they have to stick to when making them.
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Not really a fan of this merge, mostly cuz of how terrible and jarring it is to look at on the hero select screen. It’s just so unorganized now, they shoulda just made it “assault and specialist” then merge have them both labelled as damage for the LFG system
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there have been only 2 dps released and 3 new healers released the next is a tank or defense damage
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I think the next 2 are tanks. At least I hope they are
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Well the problem is when Blizzard made the game it was horribly unbalanced. They encourage a 2-2-2 team comp and yet give you more than 4 times as many choices in DPS as any other role. Never mind not every hero in Tank/Support really fit that role either.
Having just a roadhog on your team for instance is pretty much just like playing with no tank at all. Now they are kind of forced to constantly release Healer/Tank hero’s to make up for it. Not just because the hero pools are unbalanced but also because it can get really boring to play the same hero every single match.
People hate Mercy’s high pick rate and yet are dead set against new healers to replace her. Imo the pick rate of hero’s like Mercy/Rein isn’t so much the hero’s themselvs but the complete lack of options.
Your team demands a tank/healer and you have maybe two options. Every single game you have one or two options for main healer/tank. While DPS has what 14 or more hero’s to choose from with a wide variety of skills and abilities to make their play style completely unique.
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i severely hope we get more tanks and healers. the game desperately needs it and does not need any more dps characters.
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i hope at least the next 6 heroes are not dps.
a good mei can BE a tank.
heck recently kept enemeis frozen for over 1 entire minuet of an 8 min match
thats me keeping the enemy unable to do anythign for 1/8th of the entire round.
betetr than SOME tanks can do.
tanks area an issue. orisa nearly outshadowed rein for awhile.
hog and d.va are meatshield and high dmg tank roles.
making a new one risks overshadowing the others as tanks are limtied to how they can be “tanks”
healers…not likely they have issues as is with balancing the current ones (and mercy 2.0 and brig have had EXTREME community backlash)
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We need to balance the healers before we can even think about adding new ones.
Also, in most games with class categories, damage-related heroes will always outnumber Tanks & Healers.
That said, I wouldn’t mind having more Tanks to choose from rather than always be limited from picking two.
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TBH this is true but in a sense they need a baseline.
either mercy, zen, or Lucio would have to be the “baseline healer target” and all others would be adjusted to fit a power aroudn that and each having a situation they are best used in (would also encourage people to swap to other ones as the situation changes)
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed in the Support category is a severe overlap in niche that ends up making the inclusion of certain Supports more redundant than the others.
Either that or certain niches aren’t strong enough to warrant choosing another Support that can survive in said niche whilst offering a little more to the table.
I doubt that. It wouldn’t be a good idea to just stop making dps heroes. It will probably be a tank followed by a dps. I’m guessing off tank but who knows. And now that the categories for the heroes changed, we actually never got a new defense hero. Sad really.
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I just hope they make more high skill heroes (in classes other then dps) like Ana, Zen, or Zarya. There arnt enough of those. Most healers and tanks are brain dead and low skill so if they’re gonna pump out new supps and tanks, at least make them hard/fun. I’m tired of brain dead new heroes like Orisa, Brig, And Moira (Moiras not as braindead as those other two but she isnt the highest skill hero.)
exactly the issue.
Ana and Zen are so simialr in what they do (ranged healing) that its safer to go with zen as he brings discord and an ult that is group heal.
Mercy is the beloved healer of consistent healing where as moira has a limit on the healign she can do (and if it runs out at a bad time…that can cost a match)
Lucio is only consistent group healer (which means he is really strong if your group stays together.
and Brig…well jack of all trades may not heal as well as some others, but she brigns forth durability and CC. (which imho will never happen again given how bad she was received)
each META also defines on what healer niche is more useful.
They need to re-work what healers does what and actually have varied situatiosn where they are more powerful (to encourage swapping if the enemy team comp changes)
Sure peopel may not like one or two healers being used more than the rest…but when they do the job over msot situations…you use what is available. Not the players fault.
edit: also this is comign form someone who has NEVER touched brig, only a few minuets i think on moira, and maybe an hour on any other healer than mercy. I may favor her, but I dont want her to overshadow others as not everyone actually likes her as i do)
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I just want a low-medium damage tank that has a rail gun that can zoom in. I want a sniper tank.
I think we’ll see a lot more hybrid types.
A tanky damage dealer.
Supportive tank.
Offensive tank.
Another Moira type healer/damage hybrid but reversed. Stronger offensively and a weaker healer.