I don’t know any such thing, actually
The devs somehow someway felt that this was the right set of changes for Mercy
as I have said elsewhere, this is a very very sad day for Mercy
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This is similar to what is increasingly becoming the norm in business negotiations – it’s not a gradual sort of bargaining, they start with an extremely greedy position, and then negotiate down incrementally. The customer ends up worse, but the other side seems generous because they gave “concessions”.
That’s my interpretation of Blizzard’s cash shop, and that’s also my interpretation of what these DPS streamers are doing. This is negotiation by hostage-taking, which I find repulsive.
It didn’t used to be this way (egad, I’m that old), every time I detect this sort of BS, I cut-off, and cut cleanly. The only game I’m playing with a Blizzard brand is Starcraft 2, which at least they’re reasonable about, and which still has a healthy community.
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Tell me you don’t understand what’s going on without telling me you don’t understand what’s going on.
None of the problems that most people had with mercy got solved, people are just tired of being ignored by blizzard every time.
Well, what’s wild is this doesn’t address their complaints.
And makes Mercy worse to play as.
They said they want her to be a triage support but in the Twitch stream, they said they were here to be more committal. They don’t even know what they want.
So players’ issues are still very much high (damage boost and resurrect are untouched), and Mercy feels clunkier to play and in some situations, is stronger with pocketing.
They absolutely failed on this balance patch. And knowing them, they’re going to keep trying to make it work.
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I will only say one thing and one thing only no point in responding to me because I will not be reading replies. So I am GM support with mercy, moria, hell even brig. For all the people saying mercy nerf was unjust get over it. When the GMs even struggle to hit her at that level you know there is a lot going wrong with the hero (before you go oh ranking doesn’t matter sorry incorrect bud) when you have every single rank tier struggle to hit mercy something needed to be done. I for one play mercy a lot and I can even tell you her movement is way too much. If you still disagree with that get over it. Also, keep in mind one thing if by some miracle it’s too much they will hotfix. imo won’t happen because it probably has the right amount of nerf I don’t suspect over nerf.
On this very sad day for Mercy, the nerfs themselves isnt even the saddest thing in all of this
Sadder still is that many forum members will continue to call for nerfs of this now-gutted character because today’s severe nerfs didnt impact damage boost or rez
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Factually, she has the same deaths per 10min as Kiriko in top 500.
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Her movement was not fun and fluid for other players. Even top 500 players struggled to land shots on her.
They did nerf the wrong part of her kit. She needs her damage boost and resurrect nerfed.
If they wanted to increase skill division in movement which i think is a good idea, they need to revert the GA nerf this season and take out mercy’s current superjump. Blizzard at the beginning of ow2 tried to make mercy ‘more accessible’ by taking out original superjump and making it infinitely easier. Then they complained so much about the fact that mercy players who lacked skill were benefiting so much and had great movement. This is a problem they created and their solution just ruined the character instead of addressing the issue. The increased GA time is just so terrible and needs to be reverted to what it was previously.
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I’m terrified for when I get off work tomorrow and try to be effective. I stay higher masters GM. Mercy is literally going to be a piece of meat. The very best will be able to manage, but her flow is going to be so off. She will stand in the back and pocket Soj, around a corner. That’s all she will be able to do, there’s no peeling to save yourself. Just gonna get picked off, no flying in to help teammates. They want her to be a triage healer, all she will be now is a stagnant pocket. This with the changes to kiri have made supports seriously unfun. It’s not a good feeling to try and help a team and be unable. It’ll be back to Ana Lucio. Which I love Ana, but the evasion isn’t there for me.
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You should be. They did some healing buffs to Mercy, but what stood out to me is the movement nerfs, especially the GA cooldown increase. Considering the amount of Mercy hate among the DPS crowd, it’ll be Mercy hunting time for the haters, which is not I’m looking forward to.
This coming from a former tank main who don’t use Mercy much (I prefer Kiriko and Ana since OW2 started), so I’m uninstalling because Blizzard is steady on the path of making this game as toxic as DOTA2 (my friend’s kid said it’s the most toxic game ever).
Good luck, wishing you the best when you start playing.
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I don’t know about that. People had problems with her constant mobility, and it got nerfed.
Not everyone wants the exact same thing, which is why Mercy is a difficult character to change.
So yes, I stand by my comment. Blizzard can’t win here no matter what they do.
Yes, the massive exodus of players started a few hours ago, the devs have completely lost their way, they have literally killed one of the worst supports in the game (it was only good for Soujorn), now it has no usefulness, a massive trollpick .
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20 characters.
now you know how it feels with roadhog, karma came around nicely this time
inb4 5s GA cooldown, speed reduced by 50%, healing beam now travels at 0.2m/s until it hits the target, healing and damage beam now ramps up in effect from 0hps/0% to 100hps/30% over 20 seconds if you switch targets
I hope everyone has their favorite mugs ready to sip down all those yummy Mercy main tears
“Do not speak of justice to me human!”
Honestly I’m pretty sure this person is just stoking flames intentionally. They cried for every little part of her kit to be nerfed but all of a sudden ‘it’s too much’ when she is net buffed, by a wide margin just reads as satire.
Uuuuuhhhhh they didn’t remove that though-in fact this is just gonna make it worse.
Damage boost is untouched, and the GA Nerf is going to just encourage Mercy to just stay back with the long range DPS.
Also No Sojourn changes.
So uh, prepare for more PocketJourn.
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