I will state this first and foremst (as i dotn wanna type it later on)
Yes, flying is enjoyable and does fit the mercy theme (an angel).
boring is Mercy’s kit in a nut shell atm. valk just doesn othing “exciting”. you gain abiltiy to fly…yay? (try flying when enemy has a widow or hanzo/ashe who can aim…)
unimpactful comes from 2 things:
- its entirely passive and doesnt change anything she didnt already do. u hold MB1/2.
& - it causes her balanced ST healign to become opressive to point her healing was nerfed to release numbers outside of it (and for 2 yrs her ST non ult healing was NEVER an issue as she was buffed becasue she was falling off after ana’s release). Also shouldnt of done a major nerf to her whiel also significantly buffing other healers at same time. (do 1 or other and see how it efefcts the game then decide if other was req)
except it really isnt.
Valk charges fast enough you could use it 2 or 3 tiems before an old mass rez.
valk is “pop if available and your teams alive and able to push/defend” becasue its so readily available there are very few tiems you wanna sit on it.
except that doesnt happen with valk.
mercy heals/buffs in valk.
She does this out of valk.
hide and seek mercy was not mega popular and the reason for its abuse was changed (when big rez raised sr b4 they fixed the system). so it would have ZERO use now-a-days. (p.s. not saying mass rez should come back or not.)
I am not saying Valk cant have its moments, but it is lackluster for an ult from a primary healer who is 90% healing focused.
except she is a healer…she is the most healing oriented healer in the entire game.
yes, but your primary purpose shouldnt be lsot for that. Devs nerfed the gun buffs becasue they didnt like having mercy focus on battlemercy as much as they did.
it really is.
more attention than she needed but thats becasue devs created a mess and a monster (and ignored mercy mains feedback that they should keep her on ptr and change her as she was goig nto be hated to play agasint as she was so overloaded) instead of small twerks and refinements to 1.0’s kit.
there are.
thats why reworks that fail for so long are bad becasue it is a waste of time to fix that could of been used on helping others.
especially before the god mode buff (it was added becasue it was extremely hard to pull off vs an enemy team with any awareness). also that was the #1 mistake they ever did was make her unkillable during it.
to be fair as it stands atm Moira’s ult beats mercy’s under ideal conditions for both.
heals more, does (more) dmg and bypasses barriers.
and dmg boost is a weaker form of Orisa’s and a discorded enemy takes mroe dmg than her dmg boost.
Even zen’s ult is better in that it heals faster and more.
its extremey hard to kill someone in zen’s ult range even with focused fire.
valk healing takes 2 ppl to ofcus a target and they die quickly.
becasue they gave her god mode during it…
they removed ALL counter play to it.
(also they had a faulty SR system back then that favored big rez that encouraged it on top of the god mdoe state)
they could of easily reverted that buff to her and seen how fast the hide and seek movement faded away.
1.0 had some issues, yes, but they were also pretty simple fixes that didnt need time wasted in reworks.
imagine how good bastion could be if they never created 2.0’s problematic self and had to keep tossing time and resources to fix her.