Step 1: Nerf Hanzo, Mei and Reaper
Step 2: Nerf Orisa’s Fortify (Compensation buff is voluntary)
Step 3: Profit
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Wait … what!? the fact you even believe for a second that this would sort queue times is quite incredible.
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How to not decrease DPS queue times: more tank nerfs.
more nerfs deter more people from the role, bumping the time up.
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Yeah. Current patch was a dicey move.
While the changes are amazing, they’re a bit daunting and doesn’t really encourage people to play tanks.
Generally, people don’t like work or change. This patch did both to tanks.
I love the changes. Tank feels more engaging to play, but I’d be lying if I said playing a tank doesn’t require more skill/attention than it did before. However, I think I fall into the minority category.
Making more changes to tanks for the sake of toning them down, it will only make things worse.
IDK why they decided not to do literally anything to these 3 plus maybe a few others. To compensate with the barrier nerfs, it makes zero sense.
I mean, sure some tank players would come back with a few nerfs to previously mentioned heroes. But it’d also just be nice if we could get a few more tanks and supports. 
Would work for me. I quit tanking cause of Mei and Reaper and now i only play both of them.
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The reason DPS queue times are so long is because not alot of people want to play tank
Nerfing Hanzo, Mei and Reaper would make playing tank much more fun and thus more people would play them
TBH, if I play Mei and you nerf her too much… I’ll either play Mei, or maybe Junkrat. It won’t change how I play that much
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How to decrease DPS queue times:
Step 1: Remove role queue
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
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They should just add in two more damage slots.
How is tanking more engaging to play? Now you’re forced to play a Melee tank in an FPS game! Every other tank is throw pick and my first day of Queuing, I was literally reported for NOT picking Reinhardt.
I will never queue tank again due to this patch. (I’m a Gold border with 5 star tank one trick). - I’m going to now add to the dps Q times instead.
Tanks are now by far in the worst position they’ve ever been and the game is literally a respawn simulator for any non-Rein/zarya combo
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Instead of barriers absorbing damage, they should just be a black vortex that absorbs damage and randomly distributes it to all players.
Plus an extra point to Doomfist for not being able to Rocket Punch vertically.
Wait, why has no one else pointed out the issue behind the fact that in order to get people to play tanks, OP wants to nerf a tank?
That’s uh, a little counter productive in my book.
personally, I dont see how those changes would affect queue times at all
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That would increase them lol
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Now, to be fair, pretty much all tanks are close range tanks beyond Orisa, maybe Sigma, both of which created probably the absolute worst meta we’ve seen.
I’d say it’s better for the overall game right now if it’s just those two who get toned down to a weaker category.
Like, I get it if you’re upset you can’t play Orisa as much anymore, but at least be honest and don’t act like Winston, DVa, Road, Hammond, or Zarya are all super long range and that Rein is the only CQC tank that benefited from the changes.
(And to be honest, I feel like there’s a chance Winston could become meta again if we give it time. Not like that one single scrub who reported you actually knew anything worthwhile)
Oh Look! A mercy / Reinhardt main came to defend the patch that made Reinhardt a must pick! No way! /rolls eyes… not even reading the rest of this biased crap
Lmao, great argument buddy.
Personally I wouldn’t mind if they rolled back pretty every buff they gave Rein in the past year. He was fine before and had no need for the recemt changes and wouldn’t be surprised to see if he does become too much. Also, as I said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Winston became more meta than Rein and I wouldn’t have a problem there either.
But you’re the one who’s just sitting in a corner pouting that they can’t play 1 hero because the devs made 6 of them actually viable now.
Well, I guess you’re a bit more of the target audience I was referring to with the patch being more dicey of a change.