You still need gun to defend yourself. Kind words and gun get you further, than just kind words.
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Did you realize, that single rez was a lot worse? They had to apply quite a lot of nerfs to it, making it impossible to use in combat against experienced enemies.
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Ah so overpowered and was still barely ever used until season 4 when Ana and Lucio were harshly nerfed. Because back then people actually knew how to counter it by baiting it out and not ult dumping like they are now.
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Back there people would use ult just to get rid of Mercy, and it was justified.
Because speaking from a developer point of view, it was not wrong to add Mass Res into the game.
The fact that they are adamant in keeping the skill stands testament that they want to honor the slogan of the game and that Overwatch is fore anybody.
Not being a typical FPS is reason enough to add in Mass Res, there no reason not to.
Also TF2 doesn’t have the same Female to male ratio playerbase as Over Watch, TF2 isn’t a game that immediate appeals to Female players or to the MMORPG playerbase that roll into Overwatch.
Not trying to sound sexist, but Mercy has been picked up and played by quite a number of Female players and is one of the characters they would pick up to play first.
Even though who are familiar with MMORPG games and playing Healer roles will naturally go for Mercy.
This is good game design.
As for Ana, she was always good, just people didn’t allow her to heal during the Dive era because you lot were far more focused on dodging our shots. The issue still exist but it is better because the public perception is shifting back to Rein Ana duo’s again.
It has also been long enough for players to even forget how to deal with Ana.
Brigitte Win Rate is abnormal but natural because she was designed to break the previous Meta… just the West is too slow at catching up to countering Brigitte.
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1500 likes. 
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How is warfare compareable to a protest? If you knew you you have a high chance of getting stabbed in an ally would you walk into it unprotected?
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Again, this has nothing to do with my post. Whether insignificant or not there is no reason for you to reply specifically to my post with that statement as it is a different subject entirely.
Even 1500 Bois!!!
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Who made it odd 1501 D:<
All I’d like to add is that this is the fundamental cornerstone which will make OW into a mainstream esport.
The biggest issue in esports right now, from my perspective, is that it’s not really friendly to casual audiences. It is predominantly watched by nerdy male viewers, and there seems to be an implicit “keep out” sign for other sections of the demographic like women, small children and the “differently-abled”.
The insistence by the competitive segment of OW to “increase the bar” in the support class to shake out its casual audience is not only hurting Mercy, but it’s also hurting their chances of becoming a mainstream esport.
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Commenting on the forums about Mercys state feels like screaming into the void, no matter if its in a containment thread or not.
Under the foolish delusion that my words could mean anything, I would like to say this:
Blizzard allowing Mercy into this current state is an absolute disgrace. An utter disgrace.
I feel very personally aggrieved that they took something I thought I had made ‘mine’ and murdered it.
Not having multirez? Thats not just a nerf, thats a DEVASTATING nerf, even if you do give her flight and other powers like chainbeam, and they’re not really admitting that thats the case.
Thats insulting enough.
But to have a blow like that, and then 14 consecutive nerfs on top of that?
I get it Blizzard, you want me to quit playing Overwatch.
My puzzled question is just…why? Was filling the healing role and supporting others THAT undesirable for the game?
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I feel similar. Like I fully support having all characters viable. But WHETHER OR NOT THIS HAPPENS I will pick Mercy 1.0 to play or Zen almost to the exclusion of any other support as I want to play them and no one else except sometimes Moira. Without Mercy 1.0 tho it’s not fun to just cycle through those 2 so there’s not much reason at all to play. Balance is all well and good but honestly, who cares if it’s not fun?
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It would not be right for them to keep ignoring us. They have to give answers. This does not mean that I pretend that they listen to us on our idea. But talk to us what they have planned on mercy what intentions they have and if another rework is possible. It is right that they decide, but after 1500 like, interacting with us would be the minimum.
Tell us about how they see mercy, what purpose on this last nerf and if it is normal that we are playing an alpha hero.
After a year we are still here, we are discussing and I admit that often we are always writing the same things. It takes respect. We want it.
I can also understand that anything they say can be misinterpreted or fear a further flame on the forum. But this thread has had a good success, they have to answer. Because however, on this forum, toxicity is increasing. Insult veiled for those who write on mercy, against insults by the mercy main. It is becoming a hateful situation.
I myself, these days, became skeptical about the possible revert. Too many hate the mass rez, and as we want respect for our ideas it is fair to give respect to the ideas of others. But another rework takes.
I’m seeing the data of overbuff, see mercy always also at gm with negative win rate, it is not healthy to the game. As it was not when mercy dominated, it is not now with mercy with negative win rate (now this win rate is consolidated).
Considering that we only have 3 main supports.
But is mercy a main support? No, it is not, last night in comp I ventured to choose mercy for my team diamond. My main tank at one point tells me: take moira or ana we have few healings, mercy can not keep us. I took ana and it went much better. We were on blizzardworld first point, a very vertical map that should favor mercy. And we had like dps widowmaker and pharah.
I play all the support, it does not make me problem to use the other support. But I understood by now, that mercy is never convenient to choose it.
Sorry for my bad english.
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Bastion megathreads.
the 12 or so (I honestly don’t know anymore) unanswered mercy megathreads.
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I respect those who use bastion and like it, but sincerely bastion does not have the popularity of mercy. Moreover bastion is one of the 15 dps on the game, mercy is one of the 6 supports of the game. And support on OW is a very important component. And we are talking about main support, which are 3.
A dps as a bastion, with its features you can do without it. But of a main support no.
But it is right to pay attention to bastion, at all, but currently mercy unleashed controversy.
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Support on OW is important, but not according to game design. SR gains, medals, play of the game moments - all of it is best for killers, not for team players.
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Blizzard is clearly trying to dominate and settle themselves into the ESporr and be globally recognise as the one who made esports recognised
But it is literally as you said, the Exports, Pro League and upper ranks (top 1%) do not play the same as the rest of the casual community or the casual competitive
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I think league has them beat on the “making esports recognized” bit.