I still can’t believe tanks are as strong as they are, currently. Every game comes down to a tank diff. Look at Doomfist, he was giga buffed and then nerfed after a week in 2022, and look at him now; he’s stronger than he was back then and yet he isn’t even the meta pick.
If you want to win on:
DPS, counter swap the enemy tank
Support, heal your tank so they never die
Tank (easiest) play better than enemy tank and be open to switching
I have an 80% win rate in masters and I could probably get to GM if I didn’t despise this game. The balance is atrocious, and yet tank players will still cry when they get diffed. This game is just not skill based anymore, especially on DPS.
Even in 6v6, they need to be strong (and well balanced inside of the role) or you get long queue times. We already saw what happens to queue times in 6v6 when tanking becomes too boring.
Obviously they gotta be strong, just not the current raid boss strong.
A lot of what made tank weaker in 6v6 got tossed out the window, and there’s more options available on the tank roster.
Yeah, it would kill the game for me. Obviously depends on the DPS or support player. Some are very reasonable of course. But the stereotype of which you refer to would basically gut tanks and make the role suck. Many would go open queue which is basically another way of just soft removing tanks from the game.
Or… Hear me out… Figure out how to play around a tank like you do in every other game with a tank? Avoid them, kill their team. That’s literally the job of everyone. Tanks aren’t really too powerful, they are just tanks and too many people think this is a pure fps and not a real time strategy game. Kill a tanks support and watch how fast they die. They aren’t invincible they are just good at soaking damage and having sustain, so you and everyone knows it doesn’t work why are you still doing it and being mad that it doesn’t work? Play the right game and no tank will bother you. None of them do enough to win on their own.
I flex a lot and do unironically find tanking fun and engaging. I enjoy tanking more when they’re overall weaker though because the entire game doesn’t revolve around counterwatch and tank diffs. Less impact = less blame, less counter-swapping, less toxicity. You can see this in the rare 1-2-2 open queue mirrors with the tank nerfs. And OW classic even.
