Current Mercy is great, but her HPS is just…too low.
I’ll never agree with the majority of forum Mercy mains, especially those who love the idea of a DPS hybrid who no longer possesses the “pocket playstyle”… But I won’t lie - she does need some help. I miss my main.
So there are a lot of vocal Mercy players? I mean that’s good, but that’s no reason to give them what they want, or to feel bad for them.
Gonna spit the truth here: no truth starts with “i”.
Mercy is cool, maybe give her 55 hps and thats it.
Mass rez is unhealthy for the game, its basically kill mercy first or fight enemy team twice (which is stupid and makes pace of the game awkward)
valk is also pretty fun and i love unlimited ammo
as mercy main i really like her current states she is more fun to play than old mercy
by god i forgot how frustating if you missed chance to rez your team after enemy wipe them with ult and probably they started to blame you for the failed rez
I feel bad for all players that only play a single hero all the time and do not know what to do what to do when their hero is not viable at the moment or not playable.
I feel especially bad for them, because they miss out all the 30+ other heroes, and basically only play 5% of the whole game.
I preferred Mass Res, but that’s not coming back. I do feel they should have kept the Big Cooldown as a part of her kit though, it’s something that’s been missing since it happened; and in part why we either get Lucio (Sound Barrier) or Zen (Transcendence) being so important to metas - counterplay with defensive ults is important to the game as a whole.
And yeah, I think Mercy players who are obviously passionate about the game and that hero have been treated like trash, and turned into a meme, rather than be listened to.
I don’t mind her current state, I’ll play it, but I can absolutely appreciate what’s missing here.
To op:
What part of Mercy 1.0 would you wish to bring back?
I am strongly opposed to any form of multi/mass rez ever returning to the game
Well, personally I would leave that up to the devs, They know far more than me .
But I know how you feel, I too hated mass rez, which is why we only bring part of it back, which has counterplay and not “oh I pressed q, hey everyone welcome back to the fight”. Personally, I’d think this would be worth a try:
Obviously other numbers in valk would need to be changed, but you get the idea.
That’d still be a form of multi/mass rez and as such I am strongly opposed to this suggested change
Why would we bring old problems back to life. We can’t do something because some people demand it, specially if it’s not good for the game. You know what would happen if they buff Mercy? Other people will complain, and more this time because it won’t be just Mercy players, so they would just trade one evil for a much bigger one. Mercy is doing fine, if some people can’t accept it that’s their problem for being stubborn. I don’t see Mercy getting anything substantial because she objectively doesn’t need it, perhaps a minor buff like 5hps more but that’s it.
Except this version has plenty of counters. It isn’t just press Q to win like the last ult.
Mercy players want those flashy moments, This often doesn’t give them that, but there’s a chance they could pull it off if they’re skilled.
I mostly hate the res mechanic.
It’s too slow (animation is too long) and imposes too much movement restriction (you’re sitting duck while doing it). You basically have to do it while in the air or you have to simulate a panic attack with your mouse to reduce chances of getting 1-shot while doing it. It also feels like an artificial restriction that doesn’t fit either the character or her gameplay. When I see a teammate Mercy in the painful-to-look-at process of ressing someone and see her slowing down to a crawl while the player obviously spins the mouse like his life depended on it (and it does) I can only shake my head and think “Wtf is this Heroe right now”.
To me all other things I dislike about her are nearly negligible next to the current state of the res mechanic, it’s atrocious to do it and painful to look at. But with this said, I don’t mind that much anymore; because I moved to Lucio and I honestly can’t look back, heck I even prefer Moira now. And if I absolutely had to try a different Support outside of Lucio or Moira I’d go as far as to try to play Ana or Baptiste instead.
Mercy for me is a long gone memory.
I feel bad for Mercy mains too, however, going back to 1.0 is not realistically the solution. Unfortunately, while there are a lot of great ideas, that is almost the problem. It seems like every Mercy wants something different that at this point, it would be impossible to please them all, or even a majority.
And the point is moot at the moment because she is on the rise. Sucks to be them.
Idk… 2000 people liked Titaniums rework… I feel like a lot of Mercy players started wanting the same stuff in the end. The reason they were coming up with different ideas wasn’t because they wanted different ideas from the others, It’s becausue they were trying to give realistic ideas that the devs would be happy to add.
I feel like giving up because it seems like there are a lot of different opinions shouldn’t be an option, Or at least, is a bad one.
I click on a lot of Mercy threads… trust me, they are all over the place. Some of them hate valk, some love valk, some want rez buffed, some want it outright removed, some want her skill floor raised, some want the double beam, some just want a hps increase. I want her to have a Desert Eagle.
I digress, it is a far cry from when 9 out of 10 Reaper mains wanted a wraith cancel.
We must be seeing different threads then.
I don’t know if you remember, but there was a mercy feedback thread, Often I would scroll through and see there would be many rework ideas, Most of them were heavily favoured/liked.
People just want change, so she’s more fun. They’ll say anything, any idea at all to make the devs want to implement it into the game.
MASS-REZ could be balanced but blizzard was lazy instead of “try”
Removing the god frames from Mercy & parthers during the ult.
The targets were REZ should have 50% hp only and incresing mercy ult cost tax 10% cuz is a potent one
Sadly blizzard just changed mercy on the most lazy way possible
To be fair, I usually just click threads and read the OP. Maybe certain ideas are more popular than others. Vic more or less hit the nail on the head, however, they are just too lazy to “fix” her unless it becomes a HUGE problem. Think Bastion and his they only responded to iron clad, basically.
we’re gonna hand out buffs just bc fans of popular heroes spam threads now?