If you don’t enjoy her, learn another hero. The design of mercy has always been boring and low skill(relatively) since launch.
Shall we do another round of comparisons?
What gamemode places more value on viability than how a hero feels to play? Competitive. If Mercy were truly fun to play for a large portion of her former playerbase, then, in theory, her pickrate in Quickplay should resemble that of her pickrate in Competitive, correct?
Her Competitive pickrate is 9.1%. Over 1.5X that of her Quickplay pickrate.
The addition of newer heroes may have contributed to her fall in pickrates, but it certainly doesn’t explain a loss of over half the playerbase; especially considering that her pickrate had fallen to 5% in QP before the introduction of Briggite.
The rework and it’s following patches caused many Mercy players to jump ship; the easiest place to land? Moira.
Sure, Ana’s damage was recently buffed, but that really wouldn’t make a difference considering that Mercy still completely blew her pickrate out of that water even when Ana was a must-pick.
That would actually inflate Mercy’s/Moira’s pickrates, as non-mobile heroes are the ones that would fall victim to an enemy Mei. Mercy and Moira have mobility abilities to escape. Ana and Zenyatta don’t.
Wouldn’t have an impact either way.
And yet, way better at hunting Lucio/Ana/Zenyatta as well.
If they disagree with it, perhaps they should address it rather than pretending it doesn’t exist.
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Next episode in the megathread.
Sorry but I should be already sleeping now, I must wake up early tomorrow.
I let Titanium managing this, I know he/she will do well, as always.
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your coming off as spoiled brat
Her skill floor and skill ceiling were much higher in the 1.5 version mercy.
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Ana is not getting a buff yet they do internal tests
Symmetra will have her rework in this summer so at least in 1 month.
Genji is straight up dead he do for real 0 dps right now if the enemy team runs the 3 support 3 tanks comp coz he has really low dps and range but he is not dead
…Most optimal strat?
Any Mercy who hid and rezzed often had a bigger loss rate than they did wins. Why? Because hide and rez was, quite possibly, the worst strategy to use. It literally lost games, the only thing it was good for was to abuse the SR system and rank up unfairly.
How is causing your team to lose over and over again the best strategy? It was, by far, one of the worst strats.
Again, no official statements, no numbers to back up why she was awfully broken and OP and unfun. Like you say to me, it’s your opinion too.
In my year and a quarter of playing this game, I’ve gotten… two 5 man resurrects? They aren’t as common as you’d think, you know.
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you mercy my way or the highway guys still don’t get it ![:man_facepalming:t5:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/man_facepalming/5.png?v=5" ":man_facepalming:t5:")
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Couldnt let Brigitte take the spotlight mercy mains?
Lolwut.
Last time I checked Genji had still one of the highest pick rates. I also see him in most of my games so what’s your point? I really don’t think it’s fair to put a pretty much popular hero in line with neglected heroes like Ana and Symmetra who mostly count as troll picks in Comp.
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Remind me, which version was that again? There have been so many iterations of her I’ve lost track.
Imagine for a minute that tons of people complained about Zarya’s grav because they just hate dying to it so much. Imagine a top streamer does it consantly and gets a flock of followers that parrot what he says.
Imagine blizzard finally caves to these requests, and reworks Zarya’s ult. They move it to an ability, but it only works on one person, and it’s on a 30 second cooldown, and while you’re using it, you can’t move very fast and are otherwise a sitting duck.
Imagine at first your new ult is cool, you regenerate health constantly, you move fast, you do double damage, you have no reason to reload, and you can even super jump and land on people like you’re Overwatch’s version of Mario.
Except it’s overkill, and then you have to go through 3 patches where they keep nerfing it. What ends up happening is you have a crappy version of your ult on a normal cooldown ability that is now single target that usually gets you killed to use it when it would be most useful, and your ultimate instead never changes your playstyle at all. Just regenerates your shield even if you were damaged and you don’t have to reload for a small period of time. You can still super jump too, but the risk of doing it is usually not worth it because widow’s, mccree and soldier’s are waiting for you to and you’re often dead before you hit the ground.
You and other Zarya mains are upset, you liked old Zarya, why change it? She was fine before. And sure she’s balanced now, but she feels like a husk of what she once was and Ult’s are supposed to give you something to look forward to. Remember lining up those perfect gravs? So much fun! Now instead when you ult, it’s a time for you to turn your brain off. It just makes your job easier for a little bit. The complete opposite of what it used to be, a thrill. Now you feel bored.
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At this point, all I can really say is good luck Mercy enthusiasts, and screw you devs for being so willfully ignorant and I sure when you’re supposed to be transparent.
Me: Apologizes for being rude, states things up front and how they are because that’s how I am
You:
(I apologize and you just come in and insult me lolol. Now that’s just lovely to read tee hee hee.)
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Jeff has said they’r gonna look to improve Ana a bit.
I love playing here and I don’t think she need to much for be good again.
I’m hyped by the futur change ^^
I would like to state my opinion. But every time I do regarding mercy I have people from all over jump down my throat 
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I just want the majority of players to be happy and enjoy her kit.
Why then, was she touched in the first place, when every hero who needs help now needed it back then?
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right before the rework, the rework itself is 2.0 , current one is 2.5
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im glad jeff at least put the issue to rest.
What do you want them to say. They not looking at mercy right now. So they not going to have anything to say about her except…We are not looking at her right now??