Mercy was a must pick when she could soloheal, and a trash pick now that she can’t.
Blizz needs to give Mercy something to contribute in the midfight other than her beams.
… What’s that? She can rez?
Dude, it’s on a cooldown that’s longer than some ults take to charge, and using it during combat is suicidal.
… What’s that? She has Valkyrie?
Dude, that’s just “moar beemz.” So what if she can fly during it? Mobility doesn’t swing a fight on its own.
I’d be up for removing rez and making her beams REAL strong.
Hell, give her a E which cranks up aim assist on the target, so she can finally heal bad aim.
I’d rather have more to do than just “beams and rez” in a fight. Removing rez and strengthening the beams would do the opposite, and that doesn’t sound fun at all.
I want Mercy to have another ability to contribute in the midfight, that isn’t beams or rez.
The jump, pin and kill ability the assassin had?.
It isn’t a safe ability to use, but hearing people screaming in their mics for help because they flanked her, and she got her jump off would be funny as all hell.
its double her base hps when she heals armor. Still most powerful healer.
Lucio would like a word.
How about you try something actually constructive. Complaining only perpetuates the cycle of salt.
This IS constructive
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t balance around solo’ing? Please? Anyone is a “trash pick” when solo’ing, doesn’t means they’re trash.
D.va is trash as solo tanking, Reinhardt’s trash at solo tanking, Soldier 76 is trash at solo DPSing, Mei is trash at solo DPS’ing, Sombra’s trash as a solo DPS.
Wanting Mercy to be good at solo-healing is inherently wanting Mercy to be oppressive when she isn’t the only healer the same way wanting Sombra to be good at solo DPS’ing is wanting Sombra to be oppressive when she has others helping her on the DPS’ing.
Lucio has much more going for him than Mercy does.
Mobility is used to extend the uptime of the rest of a hero’s kit (aka avoiding dying) and reach optimal positions to use that kit.
Aside from his mobility, Lucio has his auras (including an amazing speed aura), great cc, and decent kill potential.
Aside from her mobiliy, Mercy only has her beams and rez (which was already gone over in the op)
She also has a gun, but you need to take time to swap to it, and it sacrifices the use of Mercy’s beams while it’s equipped.
So if 60 is too much, and 50 is too little, wouldn’t one assume 55 would be better?
NCT has the right idea:
We need to give Mercy more to do. She needs to expand her identity beyond “just healing”, because being able to solo heal oppresses the rest of the healer roster… but not being able to solo heal puts Mercy at a troll pick until she brings more to the table than “just healing.”
Look at the other main healers:
Ana brings healing and cc
Moira brings healing and damage
It’s time for Mercy to catch up.
I think the OP is hinting at Mercy’s issues being much more than just the hps. Honestly, I would be fine with continuing with the 50 hps if it meant her base kit and ult actually being fun to use.
If they are adamant about not reverting her healing nerf then they need to bring back tempo resurrect.
They took it away and gave Ana a tempo healing ultimate. Put Mercy on par with tempo resurrect.
Tempo rez was only balanced when it was earned.
If Mercy’s going to get tempo rezzing back, rez is going to have to go back to being an ability you earn through good performance… aka an ult. Otherwise we’ll go back to the moth meta nightmare, where everyone can tempo rez instead of only the really good Mercy players.
And you did have to be really good at Mercy in to play a tempo rezzing playstyle (back when rez was an ult). Ult-Tempo-rezzing requires Mercy to charge ressurect much more often than the more defensive, reactionary playstyles. You had to play really aggressively in order to charge your ult as quickly as possible, and risked a lot more if you made a botched rez.
Tempo resurrect is not the same as mass resurrect.
Tempo resurrect happened when you could resurrect, ult and resurrect 2 more people.
That is tremendous value out of an ultimate inherently.
That doesn’t change the fact that an ability that must be earned through good performance is another way to describe an ult.
Tempo rezzing was a legit playstyle when rez was Mercy’s ult.
We have statistic evidence that tempo rezzing with rez as an E abilty is OPAF, so that only leaves one option left if we want to bring tempo rezzing back: make Mercy earn her tempo rezzes… you know, like an ult.
So no doubt, she could be more fun.
But if we’re talking viability and balance, then 55hps would probably do the job.
Personally, the hps isn’t my biggest concern. If she has a kit more suited to act mid-fight it will probably balance anyway (rez really isn’t much of a mid-fight ability).
Cough Pacify cough
Which she can already do with Valkyrie as evidence has proven in the past.