Hello, I just played comp today and saw multiple people complain about my mercy pick (apparently she doesn’t give enough heals) and if I’m “sure I wanna go with mercy” and how she is not meta, and someone also told me that she’s entirely useless in masters and gm. So I was thinking maybe we could buff mercys base heal? Maybe even dmg boost too? Not by much but just a little bit, nothing crazy good. Also something that I’d actually like to see is a valkyrie buff, especially because of how the beam disconnects after activating valk. I’m not saying she should be the best support in the game but a few healing buffs would be nice, since many are complaining about her “lack of heals”
What do you guys think?
She’s fine where she’s at, people who got mad at you for picking Mercy are clowns lol
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she doesnt “lack heals”. im a mercy main and i get atleast 10k or higher a game. you have to utilize both dmg boost and healing in higher ranks. she doesnt suck in higher ranks
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far from useless, but rn its not her meta, it was her meta before we had the current one so that proves that she is good enough just not at the current time
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Just give her 60 hps back
Mercy does too much healing and damage boost, if anything she needs a nerf.
She also has resurrect on cooldown which should be part of Valkyrie, reduce the cast time to one second.
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OP, they said that because we are in a rush meta. Mercy never has been the optimal pick for a Rein Zarya rush comp. Especially since Lucio is so valuable/necessary with rush and Mercy + Lucio is an awkward support pairing. That’s why Bap and Ana are better picks than Mercy right now.
However, Mercy was literally JUST meta in masters and GM last month and had been for a few months. The meta was dive/poke and Mercy was amazing in it, with great healing for it and damage boost was invaluable.
Mercy doesn’t really need changes, she has comps where she works great and others where she is not optimal over other supports. And that’s good. It’s healthy balance and shows she’s in a good spot, not needing any nerfs or buffs.
I’m a Mercy main in GM and even though it’s rough right now being unable to play her all the time like you may want, it’s a sign of healthy balance that she’s not a top pick in Rein Zar Rush.
However, I would love to see them make Valk beam not disconnected upon ulting, like you suggested. It’d be a great QoL change.
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Mercy used to work just fine as a primary healer back when she had 60hps.
It wasn’t until they nerfed her healing that Mercy fell into the limbo between “not enough heals to be a solid main healer, but also not enough utility for an off-healer.”
Mercy was literally created to be the game’s first main-healer and the “go-to pick for strong, reliable healing”… But that’s not gonna happen again until devs restore Mercy’s base HPS to 60.
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It does help though that the single target healing out of every other healer got nerfed.
It means unless you are specifically running a tight formation Moira/Baptiste are generally not going to be ideal since Bap’s single target healing is weaker than Ana/Mercy now. And Moira can’t sustain a single target for super long due to charge.
It was annoying that the single target healing out of Bap/Moira were always higher than Mercy, so they got the advantage of strong single target healing situations AND close formation.
And she still does…lol
Mercy Zen gets played all the time and was meta a month ago
She fulfills her role of main support very well
The 55 HPS buff and powercreep healing and damage nerfs to much of the cast restored her viability as a primary support alongside Zen
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Few weeks ago
Mercy must be nerfed, she’s broken hero, she’s not skillful, damage boost is broken
Now
Mercy is underpowered, needs buffs
She's fine and doesn't need any buffs or nerfs (but QoL are always welcome)
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First of who ever told that she is bad they don’t know how the game works they just want a reason to blame others for the lose second mercy is one of the best healers in the game she can give damage boost and heal at anytime other healers has too use the ultimate like Ana and bap and lastly if you buff mercy damage boost dps will go wild thinking of it like this ashe dose 195 on headshot with damage boost and if the damage goes up that means she can one shot 200 hp hero’s again and they made like that because ashe is too strong
She is bad in the current rush meta. That doesn’t mean Mercy herself is bad, she just is sub-optimal right now. As we saw she was meta a month ago.
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Mercy is perfectly balanced
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Doubt any of that will happen, her hps was nerfed for a reason and buffing her damage boost would change a bunch of damage thresholds and break the game.
They could make her normal beam jump just like they do in valk but much weaker. First target gets 50 hps, second target gets 20hps and then the beam dies. Now her hps is more in line with other healers while being slightly weaker on single targets. This would probably make rein/zarya even stronger though.
Mercy is just fine as is
if people are complaining about you picking “non meta heroes” there is a reason their not in GM
also don’t give haters more of a reason to complain about mercy
akj what would your balance changes for mercy be? please lmk i wanna make a workshop code of it ^
also please be sure to include whether
- you want to keep the 55 hps to 60 hps in valk
To make resurrect part of Mercy’s ultimate, reduce the cast time to one second. The healing in Valk is fine, it’s an ultimate.
If not that lower Mercy’s healing by 5hp or damage boost to 20%.
One change.
For many of us, myself included, Mercy works “just fine” as a main healer in her present state with 55hps/s, and also worked fine as a main healer with 50hps/s
Mercy is imo a fairly well balanced, fun to play, and effective character in her current state