Man Mercy balance threads is so peaceful loving it so far <3😂
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Something I’ve thought of is making her healing 40 HPS but additionally heals 5% of target max HP so the healing is the same on most damage heroes but better on tanks. Only issue is there would have to be a specific interaction with Winston ult where it would calculate the healing as if he still had his normal HP.
Capping the max heal
The problem with arguments like yours is you point to raw healing per second and leave everything else out.
What about the fact that her healing is consistent, never runs out of energy, and can go through barriers? That’s not even touching on the fact that she can fly around the battle field to get to anyone in vision.
Simple fact is, that when Mercy’s healing is up there as “main healing” then she’s consistently pushed other supports out due to how reliable her healing is in the past.
I’m not saying Mercy is top healer pick right now by any means, but simply buffing her healing output hasn’t really worked either. She might need some more thought than that.
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Probably because the streamers are all jumping on the “Mercy is trash” bandwagon,
Two years too late, mind you.
Also, this is fake news,
Mercy was on her way out of the META way before her healing got nerfed,
she was only picked then because of synergy with snipers and damage boosted Dragonstrike
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I actually synergize well with Brigitte which has been surprising!
An often overlooked factor is her ability to heal through barriers too.
They nerfed Moira’s ability to heal through barriers as a “bug fix” not long before Barrierwatch became the meta for quite a long time.
Now it’s a bit of a gamble, because Barrierwatch has been nerfed heavily, but if they make heroes like Winston viable that just helps Mercy again as his bubble can significantly block healing potential in the heat of the moment.
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It’s rare i find somebody who can outright say she’s flex, rather than marking her off as an off support now. Being able to cover both slots depending on team composition shows this off well.
Her healing is so low that it really makes no difference,
During Double Barrier you didn’t see people clambering for a Mercy on their team to heal through the barriers,
You saw Moira, then Baptiste,
Winston being META won’t mean people will pick Mercy to help targets he dives
because that’s Brigitte’s job, not Mercy’s, so it’d actually hurt her pickrate
(extra tea, Brigitte heals 55hps through barriers 
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It is true you can pick her as a main healer or an off healer,
but you’re just hurting your chances of wining by picking her in the first place.
Witch hunting hit him particularly hard. Every time devs did something to nerf his kit, people found something else to complain about.
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I mean, wasn’t Moira’s healing partner Mercy during that meta because she could heal through barriers? Then Baptiste was chosen because he bridged the gap between shields being down with IF.
Except her healing really isn’t that low and Brigette is still being nerfed into the ground, so I doubt it.
She’s sustained versus burst and is as reliable as they come. Your hyperbole on a hero whose sustained good pick rates and near 50% win ratio suggests you can’t look at this objectively to me and there’s not much point in appealing to your rational side anymore.
Yes, she’s hovering at %49.x win rate ratio so she could probably use a little love, but she is really not nearly as bad off as you make her to be.
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Double Barrier (when it was still called Bunker and in the early days of DB) saw Moira/Lucio as the must pick supports,
When Double Barrier started to be known as such and all that kicked off
Baptiste started getting picked because IF could be abused quite heavily, with Lucio still as the secondary support,
Mercy was at no point considered wanted, or even considered a good pick during Bunker or DB
How about…
Why not just make her gun as usable as lucios…
It’s the part of her kit that could be tuned to make her gameplay experience better and give her more carry potential.
60hps mercy or even 55hps mercy wont help you carry games… Theses just a breaking point where she becomes a must pick with that kind of sustain and both teams just have to pick her.
Remember when ana had triple tank…
60 hps mercy also eventually ended up at triple tank double sniper… They normally don’t let the hero for back to those healing levels if it can keep up triple tank
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Lucio and Mercy are not equitable
and shouldn’t be
Mercy isn’t meant to take out her pistol,
taking out your pistol means no healing or damage boost for the team
you essentially become a budget DPS,
at least Lucio and Zenyatta can multitask
we don’t need another DPS Moira situation
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what if she did percentage based healing
so when healing a tank her hps would be higher then when she heals a dps
Why even give her a pistol then… It should be situationally okay to take out your pistol instead of just being someone else’s dmg/heal bot the entire game.
That’s not an okay hero design… It’s degrading
It’s called self-defence,
you don’t pull it out in the middle of a match unless you are 100% sure you can secure a kill or to protect yourself
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Look I’m with buffing mercy 100%
But the problem is the POCKET (mercy player who only heal one person all time)
They should do something to kill the pocket then buff her healing