Why us tank mains are moving to qp (or quiting)

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this is basically the comp game for a tank main

joins game and picks dva

dps- “omfg if you stay dva i am throwing” or “your a trash tank uninstall” is common too when you win or lose even if you did good.

i would say support as well but i legit rarely have support say anything in my games and i mean like almost never, they barely talk since they are feared to get flamed themselves for just speaking. (sometines they get mad for tanks not pushing but its very rare)

legit playing tank in comp is a waste of time cause you got to deal with toxic a holes most of the time that legit don’t let you play the tanks you want to play and will flame you for legit everything. (i will say this again its funny how dps play whatever they want but will flame tanks for playing whatever they want)

like if you want more people to play tank maybe not be toxic to them? you should not be toxic in gen but telling tanks what to do and annoy them to push up when they can’t is pretty annoying.

“rein push up omg” shields dead and missing teammates

or they force tanks to feed and go in 1v6 since they just dip and leave them.

i am not joking i have been in games where i push up and then die even tho i thought my whole team is will me but when i die and see them they are still in the back line.

like huh? they tell me to push up and don’t even support me?

like i am not even joking go and try and q for tank and you will 100% get flamed and yet people wonder why the role is dead.

people legit expect every tank to play at a top 500 lvl like bro if i was playing at that level i would not be in diamond even with all the smurfs and stuff.

but ya i feel like the dps role is just toxic since they have long q times and are mostly smurfs.

but ya playing tank in comp is not worth my mental health at all and i am going back to qp for the event and gonna turn on epic graphics again since i have no reason to play on low settings anymore. (gonna do the same thing to other comp games, playing r6 on ultra is pretty UwU)

but ya i mostly think the dps role is a problem, that playerbase has problems.

i legit run into so many toxic dps players and their egos are unbearable the higher elo you go.

qp looking very nice compared to comp just saying…

(the nerfs don’t help ether, if tanks get nerfs the other roles should too just saying…)

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Don’t know about you but I just moved to playing dps and support.

Playing giant dps with no range just feels like a torture a lot of the times, not to mention no matter what I take I’m gonna die just by existing.

The devs: want to solve the queue problems
Also the devs: make the role unplayable and not fun anymore.

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Eichenwalde or Hanamura on attack. Every. Single. Time.

The dps WILL NOT move in with you unless they see themselves get a random first kill on the feed. If you try to go in without them playing their little game of trade-off-who-dies-first, they will leave you to die.

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All part of the plan. Now they have an airtight excuse to go 1-3-2 come OW2. Get rid of barrier stacking, other multi tank problems, and role popularity issues all in one go.

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It should be apparent by every bloody update that Blizzard does and with every hero they introduce, that they don’t want anyone to play anything remotely like a shield. They hate shields but can’t remove them entirely, so instead they make shield tanks a chore to play.

Basically they don’t know how to balance the game in the vision they created, so they just turn it into a clone version of an arena shooter, where DPS is king.

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Oh gee it wasn’t like the forums kept complaining about shields until they nerfed them into the dirt or anything

And now forums are complaining that tanking sucks, talk about biting the hand that feeds

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Correction; DPS mains complained about shields. Tanks where very much against it. But since the crying of DPS mains were loud enough - and had support from the pros that own the developers anyway - the shield nerfs went through.

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Oh no you did not!

Relatable.

I’ve seen and I’ve said something. I will say “Why do we have a X hero against X hero” and I will make sugestions about what we need “We need hitscan” “we need main tank” etc etc.

What I usually see then saying is Inaudible screaming idk can be just me though.

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No it wasn’t just DPS mains, double shield is super hated to the point where you still see complaint threads despite there being no evidences

Then there’s the fact that people complain about Rein and Orisa being boring to play so they try and make other tanks more viable

So no, it’s not just dps mains that complained, it was tank and flex players too

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You go to Quick Play to have a good time.

You go to Comp mistakenly to have a good time, and realize too late that people are placing an unhealthy value on that little rank number. Enough to make Comp an unhealthy place for everyone else.

