There are so many problematic combinations - Pharmercy, Ashe + Mercy, Sojourn + Mercy, Soldier + Mercy, Cassidy + Mercy and now Mauga + Mercy that have one thing in common - Mercy boost. This wouldn’t be a problem, if Mercy didn’t have the insane evasive skills that she has. Zen has his debuff, but he can be way more easily attacked and killed. So it doesn’t make sense to me why his debuff got nerfed - if it really is a substantial nerf - why Mercy boost is untouched? Why not make it at least that she can’t boost any target that she has healed in the 5 s or so before? It would make pocket boosting way less appealing and would reward mobility play.
Simply put they already nerfed damage boost and she is maintaining about a 50% win rate and is about middle of the pack pick wise at the highest ratings. Even at lower ratings she isn’t over performing.
I’d rather a different ability myself, but it’s clear that she’s balanced atm and the devs do not want to change it further.
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If in doubt, nerf the dps, buff the supports.
It’s the blizzard way. For some reason.
Why do idiots refuse to see that making teammates stronger is the fundamental design of the support class. Mercy boosting someone is DESIGN WORKING AS INTENDED
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The refusal to nerf her and certain others after being an issue for years just shows their bias.
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Damage boosting seems like a good way to end up with a dead Mauga from what I’ve seen so far. That man needs his heals.
I don’t find most of those Mercy + DPS combos to be problematic, personally. Pharmercy is a sticking point but I feel that’s more to do with Pharah’s design than Mercy’s - and they’ve already said they’re going to change Pharah.
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The damage boost is not the problem and never has been except for a select few DPS heroes, the REAL problem is how you can’t really interact with her because of her mobility.
So while she simply presses Shift every 2s, you have to have near perfect tracking to take her down. The effort required to deal with her vastly outweighs the effort she requires to be fully effective, and that’s what’s annoying about Mercy.
Oh Mercy’s OP, Oh Ana’s OP, Oh Bap’s OP, Oh Kiriko’s OP…
The only thing that never ends is scapegoating a support hero for your losses.
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They’re not going to touch it. If Mercy players were required to generate their own proactive value like the rest of the support roster the player base would revolt.
Play the game? Have to do MY OWN DAMAG - the tears would cause a tsunami that would shut us down for good.
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Will be a thing till the end of time, then once one of them is nerfed to the ground maybe we’ll see 1 or 2 posts talking about how the nerfs were too hard… Cycle repeats.
Yeah, Bliz wants to fullfull backseat driver’s fantasy. And this is the way.
An ironic thing to say in a thread where people are crying about one ability.
Nah they just pick a different utility to complain about.
Why does no one complain about Mercy + Torb, Mercy + Reaper, Mercy + Junkrat, hell you don’t even see Mercy + Echo complaints and she has far more burst potential than pharah.
Because the problem isn’t Mercy.
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Aren’t you crying about Sombra right now?
I think sombra is poorly designed, she isn’t being effective in matches and it’s not the most fun thing to play against.
If you believe this to be crying that is up to yourself.
I am at a loss of what people exactly want support to do? They complain if they heal too much, they complain if they do too much dmg, they complain if the boost or other wise support their team.
Of all the supports Mercy trades any possible damage she might do for her team to boost another. If you honestly compare her to Zen he’s doing way more. As he can heal, boost and dmg at the same time.
Yes dmg boost can cross thresholds to make some attacks a 1 or 2 hit kill, speed up Ult charge generation etc. But the real question is what do you even want a support player to do?
If you take peoples complaints seriously there really isn’t anything a support can possibly do to affect the match they are happy with, other than maybe be a dedicated payload pusher.
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Not everything you find annoying should be changed. This is crying.
Anyways, Mercy is fine, as others have shown stats for. She’s already been nerfed.
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Right? And it’s like they straight up freaking forget they also have TWO support on their own team that can do the same exact thing.
That is a long standing issue. They complain if their own support can’t keep them alive as they 1v6 or 5 the enemy team. Mean while they complain if anything stops their own kills.
Given blizzard loves flashy kills and things that look good on highlight reels and streams, they tend to take the DPS side. Massive nerfs to tanks and support just to make DPS kill streaks easier.
When it comes to 76 and Soj specifically you can tell MOST of these people just don’t like the fact that can’t 1v2 and hitscan + pocket. If it was a tank main I’d take it seriously but 99% of tank mains will take Mercy on the enemy team over Ana, Bap or Zen.
You forgot being a target dummy to appear in a DPS or tank player’s PotG