Just because it’s Mercy and a lot of people seem to really hate her and people who play her doesn’t change this logic.
Let’s take Genji or Reaper. Now we suddenly reduce ALL DAMAGE THEY DEAL by 20%. That’s a nerf right? Clearly. 20% is a huge nerf for anyone (and for the record Mercy’s healing nerf was ~20%.).
And yeah I mean that, that’s literally approximately the damage equivalent of what they did to Mercy.
So a few weeks go by and many people may not even play that hero during that time. And then suddenly “TADA!” they are reverted to having 20% damage back on their ULTIMATES ONLY. To most people since this happened to fast it would give most people slight whiplash, this doesn’t even seem like a buff at all.
It’s literally just giving back A FRACTION of what they took away in the blink of an eye.
And now people say we should be grateful for this “buff”? What? First off: It’s a nerf.
Let’s not get our wires crossed, the net effect of the past month for Mercy has been a NERF.
Would you as a Genji/Reaper main appreciate if you got such a “buff?” of course not. Because it’s NOT a buff. It’s literally overall still a nerf to her entire kit, and it was done so quickly that to look at it disjoint is almost wrong.
So how can we appreciate this “buff”? Over the past month we’ve literally had a massive net loss:
-Slightly slower ult charge even with the ult charge nerfs.
-20% healing outside of our ULTIMATE which means the Lion’s share of what we do is weak. But I shouldn’t need to pull out statistics or pickrates or winrates to indicate this more than I already have.
It’s weak, there is no debating it because it’s factually weak.
-Valkyrie was also a really weak ultimate and compared to the other support ultimates is absolutely F tier. It’s flat out hands down one of the least impactful abilities in the entire game.
So we’re not being buffed. And NO I won’t be grateful for a NERF.
Stop telling us to be grateful for a nerf. I won’t let myself be shamed in such a fashion. It was a nerf. A month ago Mercy was vastly better than she currently is, she’s been absolutely nerfed into the ground.
And I won’t say thank you to anyone for gutting my main since this game’s release over and over and over again.
I swear i saw this before somewhere…
It’s not like a billion people have allready said this…
You are late to the party and just spamming the forums with more of what was allready spammed too much.
Also, if you hate mecy’s state, And you hate they gutted your main over and over, Why do you still main her, why do you still bother, are you a 1 trick? Shouldn’t you have switched mains a LOOOOOONG time ago?
Oh, so by this logic, If genji got 8second Dragon blade that wouldn’t be a buff since it’s ult only and it has been like that before…
I think you would be whisteling a diffrent tune if she got 60Hps back.
Because by your own logic that wouldn’t be a buff.
Yea well they did that becaaaaaauuussseeeee… she was too strong. She had too much so they took something away from her and now gave something back.
This is a net buff because she got better.
If you’re only allowed to own 100g sugar but you actually have 150g they need to take at least 50g of sugar from you. If they accidentally took 70g instead and you’re left with 80g sugar you get the 20g sugar back and that’s a buff.
She didn’t get better though. Over the ~1 month she has had a net nerf. People literally take breaks longer than that, so people who quit 2 months ago coming back are just walking into nerfs.
That’s what this is, nerfs.
-Slower ult charge.
-20% less healing outside of Valkyrie.
I am not going to thank nobody for nerfing my main.
And I don’t appreciate being told I am ungrateful because I am not THANKING someone for destroying what I love. No sir, not going to thank anyone for hurting me personally.
Of course, so do i, even tho i never mained her
But i am not flooding the forums with mercy threads and spamming, I just wait for my turn and when blizzard decides to do it and see by stats that she is not fine.
Raising my issues and concerns personally doesn’t constitute it as spam. This is the first post of it’s kind I’ve made on this topic and I don’t appreciate you attempting to shame me for using my freedom of speech to speak up for myself.
I have every right to post on these forums about unique topics and I do not do “copy/pasta spam” like I feel you’re attempting to imply.
I write my words and I take time to think them out and bring up evidence where appropriate and even supply source links to people sometimes in the past in posts where I deemed it would be helpful.
Plus I hate to admit it but I write on average way more words and articulate on many different points in a post compared to most opening posts. This is far from “spam”. I articulate my argument, write my own words and voice my OWN personal opinion.
This is a horrible mindset to have. I’ve mained heroes who have been OP in the past, and I want them nerfed for the greater good of game balance and overall game health. Wanting one hero to be one way at the expense of every other hero in the game is really selfish imo.
When you do it over and over when there are dozens of threads about it allready it’s Pointless.
STOP SPAMMING THE FORUMS WITH MERCY.
You made your point allready, Blizzard allready knows you are unhappy, itsp up to them how they handle it, the point has been made, there is no more need to make it more and more times being annoying and wasting everybody’s time reading the same thing over and over.
about 8 times a week about the same thing.
Don’t you see a problem with that?
Everybody allready knows what you think about this, we know you are not satisfied, your point was made, don’t make it 20 times, You are only wasting your time. Maybe chill out, maybe drink a cup of water, maybe milk?
Maybe instead of spending all these hours writing up posts which all say the exact same thing, (You don’t like Mercy’s current state, we get it) you could try learning another hero or just improve at ones you already know.
Mercy is fine, you can still use her to pocket long ranged DPS and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with her filling this niche.
It’s can be labeled as a buff and a partial revert. Both are correct. That being said, it really doesn’t matter. What matter is if the changes will actually do something.
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂 𝓘𝓬𝓮 𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 𝓜𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽
Spreading positivity and ice cream, one Mercy at a time.
This is another way of ignoring the problem rather than fixing it which is bad.
I disagree. She is not fine. Multiple issues still persist with Mercy.
In other words, a Pharah. That’s it? Well, isn’t that just wonderful for a supposed main healer that’s supposed to “be the go-to pick for raw healing output”.
As of now, it’s the only thing she’s remotely efficient at. That’s bad. Also, it’s not fine for a main healer to be just good for pocketing. That is not good design at all.
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂 𝓘𝓬𝓮 𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 𝓜𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽
Spreading positivity and ice cream, one Mercy at a time.
I know? That’s why I usually say that I don’t want to jump to conclusions without trying her out. It’s also why I didn’t say in the reply that she’s fine or not. I wouldn’t know since the changes haven’t gone live yet. I can only say that right now, she is not fine.
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂 𝓘𝓬𝓮 𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 𝓜𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽
Spreading positivity and ice cream, one Mercy at a time.
I wouldn’t say she is fine but she is not too important right now.
Some tweaks here and there making her better, but she is C- Or C tier at best, and focus on heroes who need more love now.
