You probably think this is gonna be a forum saying that the end is near for her. NOPE!
So I would like to state that I am a console Mercy player who reached GM in season 10 and has been in Masters for about 3ish seasons before hand.
So onto this nerf. HAHAHA! It’s a joke right? right? This is actually going to do nothing to her. This is honestly so funny I can’t even get mad. You ready for her pickrate to do a whopping…nothing! This nerf doesn’t address any of her problems and seems to be a “We don’t know what to do, so we are gonna do this” thing.
I am gonna tell you a secret…you ready? NERF RES! NERF RES! NERF RES!
Congrats, you have balanced Mercy if you do this one thing! Better yet, Make res her ultimate and remove Valk from existence (side note, Valk was in the game previously, but was removed due to it not feeling engaging nor like an ultimate).
Anyways all this nerf shows is that there is only one thing that can’t be reverted…her ultimate!
EDIT: Are they trying to make her so unfun to play that people don’t pick her? Is that their plan?
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So true. Nerfing healing only makes her a chore to pick.
I like being versatile to damage boost and take out my gun to actually help when a friendly Reinhardt is shielding me but this makes it so I can never get off healing which is BORING as all hell.
I really wish they’d just nerf res with a longer cooldown, maybe 40 seconds, and leave it at that.
Maybe give her invincibility while casting again so it doesn’t feel useless or armor, even.
Blizzard needs a better look here.
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Everybody knows the nerf wont hurt her and thats the problem. As long as rez is on a cooldown no matter how hard they nerf her it won’t matter. All that is being accomplished is making her more frustrating to play and unfun.
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Exactly. If only they listened, but we already knew they didn’t. Look at the megathread.
This is a wild idea, but maybe Mercy can charge Res similar to a Torbjorn armor pack.
She has to collect energy from other characters’ deaths and then can charge up to two Resurrections at one time to use whenever.
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I don’t think that we need to make pulling off a Rez any easier. Though, I do agree that playing her is only going to become more frustrating after this nerf. I’m not even going to want to play her, but I’m still going to becuase Rez is just too strong.
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It’s funny, because EeveeA mentioned this as well. They have been saying that the devs should do this for a good while now, but they won’t listen.
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That’s awful, I didn’t know people had already suggested that.
It really would rebalance everything far better because this would actively require Res to be earned instead of automatically granted after a time period…
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I don’t believe it… I think if it did nothing, Mercy mains would be like ‘meh’ instead of trying desperately to redirect the nerf.
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I’m affaid people will just compensate for her loss of healing per second by playing a third support. Resurrect is still insanely powerful.
But who knows what might happen.
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Mercy mains complained about a visual changed on the beam. People just like to complain TBH.
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I never play Mercy as is; however, I started practicing on my support/tank smurf and once I read these change notes, I was like, “I guess I am not bothering to learn Mercy.” It does not really matter so much as someone who rarely played her, but I am not going to touch her if the change goes through.
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Maybe the nerf, the new hero, and all the ptr changes will mix up the meta, that would be nice.
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I mean Mercy is the only main healer that can keep up with them so she will still be meta plus res
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I figured that if they made it so that she could only get a Rez per 1000-2000 healing it would make sense. Though, at that point it may as well be an ultimate. It would be a lot easier to get during Valkyrie, too…
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As long as rez is an ability we will be in the mercy meta and blizzard knows it. The problem is they don’t want to admit it was a mistake so they nerf other parts of her that won’t do anything.
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Crap this one has figured it out.
Mercy has become so popular, too popular that the devs are planning a cull, only true devotes will survive.
They cant actually make her bad of course, that would ignite riots, they are going the whole “death by boredom/unfulfilment” approach.
I cant speak for others, but i invite them to do to their worst, i survived two seasons of her been a legitimate troll pick, I can take whatever they have planned.
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Remember that this rework is a success. Even though it has taken 11 nerfs and counting.
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