Okay, i know the overwatch devs are most likely arent going to read this, but im still going to post this. IM SICK of having my character nerfed every flippin season. This nerf, actually makes sense and you know what im not to upset about this its whatever. IS WHAT I WOULD SAY IF WE HAD 1.5-1.8 ( slingshot 1.8-2.0 and 2.1-2.3 for super jump 1.5 for regular Ga )SECOND COOLDOWN FOR GA. But guess what, you guys dont know how to properly balance a hero, or listen to the people who actually know what we are talking about. Instead you listen to the people who play tank or dps have never touched mercy or even know how the dmg boost works, and just get upset because they die when theres a good mercy on the other team. So im going to repeat after all the mercy mains that actually know HOW THE HERO WORKS, instead of a sensitive upset dps/tank player that has no idea what there talking about. Complete this nerf for dmg boost, and buff for GA AT THE START OF THE SEASON. no. NOT LIKE A MONTH LATER OR SEASON 7 AFTER WE GO THROUGH HELL, BECAUSE A NERF MADE BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEIR TALKING ABOUT. Your going to add the dmg boost nerf, and then something so simple… make GA 2.0seconds or below. Something 1.8 for slingshot and 2.0 for super jump. Or even 2.3 for superjump. and if you cant get that into your brains just revert her to the old ow1 GA where i could actually be in the air instead of looking like a starved, cooldown verison of flappy bird. Im currently t500 and let me tell you. If the mercy is good, she will rarely ever die, you know why? BECAUSE ITS CALLED SKILL EXPRESSION. just because a few people know what they are doing doesn’t mean that the hero is too good. Im SICK of the mercy nerfs, ive been playing this game ever since i was a child. And somehow… i know what to do more the people who have created the game while being drastically younger.
Okay, im going to explain this more because people arnt getting the point. Im NOT upset about the dmg boost nerf, im upset that the GA nerf does not help anything for anyone. Stop saying im whining over a small nerf because im not. Messy now has 10% less value, she cant help her team mates as often because of the ga nerf, because its to dangerous to do so, so by nerfing her ga its encoraging a more of a pocket style. And because are saying that im saying “ revert her back to season 1-2 GA” If you had some brain cells, i WASNT saying that. I was saying for regular GA have it at 1.5 ( which it is ) and have slingshot at 1.8-2.0 seconds, and superjump 2.1-2.3 seconds. This makes sense because mercy players can still show skill expressions but still be punished for there mistakes. Also why should i be forced to play another hero because overwatch cant balance right? Also i do play dps/tank sometimes and am in masters with them. I agree that mercy is overpowered, i mean I PLAY HER. But mercy right now is so sluggish and un balanced, why are yall admitting for the dmg boost nerf to not do anything which just proves my point that they have no idea what they are doing and making unneeded nerfs that contradict what the problem is. We are open to a differnt abilty for rez and a dmg boost nerf for mobilty , we are open to changes but they dont know how to. So we are forced to play with stupid nerfs and balance changes that dont work at all and are just useless.
The Damage Boost nerf from 30% to 25% does not even change any 1-shot breakpoints (160 damage & higher is still 200+ damage). 30% damage boosting 150 damage is less than 200.
Mercy has been in an over-nerfed state since the November 2017 & January 2018 patches destroyed her, and she has not received needed buffs since. Resurrect is even weaker in 5v5 because the fights are faster & you don’t have as much protection as before, so it’s harder to pull off a Rez without you dying before or after a Rez, or even getting it canceled by a knockback, stun, or hack (might as well not even be playing Mercy at that point).
Mercy is lower value compared to literally any other Support. All one needs to do is do the math of how much value overall her kit brings, and that will say it all.
I want to be able to play Mercy without having to swap off of her to another Support if I want to win.
they are acting like 30 to 25 even does anything. even niandra said this nerf wouldn’t even change a thing. at least it makes ashe headshots more bearable, but i would’ve rather gone for it being 20% instead of 25-30%. at least with it being 20% her GA could get some meaningful changes and buffs
I implore you to pick zen/ana for a year and then come back. If you think the least diveable support getting a 5% nerf is “literal hell” then I wonder what you’ll think after playing one of the most diveable supports.
the only reason why shes so frustrating to face is because her mobility makes her hard to hit while meaning that pocketing is even harder to deal with. her mobility should’ve never gotten that omni directional buff, but they most likely wont go back now. her movement is not why everyones complaining anyway, its her damage boost. damage boost should be nerfed instead of her mobility as the only reason why we play her is because her movement is so fun.
thats why we all got so pissed with the movement nerfs, they decided to nerf the only fun part about her without touching the actual problems. AND GOES TO SHOW that if you nerf her movement, all your doing is having the mercy player be encouraged to pocket. pocketing is why everybody hates her and the fact that nerfing her mobility only enforces the pocketing playstyle, means that her mobility is not the issue, its damage boost and rez.
She’s always been a pocket heavy healing support as is with her lore and kit since OW1.
She was never meant to have that much mobility. And mobility was always seen as POWER since dive became meta.
Now that she has so much mobility she has so much more power then before.
That is one of the basics in Overwatch. Mobility is power and its what makes the game so fastpaced.
But this new team is focusing on literally making COD. Where gunplay is power. Which is just dumb.
Mercy was never meant to be this hypermobile.
That is the issue. You took a heavy pocket focused healer and gave her to ability to go anywhere and constantly dodge more than any other hero.
Her mobility is not what Mercy is known for.
Her pocket playstyle was always countered via aggressive target priority. While I don’t want you all to be completelt helpless, you cannot have so much mobility that you can dodge 24/7 while pocketing.
This is an issue because the pocketing never stops.
no she has not, shes always been played as a main healer until she got her HPs nerf to 50 from 60. ever since 2015 shes ALWAYS been used to heal her team and damage boost her dps occasionally. it was actually way more encouraged to heal your team to get your ult than to damage boost your DPS.
and her lore? honey, shes always been a healer that heals her entire team. never solely 1 person
yeah she was never meant to be this mobile, which is why i’ve been saying since the start to just remove the omni directional crap and revert her GA back to how it was on october 2nd 2022. pre-OW2 release, the new GA is horrific and feels terrible to use and its so so CLUNKY. slingshotting feels worse than ever and its like…theres this weird stuttery effect which feels so weird and unnatural.
now this is what happened, ever since her HPs went from 60 to 50, shes started being a pocket support. their biggest mistake for the character was both mercy 2.0 and giving her omni directional movement without thinking it wouldn’t be broken. they made a pocket support be even more harder to hit which, from a balance standpoint, makes NO sense.
it NEEDS to be reverted, skiesti’s sole opinion shouldn’t be the entire balance for the character.
if its gotten to the point where mercy mains are fine with removing rez, at this point, her rez and mobility are what shes known for. thats literally only why shes played, for her mobility.
yes which is why she needs her GA reverted to how it was in OW1. they need to do it like asap
The types of people making these threads are mercy one tricks. They wouldn’t last one game on another hero without getting flamed. This is coming from someone who actually enjoys playing mercy. She’s just far to easy for the amount of value you get out of her. I play in masters and GM lobbies and mercy by far always has the least deaths out of everyone in the lobby. She’s just far too easy to survive with, and if we’re being honest, being able to survive is more important then anything else
plus the fact some people think we enjoy being this pocket bot? HELL NO!! the best way to play mercy is to juggle around teammates and shes always been like that, shes solely been fun because of that. titanium himself even stated that if they removed GA, 90% of mercy players would quit the hero. mercy is unique by being the most mobile support hero and that makes her fun.
