Mercy Changes Experimental

General Discussion
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Valkyrie

  • Killing Blows extend the duration by 3 seconds

Caduceus Staff

  • Healing now reduces from 55 HPS to 40 HPS over 2 seconds while connected
  • Healing returns to its normal HPS over 2 seconds while not active

Resurrect

  • Can now be canceled by using Secondary Fire while channeling, refunding 50% of its cooldown

hmmm

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well not as bad as moira. you can commit suicide now which i know i probably will. cant wait to try lol

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And another nerf to Mercy… thanks blizzard…

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encourages battle mercy

discourages healing

reduced resurrects skill potential.

overall 0/10 changes

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I know this ExC isn’t meant to be serious, but I swear some players don’t know how to balance lmao :joy:

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they might be experimenting with that for a OW2 reference. since we have heard they are planning on reducing healing in combat in OW2

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A complete joke, nerfing Mercy, one of the most balanced heroes right now, great idea. Encouraging battle Mercy on valk and nerfing her healing LOL.

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Not gonna lie I don’t understand the caduceus staff changes

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Yes, because this is a joke exp card.

You’d think that most of the changes would give it aways.

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Been forever since I played Overwatch. Decided to hop on after hearing about an Experimental card that decided to go “overboard” with heroes, for fun.

Saw that for Mercy’s “fun” and “overboard” change, she got nerfed…

I’m going back to Apex, Halo, etc…

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Exactly. It’s supposed to be a FUN, JOKE card with silly over the top changes

Nerfing Mercy’s healing isn’t fun lmao. None of her changes are fun.

Violet was a terrible pick to balance the support role when they are a LITERAL OTP Brig main.

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to discourage healing with her because a lot of newer players don’t understand that almost every over support does more healing than mercy and should be using her blue beam for the most part

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This is a Brig otp balancing, not blizzard.

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It doesn’t discourage healing, it just makes her even WORSE at peeling for her second support and squishy DPS lmao which is literally her main job

Good luck healing your Zen or Ashe through Winston’s 100 DPS jump and 60 DPS zap when you’re doing 35 HPS after 2 seconds

People who act like Mercy’s main job doesn’t include peeling for squishies are clearly not Mercy players. I’ve been GM with her for over 20 seasons, yes damage boost is her strongest kit tool but so is her peel.

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They didn’t even make Brig a fun pick also. Brig just stole Mercy’s pocket job.

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how does it discourage healing i’m confused i play mercy i think it’s a buff u can just touch everyone with your staff and they get 80 heals now

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I mean, you said it yourself lol. It’s a joke, just for funsies.

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I actually like the change because It’s annoying when support players pick mercy and then healbot when you could be doing 2x more on Ana bap or Moira
What I don’t get is why they nerfed her overall. I mean she was one of the most balanced characters I just had that one issue with healbot mercies
they shoulda given some sort of compensation buff. What would’ve been cool is some other effect with blue beam, like it speeding up by 10% or something

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Yeah I mean this would have been fine if they buffed something else like making damage boost give a secondary effect too or something but overall it just makes Mercy less good and less fun lol while other heroes all got fun and wacky changes and buffs

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true they should’ve just given her something wacky