Does Mercy feel 100x better to anyone else?

Gotta say I’m only two matches in and these changes are great. She just feels a lot better to play.

Edit: I’m glad I turned off notifications for this post. This community can’t be positive or go without whining for two seconds :slightly_smiling_face:

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Compared to the day before? It’s certainly a minor improvement to her Valkyrie.
(And with a slight 10hp increase for Valk, I really do mean minor. But she gets ult a little bit faster now… so, yay… I guess.)

Overall? No. Not at all… At least not to me. I’m still not impressed, and feel that there is still more work to be done for the hero. However, it’s progress nonetheless, and while I appreciate the devs for being willing to start working on Mercy again, I’m looking forward to more reverts / buffs / changes to her in the future. :slight_smile:


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Finally some positivity!

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No. Still feels like a pocketing sidekick and not a true main healer, or even a “Hero” at all.

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I’ve not tried her… but these changes makes me want to try my theory crafted comp with DPS Mercy even more. Rein, Zarya, flex DPS, Battle Mercy, Ana, Zenyatta.

Nano Blaster Valkyrie shooting at a discord target every team fight? Yes please.

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I haven’t played her yet but I was watching streams and she seems A LOT better, I still think she needs some help but it’s a big improvement compared to the last patch

Yay having 10 more hp/s on Valkyrie is going to certainly not make me feel like a soulless, lifeless DPS attachment no different from a car attachment I can buy for my beaterwagon and attach onto my car.

It’s wonderful, Mercy is once again fun and engaging and impactful to play! Now we have the same ultimate as we did approximately a month ago :smile:

(This is sarcasm unfortunately.)

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Easy solution.

Play her in a DPS position. I mean… her blaster has more DPS than Genji’s left click, GA and Regen makes her difficult to shut down, she’s got Resurrect for bringing back your Ana or tank, and she gets her kinda similar to Dragonblade ultimate far more often now.

Problem solved?
(this is only sort of sarcasm)

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Just tried her out. Definitely didn’t feel great, but felt a little better. I ended up getting outhealed by an Ana so that made me feel bitter, especially considering I used to average 11k healing before her nerf and since then, I only average 9k. But they hid Healing Average Done in Career Profile Stats so who knows what it’ll be this season, but I do remember my average healing being less than Moira and Ana before today for the season so far.

Caduceus Staff
    Healing Beam
    Healing-per-second has been increased by 20%

    Developer Comments
    Mercy's healing is also getting a boost to solidify her role as a strong, single-target healer.

What ever happened to this statement, Blizzard…

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What feels diffrent? Shes the same. That buff does nothing for her

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Yall can laugh at me but Im legit gonna be using Valkyrie outside of team fights purely to heal my team up properly like an Ana or Moira could. I just want that feeling of being a main healer on Mercy again

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idk man shes insanely good at pocketing = healing one target
Shes the best pocket healer. She is the best single target healer…

Played 3 4100ish matches with the new Mercy (2 won 1 lost).

Having Valkyrie ready every teamfight (sometimes even 2 Valkyrie charges per teamfight) feels good, but I’m still asked to play anything else.

Although with the rise of Roadhog, goats isn’t as big of a problem as it was before, so Mercy will finally see some more usage than just to pocket your pharah when running some weird composition.

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Thats what they call “placebo effect”.

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She is the exact same version as the one before her healing nerf, only with an overnerfed base healing.
So knowing that we already had that version, it still feels boring and bland. Nothing changed at all.

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Don’t like her - don’t play her. She was always DPS attachment.

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Nothing has changed. She’s healed 60HPS in Valk before. It felt bad then, it feels bad now.

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Played her on PTR.
The ultimate is still useless comparing the others of support

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Exactly. Any perceived change from back when she had 60 HPS is false.

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She isn’t, though… Not by the standards that is Overwatch’s damage. Her healing can’t and never will keep up against any form of sustained damage, even against a Winston, and therefore she isn’t the best single target healer. Ana is, via her Biotic Rifle and Biotic Grenade to enhance this further. This buff was going to be a bandaid at most, and that’s what it is live: a bandaid for her current issue, which is her inability to perform her job as a healer efficiently and sufficiently.

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