Reddit | heroesofthestorm » Tanks have not had a real patch in over a year!

BlizzAZJackson

leonblacktwitch

A bit disingenuous to say the tank meta hasn't been basically the same all of 2020. It's been 4 tanks + 1 support with one of the tanks being powerful due to a really bad bug.

Johanna has been dominating the meta for far longer than 2020(and still getting buffed somehow? blessed 20??) and in E.U. ETC was already there.

NA has caught up to ETC being a very safe to play tank with high reward.

Mal'ganis only existed in the meta because (at least in NA) because the ETC craze wasn't popular yet and more importantly, a game breaking bug that when fixed, dropped his (public) win-rate by 5%.

Garrosh will always be around because his kit is fun and oppressive whilst not necessarily the best, he can take over games and snowball games to easy wins. I'm sure his win-rate is not good right now as his 2 worst matchups jo/etc are the most popular atm.

Uther being picked as a tank just further proves how stale the tank role is that we have to go find supports with kits that are easier to execute than a hero suchas muradin. (Stun cdr quest anyone?)

Some tank changes I'd like to see off the top of my head -

Garrosh

• I'd like to see him get some late game power specifically in his storm talents

Muradin

• Remove the cast time on Q(or reduce?), change baseline quest to 15 stacks instead of 25 (+2 bonus for kill instead of 3)
• Make his w talent an ability actually worth using besides enabling talents.

Stitches

• Give him waveclear to compete with johanna
• Make his w either uninterruptible or make it so it at least doesn't full cooldown when it does (Such-as it was before they reworked him in late 2018).
• Fleabag was a cool talent but I guess that got replaced with his W at 4
• Please just give him his old hook range back, its really frustrating to not actually be able to do any fog of war hooks until you get fishing hook.

Diablo -

• the 13 quest should just be reverted or altered to be more powerful. if not reverted, buff the current one to actually give value to stacking your quest whilst you're stacking it and not get (lol -15 armor) on the 6th wallbang. something like, -3 armor per stack and bonus -5 when you complete the quest totaling -20 armor.

Tyrael

• some mana love and some wave clear (although ill admit tyrael is probably better than I give him credit for as I watch him be very successful in E.U.)

Anub

• Lower CD of Locust swarm

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At the end of the day the current meta in the game = easy to play+high reward heroes are dominating which is what ETC/johanna/uther encompass.

Thanks, this was useful. Notes made.

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/gwebhg/tanks_have_not_had_a_real_patch_in_over_a_year/fsx0hz6/

2020-06-04 17:41:09