Every single time they do this, the supports in question all turn into dps in my matches.
It’s happening again now. Moiras and Lucios running off to do damage only. It’s annoying when they’re on the enemy team, and annoying when they’re on your team because they aren’t healing.
I really wish the devs would realize that making supports almost as deadly as the average dps, while also allowing them to self heal, is a TERRIBLE idea.
They keep doing this. I know there’s issues with the support role, but I don’t think slowly powercreeping them to be dps with heals is the solution.
Hot Take: its fine. Its far from optimal. But its not a problem really since its a trade off. If your lucio is doing weird flanking stuff, it CAN work, hell ive done it. But you’re basically trading heals for more damage and that can be a valid strat.
If they’re doing that, go with em. or roll into that playstyle nad take advantage. Backline moria? ok go in with moira as tracer. you’ll clean house.
If they’re playing dive, play dive with em and it’ll be alot more effective.
remember supports arent heal bots. Well weaver kinda is, but thats besides the point!
People want healing nerfed. People want support dps nerfed. What’s left to do?
It’s literally only fun for the people who are playing support as dps, though. That’s the issue.
It’s very annoying to be vs’ing it, because you’re vs’ing characters who are typically mobile and heal themselves, such as Moira and Lucio. It just flat out sucks to fight them.
And it sucks to have them on your team, because while they’re off dps’ing, you aren’t getting any heals from them. Yes, it can work, but a lot of the time it doesn’t, and your team ends up dying over and over because they aren’t getting healed. You’ll end up losing many many matches that would have been won if they healed the team instead of rushing off to play dps.
Tbh at this point, I’d prefer supports with killing power over supports that can only sit back and heal.
Like I love Mercy, I like Juno, but god is it hard to try and carry a game only through healing. If my tank and DPS can’t focus fire on the enemies I’m watching run around on 20 health for 30 seconds, there’s nothing I can do. I have to go on a different support and try to secure these kills myself, 'cause everyone else is too busy flailing around on point, not paying attention.
And then I’m the bad guy, 'cause I wasn’t spending my resources trying to heal instead. I tried that already! It didn’t work! What am I supposed to do anymore?!?!
Why do you care what they do if you quit the game?