Honestly, I think she can right now. If I play Mercy and I focus team healing, I don’t come in with healing numbers much different from my numbers on Ana, Baptiste, or Moira. In fact I think I would likely heal more on Mercy than on Ana. I think Mercy players feel a lot weaker than she actually is.
Lucio’s amped healing is 52hps per ally. A single Amp heal can be worth 15secs of healbot Mercy gameplay if we shelve Lucio’s self heal. In that time, Lucio will be able to Amp again.
His healing can be situationally worse, or objectively better. I can’t speak for everyone, but an entire team getting temporary Mercy pocket level healing for a cooldown is a pretty sweet deal.
I wouldn’t call him a god of heals, but don’t discredit his value in the healing department.
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Why is it dumb? Healing creep is just as real as damage creep. I am 100% fine with reverting a lot of the dps buffs too. Maybe moira already got nerfed enough. To be fair I think moira should have a mini rework of some sort anyway. Maybe more hps but resource drains faster. Baptiste got buffed again recently, this time his AOE healing cooldown. He still does a LOT of healing. Ana does a little too much too. And brig it’s simply ridiculous she vomits healing everywhere and apart form that does basically nothing.
I’m sorry but I have to agree with ryan. Nerfing other healers is the wrong direction to go in - particularly with the increase to burst damage, cc abilities and even echo coming in with having insane dps, mercy will feel even weaker than she is now.
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The big difference is all other healers will absolutely have time to do other things and crunch the same numbers while Mercy has to commit to only healing to do the same thing.
Lucio can do a lot of healing I am not denying that but it’s just not as high as some other healers.
Well, Mercy has advantages too. Rez is a big deal and damage boost is a huge asset on some heroes. And Mercy certainly lacks disadvantages others have like their relative immobility.
But if you focus on getting the highest healing in the game you have to avoid using those abilities. A handicap no other healer has to deal with. Its the exact same problem they made for DVa’s DM, they made a critical part of her kit clunky to use so she has to compensate by denying use of other parts of her kit to make it work which makes no sense, which is why they rolled back some of the DM nerf.
You still have time to rez either way. And I absolutely give up some of my healing capability on Ana go throw good nades and hit sleep darts, on Moira to do damage and confirm kills on low health targets, and on Baptiste to get opportunistic kills.
Can we agree to burn e-rez 
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Shhh The forums are very well know for for brushing these truths under the carpet.
Even after basically all her competition was banned, she was still not good lmfao.
Also her pickrate is heavily influenced by her huge fan base. People don’t play Mercy becasue she is so good (which she is not), they play Mercy because they like Mercy.
If someone played a game solely to rank up and bring the most potential value to his team, that someone would never play Mercy, except if you have a Pharah or whatever to pocket.
If you want high Healing and Evasiveness, you use Moira.
If you want high Healing and high Utility, you use Ana (or Bap in some cases).
If you want a good ult to save your entire team from danger, you play Zen or Lucio.
If you want Utility and AoE Healing, you play Lucio or Brig.
If you want Damage and Damage Boost on key targets, you play Zen.
If you wanna crawl into some random DPS player’s butt, you play Mercy.
(Or if you simply love the hero, like I and many others do)
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I’ll also say that I totally support at least trying 55 hp/s and would be happy with 60 hp/s if some change was made somewhere to throw a wrench into pocketing Pharah/Echo.
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Those numbers on other healers can be made up very easily since every other healer has a way boost their own healing, while still healing. Mercy has no such ability, in fact to use any of her abilities, save for GA, she has to STOP healing. Again a handicap no other healer has.
Well, to be fair, I think Mercy could use a small buff. I just don’t want her to end up obligatory again. And I don’t think she is that bad or can’t be played in her current state either.
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I agree to an extent. Its too hard to pull off however because of it being a 30 second cooldown it has to be balanced in such a way.
This is true. However I cant find many opportunities to damage boost over healing when I am the main healer as mercy. How can I offer this utility when my team cannot survive with my healing output?
What mercy’s kit is revolved around is flying everywhere like a guardian angel and what she has in survivability is made up for the fact that she cannot multi task, her healing will always be single target, she has no source of emergency healing - just consistency. If her consistent heals were higher she would be stronger mid fight which I believe 60hps would allow her to achieve. There is no point in having a healer who has such weak, but consistent, healing in overwatch when there is so much burst damage, cc abilities in mid fight - even if she has the most healing at the end of a match, she still has no emergency healing to save her team. 60hps should compensate for that imo
Me too. I don’t want her to be a must pick. I just want to be able to heal my tanks just as well as moira / ana can and consistently main heal.I just want her to now be a viable alternative to ana / moira / bap as they clearly outshine / win by far against her
Then nerf burst damage too. The awnser to power creep is not more power creep. Or do you disagree?
The “main healer” that’s gets swapped off of because people feel they aren’t doing enough on her is pretty bad. Especially considering when the other main healers were banned she still wasn’t a go to alternative.
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I’ve swapped off Ana loads of times because I didn’t feel I was healing effectively due to the situation of the match. And sometimes Baptiste.
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Ana occasionally has to swap because certain setups don’t benefit her. Mercy has to swap even when she’s in an advantageous situation because its just not enough.
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You dont know the amount of times we lost a teammfight at the beginning of the match and i got told i need to switch to Moira for higher heals.
You’d think the healer thats designed to heal as her main focus could heal more.
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