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PLease Blizz can you change QM rules so Varian is classed as a tank
Dunno if everyone feels the same (I've talked to similar minded people in the game), but when one team has a Varian and the other doesn't get a tank it plain sucks.
It's made worse as he is often in games where it is all assassins. His Lock down of Charge and Taunt makes it such an easy kill for his team.
Edit: maybe him being a tank all the time is not the right answer. But having it so that there is at least a bruiser on the other team I think is a really good way to deal with it.
BlizzClaudio
We've discussed this internally and do currently have intentions to reclassify him as a Warrior for QM purposes. We've just been a little busy with 2.0 so we haven't gotten to it yet.
We know we had complaints the other way if your Varian doesn't go Taunt spec but the other team has a Warrior, but we think that is overall better for our players than matching a Varian against a non-Warrior team and they lack that big front line piece and the Varian team gains a sizable advantage because of it. The other team can't opt out of that situation.
If we reclassify him as a Warrior, Varian can opt into whatever he wants given the compositions (he could still go Colossus Smash or Twin Blades if there's another Warrior on his team, etc).