So I buy the BP every season, and to get weeklies done I have to do all roles for a portion.
EVERY SINGLE MATCH of all roles i get tank?
it’s because tank is the least played role, hmm why do you think that is? “Points to balancing team”
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Having a role that has switch constantly in matchups. No wonder why the role is a ghost town.
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Because ever patch the tanks are stuck being literal punching bags, absorb every cool down in the game, and have to constantly counter swap every 2 mins essentially playing every tank on the roster in one game. It’s miserable. DPS and Supps can play whatever their heart desires, yet tank has to swap every 20 seconds. Play Ball, oh here’s Sombra. Play DVA, oh here come the beam comps. Play Rein, there’s Bastion. Hog? Here comes Ana.
Almost like 2 tanks mitigated some of this, but then we’d be right back to all DPS stacking stuns and CC on them, which like I said earlier, they are never allowed to be anything but punching bags for every cool down in the game.
What about any of that screams “fun” to you?
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Yea, i guess people did not jump on playing tanks like they supposed to when OW2 started.
Took longer than i expected, but outcome is the same, we back to OW1 problem with lack of tanks, with no real fix on the way. At best they do some short term stuff.
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Same developers, same problems.
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Which is why we had to push out a patch nerfing tanks hardcore. Because obviously we need to show those 5 tank players left who’s boss.
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Need 6v6
solotanking sucks
Everyone knows
Blizz doesn 't admit
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Tank was always the least popular role to play. Its why they went 5v5 instead of 6v6.
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I play tank. Receive 20% less healing while dps is boosted. I just don’t care anymore. Win or lose, no motivation to play, so just chill and have fun.
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Points to 5v5.
Solo tanking is stressful, thankless, and quite frankly unfun. The only times it has been fun has been when it was absolutely overpowered compared to other roles and no one else got to have fun. It’s just counterpick city. And no one wants to live in counterpick city.
Best part is that we’ve lost half of the tank population, likely more. Queue times are at ow1 levels now, which means that despite having more flex queue players, there are less players actually picking tank.
Which means the tank players versus players needed ratio is even lower than before. We’re at less than half the tank players we had in 6v6.
SO CLEARLY THE FORMAT CHANGE IS HURTING THE TANK POPULATION.
“But if we go back we won’t have enough tank players”
If we don’t go back we won’t have any tank players.
Get some oxygen please and think more about it.
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Tank should be the least played role since they only need to make up half the slot on a team the other 2 roles need to
The best player ratio would be half as many tank as dps and support
If tanks had equal players as the other 2 roles tank queues would skyrocker
For every 10 players the ideal ratio is 2 tanks, 4 support 4 dps. You dont want 3 tanks 3 supports and 4 dps cus that doesnt make a match
Tank is currently bare minimum, at 1/4th the playerbase of the other roles Swanky, likely lower since flex players are constantly made into tank players. It desperately needs help, help it can’t get in 5v5 without making dps AND support miserable.
In 6v6, you can make it equally fun because you had two tanks, both of which can help the other with mitigation, neither is a full punching bag.
…So you mean we’d still have shorter queue times on tank then, than we do on dps and support now?
Fascinating.
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- have to switch constantly
- get obliterated by any and all damage
- feel helpless to do just about anything
- can only focus on one thing at a time
- completely alone, and gets blamed easily
- expected to do literally everything in a game when it isn’t even possible
awh gee whizz guys I wonder why no one wants to play tank!
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Aw geez I wonder why 5v5 isn’t fixing the tank playerbase problem, we only need half the players we needed before why don’t we have those players anymore?
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Just revert Hog to the old Hog in season 1 and I’ll be more than happy to tank. Otherwise gsad. They threw him under the bus then made him really boring to play, no thanks.
No youd have longer lol.
If there is 120 players with tank half as popular thats 24 tank, 48 dps 48 support. That is 12 matches with no one waiting
If there is 120 players with all 3 roles equal that means 40 are tank 40 are support and 40 dps. That is only 10 matches with 20 tank players waiting.
Same amount of players, less matches, more people waiting if tank is good
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I get support 90% of the time when flexing in QP. It’s tank in competitive, though.
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I saw this was a confusing wording shortly after I wrote it.
Here’s the updated wording.
Having a tank shortage in 5v5 means we cut the needed number of tanks by half and STILL kept bleeding them and now we don’t even have enough tank players to fill HALF the demand we had before.
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it’s almost like they took what made 6v6 tank miserable and doubled down on it, then forced it on just one tank!
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