Addendum: It honestly feels very dumbed down:
Damage Boost: Your ideal usage rate should go up from 50-55% to 65-75% usage, Healing right now is “better” in some cases, but the threshold where you should stop healing someone is lwoer
HEaling: Before it was worth to always keep the people around you at around 80% hp or a bit more so they can survive most non one shot big bursts, now I find squeezing out damage boost till they are are very low and you can maybe ehal them if they are near cover, or just damage bosot hope they kill and rez.
Now you genuinely want someone near being low enough for you to capri sun some hp off too
GA outside of valk: Forget about baiting out damage any fancy body blocking, fly cover to cover, one etch I sue is that I always let go of shift early after I have jumped and I dont need the full moemntum to force out the GA half a second earlier
IN valk: Mostly the same, just forget about longer battle emrcy sprees, focus on ehaling if you wanna tank damage,
REZ: No risky rezes anymore. Dont. It wont work
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This was always the ideal usage rate unless you were healbotting
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Well not really, before you ahd merit to keep your healing target at atleast 80% hp and you could egt to that level faster because they would sutrvive big burst. Now you go damage bosot the moment theyr each 50% or 60% hp but going further in ehaling is worthless, and its betetr to squeeze the DB
I would heal the moment the person I have beam on took damage sometimes and still get over 65% offensive beam usage.
This has always been the goal with beam %s. I think it’s still dumb to damage boost someone low hp unless they are 100% going to stay alive. I still play about the same minus the spazzing. The healing burst shouldn’t be an excuse to not heal when team mates are low, it simply helps you get people healthy quickly but slows down with more chip damage.
All quite accurate from my view so far.
In particular that the GA nerf only encourages more pocketing from cover, maybe more tank pocketing. Almost makes Mercy want to do what enemies get annoyed that she does.
Hioenstly Id amage boost anything right now. Its just rarelyw roth to heal