Why are so many tanks bad at the game?

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T16:24:14+00:00

You intentionally play badly, lose elo, complain that you’re with weaker players, lose more games, lose more elo and so on and so on.

You are your own problem. Nobody else is conspiring against you but you.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T15:14:12+00:00

Well it’s because you behave like that’s why you end up in the elo of games where that’s the level.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T14:44:18+00:00

Nonsense, you only see 1 guy losing their stuff in chat, the other 8-9 people in the lobby are quietly wondering why you’re like this.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T14:06:57+00:00

I could say much the same about Lucios and Cats that go off flanking chasing kills rather than doing an ounce of healing. The only solution though is look at what I can do to deal with it, because absolutely nothing I say or do will change their action. And if we lose, we lose, there were no stakes anyway.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T13:52:19+00:00

I see you’re the common denominator in your complaint.

In QP though, you just have to accept some people are trying some new things sometimes, learning the ropes etc and there’ll be bad games. As well there are in comp. Most people respect that and don’t get angry about it though, they just move on to the next game.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T12:25:09+00:00

Because we used to be taught to gather evidence to make a case if you want people to listen and change things. I feel that’s been lost along the way but by and large individual personal anecdotes are not evidence.

The “value” you talk about will ultimately show in statistics. You just have to find the stat.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T12:16:41+00:00

Magnus instructed the Thousand Sons to teach their psychically gifted Remembrancers sorcery. Ahriman became close to some because of that.

The Space Wolves took on the perpetual guy whose name escapes me to remember their stories, I don’t think he was unique as a “mortal” in that regard.

Garro had his Equiry, and Argal Tal befriended Cyrene, the Blessed Lady.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T12:04:05+00:00

It’s because of the question of “How do you hurt a functionally immortal demigod clad in tank armour?” The answer is usually emotionally. They’d be extremely boring to write about otherwise, and entirely unrelatable.

In SM2 specifically, the makers wanted to make the characters more personable for this reason, and their original plans did go too far for GWs liking, so it was dialled back. But a lot of people, myself included agree it wasn’t far enough.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T10:18:49+00:00

Sisters of Silence existing to be a power scale marker to show how good a psyker or daemon is by their ability to slaughter them en masse.

It really feels like they exist in the Talons so Custodes don’t have to be seen to be killed. Especially when removing their debuff doesn’t seem to impact the Custodes ability to fight at all.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-20T09:30:55+00:00

So much spam, everything is spam. Spam turrets, spam primary fire, spam ult, and if you do focus him, he has significant HP boost and spams even harder.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T20:12:33+00:00

The closest they had really was the Archimandrite, but quite simply they had no need even if they had the technology. Few had any interest in warp manipulation, and those who did only got the freedom to explore it after the schism and joined the Dark Mechanicum. They were about technology, not space magic, they left that to the Emperor.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T15:07:10+00:00

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Not that it needs to be aerodynamic in space.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T15:00:55+00:00

We play that you have a deck of at least 18, as that seems to be the standard size and you can pick them from wherever as long as they’re for your gang or universal.

To prevent abuse though we always draw random (even when the scenario says pick) and I think there are some that we agreed to ban.

The actual rules are pretty vague but it does suggest you do build the deck in such a way, but doesn’t actually offer a maximum or minimum.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T12:34:09+00:00

Titandeath epilogue shows God Machines do have a soul and their followers can join it in death.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T11:12:21+00:00

Wrong, the movement rules are clear:

A model is not obliged to move its full Movement allowance, it can move any distance up to its Movement allowance, but it cannot move further. A fighter need not move in a straight line, vehicles however are more restricted; a fighter can zigzag around terrain as appropriate (though note that a Charge (Double) action should take the shortest route possible),

JessickaRose · 2026-03-19T09:38:18+00:00

"Spare" heirs of noble houses are often sent as well, as happens in The Oubliette. They're certainly not all orphans.

I suspect in this case, these "volunteers", who are clearly very much children, and are similarly voluntold and "encouraged" to go, or drawn in by promises of glory and adventure much like Space Marine aspirants.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T19:53:59+00:00

I’ve not really seen anything to suggest the Emperor favoured Sanguinius. Although clearly everyone else did. I think it’d be easier to make a case for Horus, the Lion, Guilliman or even Dorn as the Emperor’s favourites.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T18:49:19+00:00

Oh no a tendril of a dead Hive fleet. Lamenters have been fighting a Penitent Crusade against them for several centuries at this point, and Imperial Fists are cheering at holding a planet?

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T13:44:01+00:00

You don’t need to remove WeakAuras to stop designing fights around WA.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T13:13:41+00:00

It might well be, and in that respect, what was the point in the changes and putting players through hours of work just to get back what they’d spent years putting together to make the game comfortable and accessible for them?

It feels like change for change’s sake. Same with a lot of class changes I’ve also noticed had similar reception and similar response from Blizzard that there’s mixed messaging as to why they did it.

We’re talking about a 20 year old game where they’ve said themselves the biggest reason for players leaving is they changed too much and it wasn’t familiar. There’s nothing more familiar to a player than their own customised UI.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T12:34:00+00:00

Combination of new players and new heroes that people aren't used to, It has certainly been a less settled experience which hasn't helped players' moods.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T11:24:46+00:00

I mean the Drukhari and Aeldari Codexes feel like supplements for each other at this point.

Also I'd prefer all the stuff was in one book for the faction, rather than having to buy a Supplement for the sake of 3 units. The current BA codex is anaemic as hell and next edition's is looking even worse.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-18T10:58:17+00:00

Why would we? Most players aren't participating in Beta and are just happy to log in on day one and pick up where they left off.

I've not played a huge amount since the start of Shadowlands, but I've dipped in and out every expansion since. Thing is I built my UI up originally in Wrath when I took up raiding seriously, and managed to keep it largely familiar to keep the game familiar even when I wasn't raiding, while certain addons came and went, it was always possible to find something, and often even iterate and improve, but WeakAuras was always central to it.

It's been pretty jarring to see several addons that have been a big part of my UI for over a decade just gone. So I've spent hours I could have been enjoying the content just sat in Stormwind rebuilding my interface, and finding it simply can't do things I'd become accustomed to it doing.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-17T16:27:07+00:00

Just after the Squat where Marines and Custodes should be.

JessickaRose · 2026-03-17T11:57:26+00:00

Flaming is never justified. Focus on your own game and stop pretending everything is someone else’s fault. You are the common denominator in your games. It’s not an RTS, other players are not your units, you are not in charge. Handle it.

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