I still think Ana is the best off-healer.
While this is how it is right now, it shouldn’t be this way, Either Moira or Ana should be put as Side Healer personally more so Moira than Ana. Ana and Mercy should be the go to for healing. Ana for major Burst Healing and Mercy for pure raw single target healing.
Mercy and Lucio are main SUPPORTS. Ana, Moira, and Zen are flex SUPPORTS. They have been in the pro scene since day one. Stop defining heroes by one of there least important functions.
I play mostly DPS, and i today i played 2 games of Mercy during my placements, and her healing does feel really low. Healing a tank takes forever. But she really is pretty fun too, but maybe its just because it was a change of pace from playing DPS.
Yes thats what i thought
i assumed that mercy was going to be still a must pick, not as a main healer
but as a really powerful off healer
remembers when the dev comment said that she is meant to be a strong healer “sigh”
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I just think it’s a bit weird how Blizzard states they wanted Mercy to be the best single target healer, that she was meant to be the “go-to” for healing… and then they nerf her to the point where she definitely is not who you pick for the best healing output.
I’ve found that Mercy only works for me if I have a very mobile comp that’s especially spread out where Mercy will be able to heal targets that other healers might struggle with. And even then, if the team is taking too much damage, Ana or Moira is the better option for the burst healing.
Mercy currently can’t even enable sniper comps the way she used to, as her healing nerf has affected how often she can even afford to damage boost unless her secondary is Ana or Moira… which puts her into the off-healer category, and she was never really meant to be that—according to Blizzard.
If they want Mercy to suddenly be an off healer now, that’s fine. But they need to state that that’s supposed to be her role now, instead of saying that she’s meant to be a “go-to” single target healer and then nerfing her so that she isn’t.
To be clear, I like where both Ana and Moira are now. Ana’s buff was sorely needed and I’m glad I get to play her more often. It’s just that Mercy’s current state doesn’t make sense to me considering what Blizzard themselves have said about their approach to her balancing.
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Wait. Mercy still heals?
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i dont like like the sound of off healer, sounds like shes a hybrid to me, B teir support fits better imo
If Mercy is to be in the same category of healer as Brigitte, then she should be as lethal as Brigitte and as hard to kill.
Mercy is not an off healer. She spends the vast majority of her time doing nothing but healing. Nobody else should even come close to Mercy’s total healing output over the course of a game.
The fact that Moira beats Mercy’s healing by up to 18% (SR dependent) while doing 6 times as much damage as Mercy’s pistol plus damage boost and contributing to twice as many kills is ludicrous.
Mercy isn’t utterly unplayable right now, but she’s obviously too weak and feels awful to play. She needs a fix from the devs ASAP to make her feel impactful again, and step one needs to be getting rid of Valkyrie and putting resurrect back where it belongs. Without resurrect on E, her kit has more power available to dedicate to healing.
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Honestly, just up until too long ago Mercy had the highest pick rate. She gets a 60 -> 50. Moira gets a virtually unnoticeable buff and Ana gets an adjustment to her ultimate. Shortly after this Ana play starts to pick up as the preferred healer. At this point I feel like its mainly perception and Mercy might honestly be perfectly suitable with a change from 50 to 55 h/s instead of 60. A bit more than she has now, but not as high as 60 or low as 50.
I would have to disagree. The thing with off-healers is that while they are healing they are always outputting damage and getting kills while their healing is just kind of automatic I guess. Mercy doesnt contribute to kills and damage. Yes damage boosting but with the the recent nerf, switching to damage boost is much more risky especially in the middle of a team fight because its so much harder to sustain them. She’s a wanna-be main healer. She’s actually in a very limbo state.
I would never call Mercy an Off Healer, not while she’s still capable of 15k healing in 10 minutes. And before you say it’s not possible, I had a 5 minute match with Mercy where I got 8k healing. It may not be easy but it’s absolutely possible.
I’m not trying to argue, but the flaw in your logic here:
Is that you can say that about any situation. For Exmaple:
“I wouldn’t call Zenyatta an off-healer, once I got 10k healing in 10 mins!”
Off healer: brigg
Tank: Brigg
Dps: Brigg
FTFY
hitscan:BRIGUTTTETEE
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Cleanse isn’t a good idea. Let me count the ways.
It doesn’t DO anything, it UN-Does something. It removes PART of the effect that someone else caused. It won’t fix the whole thing, only ‘bandaid’ part of it.
Its reactionary. As above, its a response, not a power.
It doesn’t help Mercy at all. It affects other players, not Mercy. The idea that cleanse would self-target, or hit Mercy as well as her target is wishful thinking at best.
This kind of power makes Mercy more team dependent to get value from its existence.
“Cleanse” Already exists: Zarya’s bubble shakes/soaks CC effects. You’re sugguesting something that another character already has. With Sym stealing her beam, and cleanse stealing her bubble, we might as well retire Zarya.
Personal bias. I don’t want to cleanse you. I don’t want to wipe your nose and clean your booboos. I don’t even want to heal you, and just want to shoot back at the enemy, but I picked a support, and if no one wants to heal you, it becomes my responsibility to avert a team wipe. I don’t want to take responsibility (and BLAME in its absence) for your status effects as well.
The temporal nature of status effects.
Sheildbash and flashbang; Do you SERIOUSLY expect a player to have perception AND reaction to anticipate, witness, respond to and avert a momentary stun?
Are you insane?
Stop sugguesting cleanse. Its a really bad idea. Its the worst sugguestion I have ever heard for Mercy, its plain stupid, it doesn’t add anything, its reactive, and I am driven to irrational levels of antipathy for the proposal to further gut and devalue a character that is already suffering.
ITS
A BAD
IDEA.
STOP.
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Well, i basically heals about 5k per match now, while my average before the nerf is 9.5k. And a moira is healing 11k in the same match. Even brigitte does 9k in another match lol. So well i guess it’s true that mercy is an off healer now.
30 sec res is only what makes her pick rate high rn.
Mercy as a 2nd or off healer doesn’t bring any similar value that a Brig/Lucio/Zen would bring.
Only 30 sec rez is what left of nerfy right now lol 
Remove that and the only ones that will play her is filthy mercy mains like myself lulz.
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