Mission to revert Mercy's GA change

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So most of y’all have already heard that the devs dont wanna revert the GA change on mercy because “the stats say her pick rate, win rate and her average deaths are the same.” I know this is gonna sound very petty and stupid for a number of people, but what if we purposefully change those rates? Meaning we would play more carelessly and die more. And maybe play as a 5 stack and start losing as mercy. The devs only care about the mathematical stats and thats how they do their balance changes. Also not saying you should throw comp games, maybe just qp and arcade.

I know I’m not the only one who wants them to revert that bs mercy change. I’m curious if anyone else would be willing to do this in order to make mercy whole again.

Besides people could just die as mercy a couple of times then switch heroes

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I don’t endorse throwing, even temporarily.
Just stop picking her at all.
They’ve got their data that she/we can play just fine with this iteration, best bet is show them that we plain don’t want to.

Her pickrate plummets despite her other metrics being stable and they have to at least take a second look at the feedback. Or deal with a metrically good Support having a miserable pickrate in a role with only 6 competitors. They ultimately get to pick that course of action.

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In order for these changes to be reversed, the boycott must continue and this can be done in various ways:

  • Delete the game
  • Play with other supports

Anything that drastically alters Mercy stats.

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Go for it, I hope you get reported enough to be suspended for throwing games.

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Hold on people… Let them cook.

(I really need a drink)

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lol, alright you have fun with that.
They said no.

You throwing games is just you being a selfish childish person is all.

All this over 1 second of downtime.

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A 67% increase in CD is actually pretty massive.

Please, go through the patch notes and find similar percentage changes.

Imagine if another hero’s most used CD was increased by 67%. They wouldn’t be happy either.

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1 second. you can change it to a percentage to make it look bigger, but its still only one second.

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One second is a long time on a hero that has limited offensive ability to threaten and control the space around her.

One second is very often the difference between life and death, especially as you go up in the ranks.

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Would you appreciate if they added 1 extra second to your favorite heroes reload animation?

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I’m telling you mercy shoudve been fat since the game came out, that would be her drawback for having GA on a 1s cooldown

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That’s a long time in OW though

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They added an extra 12 seconds(Now 8) to Bastion. We lived.

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And then you find out that statistically there is no significant difference, but the devs are happy with where the hero is now.

So if there is no difference, and the devs are happy with where the hero is now…why was the change implemented in the first place?

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If you JUST used GA so its on cooldown. Then you are with a teammate. Her “limited offensive ability” isnt a problem cus you literally just flew to a teammate…A teammate is there. You just used GA to get to them.

Just spend 1 second helping that teammate before ditching them. I mean you flew over to them for a reason right? why is helping them for literally 1 second out of the question?

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The way I like to think of it is that they increased Kiriko’s recovery time between healing ofuda’s by like .15 seconds and people complained she felt clunky after. Now imagine that almost 8 times more.

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To be fair to the Mercy, that teamate could be bad.

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I don’t like to do this…but…

  1. How much do you play Mercy?
  2. What rank do you play at?

Because I regularly play with Masters and GM players. And I can tell you that if a flanker wants you dead, 1 second is an eternity.

And having to depend completely on my teammate to peel for me is not fun.

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I’m alright with the mercy changes. Yeah they make her a bit clunky and not as fun but it’s not the end of the world, I’ve been playing a bit more of other games too because my ow tolerance has lowered. Throwing games is never a good idea. Just play to have fun. If you’re not having fun, try to find something else to do. Value your time, you will be throwing games and in the grand scheme of the statistics it will not be enough to make a difference with how many players there are.

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I am fine with every mercy change but GA. What they did with GA is to much, why is it with mercy they always go scorched earth with her

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