Back in OW1, the devs focused on the OWL balance, and thus those easily accessible characters, who were mostly played in low/mid tiers, were allowed to have some free value against characters required mechanical skill in the same low/mid tier : Gold/plat mercy/moira often brought better value than gold/plat cree, genji and etc. It was not a balanced state, but it was allowed because low/mid tier matches weren’t related to OWL.
Now OWL is gone since OW2, and Aaron more focused on the casual, low/mid tier balance. Then, those beginner characters aren’t allowed to have an edge anymore against the same low/mid tier mechanical skill characters.
It was achieved from three directions. First, the beginner characters were nerfed to match the effort they require to play. Second, the mechanical skill in general becomes much easier through the increased hitbox. Third, the devs attempted to change the gameplay loop of those beginner characters to raise their skill floor a bit so that they aren’t too much simpler than the other characters, but it often caused a backlash just like they did to Moira and reverted. I see that the current Mercy changes get backlash as well, but I’m pretty sure they already expected it, and yet they did it. So they might change it a bit but I don’t think they revert it completely like the Moira case before. Maybe.
Anyway, this is the balance focused on the casual tier most people wanted in this forum : those who require more effort and mechanical skill got more value even in low tiers.
No actually NONE of you use cover. You used you broken 2 sec ability to zip around to multiple targets being almost impossible to hit. A GOD Mercy wouldn’t ever get hit so now stop crying and A D A P T??
Specially because the game puts new players who have no knowledge about maps, comps, ultimates, the heroes they are playing; hell, they don’t even have 40 hours on their account, and with 1 single Win, after completing Placements for the very first time, they land in Gold 2
… and you better show those noobs who runs this show xD
Now seriously I couldn’t care any less about your take xD
but most important,
Specially because the game puts new players who have no knowledge about maps, comps, ultimates, the heroes they are playing; hell, they don’t even have 40 hours on their account, and with 1 single Win, after completing Placements for the very first time, they land in Gold 2
For someone who doesnt care about someones take, you sure type a lot to tell someone how you dont care about their take.
Also crazy you assume im new because i love posting some crazy af takes on the forums inbetween matches. Try lighten up buddy. They nerfed mercy not your personality
Yet you still took your time to respond. Crazy. When i dont care about something i usually walk away from it.
I mean i still wanna convince people to make mercy dummy thick. and to have ball mechs. Thats a wild take. (Dumb? Sure if you take this game way to serious.) could be fun tho. Better than cat imo
I will say this tho. GA 10% is extreme. Thats taking her whole kit and dumping it. She is basically almost like lucio when he first came out. When he was slow af? Member that? That GA change really should of been tested. They do those stupid “hacked” weekends. Why cant they test some changes there to get feed back?
BUT ANYWAYS. Dummy thick mercy with ball mechs. She just rolling around. And her ult makes her super skinny and defy gravity?
you shouldnt take this kind of comments seriously, especially when it comes to mercy, its enjoyable when mercy gets nerfs because mercy mains often overeact more than if we talk about very sensitive IRL topics X)
so people (me included) enjoy having a fun time over it, but in the end its not serious, just fun to mess around about a video game character.
also when you played characters who got nerfed countless times in a row, i find it funny to see mercy players going crazy over a nerf (that got compensated with a buff) that is the equivalent of 10% of what some characters took multiple patches in a row X) (just look at freja, sombra or vendetta, they got murdered lmao)
the thing with mercy is that the whole reason they were gonna add flash heal to her kit was because she was struggling healing wise. but now here we are with a nerfed flash heal, nerfed base healing, nerfed self healing, nerfed movement speed, in exchange for this perk in base kit on a slightly lower cooldown.
the trade is absolutely not worth it and it compromises the most beloved part of mercy which is her movement. this feels like a huge L for a character that was supposed to get positive changes to help her keep up.
also i don’t care about your comparisons, because if something feels bad i’m just gonna say it feels bad even if some characters might have gone through worse. either way these nerfs were not deserved as she was not even op in the first place.
nerfs are meant for over performing characters, that’s not mercy.
its debatable, its nerfed on the healing multplier for allies below 50hp (3x to 2x)
but it goes from 15 to 12s
base healing from 50 to 60
is available from the very start of a match, not by the end/middle of a round
and you can get two charge with a perk (with a 10 base healing nerf, that turns it into pre-buff values)
having it available WAY MORE OFTEN, is a net buff compared to it healing a bit much, but very few times
overall the whole flashheal got buffed a lot, you cant just take 25% of the changes to call it a nerf or a buff, the buffs it got are way stronger than the nerf.
uh actually YES WE DO! stop generalizing ALL mercy players while excluding its the good ones, i promise you, you are NOT good bro. NOBODY complains about mercy being hard to kill anymore, they complain about her pocketing dps. GA has been 1.5s for 10 years (besides like one month of OW2) and not ONCE has it EVER been heavily complained about unless we bring up season 1 of OW2, where GA was actually one of the most busted mobility options in the game.
sorry not sorry but your hatred for mercy players is seriously blinding you into actually knowing what’s good and what’s not. a god mercy DOES get hit, stop acting like GM+ mercy’s all have a average death rate of 0!!!
and again, you are missing the freaking point my guy. we are complaining about the GA nerf, not the healing nerfs/adjustments. idgaf if FH gets nerfed if it means GA’s speed nerf gets reverted. this isn’t about bad mercy’s dying more often, it’s about THE FACT THAT GA SPEED AND COOLDOWN NERFS FORCE HER TO POCKET DPS EVEN HARDER what’s not clicking???
