Tanks have not had a real patch in over a year!

Blizzard Response

Hey everyone Lauber here and I have been a tank main ever since I started playing hots for about 5-6 years ago and im gona keep playing atleast a bit longer.

I'v always liked tanking and expecialy in competetive or when you are on voice with friends, since having a team that follows up on your engages and winning the teamfight because of it, is the most rewarding feeling in hots for me!

Anyway i didn't really come to talk about why and how i play tank, more so about how stale it is for a long time tank main right now. And i'm not talking about heroes not being viable or that 3 heroes have been dominating the meta for a very long time now. I wanna talk about the patches for tanks, or the lack off.

Let me start of saying that i think blizzard have mostly did a good job over the years with changing and making the tank role feel fun and exciting. Until early 2019. The last patch that actually changed the roll somewhat was patch 2.45.1 that was realeased 2019-05-22. In this patch both tanks and healers got a bunch of changes to talents and a few abilities that made the roll more fun. You could experience with diffrent builds and theorycraft untill you found the best or the most fun one. But ever since that patch, Blizzard will barley look at tanks. The patches we have had beetween has been basicly small hp buffs on a few heroes and one talent slightly buffed or nerfed. Mostly on the lesser played tanks like stiches and anuburak. And the patch that arived yesterday further proves my point.

So my question is.. Why? I can only specelate but what i think might be the biggest reason is that blizzard is to focused on win rate percentage. "Look Steve! The tanks are all on a fairly even % winrate so therefore we don't need to change them" and while that looks good on papper it makes the people who mains tank less willing to play for each patch, (speaking from my own experience and talks with other tank mains) furthermore i would also argue that tank is the most difficult/frustrating role to play in SL with healer slightly behind. So by not changing it up for tank mains it will just push people away from tanking and soon SL lobbies will be filled with 5dps mains vs 4dps main and a healear.

I'l take anything at this point. Make changes so all the tanks becomes worse! I don't mind it as long as it changes the playstyle of said hero in one way or another. Also please nerf cursed bullet, thanks!

TLDR: no real tank changes for over a year. the game is very stale for a tank mains, pls fix.

Posted Jun 4, 2020, 9:43 AM UTC

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