Which were that way from the start. In case of Mercy, they created disaster by their own hands, instead of working on those “less popular” heroes.
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Except most of the community doesn’t think it’s a problem this is the KEY POINT you are failing to understand
Most of the community doesn’t have voice in that, as they just don’t play that hero.
It’s like me saying that Tracer’s bomb nerf is not a big deal, except I don’t play Tracer and have no clue how it affects her. So, according to me, and most of the community, that never played Tracer, it’s completely fine.
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Yeah, better piss everyone off. That’ll work.
They already are, so nothing really changed.
Thank you selfish mercy main. There is it.
They game isn’t an never will be balanced from the point of view of a single hero. This the KEY point every mercy forum main is fundamentally fails to understand.
The same is true of Tracer. I love playing her but her win rate and pick rate sucks at all most all level of play. So should blizzard just listen to tracer mains and make her more powerful again because they know what is good for tracer??
No, cause the reality is there are other heroes and players that don’t like getting stomped by a good tracer so there gaming experience needs to be though of while balancing the hero as well.
When balancing heroes the hero itself AND how they interact with other players and heroes ALWAYS needs to be though of
For different reasons. Plenty more people are going to look at your “cause” and laugh now.
“Reality” is that rework made teammates and Mercy players upset, while pre-rework it was only enemies. This means general level of unhappiness to grow.
Yes, they should ask Tracer mains, how changes will affect her, and not just look at how it affects her targets. Not just go with sledgehammer, because something is “unfun” for target.
Dying isn’t fun by default, so what now, set everyone’s gun damage to 0?
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And the answer is, It makes her weaker but Tracer can’t run out of control because it affect other players experience so sorry tracer mains for the good of other players you not getting it.
That doesn’t mean blizzard is not listen to Tracer mains, It means then need to listen to EVERYONE and strike a balance sometimes this means you don’t get everything you want.
Same with Bastion, He never going to be meta at GM because they need to think of Bronze and silver who will be in flamming ruins
Not sure how that is hard to understand
They are in flaming ruins now, because of Reaper. Except nothing changed for GM, as his actual flaw still remains.
No reaper is terrible,
FB -> Foth he is extremely easy to hard counter.
Except no one does it, and he just walks through whole teams.
Point is, Blizzard have no concerns about breaking lower tiers with reworks/buffs, that are “balanced” around higher tiers. “Acceptable losses” you can say it.
Then he will get changed because of it if he becomes a problem. Even though he is not GM viable.
See how this works??
Generally I notice they only nerf things the community complains about that also align with their own agenda.
That’s just to make the OWL look interesting. Except it is still able to be played just fine, because they nerfed the wrong things.
So I wouldn’t say it’s listening to the community but changing things that align with their own goals which makes them look better and like they are listening.
They are not doing what a lot of people want for heroes across the roster and they are often totally missing the mark on the problems that plague this game. That doesn’t show that they are listening, it shows that they seem to be ignorant or flat out intentionally ignoring the issues.
It isn’t just Mercy who is broken, it is practically the whole state of the game.
What’s the point of playing a DPS when other DPS can kill you so fast healing doesn’t help you even though the healing is so high? Oh wait, that healing is so high that the only people who can take those hits are tanks which the high healing ends up being OP on. But if no one plays DPS then you can just AOE heal stack and have GOATS, but you can switch out to Moira or Ana if you need to boost that healing to unreasonable numbers.
When the game released, the health of the characters being as low as they are resulted in damage and healing being consistent over burst. Any burst in the game was small, except from snipers or ultimates. Things that were completely reasonable. Supports could save their ults carefully for team wipes because there wasn’t enough damage occurring in such small time frames just happening all the time. Now that there is so much burst damage there has to be high burst healing. It’s broken for how squishy our character roster is.
You either increase character health pools and make consistency a bit stronger to work with that health increase. Or you lower burst in favour of consistency.
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Reaper won’t be recognized as problem for a while. He may even receive additional buffs, if GOATS will remain, to destroy what’s left of lower tiers.
When he will become broken at higher tiers\part of new Reaper meta, he will be, at least, recognized as “issue to look into”, and, eventually, nerfed below useful levels.
Cause he is not, He Only has 3.6 percent win rate there are lots of heroes above him.
He is one of the easiest heroes to shut down in the game which is why he is consider terrible
Casue most of the forums have terrible terrible idea. That are only make the heroes i play OP right now
His buff is very recent, there is not enough statistics on it yet. Will probably take some time for Reaper mains to join comp, too, as news of lifesteal buff reach them.
Why he even got this lifesteal buff in the first place is ridiculous.
Any Reaper and Non-Reaper player knows his greatest downfall is getting into the fight which should be by using his Shadow Step but he can’t because it is slow to set-up and use and makes him so F***ing vulnerable. They should have been reworking his shadow-step to make it suit the fast paced nature of the game.
This shows their ignorance and the way they miss the mark on understanding what is needed of a character. They didn’t fix him, they just made him OP at low ranks with their ignorance.
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/rolleyes, he stats have moved up a little.
Tracer, Hanzo and McCree all counter him hard