What exactly are you confused about? The Devs, the Pros and the overwhelming majority of the community didn’t like Mass Rez for legitimate reasons, being an unhealthy mechanic.
The moment the raid was destroyed and their leader banned together with her followers, the constant spam on the forums stopped. We still see occasional thread or two like these ones but nothing like the constant spam the forums were exposed to. The forums are a minority in the context of the whole community and even on the forums (filled predominantly with support mains), the reverts weren’t a serious force but just a loud minority that was a spamming echo chamber. The raid getting destroyed is probably one of the best spring cleaning, the forums have ever had.
Interesting how stats weren’t being cited consistently back then, it was ‘disheartening to play against’. However, doesn’t matter how many complain about how she’s a bit disheartening to play as at the moment as the response can often be as simple as someone citing win rate and/or pick rate as if they mean whether a hero is precisely perfect or not (sadly they don’t paint a full picture). Many appear to find current Mercy disheartening to play as, and there’s not as much discussion now because very likely many have given up trying to appeal for some improvements. That’s the spring cleaning, not just the coincidental raid done by a minority of those unhappy with the current situation.
Honestly, two sides shouldn’t be fighting each other over some either claiming they find Mercy is fun or such, with some on the other side saying the opposite. We should be trying to get something that’s reasonably mutually acceptable to many on both sides of the fence. However, given many have appeared to give up the best option is to either pick another hero such as Ana (despite whether she’s a little too strong atm or not), Widowmaker, or some other hero that the player now finds more engaging. The other option is to play another game, which personally I’ve done but still stick around on the forum in hope one day the rework and balancing process won’t feel so random.
I didn’t say it was the only reason, but it was a top reason. Don’t presume. Where in my post did I say it was the only reason? Read. My paragraph isn’t pointless, if it wasn’t a reason then it would be pointless, your lack of logic astounds me .
Look, it encouraged counter-intuitive play. You can say you didn’t need to hide + res, and that’s fine, but you were playing Mercy sub-optimally if you did not hide + res at least sometimes.
That’s the problem.
As a Mercy player I love not having mass resurrection because I get less people hunting me down and killing me. Killing Mercy first in a teamfight used to be the win condition and it sucked lol! Now I am still hunted down of course, but it doesn’t have the same zeal as it did before
Guess we are gonna expect another influx of Mercy thread spams. Hope Undertone and crew (haven’t seen him recently) are ready for another fight. I’ve seen you in a lot of such threads so I guess you should be able to take up the mantle if he has went to greener or better places (wouldn’t blame him)
I will do my part also in de-mystifying myths and legends
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