🔘 Mercy Needs an R Ability Instead of an HPS Buff

[Lullabeii-1726]

Tbf, they could code it/add an option for it to stay on until tapped again.
Toggle option(?).

Like default GA, tap once and she go tap again while GA’s active and she go no mo.
They could also swap one of her beams to a simple on/off button press and move the resource to a trigger/bumper for console only. Tho that imo should be a player option.

I do agree that if it is only a press+hold it won’t function too well on console.

[Ryan-111758]

I really like the idea of giiving Mercy another ability to increase her utility, but it would make a lot more sense to have it be a 4 sec boost on a 10 sec cooldown rather than a resource bar. Having a resource bound to a reload/interact button would be very difficult to manage on a controller.

They could just do this:

Tbf, they could code it/add an option for it to stay on until tapped again.
Toggle option(?).

Since her beam and GA already have toggle options too.

They could also swap one of her beams to a simple on/off button press and move the resource to a trigger/bumper for console only. Tho that imo should be a player option.

^^^

[Lilith-12407]

This is something I can get behind.

New ability - R
Self Boost: Upon activating, Mercy’s primary heals for 60 HPS and her secondary fire provides +60% movement speed. Lasts for 6 seconds. Cooldown starts after the ability is over.
Cooldown: 10 seconds.

Also give her independent mobility.

1. A backwards dash would be nice (the opposite of Echo’s forward dash upon activating flight.)
   Input: Ability 1 (GA) when no one is in LoS

2. An option to fall faster while holding crouch.
   Input: Crouch while airbourne

3. Superjump recognized as a feature and not a bug.

[Ryan-111758]

New ability - R
Self Boost: Upon activating, Mercy’s primary heals for 60 HPS and her secondary fire provides +60% movement speed. Lasts for 6 seconds. Cooldown starts after the ability is over.
Cooldown: 10 seconds.

That’d be SICK. Actually sick. Her skill ceiling and potential value would shoot through the roof.

Also give her independent mobility.

1. A backwards dash would be nice (the opposite of Echo’s forward dash upon activating flight)
2. An option to fall faster while holding crouch.

Mobility always fun

[Misericordia-21321]

They will never put a skill on the R button, as they will never do another rework to Mercy (at Blizzard it is good that Mercy does not have the rez in ultimate and he is fine as his kit is now).
We have to keep asking for 60 hps as a buff, it’s the only one possible. Let’s not invent strange or absurd, or so unrealistic things. The only request that can be made is a 60 hps buff.
I want to point out that I agree in another reworking, but it’s unrealistic (putting a skill on R means a rework of the hero).
But, I’m always more sure that Mercy only needs a 60 hps buff, the rest is not needed.

[Ryan-111758]

@Misericordia-21321

They will never put a skill on the R button, as they will never do another rework to Mercy (at Blizzard it is good that Mercy does not have the rez in ultimate and he is fine as his kit is now).
We have to keep asking for 60 hps as a buff, it’s the only one possible. Let’s not invent strange or absurd, or so unrealistic things.

I don’t think it’s strange or unrealistic, in fact last year I asked Geoff about an R heal boost ability and he said:

@GeoffGoodman

I think that’s certainly possible. Overall her healing output is still higher than the other healers, which she pays for by not being able to split focus and do other things while healing.

He’s also talked about how they tested R abilities for Hanzo and Rein so it’s not unprobably.

But I’d be perfectly happy with a 60 HPS buff too! If they did that I’d be fine with Mercy forever and happy

[Yelllowjacke-2528]

But the devs won’t rework or give her a New ability since it’d take too much effort right now and they have to focus a lot on other things…

So if any then a simple 60 HP/sec is what we are likely going to see.

[Ryan-111758]

So if any then a simple 60 HP/sec is what we are likely going to see.

I’d take that in a heart beat!

[KulstorEbrou-1130]

I agree that another active ability would be much better than a healing buff. I’d rather the ability didn’t just amp her healing, though. I think something like temporary damage reduction would be neat.

I’d like to keep her healing at 50hps if R could let her split the beam to another ally and heal both at 30hps.

Additionally, let it split the damage boost too at 15% for both targets.

For Valk, it gets tough, because I can’t think of really anything so it would kinda be pointless there.

[Saber-22958]

A backwards dash would be nice (the opposite of Echo’s forward dash upon activating flight.)
Input: Ability 1 (GA) when no one is in LoS

Mercy does have a reverse GA, it is one of the many movement abilities you have to master, though it is difficult to execute consistently. It’s why I keep telling people that she takes skill, they just hear about superjump and think it’s all, her movement is actually far more complex once you learn all it’s nuances. I’d say she has the most complex movement in game bar none.

