Mercy wasn’t overpowered she was overused. But with the support buffs and nerfs she might be fine. If you are wondering Patch 1.19.1.2 was the Bonus resurrect in Valkyrie, 20 second Valkyrie. And With more speed. The only problem is it was 20 seconds and the speed was way to fast. Slow res in Valkyrie right now is horrible. When you are moving around fast you might get out of range if the target. Please revert Mercy back to when she was in Patch 1.19.1.2.
Edit( Now that I look at it, she was overused because she was overpowered, but this was before the support buffs and nerfs.
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Mercy is fine though. She doesn’t have to be the strongest support in the game in order to be balanced.
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I’d say Mercy is pretty perfect, she could use a few minor tweaks but that’s about it.
Keep Valk at 15 seconds
Buff her GA speed during Valk by 25%
Potentially increase her rez range in valk from 5 to 8m
Potentially buff her HPS to 55
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Those are not minor tweaks. Those are substantial buffs.
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To me Mercy doesn’t really feel impactful in Valkyrie. They went to 5 to 1 Ressurects possible in a year. By the way it just came to my mind, but where is the Mercy voice actress?
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You are very impactful in Valk. The issue is that it’s the longest ult in the game by a mile. So that impact is spread thin over the course of 15 seconds.
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Well actually in about 6 months because the Valkyrie nerf was in Early February or Late January.
Buffing her GA speed only in Valk by 25% is a “substantial buff”??
Increasing rez range in Valk by 3m is a “substantial buff”??
The only one that could be considered a “substantial buff” is 55 HPS, and even so that’s only increasing her HPS by 10%, in comparison to when it was 60 HPS and that wasn’t even overpowered.
And by tweaks, I’m referring to numbers changes, not reworking the way abilities function/giving her a new ult.
You’re not suggesting these buffs individually. You’re asking for all these buffs at once, so yes. These buffs are substantial.
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What is your definition of “fine?”
I love how people are still saying that Mercy players want her to be “the strongest support” and “overpowered,” when in reality, we just want our hero to be fun and actually be given the chance to be impactful like all the other heroes. Mercy is a watered down version of what she used to be, and she doesn’t even do her main job, healing, well anymore.
Mercy is not “fine.”
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LOL no I’m not. I said she could use some minor tweaks, and created a list of potential changes. The key word I used was “potential”. Nowhere did I say to give her all of these at once. If they gave her 55 HPS, she shouldn’t receive any other changes.
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But why was she overused?
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I don’t know if we have played the same game the past 2 years, but Mercy has never been interactive aside from the initial Mercy 2.0
She’s Always been a watered down hero with little to do as.
Mercy 1.0; Hold M1 or M2 and occasionally press Q or shift.
Mercy 2.0; Hold M1 or M2, occasionally Res someone, press Q or shift and cancel it to gain extra momentum.
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Because other supports are underpowered at that time.
Because the meta at the time heavily favored her. Mercy got her 4 nerfs to Valkyrie duration/rez/etc. at the start of Season 9, and was not at all used in high SR comp or the OWL. But then the meta shifted when Hanzo was reworked and Brig was introduced into the game. This led to Grav-Dragon meta and then Sniper meta, of which Mercy was almost a requirement (damage boosting Hanzo’s ult into Graviton was her role in the first meta, and then in sniper meta it was to damage boost and rez snipers). The ironic part is that her healing was not the reason she was meta, yet that’s what the Devs chose to nerf.
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You’re oversimplifying the hero, lol. Every hero can literally be described as holding down or pressing M1 or M2 and pressing Q.
What a waste of time.
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I’m not. I literally just listed everything that changed. You have more to do. It’s just not as flashy as pressing Q and bringing your entire team back, which didn’t even occur often in the first place.
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Mercy’s GA has a 1.5 second cooldown and is arguably her most skillful and interactive ability. You should not just be pressing shift “occasionally”, dumbing down that aspect of her gameplay just shows your bias lol…
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I’m saying it as it is. She’s just a very simple hero, and has Always been.
It just annoys me how people are pretending that she’s somehow dumbed down more than Mercy 1.0 was.
She is a very simple hero, watching even professional games with her is like
95% watching a spectator that can heal and bring people back to life.