I think that’s a fair trade off for nade, and also being able to heal and damage at the same time. I understand her kit isn’t fun for me either, but she does have her perks that make some players prefer her on the team.
And there are no perks to prefer Mercy on your team, because her team supporting power is really awful.
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Burst heals exist, and continuous heals exist
Both
they help provide variety and distinction between the characters on the support roster
and…this is a good thing
if I was in a stadium packed full of 100,000 flat earthers shouting their belief over and over at me, I would still maintain what is actually correct - that the earth is shaped pretty close to a sphere
The same applies here
again, Mercy does not need a burst heal, but there are folks who want her to have one.
I however am on the other side - she imo needs no such change, nor do I want such a change for a perfectly well configured character as she is
then they are confusing their wants with what is needed
the two are not the same
Yes, Mercy needs those changes or she’ll die completely on October 4th.
And I disagree as someone who has been GM withy her for 5 years. A huge chunk of her value as a hero comes from her peel potential for squishies/her backline and that’s all because of her healing being so consistent, going through shields, and having loose LoS restrictions + mobility. Buffing it to 60 HPS would directly buff this aspect of her value and make her stronger both as a “main healer” playstyle as you say and as a “pocket healer” playstyle because she would make her pocket targets less killable.
The same way nerfing her HPS to 50 made her trash tier and unplayed for over a year despite “healing not being her main value !!”. Because it still matters a LOT to her viability.
Everytime I see people spewing this mantra about how she should only ever be damage boosting they are hardly ever actual Mercy players. They took the advice that you should be damage boosting A LOT to get high value and completely over-exaggerate it.
Also we need to stop pretending that old 60 HPS Mercy was NOT used as a “main healer” for years. During moth meta she was solo healing multi tank comps on Junkertown, she was “main healing” Orisa Hog or Orisa Dva bunker comps, and ofc she was main supporting with Zen in dive. Yes her playstyle has evolved especially as a result of HPS nerfs but acting like it was never her main playstyle is disingenuous. “Ping pong” playstyle of constantly flying around keeping everyone topped off and damage boosting certain attacks WAS the popular playstyle and most Mercy players want it to go back to that.
If you’re above gold you don’t use terms like “main healer” anyways…
nervous laughter
all jokes aside shes def not “just fine” rn. she just needs some fine tuning and qol updates like rez cast time being reduced to 1.25-1.5 bc everything is way too fast and rez is barely usable anymore bc of how slow it is, or find something to compensate for rez instead and just remove it.
let her have an ability to chain beam outside of valk or some type of burst heal for herself/team just something bc she lacks a lot of utility compared to other supports and doesnt really fit in the new 5v5 play style.
Laughed very hard. Mercy is the hardest charakter out of all other. Only Mercymains know this, unfortunate Mercymains dont have playtime on any other heroes - but Mercymains know that Mercy is the hardest.
I was simply saying that mechanical skill isnt the only type of skill there is. I was absolutely not saying Mercy takes more skill than any other heroes. The immaturity was unnecessary.
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Chain beams aren’t worth anything, because it’s individual support per teammate, that is completely inferior to what most supports can offer. And Mercy doesn’t have defensive ult either, as off-support.
On the contrary
I have found chain beams to be extremely valuable in many situations, and I have seen it strongly benefit other teams many times in matches I watch as well
as such, chain beams are actually quite worthwhile
You really think you know better than all those people put together? OK dude 
My, my.
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clarification: I dont think I know better than everyone
I do however know the difference between a need and a want, and I see the former used when the latter should have been used constantly in OW-related communications, regardless of the tier of the player
Mercy even more trashed, she finished starting the game, in the training room, she jumped towards a robot, she loads that new bar, I give her jump and she doesn’t do anything.
