@HeartQueen I meant that dps is the most popular class if people are free to choose because someone else will play the tanks. In ranked a champ is popular if it is effective. Fernando was the most played tank, till he got nerfed, then he became one of the umpopular tanks. If Barik is so much fun, why was his popularity at 15% at V2.02 and at V2.07 at 65%? In ranked only counts if a tank is strong.

@HeartQueen Every good flank can stomp noobs. I think they are more worried about their pro-players, than about their noobs.

I am not overly eager to get out of Silver. The matchmaking is more or less the same as in Platin but I don't have to wait so long for the match. Is there a statistic how many people are playing in this patch?

@shadowchess said in Items that are now useless...:

There should not be an item that just outshines everything else...Now picking that other time requires me to pause and think about it sometimes where as before i just clicked the same shit over and over

You said yourself that caut is a must pick while wrecker is not. I still pick the same items over and over. After all the items have the same function they just got weaker. So the only difference is, that it's not so important anymore to pick the right items. I can still win with nonsense picks.

I have the same problem. This may be because they resetted the intern ELO. All the soft reboots before you kept your intern ELO so even when losing everything in qualify it was easy to rank up again. Also the match making seems weird now. I had a guy with GM skills in a Bronze rank match.

@shadowchess Wrecker is good, but not good enough to be picked above other items except in very special occasions. There is always a more useful items or a much cheaper one. Viktor needs caut III. For getting wrecker III, I would have to prioritize wrecker but I prioritize cauterize and hardly reach caut III, so I don't waste a slot for wrecker.

@Dusklicious said in Changes for Barik in Season 3.:

I don't want to kill the character, considering he's my main and has been since Open Beta. But I don't like the idea of him being this good. Being the best tank in the game, and IMHO an S+ character overall is simply too much.

Well, I have played far more OP tanks than Barik is now. Is he S+? I think in the tier lists of Jayflare and Randomnoob he was not. The tanks are unbalanced in general atm. Some nerfed to ground like Makoa others buffed like Barik and Raum.

@shadowchess There is no real definition for OP. I'd also say Barik is not OP yet but he is the strongest tank so borderline OP. I'd also remove one turret heal card but it's not a major problem.

I don't buy wrecker anymore. I think I buy more self-buff items like nimble, haven, resil and less caut/wrecker. Rejuve was anyway a tank-only item and it still is, a filler item, if there is nothing else important, or as the main tank to gain some extra heal.

By the way, the items are cheaper but it doesn't feel like I can buy more, have they reduced the credit income?

@shadowchess But the game is super complicated anyway already and adding another game mechanic like that would make it even worse.

I am not fully convinced of the new cauterize. With the whole new item system it seems to make not that much difference what you buy. If wrecker or not, nimble or not, resilience or not feels more or less the same. The matches are not more fun since the big patch.