As a frequent mercy player (or mercy main idk yet) damage boost provides balancing problems out the wah zoo and blizzard really don’t wanna nerf it for whatever reason
In my own opinion id like her blue beam to provide damage resistance, like maybe 15% to the blue beam target and maybe only 10% to tanks. Idk if itd be op but id like it
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You fool! You’ve summoned them!/s
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I don’t doubt it ( ´・_ゝ・)
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The problem is people will complain about Mercy’s ability to support regardless of what her blue beam does. I think people genuinely believe people are complaining about Mercy in good faith, but I don’t think they are.
Kudos to you for seeing that Tanks would actually need less benefit from a defense boosting thing though. For some reason, people actually want to nerf things that cut tank’s defenses (Anti, Discord, Stuns), and that’s silly.
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You mean the 2(?) times in the entire history of the game where a hero was already over performing and Mercy was tacked on to make them stronger? Or the 1 time an interaction became OP and it was immediately nerfed?
You would need to replace it with something that supplies offensive value, or else she can’t contribute to kills (other than pistol) and wouldn’t be able to compete with other supports.
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Like what balance problems?
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Okay. Damage mitigation boost.
I’m speaking as more of a foresight because currently the main targets are hitscan heroes or Sojourn and yes shes in her own league lol
This subject came up during the dev Q&A last week. They have no plans to change damage boost and are quite happy with it.
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No. Damage boost is completed fine as it is. It’s just a scape goat people use to blame.
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But most hitscan heroes aren’t broken with it or have really any balance issues beyond Sojourn who as you said is just in her own world of OP. Not to mention that beyond the OP Sojourn and Ashe, who was designed to work with Mercy in mind, new dps heroes haven’t really been broken by damage boost.
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Yeah I wish they replaced it because people don’t shut up about it and maybe we can finally get world peace and stability if they remove it.
this wasn’t aimed at you btw op
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Sigh
You know what? Alright. Only if we get rid of Zenyatta’s. Ya know, just so we’re not having a double standard.
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I would love if Blizzard just removed Mercy for one season and then released the data of how many ranks her one tricks dropped as they tried playing other heroes.
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As long as Zen gets a buff so he can still double headshots 
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Aaron Keller is the goat for that
That isn’t very monk-like 
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As a Mercy main, I agree that the beam is quite problematic. 
Did a Mercy main kick your kitten or something?
Every reply I’ve seen from you today has been angy towards them
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People sure do become aggro over opinions…
“Balancing problems out the wah zoo” was the wrong thing to say, I’m not that great at understanding balance and i personally do see dmg boost as fine where it’s at i just assumed it caused problems based on how much people talk about it in a negative light