Okay, so am i the only person who always play either support or tank? Whether it’s Qp or comp i usually end up being one of them. It’s not a must to play tank or support in quickplay but it’s really dissatisfying watching the whole team with low health, or getting rolled because we don’t have a shield tank.
Now that i have 20+ hours on each support it feels weird not being support. Like today i was playing comp and we had 2 healers and 2 tanks, i honestly didn’t know what dps to go. (i can play most dps) but i don’t main a dps (i used to main tracer, but i haven’t played her in awhile). At that second, i went ‘what is dps’ insert * is this 'a butterfly meme *
We did win in the end but i couldn’t be dps so i switched to baguette.
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It’s really a problem that Blizzard clearly knows DPS are more enjoyable (at least to the majority of the community, I and lots of other people take joy in the other roles), we need more main tanks and main healers with super-fun gameplay. More soulsuccing Moira, less spectator Mercy.
I’ve been playing Symmetra lately, I think the game is most enjoyable when you pick a hero you don’t normally play for a bit. I find myself coming back to Ana and Brigitte in cycles. Don’t be afraid to lock in a DPS even if you’ve already got two (in QP anyway, try not to be too selfish in comp), there’s no reason you need to have a 2-2-2 comp every game and variety is the spice of life.
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We need a role queue. Or we need 2 game modes:
1st - i amm selfish dps and will mostly one trick (so most of dpses can play in heavy 6 vs 6 dps sh*t show
2nd - i am a teamplayer and i like good setups - so all other can play with some decent setups and not feel frustrated every game
2 modes won’t work, as the selfish player goes to the second option, as a dps.
To play in a comp.
I can understand the frustration especially when you’re lower ranked but you know you are better.
(you easily compete with platinum and diamonds but your sr is 1.8k)
You don’t want to be the pocket mercy or the afk shield bot for your silver wanna be dps pro’s.
I know this sounds egoistic but that’s how I climbed from silver to high plat.
Theres no way i’m gonna tank for a braindead support, forgetting to heal and dps having no idea what to do.
What I do see, is that this mentality can take over in the higher ranks, where it just doesn’t work anymore.
Everyone climbed by this method, so your dia dps won’t tank for his dia teammates…
At some point your team isn’t trash anymore.
And the tanks would get healed if there would be any on the team.
That’s how I see it happen also in the higher ranks.
Bc lets face it, top 1 player in the world, would rather keep his team alive instead of trying to 1v6 in gm.
Bc he knows, without backup nobody can do anything.
i am not saying just for comp. For qp also. And it should be automatic. You flex, heal or tank? second group. All other 1rst group
I meant the ego dps would choose it to play in a great composition.
Also i don’t think just picking tank/support shouldn’t directly put you in a better que.
What if I want to dps, but 2 where faster, so we throw as orisa no shields at all to give them a bad game.
I know when it comes to compositions its often too many dps players, but you can really only achieve something out of it if other roles are as attractive and fun to play.
Or did you mean if I role que 2 times as dps i get thrown into the 1. Group of all dps unless i play a round in between as tank/support?
Would be pretty hard to really get into a hero.
Like ok I could kinda play tracer🙄 then zarya to keep on tracking aim improvements.
I won’t go and play widow then ape then widow then brig then again widow.
It could work with ana but its a big difference imho.
As zarya you can at least live the life of a dps monster… If that’s what you desire to be.
I like the ideas, but my best solution would be to force a 6vs6 mode, and give Ingame options to find something like guilds so you can play with like-minded players the game as it is intended to be played.
In a 6 stack team if jonny never swaps of his bad widow, he gets removed from the team and replaced with a flex-dps which would appreciate to be part of a team.
That’s my solution, which works amazing in wow, from 3-5h waiting, it improved all the way to: you can get online and have like 20 ppl rdy to rumble without any waiting time. Otherwise you spend hours to find ppl and those ppl leave during the group fill waiting time. = lfg
I mean they said there should be upcoming social features… Lets see
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They can easily make players switch(through SR bonuses for switching), etc …
But they don’t want good Genjis being forced not to play Genji.
Yet, they don’t mind good Symmetras/Meis/Torbs being banned for just picking a hero ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah but this is basically the community, which seems to really hate these heroes…
The biggest issue is just that some heroes have a crazy skill celling, and we need more of them, waaaay more.
Bc currently we have the highest skill a support can output with simply great aim is ana/zen
But they are not quite on the level a genji/tracer as example can reach.
I am fine with heroes (don’t wreck me) briggite, which basically does nearly everything for you, clutch E is still your job, or activating the stun the right moment.
But we need heroes with a possible impact if good enough played. And the abilities to get even more out of it. But not just value from the go to.
Especially in the tank/support category, ana is a prime example, which just got overlooked bc of mercy. But mercy, ofc could rezz huge. But in terms of healing its imho not fair, unless they nerf mercy or buffed ana (like instead of mercy nerf, they buff ana to dubble heal on hs)
But even more healing? No thanks
Not with this meta. (pro play meta)
So they did something, but its not enough to just make ana the best high skill healer, we need more in general.
As example hammond isn’t that bad… After watching pro’s with 24/7 hs tracking…
Fun to play but hard to get value… Actually not that bad, but not really good either, mostly he feeds…
i wholeheartedly hate enyone who pick satan. Same with the person who came up with the idea for that broken cc trash of character design
Why can’t I get that. I get 4 to 5 dps imstalocking the character to go upfront and die because we have a tank constantly dead
You get that once your team wants to win aka abuse something to get the win.
Support and play with ur tank an u’ll get something. When i get 4 instalock dps team i will just switch to something i can silently “throw” with. Which means i play for example widow so i can train my accuracy, but will never touch the objective until they switch. No point in playing when u have a team of ignorant dpses with their 400iq plan how they will solo win the game