That was moved to the Megathread, it wasn’t a response to it.
CURRENT competitive season when the Mercy meta was still in swing because she was still the best healer for Dive since Sombra’s changes made Lucio ineffective since he can no longer even heal when hacked.
Hell the LAG vs Bosting Uprising match actually showed that Mercy was better than Moira because when the LAG’s Moira’s resources ran dry want to know what their only means of healing was?
Coalescence.
Mercy’s healing isn’t on Resource. Her healing is consistent. Her healing isn’t negated with hack.
3 BIG things that made her a must pick.
Hell I’ve only played current Mercy and all I want is an ult that’s not utter trash. It’s there to help win an already won fight. Not all that game changing.
It’s there for a clean up AFTER a fight.
It’s there to make Trans or Supercharger better.
It’s not a good ult at all. It’s too long and because of that the results nigh impossible to see.
The solution to this on other forums I know is usually a merger, but not everything in one big thread. Say someone makes a thread about Mass Rez (futile, I know, but let’s pretend) - fine, let it be. Someone else makes a thread about a revert, that thread gets merged with the first one. If someone continuously make new posts on Mass Rez outside the first post they get a warning that they are spamming, and after repeated offenses they get suspended.
It would probably encompass many of the posts that’s currently in the mega thread while still allowing those of us who want to discuss bugs and and other game-play aspects to actually do so.
It sucks actual bugs or QoL feedback is stuffed in there but you have no one else to blame besides your fellow, albeit more radical, Mercy mains.
The constant whining and finger pointing and blatant toxicity over her changes that flooded the forum are what forced the devs hands into making the megathread.
This isn’t true by any objective measure. It’s a good ult. I can even agree with people who say it doesn’t feel impactful or people who say it’s boring or people who don’t like a cast time for res in Valk(I feel this way). To say that it’s a bad ult is just untrue.
Statistically her pickrate and winrate are in a place where they don’t want to touch her so what’s so hard about understanding that it’s not going to be changed for now?
This is the solution I would like to see as well(individual users being warned/suspended for creating new threads) but I can see the backlash and controversy already. There are some people who would intentionally want to be banned so they can be a martyr for the cause. There are already specific users who make their entire forum identity about wanting to revert mercy or finding ways to temporarily avoid their Mercy discussion being moved into the megathread.
I don’t think public opinion would be on Blizzard’s side if they’re suspending players for wanting to talk about a character. It would be a risky move but I would like people to be able to talk about Mercy without it being moved in the megathread.
Can consider this a subjective opinion. Valk is not powerful, it doesn’t win fights, it’s demolished with focus fire or rendered useless with basic fire of 60dps.
Valk is too long to do anything proactive with it, other than going Battler Mercy with your unlimited ammo, but that has you stop healing your team.
Rez’s cast time, I don’t have an issue with since I’ve gotten use to it since I never experienced instant-cast. I’ve learned how to use it, and can even get risky rezzes off quite frequently.
And you ignore
This is why her pick and win rates are high. She’s viable. I’m not f’n arguing that. Her ult, is a non-ult. It doesn’t amplify anything. If anything it’s more disruptive, because my team would have to forgo their positioning to get in the 10meter radius of the chain heal/boost for it to even be effective.
I mean you could just not read posts you don’t want to read? That’s what I do. They’ll burn themselves out eventually.
But the megathread locks anything related to her, even if it’s not related to her rework, which is odd. Someone noticed a visual glitch where her left wing breaks off her model. It’ll never be seen because it’s now post 3000 in a megathread that’s really unrelated.
However you want to characterize what it’s doing she’s obviously not a bad character as her pickrates and winrates are still high. The devs do not want to touch the position she is in right now.
Which I cannot blame them for. They are going off the Current Comp Season where she was integral.
She shouldn’t be touched right now, but she shouldn’t be just thrown to side never to be looked at again, especially with Season 10 changing the Meta, and with Symm’s rework with her TP along with the new buffs to Ana.
Speaking of Ana, ie the hero the devs kept saying she’s not in a bad spot and it’s only the fact that she’s weak in Dive that hurt her. But now, she’s getting buffed.
I do hope that after another few season we can see where heroes fall into pick/wins and see where some end up.
It’s frustrating to see any and all threads of Mercy, pointing out bugs, and glitches are just thrown into the mega-thread. Heck proposed SKIN ideas for her have been thrown in there.
Indeed. Jeff’s post remains very frustrating. Mercy has a high pickrate because she’s so freakin’ easy to use. People in Competitive are mostly masochists who’ll play even the most boring and skill-less hero if it means it’ll help them win. It doesn’t mean Mercy is in a good place right now.
Well, I’ve decided to stop posting in the mega thread anymore - what’s the point? It’s just a horrible waste of time, even though there was a time when I choose not to believe it. I’ve said my good-bye, although I’m sure this thread will eventually be moved there to negate it.
I actually dont mind. Let people talk it out. In the end the mods will move this to the megathread, but its nice to see conversations go on while its here.
The funny thing is she was in a better place BEFORE the rework. So I don’t even understand how they can use balance to justify whether or not she needs changes.
Yeah I can confirm res is bound to the button most heroes use for their alt fire. GA is bound to alt fire AND a (a.k.a. holding jump). And yes, it has caused issues.
The problem was people whined there was no “counterplay” to Resurrect. The thing is, if your team is smart and plans ahead, you can easy make Mercy waste her Resurrect. The ultimate punished poor planning and poor ult economy.
But since most players don’t want to play smart, and would rather “pew pew pew”, they get out-played, then go to the forums or Reddit to whine about it.
