Mercy is pretty much unplayable

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Might seem stupid, but Mercy’s nerf is lowkey making me not want to play the game. Yes, I’m good at other support characters, but Mercy has been my main since day 1.
And she’s, for me, the most fun to play support. Her movement and survivability are what made her viable and fun to play! And by removing the key of her kit… It’s something I don’t understand and it’s frankly quite stupid.

I’m relatively OK with the new way she heals, I think it’s…alright. Definitely enforcers a healbot play style though
which is insanely dumb. Who tf healbots on MERCY?
The self healing rework… It’s not TERRIBLE, but it’s also not very good. Especially when you’re dived on, have nowhere to fly and now have to pull out your glock.

All in all, I’m just super dissapointed. They’ve been saying for months how they wanna make support more fun, engaging and rewarding and then they do smth like this.
Besides our GA, we have no way of protecting ourselves if dived on or god forbid, we’re alone and the one person that was with us is now dead. Yea, we got +5 bullets, but wtf are those gonna do?? Even with good aim it’s tough to get out of there alive. And good luck if it’s a Winston or Rein…

Not to mention how clunky she feels. She’s so slow and during valk it’s almost like she’s ASKING to be shot by everyone.

Tbh, it feels like it was implemented for new dps players that can’t shoot even a still object. The main point of Mercy, besides her dmg boost, has always been survivability. She’s SUPPOSED to die the least amount of times. For the top ranking Mercys , maybe not at all. Her movement has never been a problem before. Because, again, that’s what her whole kit is centered around. Mobility and survivability.

At the end of the day, it is just a game and I feel silly for having such strong feelings about this, but dam. This nerf was truly unnecessary.
And they still leave Sojourn untouched. Like, ok. I like her and she IS fun to play, but it just feels so unfair that a character that could genuinely use a nerf, is completely fine while the ONE character that didn’t need any ( besides her dmg boost I suppose) gets pummelled into the ground. Literally, since we basically gotta sit on the ground now.

I really hope they revert the changes and if they wanna nerf smth, to do it to the blue beam, the thing people have ACTUALLY been complaining about. There are small ways to work around the GA nerf, but it just really REALLY sucks the fun out of playing her.
And if the game you’re in is fast paced, smth in which Mercy was excellent in before DUE to her GA, now it’s hell to play her.

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Yes, Mercy changes need to be reverted, playing with her now is horrible, totally demotivating, she’s in her worst state in years.

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I feel very differently about this. I’m a long-time Mercy player (GM last season) and this feels like an overall buff to me. Mercy is super hard to kill now even with the GA change. Her being able to heal herself while talking damage is huge. It’s also much easier to keep people alive at low HP.

I think Mercy’s consistency is her biggest strength, and that she gets way too much value now for her healing beam, which has zero chance of missing and during which she retains full freedom of her own movement and facing-direction.

She feels un-diveable to me right now unless she’s totally alone. I absolutely couldn’t kill her as Winston yesterday while she was healing someone else. The GA cooldown nerf was smart, but the movement reduction on the backward jump is barely noticeable. I wish they’d reduce the speed further and get rid of her new passives. I’m not sure why her healing got messed with.

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I will not compromise with nerfs. Damage boost is already not super strong if you view it as Mercy’s damage output. An extra 2k every 10 minutes is not overpowered for a character dealing essentially no damage. Most other supports do more damage and have other utility to offer as well. Just flat nerfing it (and your stupid resource meter idea is a nerf) would just make the character weaker. I will not compromise just because several people have misdirected anger towards Mercy and refuse to look at the character’s performance when there isn’t an op dps running around.

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Aye I feel the same. Its seems like a small buff in exchange. I find myself kinda like it after a few runs. Maybe its because I am lucky enough to group with players who never constantly throw themselves into Junkrat’s nades.

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Seven other supports exist no one stopping you from playing them but you

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I do play other supports, as I’ve said at the start of this thread, but I’m still allowed to be unhappy with the changes made to my main

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Have you actually put any time on playing her since the patch, they effectively traded one broken problem for another…

Yes she’s killable but now you have to kill her because she can out heal most damage on others…

So basically they painted a giant Target on her that says “focus me or lose”

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Honestly, I tried her out yesterday and it didn’t really feel all too different for me. I did somewhat well, winning the match with exactly 16k in healing. When I was being targeted, it really felt like how it always does even before her nerf. The only thing I dislike is her reduce in self-healing because sometimes my team mates would be fully healed and I would be targeted and I die way faster but other then that, everything else is okay. Her ga is kind of meh to me as well. Not sure why they would target her ga.

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Ya they either need to revert or put wallride on cooldown. If Mercy can’t have fun mobility no support should. (This is a joke don’t do it blizz I love lucio)

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Mercy main since Day 1 release and I’m fine with it and to be honest notice no difference. People will adapt. Even AS a Mercy I got sick of the silly bouncing super jump battles, especially when my teammates could not aim past a 0 degree horizontal line. It was getting ridiculous to even watch. It’s still there, just not as easy to abuse. That playstyle was never intended and was a bug in the first place. She is lucky she still got a free super jump implemented at all.

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You know she can heal and rez teammates, right?

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Things she can do only if she’s alive

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as are many others. resulting in low pick rate.
https://imgur.com/a/Mv9i9Tu.

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don’t let anyone make you feel silly for feeling like that. she’s horrible right now and people defending the nerf just can’t kill anything anyways

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It’s not a nerf, nerfing is reducing power by adjusting stats a bit, this is a sledgehammer.

Imagine they nerfed a DPS’s damage output by 50%? Equivalent for nearly doubling the cooldown.

People do leave games permanently for this sort of stuff.

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What are you talking about? GA has always been the only way she can protect herself from being dove on and it’s more than alot of other supports have. Infact it’s better than what most other supports have. Are supports not going to be happy unless they are literally unkillable and have 0 vulnerabilities at all?

Press shift… Winston isn’t killing you before you’ve GA’d off and if you’ve gotten so out of position a REIN is able to dive you of all heroes that’s on you.

It wasn’t until it was giga-buffed in OW2 and made killing her near impossible because you would never be punished for being out of position since you would just ping around the map without a care in the world for who or what you were exposed too. Even top 500 players I played against in QP were struggling to kill me on Mercy as I pinged around without a care in the world as someone who isn’t even particularly good on Mercy. It was broken.

Just because one OP hero was left untouched doesn’t mean that nerfing another OP hero wasn’t necessary. Even in her nerfed state she is the support I’ve seen the most today by far still getting insane amounts of value. Though Sojourn being untouched is very questionable.

It’s 1s. Just do what every other hero in the game that isn’t a tank has to do and use alittle foresight as to whether the position you’re about to yeet yourself into is going to get you killed or not. That same way you wouldn’t just W key into the frontline on literally any other support hero in the game.

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They overdid it with the GA nerf. She’s still viable though.

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I have no idea why ppl crying like they are attending a funeral but Mercy is still good, at least for me. Maybe ppl need to learn how to not get hit without spamming too much GA?

There are always a Kiriko or a Lucio that can speed around if you like “mobility”.

The problem with her is, seriously, the damage buff. But I am glad they didn’t (haven’t) touch it.

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She’s lowkey better at doing what they were trying to de-incentivize her from doing. :joy:

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