Tank Changes ruin the creator patch

Support changes: amazing. Fun. Interesting. Dps changes: varied and different.
Tank changes: Are you serious? Why bother playing tank. You cannot do anything. You are along for the ride. You cannot control the pace of the game.

These changes are supposed to be silly and fun. Well, the tank changes are not fun. I bet within a day or two, no one will queue for the tank role and the dps and support queues will be longer than 10 minutes.

Also this tourney is gonna be super boring with these changes

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I don’t know man, Orisa is actually super fun

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Love the tank changes. Play as a team and don’t flank. Hold the front line, command attention but unable to obliterate those in front of you, whilst not getting obliterated yourself.
Counter point, I am deeply enjoying these changes.

Respect your opinion and can see why some wouldn’t like this.

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Finally some love for the changes. Sure some numbers could use some tuning, but the general point makes them more fun and not explode in 2 seconds.

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You do more damage as Winston with melee than left click. Zaryas left click feels like a tickle. Reins hammer is now a pool noodle. No one respects your space because you don’t have the damage to kill anyone that comes near you. All you are is a damage sponge, and that is literally the most boring thing in the world. All the big play abilities the tanks had is gone. If ow2 is anything like this, it’ll be dead in a week

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i’m gonna go try dva, who got hit not only with the tank-wide 50% damage nerf, but her own special fork you in particular nerf of a further 50% on the base damage of her pellets. wish me luck.

this is why i’ve always cringed whenever a content creator says ā€œtanks are too strongā€

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Have fun, if your target gets any form of healing you won’t do anything

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OW2 isn’t gonna be anything like this, literally the opposite

What’s with these people coming on here and saying that today?

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Tanks need to be threatening if they are going to make space, right now you can just ignore them.

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I think the idea with D.va’s is that you can get crazy amounts of ult charge with her matrix, and just constantly counter ult any ults that come your way.

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People need to stop comparing this exc is what Tanks are going to feel like for OW2. Although Tank in this experimental is a joke.

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Good luck ever actually eating any ult, it’s rare to begin with, now you’ll be in the sky 90% of the time. Guess Zarya will have to use grav looking up lol

That’s the same kind of feeling that Damage-role players have when the Tanks end up sitting on chokes or not pushing and making space. Welcome to their world.

Unless you’re putting up a barrier on a choke, most players are going to ignore the non-damaging and non-threatening Tanks in favor of going after other, more lethal sources.

Non-experimental D.va is one of the strongest in terms of damage per second, with infinite ammo and self-destruct. But that also requires her to be in your face gunning you down. Experimental D.va can’t even do that now, but at least she can fly and move as fast as Wrecking Ball now.

So…in short, be there, be between enemies and your fragile teammates. No player agency elsewhere, just being there and try being there for as long as possible is enough.

Sounds like moba tank, imma go play one of those instead of playing this then.

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Exactly. It’s a moba tank. You are there to absorb damage and that is it.

Being in the sky is your own choice, not really an arguement. Or did I miss a change that forces D.va to go up?

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as if rein doing 40 damage a swing commands any attention what so ever.

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Im just locking rein and pinning man.

I do no damage, so dps cant complain, but u bet im gonna swing.

Also, thats why GLOBAL nerfs are bad. While rein orisa are somewhat playable this way, dva zarya are basically useless.

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Frankly moba tanks are more engaging. At least they deal damage and have tools to body block.

in this exc you can literally just jump past tanks.

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