[Lilith-12407]

Mercy does have a reverse GA

I know she does, but she needs a teammate to do that still. I want her to be able to dash backwards without any teammates around.

[Winter-13808]

This could work with the cooldown or resource meter, but it would need to be higher than 60hp/s. maybe, the resource adds 5-10% of the targets max hp to her healing for the duration, giving her some tank healing capabilities or general burst. I’d say 10% if it is the cooldown ability because only being able to burst for 4 seconds every 12 seconds needs an impact, however if it is a resource that you can manage, then 5% would be more balanced as it would be used more often.

[Ryan-111758]

This could work with the cooldown or resource meter, but it would need to be higher than 60hp/s. maybe, the resource adds 5-10% of the targets max hp to her healing for the duration, giving her some tank healing capabilities or general burst. I’d say 10% if it is the cooldown ability because only being able to burst for 4 seconds every 12 seconds needs an impact, however if it is a resource that you can manage, then 5% would be more balanced as it would be used more often.

That’s a really good idea! I think a % based number is great as it’s varies in power and wouldn’t make her so aggravating when pocketing a squishy but still allow her to main heal and support tanks.

[Ryan-111758]

Mercy does have a reverse GA

Dude idk how to do it I watched so many videos and can’t get it down consistently ahhh

[Wabba-11628]

You have a resource meter of 6 seconds of 60 HPS, and hold down R to use it.

Don’t you think a resource metre on anything but right click would be a bit… awkward to press? Or is that just me?

[Legolas-13471]

I personally think that mercy is in a limbo within the healer slot, she is not a main healer and she is not a off healer.

I think that allowing her to use a buff to her healing on R would be an amazing buff because it would allow her to manage more things at once.

In my personal opinion mercy is not good in QP or comp you can still get her to work but it only happens a small fraction of matches and generally wont happen, I like to play mercy but you can tell 90% of the time that her healing is not enough in the thick of a team fight.

IDK if its been said yet but mercy’s current state is halfway between trash and halfway between being OK to play with. I think that she needs a little shove in the right direction.

On a completely different note I feel like OW is going to be getting hit pretty hard if the devs don’t do something about the current state of some heroes, I think the devs were thinking that echo would hold people in along with OWL but I feel like the OWL is not as entertaining as it was in the 2019 season, and echo was clearly shown to be a support hero and then they made her a DPS. Im aware that the devs made her a DPS because of her ULT but I don’t think the game can hold on very much longer without another support or some support changes.

[Ryan-111758]

Don’t you think a resource metre on anything but right click would be a bit… awkward to press? Or is that just me?

Not sure tbh. Ironically I already thought about this and was thinking if it was on R I’d rebind it to a button on the side of my mouse. But to me R just makes the most sense for the ability and it’s the only free key she doesn’t use.

[Ryan-111758]

I personally think that mercy is in a limbo within the healer slot, she is not a main healer and she is not a off healer.

Agreed. And statistically she is played as an off healer with Ana in most matches in high ranks and OWL as a midway pocket healer for certain heroes. Never as a main support

I think that allowing her to use a buff to her healing on R would be an amazing buff because it would allow her to manage more things at once.

Yes

In my personal opinion mercy is not good in QP or comp you can still get her to work but it only happens a small fraction of matches and generally wont happen, I like to play mercy but you can tell 90% of the time that her healing is not enough in the thick of a team fight.

IDK if its been said yet but mercy’s current state is halfway between trash and halfway between being OK to play with. I think that she needs a little shove in the right direction.

100% agree. She just needs some more healing tbh, whether it be an R ability or just 60 HPS, she’d actually fulfill a proper role and be good!

I don’t think the game can hold on very much longer without another support or some support changes.

Yeah, I really miss when Mercy Zen was a viable combo…and Mercy Lucio. And dive could work. And fast paced highly aggro comps could work and not just Rein Zarya Ana Lucio brawl every game zzzzzzz

[Saber-22958]

it’s really hard to pull off. I barely manage to do it myself and don’t really try to use it because I can’t do it consistently. but I’ve seen videos of Mercys doing it like it’s just a regular GA. I need to practice more

[Ryan-111758]

Ikr I seriously don’t get the ones that can do it every time on the training bot like over and over and over…I considered myself a GA master before this ;-;