Now don’t jump down my throat , I’m not saying she’s trash/super duper Underpowered but she definitely needs something imo.
I’ve been playing her in 2-2-2 comp for about ~8 games(3150 sr) and the games I truly feel strong are when I’m running her more as an off healer. As a main healer I feel a tad weak and normally feel better swapping to Moira/Ana
With 3 DPS option gone, mercy has lost her main comp that she truly excels in. As much as I’d love for them to buff her heals to 55 and try it(while also nerfing Ult charge to compensate) that’s probably not going to happen, not to mention it’s a pretty big change.
So maybe reduce some more penalties on rez in Valk or add an Ult charge gain for getting a rez off? Just something little to give her a little more step up in this 2-2-2world.
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I completely agree. Playing Mercy as main heals with more than one tank is kinda painful. Fingers crossed that they will consider an hps buff of 55 or 60…
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I have to agree with this sadly. I truly would be happy if they gave her base 60hps back and a way to cancel rez
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I still feel she’s a good healer, just not a good main healer in a 2-2-2 world(especially with all the damage buffs there have been)
I’d love 60hps to come back but I think the devs were clear they don’t want her at 60, 55 would be great to test.
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I’ve played Mercy on 222 teams in both Forced and Freedom queue
I find her to be fun to play and effective on those teams, and as such, I do not feel she needs any changes whatsoever despite this horrifically bad (imo) change
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222 sucks and should be removed.
I play with my 7yo kid, and we just had team comps forced on us… seriously? we play vs AI on easy/medium. Half the fun is swapping between different people. And now you’ve pretty much locked us to a specific class. REMOVE 222.
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Its not supposed to be in vs AI, thats a bug.
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Ohh, thank God.
and thank you Rocktopus.
My kid loves overwatch… and this in one day… was ‘uhhh dad i dont really like what they did with the game.’
This was almost as bad as the time i had to break the news that they were going to remove water walking on water strides in wow. … I got her on vid freaking out saying when she grows up shes going to be the president and tell Blizzard that they need to put the water stride back in the water striders, ‘their not land striders their waterstriders!’
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To this day, I’ve never had problems with her healing and I also main her. I play her very aggressively though, when I have other Mercys on my team, they tend to struggle a lot from what I see because they play very defensively.
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Tbh you shouldn’t play her as a main healer in most situations…you should really only pick her if you have some sort of ranged damage worth boosting/pocketing like Pharah/Widow/Hanzo/McCree/Ashe. Then you need a main healer like Ana to heal the tanks and you’re gucci.
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People keep saying to run Mercy as an off healer and that’s how she’s supposed to be played now. I don’t get this statement of their’s, the devs have said many times Mercy is a main healer, so why doesn’t she function as a main healer? The devs seem pretty inconsistent when it comes to Mercy. The thing is Mercy is not well enough equiped to be a good off support, they could make her an off support though. The devs need to do something with her, either make her a main healer (as they call her), or make her an off healer (as a majority community calls her). Having a character in this limbo isn’t necessarly good, Mercy just feels neiche at everthing, apart from mobility to me.
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She can be a main healer depending on the team. But if you’re pocketing a strong ranged DPS (which you should be otherwise you might as well just pick a better healer like Moira or Ana) you can’t heal everyone else too. I wouldn’t consider her a “main” healer, because her entire strength is damage boost and rez.
That is her utility though, that doesn’t necessarily make a main healer.
Playing Mercy as a main does feel pretty bad. She has to focus the tanks more even though she works better with pocketing dps. However as an off healer, even though she can pocket the dps more, the team lacks a good defensive ult like Zen’s or Lucio’s. She does need something, heals at 55 would be nice.
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She cannot be an ideal main healer in my opinion, the damage characters pump out to much damage to really keep everyone up as well as Ana, Moria, and Baptiste if he is ran properly.
This is off topic but I actually think this is cute!
I hope you and your kid keep enjoying the game!
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Mercy is probably the most balanced hero in the game. She’s too easy to play to be a main healer that can compare to Ana, Baptiste and Moira. No fear of missing shots as you need zero aim. All you need is Gamesense which is what every single hero in the game needs.
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This is gold!
I know we disagree here but this was hilarious. Kudos