Except for it won’t because Mercy is the “best” choice for healer in a lot of different situations. There’s enough people who are competitive enough to keep playing her even when they hate her.
So no… Mercy pick rates are never going to fall enough to get Blizzard’s attention that way.
Old Mercy wasn’t fun, nothing will convince us different. She plays almost entirely the same except her ultimate is more fun to use overall. How is instant mass rez more fun than flying around for 15 seconds?
Mercy mains are the worst.
Valkyrie is flying around like you are running a spectator cam. Your survival is nearly guaranteed. There is literally nothing you can do while Valking to get more oomph out of it. That’s why I hate Valkyrie.
Edit: Also the thing is 15 seconds long meaning you also don’t really have to time it either.
The Mercy megathreads have literally hundreds of posts on why Valk is less fun than Mass Rez.
They said they wouldn’t change her now. We can still wait…
The problem is that LOTS of people who play Mercy don’t find her enjoyable anymore because she changed drastically. And the worst part is that they didn’t asked for the rework.
She is viable and strong, but more braindead than ever and way more boring.
Thing is what you lot really want is multiple reses.
You wouldn’t accept 1 res with a cast time on ult (say valk that lasts 10s that boosts/heals your target your targeting slightly more than the players around you) with a new E ability…or would you?
Res is really strong. The only issue is that an ult powered ability is pn E.
Maybe because as a support hero ressing the team is way more helpful than flying away and act like a spectator, I guess?
Way to generalize.
There are a multitude of suggestions for how to fix Mercy. Not all of them bring back Mass Resurrect. Some do obviously… but of course some do.
My personal idea is just flip them… Q = Instant single target resurrect that charges probably a bit quicker than Coalescence. The defensive version of Pulse Bomb if you will. E = a version of Valkyrie that retains flight, has 50% stronger beams but loses literally everything else. 4s duration 12s CD.
Values are spitballed obviously.
Mercy has an ult in her E and an E in her ult lol. She is viable but she is messed up and feels boring to play.
This is the biggest problem I have with all these Mercy posts. She is such a balanced hero right now and it comes off to me as exceptionally selfish and whiny to beg the devs to “make my hero more fun” as a priority over all the heroes that are, in some cases, literally broken or buggy.
Symmetra and Torb desperately need reworks to make them viable. Doomfist is still incredibly buggy. People are desperately asking for Sombra to get hack fixed and improve her viability as well. Bastion has felt neglected since the dawn of time. The list goes on…
Instant res is a bad idea.
Such a powerful ability needs some form of counterplay.
It would be HER ULT!
You can counter play it by having Widow HS the res target again or something.
Similarly to how if you get stuck by a Pulse Bomb and your hero doesn’t have a way to counter it… well gg mate. Try again later.
High-reward…?
It’s just there to be used. You don’t obtain it, it’s a braindead skill now. The only thing you gotta do is look around to see if there are any enemies. And if the Res wasn’t worth it, you’ll just have another one in 30 sec.
No high skillcap.
Multiple res + cast time + LOS.
GG, solved.
If you get stuck by a pulse bomb, Orisa can use shift, zen can ult, reaper and moira can use shift, Mei can shift etc etc.
Getting a pulse bomb takes some form of skill (well not on tanks lol).
Instant res is press a button.
Zero effort.
It has to have a cast time.
Oh man if only the widows on my team just thought of that and simply HS them in the first place. I’ll have to go try that myself.
Then you’re going to have to be willing to give something up, because keeping her current kit and trying to make it high skill isn’t going to work. Probably Rez would have to go and be replaced with a completely different mechanic. Otherwise, what you want wouldn’t ever happen.
Resurrect is totally a high-reward ability. Just like Charge. It just means what you get from using it has a lot of potential. Bringing someone back from the dead can be game changing, especially if they have ult.
mercy always had a low skill ceiling
shes a very popular and accessible hero for many players.
people need to stop associating a low-skill ceiling hero as a negative thing. there are 27 heroes all with different strengths and weaknesses. new players need to be able to contribute too.