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Heroes needs to update their roles.

Warrior, assassin, specialists, and support. Those are the four roles in HotS, and honestly, it needs to be expanded. Leoric isn't a solo tank, he's a bruiser, Tassadar, even after his rework, isn't a "healer" I still have had some crazy quick match comps where it's solo tass versus double healer. And now with Medivh, he's a specialist, but he doesn't push like all the others. I think heroes could use a revamp of their roles.

Edit: for anyone still running into this, yes I know specialists don't push. My point is every other one does, and blizz had to change the icon to go away from that since Medivh's release.

  • Centaurik
    Posted 7 years, 8 months ago (Source)

    They also need to update the hero description text a bit just for linguistic consistency.

    For some heroes the description starts with an article: "A resilient melee fighter..." (I like this description style more as it homes in on the role or feel of the hero)

    While for others it starts with a verb "Can cloak out of combat.." (Reads more like a basic description of the kit)

    You can tell that some heroes are from an older version of the game because of this.

    Good News Everyone!

    We are definitely in discussion on expanding our roles. We agree that the 4 (or 5...) currently in use don't do every Hero justice. We think we could do something better, but we're still pretty early on in talks, as it has an impact on quite a few number of systems.

    But! I can say that we are updating the Hero Description texts in a very near patch! We're gonna be a lot more blunt with them, and straight up say how that Hero is pointed, explaining when they excel. We're also discussing if there are ways we could surface this now-more-useful information in the place you really want it: the draft screen! Anyways, it's still in dev, but something you can be looking forward to soon(ish...ish...well you know how these things work by now...)

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