No disagreement from me there.
pick rate means nothing. I’m a mercy main and this season I’ve switched to baptiste.
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I do not believe I could have worded your post nearly half as well as you did. Thank you.
On a side note, I am a firm believer in “What’s dead should stay dead”. A lot in this game has made me frustrated over the years, but nothing comes close to the levels of anger I get when a Mercy rezes someone who got outplayed. When the battle feels uphill, and you are trying so hard to get your foot in the door, nothing is as demoralizing as a pick being erased, and the momentum destroyed. The only thing comparable would have been Sym’s old teleporter. Both mechanics make hard battles seem nearly impossible.
If I could have it my way, I would either remove rez entirely for something else (maybe CC immunity on her healing target for a few seconds, with a cooldown), or make it so Mercy sacrifices herself to bring up the other player instantly. Healers would need to make the choice between continuing to heal those who didn’t just get outplayed, or picking up the one who did.
Of course, I am not a dev, and I wouldn’t expect to ever see such a patch. Just throwing in my two cents.
Res is so easy to counter these days, especialy with knockback that it could be argued that you got outplayed if a mercy manages to pull one off.
She needs 60hp/s healing again
Honestly Blizzard don’t care about Mercy
They only want Mercy to be “mediocre”
I mean… yes? The plan is to make everyone on the same level. Mercy doesn’t need to be the best consistent healer, the only player who can rez someone (and at full health), best mobility of all the support AND able to boost anyone’s damage at any time in order to be viable, but here we are.
Fair enough, and I can’t really say otherwise. It’s still far more tilting than anything else in this game. I get less frustrated playing Rein into DF, Brig and Sombra than I do a single target being picked back up.
The want for Rez only exists because Valkyrie in its now reduced state is but a pale replacement.
Really they could just take and give her the E and Ultimate from some other hero not inserted into the game yet and use that to solve the problem. As long as that ability allows her to function as a support, gives her agency to make a play in the game and isn’t as abusable as some of the new ones they’ve placed in the game already it’ll do.
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I dont know of any design flaws for Mercy
that really doesnt sounds like a Mercy problem, but rather, a player problem
the good news is that there are over 2 dozen other heroes to choose from for those who dont enjoy Mercy
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this isnt a “need”
this is a “want”…and only for some players
the devs stated (and I agree) that when Mercy had 60HPs/s, she was a must pick
they didnt want her to be a must pick, and I agree with this as well
And only seven are supports, one being Mercy.
uh you listed every other support’s niche and failed to realize mercy has one as well
she’s not weak, she’s just not universally the best healer anymore, she now has the pocket healer niche that she was always designed to fill anyway
One need not confine themselves to moving from one support to another
If one does so, that is a self-imposed limitation, not one imposed by the game
Maybe add like Valk Assists/Healing card? I mean there’s no real feedback to the player on how much Valk does.
I would still like to see a stronger main beam to encourage prioritizing once again.
But maybe seeing the numbers from Valk might be a better start.
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As said im not complaining) Im not a mercy main even tho she’s my second most played hero on this account (this is my smurf). So that might be the reason why i cant heal as good with her)
I can see what I am doing while Valking without any difficulties - no need for the system to tell me what I did
Hey I play tanks and dps when needed, but seriously are you saying people can’t have preferred roles? I’m asuming you are ranked high in the ladder hence your opinion that she is fine. She’s an enabler and if the teamork or composition is not there (as is often the case in lowwer tier games) she simply doesn’t have the same agency as the other healers. She is meant to be an entry level character, yet only begins to start performing ok in plat.
That’s you though. Some may want a bit more. Like I get more from seeing how much affective my Trans were when playing Zen by looking at the healing stat.
Sometimes I think I time them right only to see a very low stat at the end and it gets me to look more as to WHEN I ult.
Same with Sound Barriers provided. It’s just feedback people may want.
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The game is balanced around pick/win rate as it’s reliable source so it have meaning.
If the players had more data about how good the ult actually was, it might dispel some of the countless threads about how it apparently makes her become simply a spectator. Utter nonsense, of course, but most of the trash threads that appear on these forums stem from lack of facts/information.
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