Honestly, I just don’t see mercy as a main healer in 2-2-2 anymore.
Your way of approaching this is completely backwards. Don’t ask why we shouldn’t buff her, ask why we should.
Trying things is fine, but buffs shouldn’t be thrown around just because. There should be an actual need for a buff, otherwise you get power creep. And the arguments I see for buffing Mercy amount to “Why not?” like this thread.
I think flat buffs are unneeded. But looking at brigs rework, I wouldn’t mind killing Rez / dmg boost to make mercy a “healer” in the same boat.
She was only ever a main healer if you were playing like a Dive comp or a comp that had a bunch of self sustaining dps in it.
Her ability to reliably heal and switch targets fast+mobility (and no ammo) made her pretty reliable in a lot of cases.
When I mained supports I can’t tell you how many fights I lost due to me needing to reload in the middle of an all out brawl on Ana (and I been dabbling with Baptist and I’m having terrible flash-backs)
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It’s why zen was in dive, and why mercy started to get play time in dive. Reliability is what is needed. Not pure numbers.
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So you want to simply remove one of her mechanics just to make her a “pure healer”?
Yes but, ana and bap have received major buffs to their ammo capacity.
…wasn’t that how she was before?
I didn’t say I wanted that either. I’m saying I could get behind it. Imo, mercy is an overbloated healer and needs to be put officially more to an off healer. That’s what I want.
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I disagree. No support should be clearly the best option among the support heroes, but it’s totally okay if one particular support is clearly the best healer by sustained throughput.
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Fair. But that should be Moira then. Not mercy.
What is “best” isn’t always the same. Sometimes consistency is better, sometimes throughput is.
I’m not complaining or anything and it is a good balance requirement due to their stupid amounts of healing.
Doesn’t stop me for curling up in a ball and crying when the fight coulda been won if I had juuuuust a few more rounds.
I think my biggest issue as far as ‘feeling’ comes from my utility in ana and bapt.
If you would just USE MY ULTIMATE PLEASE
Or
AIM AT THE PURPLE PEOPLE
or
DONT LEAVE THE LAMP LIGHT
or
DONT WAKE THE NANOED GENJI
K thx
Lol
So you want her to be an off healer… with what utility? If you remove res or damage boost there is nothing left but her healing. Sure it’s 20 more than Zenyatta but Zenyatta is a insane killing machine.
I would not remove her utility if she was an off healer… I did not make suggestions for her to be an off healer In this thread. I suggested what I would do to make her a main healer. Not off.
Omg lol. I was in this game as Baptist and a D.Va threw out a Bomb right at me and this Bastion who I was pocketing. Without realizing I yelled (pretty loudly) “DONT MOVE BASTION!” (reacted with my Lamp)
He was like “Jeez… a little aggressive but I get it”
Had to apologize a little
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This doesn’t add up.
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…how?
I said she was over bloated. Did I say “this is how I would make her an off healer”?
Dude you say “she is overbloated and needs to be officially put more to an off healer” You suggested to remove res or damage boost in order to do it. Which is ridiculous.
People forget lamp is TOSSABLE. I toss it out, tell them, and I’m already safe, and I watch my team die anyway because they fled the area.
Or “lamp is up, swing rein/ shoot please!”
And we just wait in choke…