Tank gameplay is going to suck even more with this new patch.
Non-barrier tanks are going to be eviscerated since they have no way to ever cleanse themselves of the -20% on healing.
Nerfed healing + easier to land shots will mean tanks blow up even quicker than they did before.
Tanks get the least benefit from additional HP, since healers/dps are getting ~+25% more HP, while tanks are getting ~+12% more.
The passive healing is a buff to DPS but does almost nothing for a tank since it’s a flat amount across all roles regardless of tanks having 3X as much HP to heal.
Zarya specifically is going to see a huge uplift since she can bubble cleanse to get full healing back.
I just… tank players have been begging for changes to anti-nade because of how oppressive it is, and blizzard’s solution was “OH! Let’s give a version of that to EVERYONE! That’ll be good!”
Tank gameplay is already causing queue bottlenecks even though you only need one. Giving the role a giant middle finger in this patch is baffling.
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Zarya bubble says hi! 
Bubble acts like a cleanse, so even after a target is damaged, bubble will remove the DPS heal debuff.
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Sigma will still be good. Same with zarya.
Other than that… %20 is just shy of mercy dmg boost values…
Imagine the whole team is dmg boosted against the tank…
Even zarya debuff may not be great… considering it can just be reapplied.
Really depends if there is a debuff timer that doesn’t allow it to be re applied
God I hate this sentiment. Tanks are also getting 100 health where some dps are only getting 25-50. Like don’t change it to a percentage to justify inequality. You look manipulative.
Widow gets a quarter of the health increase compared to tanks. She’s getting 25 health while some tanks get 100.
We’ve also heard rumors of damage for tanks going up that probably aren’t rumors but truth.
zarya also got ~30% damage increase =\
Genuinly, I dont think the tank issue can be fixed, some tanks are just not designed well enough to be the ONLY tank. I often find that Sigma/Zarya and Junkerqueen are the only tanks who can fill this single tank role consistently without the need to constantly counterswap.
Dva- Forced to swap when enemy team goes beam hereos
Winston- Forced to swap when enemy team runs heavy burst dmg.
Ball- Sombra/Mei ez
Rein- Literally just play ram and walk over him easy
Ram- Decent, but relies on armor, i find he’s either oppressive or just not the best
Hog- Go ana ez
Mauga- Go ana ez
Orisa- she’s there…like idk walk past her ig she isnt that good once u stop focusing her.
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It is nice when people actually read, like, two lines down lol.
sigma is HARD meta in this house.