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A lot of things you wrote is true and are part of several reasons why I play only QP/QP Classic while having over 1K hours on Tank role.

Especially in QP Classic where players are happy to have someone pick Tank and you dont get flamed or instructed by others what you should do in your role.

Makes game more enjoyable and less stressfull. While my rank is lower than yours some things are happening across all ranks I guess (exception probably being in GM) and I’m not sure that rank is worth the said stress and verbal vomits from your teammates.

Hopefully you get better and more chill games in QP.

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You’re moving to QP or quitting? Most of us are just switching roles. I’m already practising supports myself

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Fun story: the rare times I play DPS, I sometimes play Sym for some teleporter action. And guess what happens on both of those maps? NOBODY on my team uses the teleporter, they just walk right by it a dozen times while trying to hold the choke. I end up having to solo-tp and try to make things happen on my own, which doesn’t work. Then everyone accuses me of throwing.

It’s really jarring when this happens on Hanamura attack. Literally the meme of Sym TP on this map. Yet my team will just ignore the teleporter while screaming in voice chat that they want a “real dps” and that I’m throwing. I once had a TP up long enough to use it once by myself, die on the point, respawn, and use it again. Meanwhile the team is still idle around the choke point.

I wanted to pull my hair out screaming. There’s something fundamentally wrong with a lot of players in this game.

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Well, yea, tanking is bad, but dont forget, the way to fix it so far was to put in flex q, so people who are not playing tank would be put as tanks in matches so game would not slow down to much with long waiting XD

Oh damn, that is to accurate.
Even if i did pushed in, but died on the way, it was that i played to passive. I passively died from bullets when i was walking forward. Yea…

I had experience of all roles being toxic to each other, cant point out main one. Can say tho some types of toxic players base on specific heroes they pick. Just that their playstyle atract those people, not like i say all mains of those heroes are the same.

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i legit only played comp as these years to get better but instead in return i got flaming toxic teammates and meta slaves complaining about others picks.

really wish comp was just for people who wanted to get better, a unranked mode should of been added a long time ago.

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Double shield was super hated because it required a bit more than just pew pew. Reinhardt is still super boring to play and Orisa is barely viable, without making the other tanks any more viable.

They’ve also not done any changes towards Reinhardt and Orisa to make them any more fun to play. But you still need a Reinhardt at least for the shield he provides - however flimsy it is.

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ya they really messed up tbh.

they can’t remove or buff the heroes and they can’t delete them ether.

as from the movie hotel for dogs i guess the devs can say “we are in deep doo doo” since shield tanks are very tricky to work with.

(like i legit don’t even know what they even can do at this point, they basically killed their game with brig, sigma and orisa)

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I disagree, playing tank is the best role when you get flamed.

Your team needs a shield but they flame?

Guess who just switched to a non shield tank.

Your team doesn’t have any heals?

A shame, guess no more shield for you.

It’s great. You can punish the people by yourself. They will die over and over, I can almost hear them crying.

They need you, you don’t really need them since most tanks are great at dealing massive damage. :^)

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I dont really know what they could do with Rein tho, although his last buff probably makes tanking worst because it didn’t really help him at high level play and just helped low level tanks become artificially inflated because of how good he is when people don’t know how to shut him down

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Not sure they can do anything about Reinhardt to be honest, they’ve painted themselves into a corner and it’s not just wet paint they have to worry about getting out of that corner.

I think that Overwatch inherently is flawed from the base up. They have to rework the entire tank and support category with that in mind, meaning that tanks should lean more towards active mitigation and occupy an area, while support back the team up. Meaning that their ultimate abilities and damage throughput needs to be lowered and new abilities put in place, making it so it’s up to the DPS to actually kill things. As it is now, tanks like Roadhog and Zarya are effectively beefy DPSers when played proficient.

I think it would be quite fun playing a tank in Overwatch that relied on my management of active mitigation and positioning rather than just hold M1 and move forward, swinging my hammer while Mercy and Ana keeps me alive.

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