Which, when it was at 60/second, even before the introduction of Valkyrie, translated to the best healing in the game. She had the highest healing dealt/game out of any hero.
Valkyrie is hardly even an ultimate.
Resurrect is overpowered as an E ability. You might notice that they had to slash Mercy’s healing to drop Mercy from must-pick status, when her healing was completely fine at 60/second for the 10 seasons prior.
Did you miss that fact that Mercy was absurdly overpowered for nearly a year? They gave her flat nerfs because nothing else would bring her more in line with balance without reworking her again.
I might point out that Mercy 1.x never had this problem.
And will contradict the fact that Mercy is supposed to be an insanely mobile hero.
If you’re going to play the rank card, expect to get one-upped.
Try GM from seasons 4 through 6 before going inactive. Two of those were prior to the rework. I didn’t need to ride upon the back of a brokenly-overpowered hero to get there.
It was underpowered for the most part and very iconic. Plus it wasnt an issue at all and only got problematic when some people discovered and SR bug and abused it.
And thats why many of us took the time and effort into helping making this.
LOL no its not. GA is braindead and requires absolutely NO skill to use. Players spam it every 1.5 seconds and it’s essentially easy, infinite mobility. Increasing CD by 1.5 seconds slightly allows for more windows of time an enemy can fight her before she gets away. She will still be extremely mobile more than any other hero, it will just make mercy players THINK about which target they’re flying towards, and position better if they want to stay alive.
Yea, no you didn’t even address any of my points.
I’m not even gonna argue against your “braindead” arguement because it may be one of the most poorly thought out things I’ve read on here.
I reiterate GA is not a problem, if it was it likely would’ve been identified long long ago and changed when all she had was it and her ult.
Id argue her current state is healthier for the game than she has been for a long time. Up until this current patch she was a must pick after the rework, and before that invuln mass rez while hiding was for sure unhealthy. Not saying she was overpowered b4 rework, just poor design to incentivize hiding instead of healing. She might be a bit weak now, but at least there is no hide and seek rez and she isnt a must pick anymore, only took almost a year.
Mmmm, excellent way to nerf more fun out of the hero. Yes, most excellent.
Get. Rez. Off. Of. E. Make it mass rez again, give it restrictions. Or put a charge of rez on Valk and nerf Valk’s duration to 10 seconds to compensate. But get it off of E.
Stop messing with Mercy’s basic kit that was never a problem before the rework.
Mercy’s “infinite mobility” (ha!) wasn’t a problem before they put rez on a cooldown.
Kind of like how being able to boost Hanzo’s dragons wasn’t a problem before Hanzo got reworked and started getting his ult way too often.
Nerfing GA will turn out like the nerf to damage boost: it will put a bandaid over the symptom, but it won’t fix the problem.
BTW, “Infinite mobility?” Really? Is that what we’re calling GA, the thing that requires a teammate to be in range and in your LoS to use at all, and can only go to that teammate?
GA and it’s infinite mobility is the unadressed elephant in the room nobody realizes is the issue. No hero should be able to travel halfway across the map with a 1.5 second cooldown. That’s what’s broken. Her healing output is actually less than Moira and Ana overall. It’s just her infinite mobility, and I will continue to stand by that and share my thoughts regardless of any critisism that comes my way.
The SR broken SR gains began during season 5, and those were only abusable via gunning for mass-revives. I rose to GM during season 4, when there were a lot of reports of the opposite effect happening for support/Mercy mains.
They were there before season 5, pretty sure they came with the invlun mercy patch. So many mercy players shot up thousands of sr during season 4. Not calling you boosted or anything, just that she had broken sr gains then.
Nobody should be able to break through all barriers and kill a full team in 2 seconds, but Rocket Barrage does that…
In theory.
Do you see the problem with your assertion? Using an ability’s theoretical capacity as an argument doesn’t mean anything when reality shows us that the theoretical isn’t even slightly accurate in application.
Nope. There were complaints during season 4 of support players (but especially Mercy players) getting less SR/win and losing more SR/loss compared to their tank and DPS counterparts.
When a bunch of players get good with a hero that starts off heavily overshadowed, and then suddenly that hero isn’t overshadowed anymore, you’re going to have a sudden spike in the SR of those players.
It’s like a spring. If a spring gets progressively stronger while compressed, and then suddenly that compressing force goes away, you’re going to have a strong expansion force.
Her current state is only better because she is so bad and allows other sups to be played. The rework failed at everything they promised us before and broke the game for way too long thats right.
I just think they could have fixed the issues with mass-rez way easier than making this giant mess of a rework. The SR bug for example which made hide and rez even possible was fixed a few days before the rework came around. That didnt left enough time at all to see its effectiveness.
Furthermore the devs could have tweaked mass-rez to support tempo rez instead of waiting everytime for a big mass-rez. Overall Blizzard just handles this Mercy problem very poorly and should rethink what they want for the hero. Because right now she is just back at where she was with the difference that a lot of former Mercy mains dont like their hero anymore.
Which is in my opinion a definite problem. Ok maybe thats some bias here because I used to play her a lot and main her. But it still isnt right to let a hero suffer like this because a few people cried about “unfun to play against”.
There are many ways in which Rocket Barrage can be avoided though. It makes Pharah vulnerale and easily killable. She almost never pulls that off in higher elo! Not to mention it’s an ULTIMATE ability than takes time to BUILD it up !
Mercy can dash across entire maps whenever she wants every 1.5 seconds. OBVIOUSLY that’s the major issue. Thats why it needs to be increased to 3! So she CAN be more exposed like Pharah and require more skill to pull it off.
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