Mercy Buff/ Mercy Meta?

[Megadodo-11847]

they broke the one hero that everyone loves

Personally, I dont see Mercy as broken, or anything remotely like broken

[Myspace-11670]

Mercy’s kit is odd. It’s a mish mash. The problem with Mercy Rez is the fact that it ultimately takes 2 people out of the fight for 2 seconds. The Mercy, and the target that she’s rezzing. High skilled players take advantage of these 2 seconds all the time.

[Cnflagration-1760]

Mercy was changed purely because people didn’t like playing against her

Pretty sure that wasnt their reasoning. Sure people didnt like playing into it, but blizz didnt like the hide and seek playstyle it created. They didnt like the idea of someone sitting outside of the fights, just waiting for some of their teammates to die aftet the enemy used ults, to come in and press Q.

[Myspace-11670]

And how is this any different from Zen/Lucio? Oh I got a grave and dragon combo, oh never mind they used Zen ult and now it’s useless thanks for the great game blizz. Now you have to farm Grav and Dragons again.

[SleepyReapy-1479]

I believe that if someone spends some time observing really high level Mercy play, they will tend to change their minds on how well skill expresses itself in the hands of a very skillful Mercy player

Would be nice if people who bash Mercy and call people who play her skilless/braindead will learn that.

[WingSilent-2838]

If you saw this

@GeoffGoodman

I think that’s certainly possible. Overall her healing output is still higher than the other healers, which she pays for by not being able to split focus and do other things while healing. I’d also love to be able to increase the power of her damage boosting, but it causes a lot of issues with various breakpoints where suddenly X hero can one-shot 200 health heroes etc. There are other ways to make it feel better without just adding raw damage though, we’ll see.

Geoff Goodman has replied to a possible buff to Mercy very soon.

[Megadodo-11847]

The problem with Mercy Rez is the fact that it ultimately takes 2 people out of the fight for 2 seconds. The Mercy,

In my opinion, the Mercy who is rezzing in midfight is very much a part of the fight, choosing as her current battle tactic to restore a valuable teammate to the fight rather than use other options available to her at that time

and the target that she’s rezzing.

Factually, the target of a rez is not being taken out of the fight by rez…that person is already out of the fight due to dying…

[Myspace-11670]

Thank you Val! I haven’t seen this, I don’t follow the forums much. I just want opinions. I need to say this, Mercy mass rez was awful, I hated playing AS THE MERCY. Hiding out of the fight? It’s almost as bad as pocketing a pharah the whole game, it’s not fun.

[MonkaS-21704]

Stop blaming everything on gold ranks

[Ravenna-21947]

@Myspace-11670

Hi all, so i’ve been playing Mercy since season 1. I love Mercy! And I still play her to this day. How are we feeling about a Mercy buff? I see it as a problem if Mercy can barely out heal a Winston tickle beam, and I think a ton of people agree with me in that sense.

Nice bait post. Mercy is fine and viable.

@Myspace-11670

Mercy is a low skill hero, no one is denying that. But the point of Overwatch is to be competitive, there is a HUGE difference between a GM Mercy and a Gold Mercy, hands down, why punish the vast majority of the player base (Also Mercy is the top picked hero in history for Overwatch) purely because they aren’t as mechanically skilled as others?

Cause that’s not how balance works.

@Myspace-11670

Riddle me this for a second, would a Mercy Revert really be that bad?

Yes. Mass Rez was a bad, unhealthy mechanic.

#Don't bring Mass Rez back

Have people seriously forgotten how bad it was? Hide and Rez was a thing, “Go die on point, I have rez” was also a thing. Do people seriously want to go back to that just because of Goats? To replace Goats with something even more unhealthy is just absurd. Not to even mention the SR abuse, rez from spawn before it was fixed and the fact that even if you kill Mercy on some maps she can still come back and rez the entire team regardless if you take her out from the fight first. I understand peo…

@Myspace-11670

Mercy was changed purely because people didn’t like playing against her, which is fair, but people don’t like playing against Zen, or Lucio because of the same issue, they can negate a whole stream of ultimate’s with one press of the Q button.

