If you want to help restore balance, then remove DPS talents from healers. Make them into Shields or extra damage mitigation so they dont get slaughtered, but really its time to remove DPS talents from them. Why you say? So many join for fast que times and then do not play the heal spec. If Blizzard feels it is important enough to carry 2 heal specs, then they must feel that you need actual healers. So with that being said. Please just remove the dps talents from all heal class, make them damage mitigation and heals only … it will deliver a balance to the matches.
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Oh hells no.
It will deliver unending DPS queues because no one is going to play support without the ability to fight off attackers.
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but im a dps moira and a dps lucio and a dps ana
also a dps brig
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So you want healers to become defenseless healbots that are even more reliant on their team mates?
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Hence the new talents for damage mitigation… such as teleport, vanish, a pally shield affect… something. When people Que as 1 heal and then do not heal…
Then make tanks only taunt and block damage? Only dps can deal damage in the whole game or? That sounds so boring and stupid
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So, the primary role of healer… is to heal… hence the role. When they dedicate 2 out of 6 slots to this … and neither do it, why not just dedicate 4 dps and get rid of the role all together.
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Dps talents?
I’d argue the only pure damage ability on a support is Damage orb on moira, which, I agree, I hate because theres no utility to it. But what other damage talents are you talking about? Every other ability on a support, damaging or not has another purpose.
Or are you just petitioning to remove damage from supports entirely? In which case no, I’d rather keep my adorable pistol whipping mercy’s thank you very much. I like them.
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Fun fact: Heal Toons was my third favorite superhero team growing up.
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Okay so what you’re saying is because players choose to use them that way, blizzard should just ruin their self defense ability for all the people who play them correctly??
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its funny, i had the opposite philosophy. healers should be stronger.
only slighter weaker than dps. but should be able to pump out similar damage values.
now while that sounds crazy, any hero can seem overpowered in a vacuum. You’d be healing more than damage dealing and if you really want to kill the team instead of heal, well enjoy the avoidances and the drop in sr
ana and zen are good examples of this. You could play both as DPS but you’d be throwing
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the role is support, not healer. I think you are lost because you are basing your argument on a false assumption.
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I wonder if OP is a Genji main.
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Sounds good. then we take heals away from tanks and dps (including self heal and shields) and lets do this.
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No, mostly tank and support.
Uh, no. Not like most dps players will peel.
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Ok, let me rephrase this. The Primary function of the heal class (yes, that’s a cross, means medical) is to heal. The weaker or secondary ability is to defend ones self via dps. My theory was to change the DPS to damage mitigation or a self defense talent (Pally shield, poison circle, land mines, basically not a ranged weapon). Oh and Shadowcat, for the record, Junkrat is my main 
There is no such class.
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The role’s called Support, not Pacifist-run Healer…
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