[Feedback Thread Continued Part III] Mercy Updates - Jan 30, 2018

Resurrect mercy as an ultimate should go up on the PTR to test it out. But two iterations of Mercy up and see which one gets played more Valkyrie or Rez Mercy

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@ Tom Powers.

Hey I don’t like to discourage developement ever. Creativity should never be discouraged. It’s artistic work and hard work that makes someone feel inspired.

I really can say I do not understand why the re-work rolled out. Here is the deal in shorthand and I believe it it follows with your previous game called “world of warcraft”. This is kinda a gauging point here. But let’s start with some basics.

In the team games, the healer is usually the player that requires the least amount of “aim skill”. These people that play these classes might not be the best at aiming. But it at least brings them INTO the game no matter what. My Sister, included. ALWAYS played mercy. She wasn’t skilled at aiming, but was able to do SOMETHING. Some sort of participation made this a “whole group” game. Since the re-work and the mechanics changes on Mercy. This means she is “washed out” from ever playing the game again.

I understand that Mass Rez is the big topic hear. It really is. I RECALL when you rolled that out on the WoW servers. it served it’s purpose. Because having that one extra chance to continue a fight in WoW was fun. It actually gave groups 1 more chance at NOT having the RAID wipe. Then you adjusted it, so it wasn’t 100% health back. But something along the lines of 25-33% of the player’s total base health returned to them.

I’d say you really need to read external poles out there on this and perhaps if you do decide your revert ( A BIG IF). That you would consider LOS fixes, (which IS difficult because of level/object collision and consider M/R to be a 15%-22% of total player base health restored.

Anyway thats my 10-25 cents there on some of my OBSERVATIONS.

Cheers. :slight_smile:

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Resurrect needs to be removed, it can’t be balanced.

Period

Removing rez is removing Mercy.

This is out of the question.

Period.

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An ability doesn’t make a hero.

I feel like I should Contribute… Ahem.

Gengu Seys: Nerfcy bad. Pls fix. Thenk

(not trying to be mean. :joy: I just don’t have any good changes in mind behind the typical revert.)

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Well it actually does.

Remove dragon blade from Genji. He is no longer Genji. Same for most of the cast. D.Va wihtout “NERF THIS!”? No.
Zarya without graf? No.

And rez is on 40% of Mercys spray, its on her overpriced 150$ statue in the blizzard store, its on an even bigger statue at the OWL, its in the first Overwatch trailer, its everywhere.

Rez is the biggest and most important part of Mercy. Well at least mass rez was.
This abomination of rez fits the abomination Blizzard turned Mercy into.

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I wish Blizzard would admit that this rework was a failure.

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Am I the only person that enjoys playing Mercy in her current state?

No, there’s like, ten others.

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Well, as your profile says you liked to play a trash character for ages, so probably is normal for you to like the trash mercy we have now.

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I miss the old mercy, when people would tell me to switch to another healer at the beginning of the match and then proceed to carry and have significant impact in every fight.

(inb4 HiDeAnDrEz OP)

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kek xD well played gentleman, I suppose you have a point.

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The lack of a defining ability leads to a lackluster hero.

This is especially true with Mercy.
Merct has sprays, poses, lore and even voice lines related to rez.

http://newnormative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mercy-screenshot-001.jpg
https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s–stME0Bre–/t_Preview/b_rgb:191919,c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1465823517/production/designs/542313_1.jpg

This is Mercy.
You can’t deny that.

A Mercy who doesn’t say Heroes never die! isn’t Mercy.
A Mercy who doesn’t revive her allies after all hope is lost isn’t Mercy.

We want Mercy.

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Post number 20330!!!
Post number 20330!!!

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Would it be cool if nano boost boosted Mercy’s healing, as she barely gets the chance to use her pistol

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Wonderfully stated. I haven’t seen anyone else say it better.

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you know what the real solution is guys? everyone. battle mercy. dont heal since your heals are worthless now. lets see how the overwatch team deal with this. you created a powerless healer, so we get it. we wont heal. we will dps instead. with mercy.

edit: this was a joke, soz if not obvious enough

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INB4 this Megathread gets closed due to Mass Flags.

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