That’s not the case and you are flat-out wrong.

@Myspace-11670

Mercy is a throw pick, if I play Mercy, people automatically throw my games, it’s awful.

She is not a throw pick. No data indicates that even remotely.

@Myspace-11670

On to the second part, Mercy Meta. With Ana’s buff, and Moira introduced, why is it so bad to have Mercy being on par with them? Her kit is already awful, make her healing on par with the other supports Blizzard.

This is flat our wrong as well.

2/10 for the bait post, cut the Mercy spam please. It’s been 2 years.

[Myspace-11670]

Right, what i’m saying is essentially you’ve lost 2 players in the middle of a team fight for 2 seconds. The player dies, Mercy goes in for a rez, you’re down a main support and a DPS (Or whatever target the mercy is rezzing at that time. It’s punished hard in high elos.

[Megadodo-11847]

I believe that if someone spends some time observing really high level Mercy play, they will tend to change their minds on how well skill expresses itself in the hands of a very skillful Mercy player

Would be nice if people who bash Mercy and call people who play her skilless/braindead will learn that.

It would be indeed…

[EvelUp-1190]

Lúcio and Zen’s ults can negate a few ultimates, not completely undo up to 6.

Lúcio’s soundbarrier sucks against duration ultimates like Attack Visor, High Noon, Coalescence, Whole Hog, EMP, Dragonstrike, et cetera. And it can only really tank one ultimate before degrading to nothing (or the enemy can just wait for it to wear off)

While Zenyatta’s ultimate sucks against burst damage like Rocket Barrage, Widowmaker, Hanzo, Self-Destruct, Tank Mode, Rein Charge, et cetera.

[sourmoth-1880]

if Mercy can barely out heal a Winston tickle beam

You have it wrong. She literally can’t outheal it no matter how hard she holds down M1

[Myspace-11670]

Bait post? Sounds as if you’re being a bit toxic, it’s not a bait post, it’s to start a conversation. Did you not watch the video Overwatch released when Mercy got her rework? ‘‘She’s not fun to play against’’ Exact quote. And Mercy is Viable??? When? Where? If i’m playing Mercy it’s a blame game. ‘‘Can you switch to Ana??’’ It’s much like Moira, if you’re playing Moira in any rank above Plat it’s a blame the support fiesta. Thanks for your reply tho!

[Myspace-11670]

Isn’t this how it worked with Mercy? A team would pop Visor, kill 3 or 4 teammates, Mercy comes in, rez’s the team, and then they grav dragon? Like…

[Megadodo-11847]

Right, what i’m saying is essentially you’ve lost 2 players in the middle of a team fight for 2 seconds.

The dead player has nothing to do with rez

Rez did not take them out of the fight, rez is bringing them back to the fight sooner than they would return otherwise

The player dies, Mercy goes in for a rez, you’re down a main support and a DPS (Or whatever target the mercy is rezzing at that time. It’s punished hard in high elos.

A Mercy who chooses to rez in midfight is deciding that it is more valuable to restore a lot teammate that that time than it is to use her other abilities. Nothing is lost here, rather a choice is being made between multiple available actions - something every character faces

[Myspace-11670]

Hi MonkaS! Thank you for your post, i am in no way shape or form trying to be rude, I am trying to get a point across, and that is it.
Thank you for your reply!

[SleepyReapy-1479]

There’s no need to be like that.

[Tenor-11929]

If you keep going at the rate you are going, obeying your golden boys requests, your game will surely die, catering to a minority group of players is the reason the numbers of Overwatch are decaying.

You don’t see the irony in accusing Blizz of catering to DPS when this is a post basically asking them to cater to you and the rest of the Mercy mains?