Characters you main are likely to be fun to you, otherwise you wouldn’t consider them your main.
I have a main for every class (DPS, Tank and Support) and even have back up main mains. The ones I consider my main, would be done because I consider them fun. However, I can no longer say I consider Mercy fun anymore which means I don’t want to consider her my main.
So was people finding Mass Rez unfun to play against, but that still got by. So if a lot of people state that they find it unfun, well they either need to give us a new hero that works similarly and covers the same intentions in a way or they give us back the fun for our hero.
Keyword is wanted.
Just like we want things too, hence why we make our arguments and look at and analyze how Mercy performed in the past, compared to now in accordance to the statement of the devs reasons for reworking her and changing her. And that is exactly what Titanium did in the OP.
Sure, there may be some bias because of the anger towards what we have now, but overall it is really well done and the analysis part is actually a pretty decent representation of where we are. And you can’t say that it is opinion when it comes from analysis, especially where there is often statisical proof to back certain aspects up.
People do studies based on observation and analysis all the time and they aren’t instantly told “well that is your opinion”, especially when they have other forms of evidence that can be used to bring some form of authenticity to their claims.
Except, you can do that without Valkyrie. Good GA management and usage can make any good Mercy look like she is flying and untouchable and the same could be said when GA was worse. Valkyrie’s chain beams remove the need to better your beam prioritization and juggling and therefore you can be more garbage at her base kit and still be rewarded.
You can use your own skill to do that. Valkyrie is like the game holding your hand
and saying “Let me do that for you because clearly you can’t do what I am doing on your own”. It is insulting to the player base to have an ability simplify and take over usage of the base kit in this way when she is already mechanically easy and has complexities to her that can show the distinctions between good and bad players.
I mean, unless the latter two have ult and even then you don’t have to worry much until you get to the high ranks and by that point, you already know you can hide behind a wall hold left and right click and literally be less engaged in the fight than what you were before pressing Q for Valkyrie. The base kit is more engaging and lets you show more skill than Valkyrie does.
When I say Valkyrie takes less skill to use, I mean for the base kit. The base kit is a more challenging and rewarding version of Valkyrie and can warrant having a valuable ult because of all it’s limitations that you do have to contend with.
E rez is less challenging and less skillful than Mass Rez, if you don’t like the analysis even with the various concepts that tend to back up it’s claim, well that is fine. There are always people who disagree, even when it comes to professional journals written by Historians and Scientists because people can analyze and report things differently but the numbers act to back that up in a lot of people’s eyes.
Personally, I have never experienced the same complex thoughts that I experienced for Mass Rez on E Rez, I have seen nothing but a simplified version of what resurrect used to be. And when seeing other Mercy’s I watch them make poor choices simply by whether they lived or died, and that boils down to did they rez during the poke battles then they were safe and did they try to rez mid-fight, well they died because they chose to do that one out in the open in a dumb spot. Even if they did get the person up, that person died again. That person wouldn’t have died so instantly again if the basic thought process of:
Will I live? No? No Rez then.
If it can be stripped down so much to a lot of people, then the old skills are not there.
Umm, we weren’t okay with it?
Like, people are literally saying that they want that taken off of Mercy and believe that was the downfall of Mercy in needing this rework.
We used it because we had it, but we called it OP and wrong to have. We just don’t believe Mass Resurrect would be OP if balanced correctly.
Even so, the invulnerability came after starting the revive, so you had to get into position first and likely risk yourself to get that Rez that took a lot of thought and skill to succeed with and then it didn’t last that long, long enough to cancel out an attempt at punishing after the rez was going on and faulting them for not paying attention sooner. But again, I say that Mercy’s thought the invulnerability was not necessary and OP and that is why we don’t advocate for it.
Only Blizzard has the power to address our concerns about fun. Convincing us that the problem doesn’t exist is only avoiding the problem rather than fixing it.
