That rework raise her skill floor by a lot, and reduce the pocketing problem, why they remove the increased healing when target low ?
Iirc, devs said it was too strong. Personally I think it kinda forced pocketing even more, the HPS was so high that the main thing you’d do is just sit with heal beam on the tank
I wouldn’t be against them trying to make it work again but idk if it can
When there was already too much healing in the game, adding even more healing was a few hundred steps too far.
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It wasn’t fun to play as OR against and hardcore forced the pocketing playstyle exclusively, which was already a bit much.
It necessitated burst damage to overcome her triage healing which was horrible for balance.
It resulted in lots of wasted uptime slowly healing the tank to full etc which just felt horrid for everyone.
It didn’t REALLY increase skill expression because all you needed to understand was the super basic “heal the person who is critical. Hold heal. Don’t even dps if they’re damaged, just hold heal, they almost definitely won’t die.”
Vs needing to know when and why damage boost or heal is the more effective option in moment to moment gameplay- “will they die if I stop healing? Is there an important breakpoint I need fixed first? Is it too late and I need to boost hoping they hit their shots to stop the invoking damage first? Is it a doomed mission and I should just GA away and maybe rez when my tank gives me cover?”
Triage was just- “hold heal.”
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I liked triage beam but I guess people got mad because they couldn’t kill anything. Which is fair, but now I’m back to being a pocket bot so which is worse?
Everything falls over regardless if I’m healing them so I think triage with the dps passive would be an interesting interaction.
Triage was a step in a direction to nullify pocketing it was just a tad too strong.
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If anything it made her skill floor lower. The nerf to GA raised her skill floor sure. But made her feel horrible to play.
As a mercy main I would not want this triage thing to come back. Id prefer GA buffs <3
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Like almost all ideas make by team without Jeff triage was halfbaked and dieout naturally
Because the issue has never been Mercy not being able to heal people. The issue remains that she has zero reason to ever outside of moment healing. Unlike every other support, her ultimate has so little impact in teamfights there is no reason for a Mercy to heal in high ranks when you can funnel that healing ult charge into constant/faster Nanoboosts or Kitsune Rushes.
LW had a similar issue that his healing was going into a very, very mediocre ultimate with little teamfight impact. Once ToL was buffed, he came much more fun and impactful.
Also, despite triage being a decent change, it was accompanied by a bunch of really bad changes like mobility nerfs and that annoying flopathetic healing crap.