Correction:
“It’s first function WAS flying to the rescue of teammates out of position.”
Now players are best off to just sit on GA until they’re hard pressured.
Like I said, it’s further incentivizing pocketing, which was the whole damn issue in the first place.
I forgot enemy support having 1/4th of healing, regardless of character
Yeah, and the gameplay confirms it. It’s funny because they wanted to make Mercy a triage healer (which would’ve been a cool idea tbh), but the GA changes kinda contradict that. How can I heal two critical teammates that are far from each other? You can’t. You choose one and there ya go bec you can’t squeeze in the rez bec you’ve already used your GA and have to wait for the CD
Still I am curious of their reasoning to chain Mercy so hard to viability of specific DPS heroes, going as far back as her rework.
When you choose optimal target for your healing, your main concern is, if you can actually keep teammate alive with it. Naturally, it excludes close and medium-range heroes, as damage is too high at those ranges for your heals to keep up, leaving only long-range heroes.
With damage boost, there is similar consideration - because it’s % from existing damage, you naturally gravitate towards burst damage heroes.
And those two arrays cross on snipers - high burst, low healing requirements.
Now, if you have ult, that is useful for everyone, you may choose to disregard those concerns in favor of gaining ult charge faster. But Valkyrie is…more pocketing ult, and same concerns apply to it’s use.
If they actually wanted to encourage triage, they would have added some kind of boost, that stays on teammate, once you finished patching them up and move on. More teammates you can work with, more teammates at once will have that effect and more impact Mercy would have overall. Which would make pocketing very suboptimal strategy, as having “versatile boost” on 4 teammates would be better, than just on 1.
Team Fortress 2 had similar kind of story with one of Medic unlocks.
which are the only cases of “brokenly op” combo games ever had. (in regards to DB…and outside ults which were fixed)
Ashe and Soj are psuedo snipers.
Widow is sniper.
cree back when he was buffed and became McSniper (that didnt last long before nerfed him)
and those are basically only issue with amp.
Pharah’s less amp issue and more healing (since she is hard to kill for msot heroes).
Damage Amp is fine with basically everyone else & always has been.
Dev’s fascination with sniper/psuedo sniper tier dmg heroes is actual issue.
amp was designed back when we didnt have these high dmg ones (widow was only 1)
It just needs refined and updated for modern game.
(and fastest/easiest is disabling those high dmg heroes from benefiting or they benefit at reduced effect)
That’s the goal to achieve as support, to make someone broken. It’s how you win games.
Usually you need ult for it, though. But with Valkyrie being what it is(requiring whole team to work together to be actually strong, which tends to not happen), we go for damage boosting DPS, that is close to busted, to give them enough push into busted territory.
As long as Mercy doesn’t provide overheal or other similar buff, that encourages applying it to as many teammates, as possible, pocketing will be common. Or, at least, ult, that actually is strong with just one teammate targeted, rather than whole team, so you can choose to go for faster ult charge at expense of maximizing impact from your heals/boost, since ult will allow you to catch up on impact.
Yeah I know that, but since the devs are so so so in LOVE with how Sojourn works and LOVE letting her be op. The next possible problem to address is Mercy’s DB (What everyone was going ballistic over these past few weeks? months? dunno)
Since everyone is blaming Sojourn being OP on Mercy’s BP then they should have addressed that but that wasn’t the case.
Sojourn doing 195 dmg IS OP, the arguments saying the she doesn’t one shot anymore so it’s fine are just plain dumb because 5hp is not something you live on.
By saying “the problem was DB” I meant that EVERYONE was AGAINST Mercy’s DB and still they didn’t touch it.
It’s not even a mean for escape, because if someone is flanking you were will you go?
It’s just a death sentence at this point.
Honestly? All the games I’ve played today feel like this. We lose a bunch and when I switch off mercy, to try and salvage what remains of the game, we win.
It feels boring to play her and realize you have absolutely NO impact on the game.
Why. Because they never know what to do with supports.
Having thought about it. I’d just keep the healing nerf, and then add a slight damage boost reduction, and take her HP to 150.
Keep all the moment tech that people think makes her fun. Still nerfed hard enough to not be a meta option.
funny thing is devs can easily limit who can get amp’d…they have the technology already in use (its what flags most ults from benefitting from it) they could extremely easily disable its efefct on any part of any heroes kit.
they choose not to.
OW devs: work harder not smarter.
or the now deadly sombra decides she wants angel for dinner. (as u cant even GA and you’ll be dead b4 it wears off)
You wanna know why?
Because the devs are deciding to take in the ideas from the forums, including you, which results in catastrophic patches that makes people leave the game on a very rapid pace.
You thought nerfing ALL TANKS in open queue is a good idea? Wish granted.
Other people wish Mercy is nerfed? Wish granted.
Everybody’s idea is making the playerbase leave. You’re making the playerbase leave. That’s not good for anybody.
IMHO, OW2 did more bad then good. If I had the ability to shut the game down, I would.
because it is better to allow the enemy the ability to kill you than taking away your purpose for being picked in the first place.
You mean from streamers and pro players who hate mercy, right?
“I disagree with you so your takes are ruining the game while mine are correct”
If I’m the problem then so are you
Woah, you’re making the game worse with your takes!
You can uninstall it and move on if you really dislike it
That’s a negative. I didn’t contribute any ideas nor do I play the game anymore. Saying nothing doesn’t create a problem — especially if it comes from “just another player”.
Already done. I’ve never felt better.
If you’re going to be a huge arrogant idiot towards someone who literally didn’t do anything, continue shooting your self in the foot and keep your forum addiction strong.
In fact, here. I forgive you.
No, they work smart. If they actually exclude snipers from damage boost, they would have to find different purpose for Mercy, maybe even actually allow her to form a meta of her own.
While as it is, they don’t really need to do anything to control Mercy’s impact on the game, besides forcing sniper meta and nerfing snipers just enough for db to revert nerfs, if they want her to be temporary part of meta.
You literally said that myself and others are ruining the game because of our takes
Are you seriously this dense or just a troll?
Yet you’re here blaming “how bad” the game has become. Kinda sad honestly
“Literally didn’t do anything”
It’s funny how you call me arrogant when you’re putting yourself and your views above others as you literally blame the entire forums for the direction of the game that you don’t even play anymore 
And now you’re resulting to emotional insults instead of being mature enough to have a conversation. You’re such a joke.
Considering you don’t even play anymore and would gladly delete the game if you could it’s obvious that you’re just here to be spiteful towards others instead of actually caring for the game
I’m glad you moved on though, the less toxic players the better
nope.
she’d still work with rest of em (snipers and the liek are minority dmg group)
support should have downsides.
like how some supports are bad with dive type metas
if ur dps are both unable to be amped thats a time mercy might be better to swap off of.
supports really do lack “reasons” to use someone else.
ppl just like to brute force everything.
I forgive you, Octo. 
I forgive you too son
How about if they:
That should do it IMHO.
And Mercy lacks in brute force, which is why she needs different purpose.
Not supports, that by design supposed to be good everywhere.
Mercy is based on design of TF2 Medic, so she inherited his versatility in terms of healing tools. Her downsides are already quite noticeable - almost total lack of damage output, inability to defend herself and support at the same time.
She supposed to be best in terms of “pure” supporting, but worst in terms of damage output. Mercy already is worst in terms of damage output(even with damage boost included).