So I know at this point everyone except Mercy players are done hearing about Mercy changes and just want her to not be game breaking. I agree, she was way OP, the solo res’es were very annoying and easy to pull of, and the ult was even more game breaking. However I don’t think how she is now is fair either. She is very dead in the meta, and is just not fun to play with. I feel everyone is happy but us Mercy mains. I am not saying make her OP again, but how she is now just isn’t right. I know you are all tired of hearing this, but there were not this many problems before. She wasn’t a must pick before her changes and often she was replaced by Zen/Ana in games and now we have Moira too. I just want her to be on par with the other healers. They said (using “they” because I got suspended for harassment for saying “the devs”) if the Mercy changes weren’t working out, (and I think 1000 changes and her state now is evidence that it isn’t,) they would reconsider. Please, I just want her to be an okay pick and and fun to play with. Resing now doesn’t require much thought, and is boring, as is her ulti. It’s really silly to be sitting in the air for even less time now, becoming Orisa with a healing choice. At least Orisa can still do things while ulting and not just sit there as the charger like a potato. Everyone else’s ults are more exciting and fun, and she is really brainless. This is topped by the fact she is extremely under-powered (again devs, if you really do use the 3 point policy thing, you can see from the statistics and the playerbase that she isn’t doing well so maybe you should reconsider). If you read all the way down her thanks for hearing me out, and please comment.
#revertmercy
(or change her in some other way). <3
Wtf are you talking about?
Mercy is still a good pick and she’s still a main healer.
I’m a mercy main and I climbed from 670 to 2100 back when she had Valk 1.0 and 2.0. After she got hit with the nerf bat, I still maintained my 68% win ratio and finished season 8 at 2363 with mercy.
I thought they would’ve nerfed the time and got rid of the extra rez but nope. I think the nerf was fine but except for the insta rez nerf.
She is very dead in the meta, and is just not fun to play with.
State why and you’ll have a better discussion. Saying oh she’s dead, dev do something is as useful as having you on my team playing S76 sitting in spawn and running around in circles.
She wasn’t a must pick before her changes and often she was replaced by Zen/Ana in games and now we have Moira too.
Are you saying she wasn’t a must pick before her nerf? Would you like me to pull up the sheet of paper with marks on it for every game I heard, Tako can you play Mercy? or Go Mercy.
I just want her to be on par with the other healers.
Has highest and most consistent HPS (Heals per sec) which completely ignore shields.
Ana - Doesn’t have an escape. Miss that dart and you’re dead. Mercy can fly to teammates.
Lucio - Utility support, not a primary heal.
Zen - Utility support, not a primary heal.
Moira - Possibly the only support you can even have an argument with.
Resing now doesn’t require much thought, and is boring
Pulling off a rez now requires more thought. The fact that you think 0 cast requires more thought than a 1.75s cast rez should show you how little you understand about what’s going on around you.
It’s really silly to be sitting in the air for even less time now, becoming Orisa with a healing choice.
It’s even funnier that you fail to mention the biggest nerf that allowed her to dodge McCree ULT. Also the fact that you were Orisa ULT able to fly was not different from before.
she is really brainless
So she wasn’t before? That’s why people wanted me to go Mercy right? Someone who doesn’t even regularly play Mercy at all.
For your first point if you look at her win rate it is extremely low, and her pick rate has also dropped dramatically. For your second point you are misinterpreting what I said. I was taking about pre-valk, when res was still her ulti. For your point on the res cast-time, if you read what I said towards the beginning, I said pre-nerf Mercy (with Valk) reses required little thought, and cast-time resing isn’t fun (not fun can also mean “boring”). As for the McCree ult thing I don’t understand what you are trying to say, and for the second part, you weren’t just a Orisa ult. Incase you didn’t know, in the nerfs following Valk 1.0, they took away the extra res/ ability to instant res DUIRING the ult (as part of the ult). That was a big part of it, and now res stays the same and the only thing that changes is you become an Orisa ult. For your final point, the entire sentence was “Everyone else’s ults are more exciting and fun, and she is really brainless”. I was saying compared to the other character’s, more engaging ults and how hers is less engaging, and you don’t do a lot as the player. Please read the entire paragraph, or even sentence, and don’t pick out bits and pieces out of context to fit your narrative.
