We NEED to force more people to play support/tank

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I agree with you in that the games feel brutal because no one gives a care to team composition and everyone is a DPS main. However, buffing Tanks will not fix this. People play DPS because they think they are DPS gods and can relate to the ‘cooler’ DPS heros. In the current state of the game, Tanks and Support are actually too strong. So keep that in mind; those two roles are even overtuned at the moment, and the DPS players still will not play them. It’s not a balance issue. Buffing them will only broaden the gap in balance. That’s why we have 3-3 at the moment.

These DPS players just think they’re pro-DPS gods.

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As a Tracer main I find being a tank a chore, and just plain boring. IMO if tanks did more damage and had more mobility I’d consider giving it a try.

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I think It’s against the intention of blizzard you know. Seeing how they nerfed supports and tanks so many times recently, i think they want to force people to stop playing supports and tank, and go full DPS.

And i’m sure the same people are the ones complaining if there’s nobody who wants to play tanks…

Because most supports and tanks main play DPS nowadays lol

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“Force” is the wrong word, we need to pair up the roles together properly through automated systems built into the game. We have tried the Laissez-faire version of OW where everyone just does what they want and hopefully for the good of the team they flex. It has failed. Overwhelmingly the experience is just a bunch of players playing dps with maybe a healer or maybe a tank lucky if you get both.

Yes it will increase the queue times for those who only ever want to dps but at the same that that incentivizes players to try out roles and heroes again and to be more flexible.

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Bingo!

Same thing could be said for supports too. Once there was a time when one support in the team is enough, and then came the devs and their nerf hammer…

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There’s baptiste, which doesn’t have that much of a pick rate. I don’t think more supports will help as long as playing them is still a chore to most people.

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I mean, do we REALLY need more bad supports and tanks trying to learn 2 new classes of character, alongside with them playing DPS badly?

Not trying to be rude to anyone in specific, but I haven’t seen a good tank in weeks.

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You mean making this game to what is said below?

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I cant even play reinhardt at the moment. When baptiste has amp matrix up bastion deals 900 damage per second to give you an idea he can shoot for 10 seconds straight. What the hell am I supposed to do against 9000 damage JUST FROM BASTION. We’re not even talking the other 5 heroes damage.

at full strength my shield can only provide cover for less then 3 seconds.

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Yes, cause you know, tanking and healing… not sure where those design along with DPS ever came from :roll_eyes:

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Once again, bingo!

I just can’t see what’s happening on the head of the people who called for tank nerfs and still expect other people to play tanks for them.

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Que times are disproportionate for the roles based on their respective player population, so nope.

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Btw there’s one support that perfect for supporting dps, you know.

And was nerfed hard.

50 hps says hello

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Why are people so afraid of tanks and supports being balanced alongside dps?

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Not particularly afraid, just don’t want this game to become cod: super powers edition. Might as well remove classes and make every1 dps.

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Everybody is a dps already.
Tanks and supports just have more on top of that.

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That’s the problem…

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just take the role out entirely

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Players would just leave at screen selection if they are forced to play a role they don’t want.

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If the game is giving you the feeling that you need to “flex or lose” then isn’t it already forcing you and others like you to flex to support/tank? :thinking: