Murdered Mercy, now D.Va?

After playing her for awhile, shes fine, I don’t notice the nerf much. If I need absolute squishy crushing power I can just brigitte, or rat anyway.

Mercy is still viable IMO

I freaked out over the D.Va nerf, but everything will be back to normal once the dust has settled.

D.va was nerfed to have less armor. People said she would be dead. Few months later, she was the most op hero in the game

D.va’s matrix was nerfed and she was given rockets. People said she would be dead. She still continued being one of the most Op heroes in the game.

Now they are slightly nerfing her rocket damage. Do you seriously still believe that she will be dead?

Both Mercy and Dva are fine.

I dunno, when I’ve been playing against her she feels like a meaningless non-threat most of the time. In particular the missiles are absolutely worthless now, I dont even bother to dodge. The only times I’ve died to Dva since the patch are when I was already at near-zero health and she nibbled away the last bit.

She’s also still nearly as good against Pharah as the missiles never played into that much anyway, although you miss doing boop damage.

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Yes, Mercy isn’t dead, but at the same time her ultimate can barely change the outcome of a team fight now, high risk and low reward. A while ago it was highlighted that one is either better off using it towards the end of a successful team fight (to finish it faster) or not at all. You can’t simply go by pick rate and win rate to determine her ultimate’s effectiveness compared to other support healers.

I just hope D.Va doesn’t go down the same path Mercy had the misfortune to take.

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Mercy is unfun, her rez is a suicide button, her ult is a joke. Any support can ult does better than mercie’s. They nerved her speed, they nerved her dammage, they nerfed her rezz like three times, they added a cast time.

Please tell me, where did they balance? One hand gives, one hand takes.
You can’t remove everything from a hero and then expect everyone to be fine with it.

-Mercy main who won’t let go the state of Mercy unspoken and unnoticed

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Ur wrong. Mercy is far from joke tier. Her pickrate is still high, winrate is normal. What makes mercy joke tier? the fact that you cant piss people off with a 5man res or a res charge every 10 seconds.

They arent going to ruin any hero, everything they do is in an effort to make the game more balanced.

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I find Mercy fun. I don’t die often when I rez because I know when and when not to do it. Her ult is excellent for initiating a push. It’s absolutely better than Sym’s and Ana’s, and possibly arguably Brigitte’s.
She needed the nerfs because she was OP.
Now she’s not.
I’ve played plenty of Mercy.

Compare Mercy’s ultimate to other support healer ultimate abilities and tell me that Mercy’s is balanced then :slight_smile:. Honestly, it can barely change the outcome of a team fight compared to the others. The re-work’s goals were for Mercy to be engaging, I fail to see what aspect of Mercy post-nerfs is engaging.

EDIT: I see you couldn’t offer a strong reason then :slight_smile:.

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Mid way through season 2 you mean

Dva is still stupidly good. The change was miniscule at best.

She isn’t joke tier, never said that. I said she’s not balanced.
Mercy’s pick will always be high! Why? She appeals to women like me. She does not require lots of aim, she has the most consistent and strong heal output. She is the easiest support to solo heal with (which I do all the time!)

This is why her pick rate is high. Her win rate is high because she ISN’T a joke tier.

i strongly disagree. Mercy still has a high amount of impact. It dosent need to be like nanoboost where you get a couple seconds of a large single target damagebuff.
Valk is good as it is. it gives her some survivability mid fight, a opportunity to try and res someone. But i dont want to talk ab

She will be “fine” only because people are deadset on her being the problem for pretty much every meta she is a part of. I use the term fine very loosely by the way as Blizzard seems deadset on appeasing the people who use pickrate arguments and this change does appeal to them.

I just want these arguments to die as they are beyond unhealthy for the game. It is easy to blame something with high numbers but why those numbers are high in the first place is far more important and are often found in areas outside the hero. Both Mercy changes and D.Va changes were bad because they are based off information that is not nearly as complete as people make it out to be. The success or struggles of a hero can entierly hinge on external factors but it seems far easier to argue those factors don’t exist and therefore changes to the hero are the solution.

A 25 other heroes wish they could get “nerfed” as bad as Mercy.

Brig gives you permanent armor.
Ana is used to power up a person ulting, a genji, reaper, tracer. Cause more damage. Ana’s up side is that she can defend herself and is more versatile from heal to damage.

I know when to rez and not to as well, but I get one clipped by Tracer (and trust me theres one every other game). Random headshots happen. Thrown a cc on me happens quite often.

You haven’t played plenty of mercy. I have 200+ hours on this account alone. I know what I’m talking about, been playing since season one. You also don’t have that many hours on this season, which like… shrugs QP is different from comp. I wish I could see your entire history…

I’m glad that you find Mercy fun, but saying that her ult is useful is just like saying mcgee’s ult is good. He becomes immobile, glows like a christmas tree, the skulls are incosistent, and the ult as a whole is inconsistent.

The dva nerfs will barely affect her gameplay at all.

It’s like what 15damage lost from thrusters and ~36damage from rockets IF you hit them all. So on average you lose at most ~30damage on your burst combo.
An extra second of firing with her cannons will outcover that loss and her target will still die.

Stop acting like it’s doomsday. Dva is and will still be top dog in all ranks.

Mercy is picked because she…

  1. Appeals to the female fanbase
  2. Is the most consistent single target healer
  3. Does not require aim (people with disabilities find her a miracle)
  4. Is the best solo healer out there

I could go on with smaller reasons, but there’s no point :frowning:

People really love to use the pickrate stat. It is probably the single worst thing in the game right now. It is super easy to advocate changes without actually addressing the real reasons why things are the way they are using pickrate stats.

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