They already have had and still have tons more feedback in the megathread that they claim to read but clearly don’t. If they do actually read it then they could at least try to engage a two way discussion with some of the interesting feedback that people take the time and effort to think through and post. It doesn’t hurt to show that you’re at least discussing Mercy in both directions, even if changes won’t be tested for a while.
I havent read anything so far, just trigered by the tittle.
why do you need to be a mercy main to judge her 100% pickrate in every level or autowin ultimate or being able to count 6<8 ?
Does playing 1000 games against that moth and experiencing frustration mean shes fine and i should just eat some sugar?
Mercy is dead and no longer meta!
…Yet she’s still in almost every comp in her current state in the Overwatch League.
Hmmm.
Thinking
If you read the paragraph, you will see I describe what it is like playing as the new Mercy, and her state in general. You don’t need to be a Mercy main, the title says “Mercy Player” and you don’t have to main a character to play them. I also say in the article that she was “OP and the solo res’es were very annoying and easy to pull of, and the ult was even more game breaking”.I believe you read the title out of context, and should consider actually reading the full piece before you judge it.
Mercy is absolutely perfect right now. She isn’t underpowered. She has an appropriate impact in the game for the amount of skill it takes to play her.
As a former Mercy main I don’t see how you can say that if you watch OWL. They still use her in Pro play with the new patch. Her ultimate is still awesome, you just need to use it more offensively now with damage boost. Rez is just an OP ability and with free rez it breaks the game.
She’s in good shape but rezzing, more than ever, requires the use of communication for protection purposes if you dont want to go to the spawn room with your fallen teammate.
I honestly prefer this iteration rather than the OP one, requires more decision making and comms.
let the rez be instant, then slower her for 1.5 seconds OR…don’t trigger the CD if the rez doesn’t get off. she’d be pretty cool then…Valk is boring and stupid to use, but it’s decently powerful enough, as far as I can tell.
The new Sombra makes Mercy even worse. To be honest, it makes all the supports miserable to play. I played Lucio and felt absolutely useless for the duration of the REGULAR hack. I tried Mercy and got hacked before I could rez every time. I played Moira and couldn’t fade. Zen has always been weak against Sombra. About all I can play is Ana and she’s horrible on console.
For Mercy, all I did was heal, ult, heal more. She’s brainless now. She’s still the most consistent healing, which keeps her in the meta, but she’s definitely not fun or enjoyable.
I’m also interested in how Sombra will be affected because so far, I’ve had one in EVERY game. Mercy high pick rate = nerf. Sombra high pick rate = nerf?
Lol. She’s not any more though. They were still playing her when they changed her but they didn’t push the new patch to the tournament version yet, because the player’s wouldn’t know how she would play out. They’re running like Zen/Anna now in every game since the mercy-change patch came through. xD
Urgh so tired of these posts. “Dead in the meta” LOL, no, she is not, she’s still the 3rd most played character in the game at the moment aside form Moira and DVA, meaning, she’s still in an extremely good spot with a good pick rate.
Talk to me when your ‘dead in the meta’ character has the same pick rate as Doomfist or Mei.
LOL, she’s the 3rd most picked character in the game with just over a 50% winrate. Seem pretty balanced to me…
The new patch kicked in at the start of stage 2.
And Mercy is still in practically every game.
Have we been watching the same games? OWL is on right now.
Tune in, you’ll see what I mean.
I remember seeing stats on the omnicmeta website that said Mercy had 6 resurrects across all ranks. From Bronze to Grandmaster, the only real skill guage for a Mercy player (well the main one) the EXACT SAME number of resurrects. If this doesn’t say that she’s brainless then I don’t really know what does.
i wont be happy until resurrection is removed from the game
even after the big deal that was made about nerfing her, people still don’t understand why it was such a big deal and are always letting her get rez off without even trying to stop her
its like the other night i was playing the game and pulled off one of the coolest shots i ever made as widowmaker. dude i was so hype until i realized orissa’s barriers do not disappear when you kill her and mercy is just sitting right there behind that barrier rezzing her like it never happened
its like i might as well have missed <_____<