You are everything that is wrong in these forums
It was the most suboptimal but generally if you didn’t do it you got harrassed by your teammates because it was still effective and easier then the team actually countering incoming ultimates.
While I enjoy the added mobility, too much of it makes her pretty hard to kill in the right hands. You can already live for quite a long time even against skilled players.
Different abilities is rather hard for healers because there is only so many flavors of healing and it’s hard not to step on any toes. I think you could be able to pull off a “Resurrection Lite” where the dead character does not suffer a spawn timer and instantly spawns but that is not really ult worthy.
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I think this is less a developer problem and more of a Mercy community problem.
Just like with Genji-Mains, the vocal minority of a large community has irreparably ruined the communities perception of them and a result, everyone who actually enjoys the hero (Mercy in this case) suffers because of it.
I’m not going to deny that there were people who actually put in a lot of thought and effort into doing something different.
HOWEVER.
The #RevertMercy crowd is so much more vocal and tends to spam and flood the forums more than the other crowd which caused Mercy-Mains as a whole to be looked down upon unfairly.
While the developers should take more time reading through threads so that they actually don’t dump them into the Megathread, it’s sort of unfeasible to actually do such a thing when the number of people who actually moderate the forum is MASSIVELY outnumbered by the number of people who keep spamming the same thread.
I want Mercy-Mains to enjoy their character again as much as the next guy, but I also want to have a balanced Support roster where I can play Ana without having people having heart attacks because I didn’t pick Mercy.
That said, I can’t help but notice that this push for things that have more or less been vehemently denied towards the Mercy community does more harm than good (I could say the same thing about some people within the Ana community…but we’re nowhere near as big to really have a solid impact).
All in all, everybody involved with this Mercy fiasco has a part in Mercy’s current state.
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Remove res from the 30 second cooldown. Each use of Valkyrie grants one charge of res (that can be used out of Valk).
Blizzard won’t listen, ever. They tried some stuff with new Mercy, like adding her cast time, but keeping insta rez during Valk, but that was to OP. Suggesting reworks isn’t a good idea either because, Blizzard. Doesnt. Listen. It’s not even just Mercy mains that hate these changes, it’s literally almost everyone. So many people just want her reverted and balanced from there, like only have Rez line of site, smaller radius, non-invulnerability. Blizzard just doesn’t want to accept the fact that reworking Mercy was a mistake.
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Indeed, if there’s one thing I’ve learnt about them is that they really don’t listen to much community feedback at all. They might see complaints about a hero that needs nerfing, but they will usually nerf a completely different and unexpected aspect of their kit instead of what the community here and perhaps on Reddit might feel is best to adjust.
EXACTLY!!! I beyond agree that she needs some kind of nerf, but to Rez, not her healing output! Valk is even more useless now because of it. What they need to do is look at the bigger problem, that is Rez. Jeff K. stated that Mercy mains are essentially using Rez as a second ultimate ability… but thats because it IS an ultimate ability. Something so powerful as Rez should not be on a cooldown. At this point, since they are not going to revert her, they need to get rid of Rez and give her something like an armor pack like Briggite, but it does a lot more healing than her armor pack.
Ana used to compete with mercy. Moira was meant to compete with mercy. This rework won’t be fixed by adding a healer to compete with mercy because they’d have to be imbalanced like this rework.
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So the general community opinion atleast agrees on the following
“Rez on E is a problem, it must be changed”
How it must be changed differs.
I made a post but it got sent to megavoid…ill see if i can find it
This… This is why they aren’t listening to you.
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Where is your proof to the contrary?
This game has a large population of players who came from other genres and who are mainly interested in healing (I happen to be one of them). Sniping is not why they’re here. CCing and anti healing is not why they’re here. Dpsing in order to heal is not why they’re here. They’re here to heal, and are looking for a pure healer.
Mercy is the only character made to appeal to this crowd. Ana (and to a lesser degree Moira) are not. They are hybrid healers that are designed to appeal to dps players. Those characters are often just not as fun for healer players. When you add more pure healer options, you’ll see more healers picking those options.
Mercy is top healer from bronze to league and her being a “pure healer” is absolutely not why.
Go in the megathread and you will find a ton of them
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Sure, it’s not the only reason. But it goes some distance towards explaining pick rates though. Healer players want to play healers and take up healer spots. Healer players often like Mercy best. Mercy gets picked a lot. This was true in most ranks even when she was considered a very bad pick.
At the very least it makes sense to take this into consideration when discussing healer pick rates.
ana/Lucio and zen/lucio both were the meta picks for high rank and league, at the same time Mercy was popular but she still wasn’t picked 13% of the time.
Her popularity because of character and passive nature isn’t why she’s so strong. Adding another healer that just heals won’t compete with her unless they also have no weakness and can rez. And even then the other healers would have now 2 very good supports to compete with and we get a healer power creep.
Mercy was popular before, but that is not nearly the cause of her massive pickrate.
Also supports mains aren’t all Mercy main. Lucio mains, zen mains, Ana mains, Moira mains, and Brigetta mains all play their main for multiple reasons than just being a healer.
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I’m not claiming all support mains are Mercy mains. I’m claiming that there’s a large population of people who are primed to prefer pure healers over hybrid/secondary healers and Mercy is the only character built for them.
I’m also not claiming that this is the sole cause of her pick rates, just a contributing factor.
What I am claiming is that adding additional pure healers would appeal to this crowd and they would be inclined to play them. I certainly would.
Have you ever heard of the “burden of truth?”
And that won’t balance the support roster. It fix any problems.
For what it’s worth it would address the problem of a large group of people having only one character designed to cater to their interest. I think that’s not an unworthy goal.