Mercy rework shower tought

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@FFirebrandd-1844

That’s your first mistake. Mercy as a whole does NOT cater to an FPS idea. Attempting to make her would very much be like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Besides that… why? Ana and Baptiste are LITERALLY right there. You want to show off your aim skills as a support, you already have plenty of options. Why remove an option where you don’t?

Well, because an fps game is much more likely to want to be balanced around Fps mechanics is what drives the whole idea, also very much a personal issue, as i said before, the reason i dont play Mercy is basically because i find her kit boring and this is my personal take on how to make her more fun.

And i’m not really removing her still somewhat forgiving kit completely but i just dont see how you can have something that is both forgiving and strong enough for a high level of play and not being utterly unhealthy (See Mercy 2.0/Brig)

@FFirebrandd-1844

Yes, it would. Like I said earlier, a lot of Mercy’s skill cap is being and doing the right thing at the right time. If you have more raw numbers to throw around, you can be sloppier about your timings and positioning.

Yea but those raw numbers only come with good mechanics/good timing/proper downside for the most part so i’m not sure what you mean here is what.

@FFirebrandd-1844

No… see… encouraging pocketing is NEVER a good choice. It should not happen. Not ever.

It only encourages it through proxy tho , you’d still very much need to heal multiple different targets when the sitatuion calls for it and specially though on the 5v5 setting its likely that pocketing is going to take off anyways so it should sort of fit even there

Also lemme ask you why do u think pocketing is such a bad thing?

@FFirebrandd-1844

Sure but I can 1000000000% guarantee you that there’ll be a lot of people who will not be happy getting Rezzed into an insta kill because they came back with less than max HP. The salt will flow and it will be terrible.

Yea, and thats where skill-ceiling comes from, there has to be a way you can Eff up and get people salty, the same can be said for every thing that takes skill, or even stuff that takes only timing like this, like an Reaper ulting into an CC/Shield/Trans for example.

@FFirebrandd-1844

And you think a short duration of chain beams is enough to justify that much of a punishment? Chain beams suck. They always have and always will and I’ve heard that in OW2 teams spread out more which makes chain beams even worse. Also your first change would make the chains even worse. Nah. That E you gave her would not in any way shape or form make up for Rez not bringing people back at max HP.

You’re also forgetting the fact she has a better Guardian Angel / likely a better Staff, it also Dmgs buff her, and the downside of the linked targets receiving reduced linking also comes into play less because of the OW2 setting, meaning it fits there more as well the fact the ones close to your crosshair gets full value also makes it difficult to even lose that much value,

also again the numbers are again, up in the air but i think theres a way to get it to be balanced around to get to an overral net plus place for her.

@FFirebrandd-1844

News flash for you… until Mercy 1.0’s ultimate made her invincible as long as her resurrecting teammates were, she was considered kinda bad even with 60 hp/s all the time. Even with the invulnerability buff she wasn’t amazing… just frustrating.

Didnt say she was good, i played the game even more so at that time too btw, just that the fact she cant have a full 1.0 ult + better kit and be considered balanced, plus i also think its incredbly boring and hard to balance the fact it fully instantly resses your full team and led to dumb hiding plays,and was as u said just frustating to play with wich is a lose-lose.