Honestly its just sad how mercy players are being ignored by the devs. Time and time again have we asked that she be given SOME change to her kit to make her feel more rewarding to play. i’m NOT asking for mass rez to be brought back but I am asking for her ultimate to be a little more impactful than just making me a flying kite that hovers over my teammates pitifully as they get wiped by any offensive ult really. Baptsite E should have been given to mercy and a bug where mercy players were so happy to have now got taken away. Thanks.
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I mean, lately, whenever there’s an interview they talk about Mercy being balanced, so I definitely wouldn’t say ignored, we’re just disagreed with, which is another thing.
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It’s just shrugging off the concerns of an entire portion of the playerbase, they aren’t even considering the unfun to play as aspect despite her being nerfed for being unfun to play against.
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I’m so sad the mercy bug was labeled and fixed as a bug because it honestly made rez feel so nice in valkyrie and it honestly wouldn’t be OP if they had kept it, it would just be a nice qol change
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I mean, I get the frustrations of Mercy mains but… c’mon. She IS close to being fine. I think she could use some minor tweaks but what about the other heroes that haven’t received anything for a long time? Roadhog is still a trash pick for how much ult he feeds. Bastion is still… well. Bastion. Soldier is outpaced by literally everyone.
It sucks that your favorite hero isn’t as good as you want her to be. I get that. But the last time she received a change before this was the Ashe patch and she got buffed in that.
I would like to have seen the Valk res thing stay. Silly thing to remove especially after it started to receive very positive feedback.
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At this point it’s either stubbornness or arrogance that keeps them thinking the rework was a success. Unless it was designed to make her play like trash and not really be useful in most situations.
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Keep the Res bug - in fact scratch that - push it to base Mercy as well, that would be great. All the counter play still there, in fact it’s increased now with the knock back changes, however, for the Mercy player this would be a huge change. It makes Res less clunky to use. How many times was that feedback given? “Res is clunky”. Now you have stumbled on a nice palliative for that with minuscule downside, let us have it.
It won’t fix everything, won’t make Valkyrie a half-decent design, it would still be garbage design that lacks room for player expression and clashes with Mercy’s design in a dire need to tweaks, but it would at the very least be something rather than nothing. You know, baby steps…
I’m hoping it broke something behind the scenes and it had to be taken down, but it’s now on its way to live patch. Go on Blizz, for the old Silicon & Synapse memory.
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Trying to catch a break, jack, leave a dog alone.
:c
Jeff said himself in Stylosa interview:
“She is in good spot. Her pickrates and win rates arent what they used to be and thats good”
Something like that.
Personally I don’t like playing Mercy, I dont find her playstyle engaging enought.
my god how entitled and spoiled you are.
The devs made a patch basically addressing any and all community complaints. They even snuck in a zen nerf.
They want to kill goats and rescue bad heroes and pretty much had a balance change for everyone, often for the sake of playability more than to change balance.
They also talked about the future and interacted with the forums, answering lots of threads.
But they didn’t do or say what you wanted, so they don’t listen and have a vendetta against you.
Cry me a river.
I’m pretty sure mercy main scared the devs away from mercy. You guys complain so much and have resorted to questionable practices, if i were the devs i wouldn’t touch mercy with a ten foot pole now that she’s statistically balanced.
Because everything i do or don’t do will anger her crazy fanbase.
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Some players don’t like how she feels unimpactful and are looking for a response that isn’t “she’s balanced.”
Her balance isn’t being questioned, but that’s the answer that was given. Win rates are not a reply to those complaints.
I like her current gameplay, but I can see how some would find her ult lackluster and want changes.
You could disagree without being rude, but that’s just my opinion.
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Shes not ignored by the devs. She is getting nerfed on ptr right now. They know she is really op
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Nah, they nerfed Reaper-kun, which the community did ask for. And he is not even statistically balanced so much as he is underpowered. And that was after a long time of virtually nothing. He has been bottom tier for years, finally became semi-viable, and is nerfed like two patches later. Reaper mains only ever really cry about Shadow Step. The developers still did whatever weird nonsensical “it feels” changes regardless. In other words, the developers have nothing against Mercy players so much as they do not want the character any more relevant than “close to balanced” because the rest of the community will complain. Believe it or not, the vocal Mercy mains, despite being very loud, are not as important as your rando that hated Mercy when she was meta. Because those randos ARE the player-base. Real talk.
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And 48 hours later, she’s incidentally being changed again with knockback and damage boost changes.
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What’s more important? Reworking a hero that some people find unfun (I don’t. I enjoy current Mercy more than old mas rez Mercy. Don’t feel like you have to play hide n seek on her anymore) but is balanced or trying to fix the heroes that are universally unfun or unbalanced first?
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This is normal for them with Mercy, when they say “she’s fine” it’s basically Blizzard speak for “nerfs/changes inbound”.
Just because the devs have done well recently, doesn’t mean there can’t still be issues and criticism - especially with heroes who recieved no changes in this patch.
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This being Blizzard, it’s both. They’re also the geniuses who think it’s a good idea to keep shoving OWL everywhere rather than working on the actual game. It’s frustrating.
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I’m not arguing for or in favor of dropping everything for immediate changes to Mercy. Like you, I enjoy her current iteration, but I can understand how people can find Valkyrie lackluster. I would enjoy a bump up to maybe 55HPS and I don’t really care for the PTR Damage boost change, but that’s another conversation.
I take issue with posts that are rude, call players entitled, or generalize them for wanting a response to their feedback. I’ve read replies recently pointing to Jeff’s interview as an answer to all complaints. Like I previously said, quoting win rates and Mercy being balanced doesn’t answer the players who take issue with her current play style or the feeling of not having impact.
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I also just want it to stay. I’m ready to be positive to the devs again if they let it stay, but seems like they dont want me to be positive.
Lets face it, what could happen with that QoL fix (no slowdown in valk)? Nothing that would make her OP again. Just maybe some guys need their aim readjusted for like 1,75 secs each time we pop valkyrie. Mostly it’s harmless to the game and would not make mercy a must pick.
It’s only on valkyrie, for god’s sake!
If somebody needs help from a slowdown to kill valk mercy in that limited res range (she cant go too far or it’ll be cancelled) just shows that they need to train their aim more.
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