you should mostly play tank.
And if you all play tanks already, you’re a very vocal minority.
Queue times are what’s matters. You had a year to be pick up tank and you didn’t because that’s not a fun role. Time to change things up.
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Time for a change
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Too bad DPS will always be the most fun/popular role for most people, I don’t think there’s much we can do to change that 🤷
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You can’t judge the players on this… Blizzard just handled tanks terrible.
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Every single game that features the holy trinity has tanks and healers outnumbered by dps tenfold in groupfinders. Overwatch has showed us why tanks are always outnumbered in groups… Because queue times become too damn long. Tanks are the bottleneck.
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This might come as a surprise to you OP, but 2-2-2 is actually not as popular as you think and certainly not way way way more than 1-2-2 so yeah.
Let it burn.
And throw the ashes to the trash.
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QP queue times for me are usually 2 mins tank, 3-4 mins support, 4-5 mins dps. So it’s not like tank is a role that isn’t played at all. Some tanks are fun to play while others need improvement.
5v5 feels like a cheap fix to any current issues and one that brings about a host of issues of it’s own.
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Did they say this in the stream? That 1 tank will reduce the queue times? Because I’m sure they’re calling the 1-2-2 change the Selling a Bridge plan.
People don’t like playing tanks for a lot of reasons. Not doing the big numbers is one but they’ve had big numbers before and didn’t increase people playing it. The other is that the tanks have to help and protect other players. They have to focus on that more in order to play the character well.
Though I’d argue the biggest reason why people would rather play DPS even with a queue time is that more than half of the cast of the game is in the role. Why go play 7 or 8 when you get a choice of 17 to pick from? Also the way the characters play in the DPS role are a bit more diverse than the other two.
All of the roles are fishing for players. Tank and Support are using a rod and bait while DPS is using a net.
I remember screaming from the sidelines that queue times would skyrocket and that people would still complain about their team comps. And that drastic measures might have to be taken to make the format work. All i was met with was ridicule. Low and behold, now people are mad because the game has to change because of downsides 2/2/2 would come with. Downsides they were warned for.
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1-2-2 sounds much better than 2-2-2. Open Queue gang stay superior 
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Yep, deserved.
Many of us said RQ solves 1 problem to bring other 2-3. Now this is what we get. GGs
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But muh non existent 5 dps comps.
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Nerf mr FanTheHammer, Mrstormarrow and Ana sleep and antinade… and I will be more than happy to tank again… (and to play something that isn’t always rein rein rein rein rein, god I love him but sometime I wanna change…)
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it goes beyond that i believe…
reducing the number of tanks to one affects every player in the game and it affects every hero…
sure it affects tanks bc they have to deal w/ more pressure
but support players are also going to be forced to deal with more pressure bc they won’t have as much protection
and in general every player’s performance will matter more bc there are less people to pick up the slack if one player is underperforming
but you’re absolutely right… tanks are gonna be affected the most… on live right now if your dps is underperforming you can make do bc tanks are the real powerhouses but if your main tank is doing poorly most of the time you’re going to get absolutely wrecked
Shortening the queue times is all well and good, but you have to fix the source of the problem and not try to hide the problem.
the priority passes couldn’t really improve the queue times and 122 probably won’t make it either.
As a solo tank you are exposed to significantly more pressure, the skill level will increase and the team will quickly become toxic if you don’t play the (meta) tank. As a result, the number of tank players will drop even more and then we will have 5v5 but the same queue times as before. The tanks were literally melted in the live stream. At least that’s my fear.
Also, many heroes will be nerfed because of the lack of a tank, from tankbusters like Reaper or Hanzo to snipers like Ashe and Widow.
Do you have any evidence at all to back up this claim?
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That already happens. Ask the hog mains.
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Alternatively: Anyone that is currently playing Tank should move over to DPS. Strike and make the DPS queue times as long as humanly possible.
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I know, but it is likely to get worse.
I don’t agree with that.
I think, from what we’ve seen of the new maps, the dps have more ways to actually flank and get into good positions to make the space by themself.
In the gameplay they’ve shown, it was even scary, the Widows were dominating the maps. But I’m sure they’ll make some changes to DPS as well, that’s still a work in progress. We’re far from release.