I’m tired of the sorry excuse of “tanks get the CC” so that’s why doom got moved.
You broke your own rule DAY 1 when you let ana keep that idiotic 4 second long stun ability.
And then not only that, but you proceeded to slowly add back in CC to the other roles.
On top of the fact that when you moved doom to the tank role, you got rid of pretty much all of his CC anyway. Uppercut is gone, slam lost both its original knockup / knockforward / knockback AND lost its slow from the beta iteration, so this hero now only has 1 form of CC outside of his ult.
So what was the point. You moved him because he has CC, but then take away 2/3 of his CC anyway, and still shove him into the tank role. Just to pick and choose who gets to keep CC and who even gets to have CC added back into their kits.
Ironically, mei was the DPS everyone was saying should’ve been a tank… yet they put doom there. If they haven’t moved mei to it by now, they never will.
I don’t see why the tanks should be the only ones with the CC. Especially Mei with her tank-lite gameplay.
Mei works well in the damage role since damage players can swap to a tank like option to help out mid match. Make Mei a tank, and what will Damage heros have? Bastion?
I don’t disagree hence why doom shouldn’t be in the tank role anymore if we are just straight up throwing away the rule that put him there in the first place.
Then let’s rework Sombra at the same time back into a version where she can actually fulfill her original identity and role!
Nice — finally a proper Hack, Invisibility, and Translocator again.
I don’t even want Mei’s freeze back, but DPS Doomfist was an unmatched abomination. There’s no situation where I’d want him back as a DPS. I don’t even want him in the game as a tank but I can manage.
Why do people even want Mei as a tank? I’ve never heard any reasons besides “Her abilities are kind of like a tank’s abilities” without further consideration into how she fits in the game.
I mean, Genji’s abilities are kind of like tank abilities. Should he be a tank too? Should Reaper?
Yes, but to be fair, Doom was often suggested to be reworked as tank, as well. Personally, I like Tankfist more than DPSfist, not for gameplay reasons so much, but for the overall health of the game. Tankfist provides an incredibly fun, fast paced and mechanically challenging hero to the tank role, which is exactly what was meant by the people who said “just make tanks fun to play” during the years of the constant tank player scarcity debates in OW1.
I prefer DF as Tank myself. That being said, it’s weird he was literally the only male DPS added into the game post launch. So we’ve actually had 0 new male DPS this whole time since DF got kicked out.
Players have also responded well to Perks that bring back old components of a hero’s kit, like Orisa’s Protective Barrier and Hanzo’s Scatter Arrow. We can’t give away all the changes here, but another classic will be reintroduced – in a different, less overwhelming way – as a Major Perk for a certain icy DPS hero.
Mei has an ability that protects the team plus an ult that’s a group cc.
Doomfist has 100% pure dps abilities except for a block that only protects him.
A swap of their roles might be the best thing Blizz ever did. And that’s exactly why they won’t because they never get anything right in terms of gameplay.
