Mercy
Developer Comment - We felt that Mercy was played too often and thought making it so she couldn’t be played would help her pick rate a bit. We will be keeping an eye on her. (That last sentence was a lie.)
I still don’t get it, mercy has the highest healing output in the game which can’t be blocked by anything except a 10 second nade that is probably on cooldown because ana has no way to heal hersel, she can damage boost, valk, has insane mobility and survivability, hp regeneration and a free rez and mercy players still complain about her getting nerfed?
After 11 season of mercy being the only viable healer in this game you seriously still have to cry about a less than 20% healing nerf?
Those nerfs arent even enough if you ask some actually objective mercy players.
Besides this game has 5 other healers, try someone else.
What is the point of this reply if I may ask?
I would love this one!
Why not finish the job already, devs?
The problem is not it makes mercy UP, the problem is it doesn’t solve the core issues with mercy and they’ll have to nerf her again later.
no no nothing too abrupt
next mercy nerf would be something like this
Mercy
Developer Comment - Mercy is still a very strong pick, too strong compared to other healers. So we’re looking into another part of her core gameplay which has been practically fine since release and not Rez which many have said too be too strong to be placed on a simple CD. We will still be keeping an eye on every part of her kit except rez.
Probably telling you that mercy is unbalanced no matter how much they gut her and this nerf wont change anything.
They should just make rez earnable though a mechanic similar to torbs scrap
because this nerf isn’t going to solve anything and is just going to cause her to be nerfed again.
of course this nerf isn’t enough because it’s not the thing that needs to be nerfed. they keep dancing around the actual problem which is having rez on a 30 second cooldown.
I think it does solve the core issues.
Because it lowers healing, lowers Valkyrie healing, and raises Valk Ult charge requirements.
And because Mercy mains vastly overestimate the typical amount of resurrects people actually get in real gameplay.
Making rez earnable and actually increasing mercys hitbox in valk would probably solve this.
Valkyrie mercy has the size of a plane and the actual hitbox is not even half from it…
They’ll still nerf her 3 months later.
The thing with the previous nerfs, is that nomatter how bad rez is, it’s still better than no rez.
And they didn’t ever do anything to weaken Mercy’s basic equipment.
Valkyrie is and will forever be a trash ult that won’t heal the team anymore. I don’t mind the healing nerfs, but I wish her ult was not so damn easy to shut down.
i can’t say we but personally this is why im against the nerf. because it doesn’t solve her problem.
she’s supposed to have the highest healing output in the game because her entire gameplay revolves around healing. Ana and Moira both have higher healing potential but their game times are spent half on healing and half on damage. if players played those heroes and dedicate their entire time on healing there’s a good chance for them to out heal mercy (ana maybe less, but moira can). the thing is you don’t play ana and moira to dedicate healing, you play them so you can do other stuff other than healing (e.g. playing dps).
so statistically mercy is supposed to have way higher digits on healing because her playerbase have a main single mode of gameplay : focusing on healing. on the other hand ana and moira players can play them as healers and/or as dps. and everyone knows that there are going to players going to play them and focus on dps rather than healing. that’s fine, but it’s one reason why mercy has such high healing compared to them, the sheer difference in playstyle.
mercy does need a nerf but they’re going at it the wrong way. it’s rez that should be nerfed/reworked.
many mercy players have said and have continued to say that putting rez on a simple cd mechanic is never going to be balanced. the ability is too strong to put on a cd and give everyone no matter of skill level a free rez every 30 seconds. mercy has had 60hps since prework. and during prework the go to healer combo was zen+lucio. mercy only got her must pick status after her rework which placed rez on cd. and it’s still going to be there. her healing output was never the problem.
plus with the reduced healing, she’s going to have to use rez more. im kinda lazy to type this again so let me quote myself from another thread
and as you’ve said, those nerfs aren’t enough because they aren’t the right part of her kit that needs to be changed
Last I check, Valk is nearly invincible without an Ultimate.
Valk is easily shut down by any DPS ultimate (Deadeye, Tac Visor) or any kind of burst damage. They should balance more power into her ult and less into her base healing. A dead mercy can’t heal.
same. i said this at the release of the rework, i wanted rez to be a mini ult. meaning everything mercy does charges both valk ult and her mini ult rez. tho i do recall people making a valid point of that making her healing somewhat more important than the healing of other healers?
at this point i’d have to say they should just remove rez as an ability and rework valkyrie and tie rez to it.
Meanwhile Moira Ult can get shutdown by any stun, and Ana is permanently easy to kill.
Just going to drop this here don’t mind me.
Mercy has had 10 nerfs. Jesus. What can they possibly nerf next? It won’t matter, as long as Mercy has Rez on a static cooldown. A critical pick, that taking down was key to victory? Too bad, they’re back now, and Mercy working with a second healer can keep that critical pick sustained.
It’s such an annoying situation.