Mercy Megathread: It's Closing Time

General Discussion
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Most Mercy players on console use L2 to angelic descent so they can aim at the same time.

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I didn’t know that so It was impossible to play pharah but not mercy since I could hold x

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Meanwhile on the front page…
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte

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It needs to stay, u wouldn’t want to see 30 Mercy topics in a row

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I made the mistake of thinking “Great, they’ve made their point of view of Mercy perfectly clear, so we won’t need the mega thread soon - this is a good opportunity to draw attention to bugs which has existed for a very long time and can be very detrimental to the players!”.

Some may not believe it but, I was only trying to help, I guess sometimes I’m not sure why I even bother.

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It’s near impossible to have any Mercy related discussion since the Megathreads started. Everything you say will eventually be sent to that dump where everyone is talking about different things at the same time, with the only cohesive narrative being that it’s “somewhat Mercy related”.

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Thats not gonna happen with brigitte around, if anything we need a brigitte megathread thats whats filling the fourms right now.

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Brigitte could use a megathread herself but I think the uproar would be too great. Mercy mains are mad about Mercy but the controversy has been going on since last year September, it’s time to move on.

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I think the worst part is the same message is said, so it drowns out anything constructive.

If people just accepted Mercy won’t be reverted to having a rez ult, then we could talk constructively about her.

As it is right now, they’re only shooting themselves in the feet with the “revert mercy” reeing.

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i think mercy could use some minor buffs but she is balanced tbh

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September 9th, 2017;

While resurrecting downed allies is a core part of Mercy’s gameplay, the way her Ultimate functioned was causing a number of problems. It was frustrating to play against, and it incentivized Mercy players to hide away from important battles, instead of taking part in them. This version turns Resurrect into a single target ability. It’s still an important part of Mercy’s kit, but plays much better for both Mercy players and her enemies. Valkyrie, her new Ultimate, gives her the opportunity for big game-making plays and opens a number of new options for her.

They’re still waiting on that Game Changing Ult that was proposed.

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I have moved on, I just wanted people in general to know about bugs that we’ve talked about in the mega thread for ages but hasn’t been dealt with since the changes in September. Rezzes that are randomly aborted or pulled off without anyone being rezzed can lead to a lot of toxicity towards the player, especially given how powerful it is, and people should know these kinds of bugs exists.

Wanting to talk about anything related to Mercy outside the mega thread feels like she’s Voldemort’s twin sister or something.

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That’s a shame since there are probably more bugs that we don’t know about and they get pushed into the thread but the people who want the the revert ruined it since they’re so vocal

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You’re going to be waiting forever then.

I think Blizzard need to try a different approach but I can see how testy the waters are.

I don’t know how they could close the megathread and allow people to talk about Mercy without rehashing the same arguments over and over without actually actioning people. Which would be a problem if people are being banned for talking about Mercy.

Honestly it’s the fault of both Blizzard and Mercy players on the forums that it’s gotten to this point.

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They should just rename the mercy megathread to the anti mercy feedback containment. Or the AMFC for short

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If you’d all give up one her to where her pick-rate fell Blizz would actually react. They’re mindless stat-driven robots, duh

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This thread will probably end up in the megathread aswell.

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I’m just quoting what they proposed. And continued proposing ;

November 16th, 2017

We feel that Mercy’s recent rework has been successful, but her Resurrect ability still feels too strong and frustrating to play against. Now that it has a cast time, enemies are more able to counter the ability. However, Resurrect will cast instantly when Valkyrie is active. This should make her feel powerful when she transforms on the battlefield.

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What I would have wanted them to do is to take a step back after;

October 17th, 2017;

Valkyrie no longer resets or reduces Resurrect’s cooldown. Instead, it now provides an extra ‘charge,’ allowing you to revive an ally even if it is still on cooldown. If the bonus charge hasn’t been spent when Valkyrie ends, it will be removed.

This method makes Resurrect more flexible when used with Valkyrie. For example, in the past if you wanted to resurrect two teammates, you had to revive the first target, then activate Valkyrie (causing the Resurrect’s cooldown to reset), and then revive the other target. With this change, you can now activate Valkyrie and fly in quickly to resurrect both targets instantly.

However, this still reduces the overall number of Resurrects that Mercy can provide, since Valkyrie no longer reduces its cooldown.

November 16th, 2017

We feel that Mercy’s recent rework has been successful, but her Resurrect ability still feels too strong and frustrating to play against. Now that it has a cast time, enemies are more able to counter the ability. However, Resurrect will cast instantly when Valkyrie is active. This should make her feel powerful when she transforms on the battlefield.

January 30th, 2017

Mercy’s recent Resurrect changes have helped in allowing enemies to have more counter play in dealing with her, but she was able to use Resurrect through Valkyrie enough to largely mitigate the impact of the previous changes.

Three Patch Notes of reworking Rez’s interaction with Valk and think “Maybe Rez is too powerful as a standard ability”.

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It’s funny because they made a megathread due to the overload of Mercy related threads yet can’t make one to stop the Brigitte spam that nobody feels like dealing with.

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You can quote it. I’ll quote something too.

Now why can’t you take no for an answer?

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