I would just like it so Mercy isnt a pocketbot, and a main healer again, is that too much to ask?
They balance the game, while Mercy isn’t pulling crazy high pick and win rates without another hero being broken she won’t be touched.
Straight up, there is nothing to fix.
It is wild that people are complaining that she is a pocket bot AS WELL AS she is too mobile moving between people so she isn’t a pocket bot.
It is like, is she using her mobility or isn’t she?
Take boomatose here…
So she is a passive hero, which is a pocket bot.
And… Entity
Where is is saying she is NOT being passive at all.
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Wait…so now the argument is that 5v5 and the loss of a tank feels bad for DPS?
Not all time mind you, but in a specific scenario?
Delicious irony.
I’m sorry that 5v5 doesn’t always and overwhelmingly benefit you and your pew pew.
Sometimes, the other person’s pew pew is bigger than your pew pew.
And it’s hard having a little pew pew, isn’t it? Not fair!
Especially when it’s all because of that mean support, giving the enemy a 30% pew pew size increase.
Go take your feelings of inadequacy elsewhere.
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You don’t need Mercy for Sojourn to be good. Kiriko/Sojourn make up ~50% of top 500. Mercy is tied for Lucio at like 18% usage. The meta from season 1 hasn’t changed much. Mostly the tank picks. It is still largely Lucio/Kiriko/Sojourn, but Mercy alt support pick is not bad either.
The 195 hs dmg on her ult is strong enough all you have to do is land the hs and spray for 5dmg. Or have someone else on your team do 5 dmg.
Mercy mainly helps Sojourn’s reliability in securing a kill. Both from not needing the follow-up dmg and spamming railgun finishers with less total charge needed. That is the main benefit. It so happens that with this being a pick meta, the rez is incredibly valuable in reversing picks that no other support can stop. With one less tank Zenyatta discord is not as valuable.
I think most can agree that with Mercy’s design she’s fine being under the radar viable and can get to top 500, but doesn’t need to be totally consistently meta. She can remain the worst support regularly and blizzard just has to only make sure not to release strong 1shot bordering mechanics. She has a fun playstyle and accessible for many. No need to ruin that like Doomfist, Sym, Orisa, and others.
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actually the game would be funnier without supports X)
Would feel more like a fps, and less like a “shooting at infinite hp players simulator” XD
Whatever Mercy does is wrong.
It’s literally like a spoiled little child who complains about everything, even when the complaints completely contradict themselves.
The dinner is both too hot and too cold, too bland and too spicy.
The message I get is that they don’t want Mercy’s presence to matter. She should be inconsequential.
Which is one of the reasons I think they have such a hard time remembering that a Mercy with a beam connected to a teammate creates 1v2 scenario if you decide to attack on your own.
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Then maybe this game is not for you?
maybe you should go and play a game that is, to use your own words:
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More like they’d lose more Tank/DPS players by not getting enough Support players to fix Matchmaking.
And the Tank/DPS and Support players that don’t want more Support players get the options of “Deal with it”, or “Quit”.
And that’s regardless if they are a Bronze player, or up to a popular Streamer or an OWL player. They can “Deal with it”, or “Quit”. Because they aren’t important enough to Blizzard’s business model for them to intentionally not fix Matchmaking.
i dont care if she gets a rocket launcher, as long as she isnt a pocket healing doing nothing but sucking her friends
Literally just make it so Mercy isn’t high ELO meta, and the complaints will disappear.
Ditto for Moira.
Beyond that, GM/OWL will be fine with pretty much any other Support, after they get over their initial butthurt about buffing the entire Support Role.
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That is just “nerf Sojourn” - because the moment they do, Mercy will fall out of Meta.
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Nope, hit the problem with a sledgehammer and solve the whole category of similar problems permanently.
Which then allows them to buff Mercy in ways that make her ridiculously popular in Plat through Silver ELOs, without her becoming meta tier.
I’m not sure the problem of “one of the DPS is way overpowered” is fixed my removing their easiest way to detect that 
I like Mercy because it makes balancing easy.
“Is Mercy meta? ok… who are they damage boosting?” - now you know which DPS is crazy OP.
You apply that. And you don’t get heroes like Sojourn being so strong for so long.
She is a GREAT sensory hero for problems in the game Like a tripwire. It tells you if you have issues.
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Damage boosted ranged headshots are going to continue to be a problem, after they removed a ton of barriers from the game.
They might as well rip that bandaid off quickly, instead of do it agonizingly slow.
As we’ve seen with Mei complaints vs Widow complaints. People emotionally deal way better with Pain, then with Suffering.
They are going to need to get ranged burst damage in check, but just for high ELO reasons, but because it invalidates Healing, and forces lopsided needs for durability.
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I always found it kinda funny how mercy players think they’re sticking it to dps players by fighting to keep damage boost. A damage boost makes our pew pew even easier lol.
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While I think this would get the outcome of getting them to shut up, I feel on principle it’s wrong.
Ideally, every hero should be viable in high ranks. And arbitrarily putting “glass ceilings” on heroes just because certain people cannot accept their presence…well…that sounds very close to what happened when women were first let into the workplace.
The high ranking elitists need to get over themselves.
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It isn’t that they are sticking to it to own the DPS players.
It is the DPS players begging for it to be nerfed, when it is literally the only thing which makes her viable in higher ranks.
Mercy mains are laughing at them, because Blizzard ALSO knows it is all that keeps her viable, so they won’t remove it .
Or to put it another way, what the hell could you replace it with?
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TC is the typical support player that gives supports a bad name. Selfish, self-centered, thinks they’re special because they play supports. Thinks the game should revolve around the role because “its the nice role”. A disgusting person, through and through.
Why would I want damage boost removed? It makes my hero even better lol.
Because a lot of people are VERY butt hurt about it, see how many want it removed.
It is weird, it was like when DPS wanted her nerfed down in OW1, and whenever she was, DPS would fall out of meta.
It lead to the 3 tank meta.
And DPS were STILL annoyed about her.
You can tell the bright ones from the not bright ones in how they look at damage boost.
It is the literally the best DPS enabling power the supports have.
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