Just chiming in to say that when Echo does get released, I want her to be a DPS. I feel like the graceful, feminine, calm healer with a white color palette has already been done with Mercy, and I would be a bit disappointed to see that trope done over again.
I could easily see Echo having some kind of energy or psionic weaponry that allows her to placidly wreck house without a lot of visible gun-like structures built into her.
Echo is going to be hero 31 and her design screams support to me. So I’m gonna have to lean towards hero 30 being a tank though I could be wrong. Anyways, I want to see a Talon tank so that we can finally make a full Talon comp.
I would’ve liked a non-healing support, but with the Support category being renamed to Healer and restructured, I don’t think we can really get one.
I’d think the closest we’d get is something like Zen (sans ult), or a Zarya/Brig hybrid, where their main role is non-healing support but Blizzard has to stick some healing somewhere, however small, because otherwise you have to choose between putting her in the damage category (in which case she is just an inferior DPS) or putting her in the support category (in which case people complain she has no healing and is miscategorised).
Blizzard has tried a non healing support. The community is too immature to handle it and false reported Symmtera players to no end even though they had the highest winrate in the game and basically the best ult in the game with shield gen. The general community is pretty low iq. Even now if you try and play Symmetra and call out in match setup to use tele at start people are so dense they don’t even know the difference between left and right. I’ve tested it extensively while pointing out left or right 3 times to make sure everyone heard you still get every time at least 2-4 people not coming usually 4. The community is pretty low iq I’m sorry they’ll never handle having a non heal support. They already flip out if they see a Moira dps even though she has to, to refill her resources. Fyi this is diamond to mid gm ranked players so no excuse.