Make Mercy's Base Healing Beam Like Echo's Focusing Beam?

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What if Mercy’s healing beam worked similar to Echo’s Focusing Beam?

So basically like this:

  • Healing rate is 60 hps if targeted ally has hp below 50% and once the ally’s health is above 50%, the rate instantly drops down to 50 hps
  • Healing rate is 50 hps if targeted ally has hp above 50%

While just increasing her base healing to flat 60 hps would be nice, I think this would at least be an idea for the devs to try out on Experimental Card. It would make Mercy more reliable at keeping tanks alive.

Thoughts?

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Not bad, but I have read from somewhere that suggested Mercy’s base healing to scale with percentage. I don’t know about the numbers, but the end result was
200 HP = 50 Hps
400 HP = 60 Hps
600 HP = 65 Hps

Give or take a few numbers. Your idea is not bad, but I think the percentage is better so that Mercy’s healing on squishy stayed the same so she didn’t became a better pocket healer but she’d be better as a main healer.

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All of these ideas are cool and all but she realistically just needs a flat 60 HPS to be viable/competitive.

That or an R based heal boost ability.

However OP’s suggestion is nice. I thought it’d be cool if she had a Passive called “Critical Care” where she healed more on targets below 50% and also GA’d to them faster.

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The last thing anyone wants is more tank pocket Mercy. Just go Moira or Ana if you like healing tanks 24/7.

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Yeah but Mercy is a bit too good at pocketing DPS (only thing shes good at) and trash at main healing (tanks).

She should be a little bit stronger at healing tanks, IMO.

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Indeed. I personally do not even mind the scale idea, but instead of based on percentage, it could be a timer, for the first 2 seconds you get a boosted heal and that heal is no longer boosted unless you heal another 2 players. That encourages Mercy to constantly top everyone off without killing her pocket style for people who like it… I guess.

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to OP: I personally would much prefer a flat, no-strings-attached, 55-60hp buff to her healing beam.

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Ew lmao no

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If you were to do that to her consistency, youd probably be looking at making resurrect instant again.

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That’s not needed, she doesn’t need more HPS.

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Well what would you suggest?

Since she’s only a pocket for Echo and Ashe, and they don’t even need her to do amazing.

Moira/ Lucio or Ana/ Brig/ Lucio are the go to picks depending on ranks; so what would you do to allow Mercy to compete with them, without making her broken again?

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Nothing, I think she is balanced and doesn’t need changes.

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I mean she’s pretty much worthless, but you do you I guess

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Lmao, thats just another Dodo clone, pay no mind

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What if she has another staff mode that has skillful healing. Requires aim.

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not all Dodos feel the same, tho, even those with identical verbiage and writing styles…such as here, given I feel that Mercy needs no buffs to healing in her current state

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orrrr she could have a beam like zarya or sym and more heals so you need to track someone( in options you could change it so sym beam: 60hp normal beam: 50hp)

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^

We don’t need the complicated mechanics when they could just flat out give her 60HPS.

If they insisted on not giving her 60HPS I wouldn’t mind OP’s idea though.

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Considering Mercy is literally Medic from TF2 this should have been a thing since release.

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And negate all the damage done by winston , mercy is fine as she is

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