Mercy is NOT in a bad place. It is always the same with people who main one character. Her strengths:
1.) She is a very hard character to kill when her positioning is top notch. Her hitbox is tiny, has a great escape ability, and a self regen. Ana has a biotic grenade for self heal on a long cooldown and no escape ability.
2.) Her ultimate makes her near impossible to kill, outside of certain ults, because of her tiny hitbox and insane speed in the air, and keeps her team alive without needing any form of tracking. AND her guardian angel ability is significantly better as well, in case someone does start to track her. Anaâs ult boosts a character for a short time. Thats it.
3.) She has the ability to heal through barriers and around corners for a short time. Ana has neither of these, outside of throwing a perfectly timed nade.
4.) She has a damage amp, which synergizes well with other dps/tanks to help finish off enemy heroes. Ana has a very hard-to-hit sleep dart that, if missed, is on a long cooldown. It doesnât go through barriers and the ability can be disturbed by a calm breeze. It ALSO good communication for sleep dart to be utilized fully, where as damage amp doesnt.
5.) Mercy has the ability to ressurect. Even if it is on a long cooldown, and the ability wiffs to cooldown, it is still a strong ability that not very many characters can stop in time when activated. With good positioning and communication, it is still a very strong ability that no other support can come close to, outside of symâs teleport, which is an ultimate.
She isnât used as much in pro play, but in competitive play on the game itself, she is still very viable. There are MANY other characters that need a look at before mercy does. Stop crying.
As much as I loved her previously, she did need some sort of tweaking, yes. She wasnât fun to play against but sheâs not fun now. As someone mentioned in another response, if Mercy isnât played for a season, thatâll grab the dev teamâs attention into what could potentially be changed. After what is live now, Iâve seen plenty of responses that want 1.0 back or remove rez entirely. Iâd prefer a new ability over rez. Something that can correlate to âheroes never dieâ and be buffed in her ult and make her ult feel as useful as it used to be (when she was OP) but not make her OP. Maybe increase HPS in valk and a shorter cooldown on whatever new ability she could potentially have. The community has come up with a plethora of ideas. One of them is bound to be a much nicer alternative to rez without decreasing her fun factor any more (in fact, would hopefully increase it).
To be fair, the dev team is slow with reworks. I personally donât understand why they donât release what heroes theyâre looking into after Sym, Torb, and Hanzo and why they donât respond to feedback on PTR as much anymore. Lately if something is on PTR, thereâs a 99% chance itâll be put straight onto live servers despite complaints. Mercy 2.0 I think was put on without complaints because it was so new and at the time it wasnât as obvious how OP she was going to turn out. I understand theyâre working as fast as they can, but to be fair, everyone playing the game, including the dev team themselves, all have different opinions on what heroes should do what. Jeff said it months ago in an update on a video. All we can do is either stop playing Mercy and have her grab their attention again with pick-rates, or wait until they decide to return to her (if they decide thereâs an issue). So far itâs only been 3 months since her nerfs live and since then, sheâs still the 2nd most picked hero in OW on console (3rd on PC) [according to Overbuff past 3 months in competitive]. Obviously if sheâs still being played, then, balance-wise, thereâs nothing wrong. But the dev team canât measure each playerâs fun-factor in every hero. Especially one thatâs arguably the most popular across all platforms.
So, youâre saying, the only reason to play Mercy is because you like playing her and because sheâs great at healing? Wow, great reason to re-work her then!
Seriously though, sheâs the 3rd most picked character across ALL RANKS (meaning a TON of people still play her) and still has a 50%+ winrate across all ranks (meaning, sheâs pretty fâing balanced), she does not need ANY changes. If you canât climb with the state that Mercy is in now (a balanced one) then you probably werenât that good at Mercy in the first place. If you donât enjoy playing Mercy THEN DONâT PLAY HER, itâs not like you donât have 26 other characters to choose from.
Also, if youâre only playing Overwatch for:
meaning POTGâs. Then you probably shouldnât be playing OW in the first place.
claims mercy is bad, next sentence you explain that shes only picked because shes good at healing⊠??? what?? mercy is perfectly fine the way she is now, sorry you refuse to accept mercyâs changes or to learn and get better with other characters
i believe we all can agree that just because something is not fun does not mean it needs to be changed or even needs feedback when it is going to be change.
Can you agree with us that how she is right now is fine? that her healing potential and utility have no problems right now?
what has exactly changed? you still heal, you can still damage boost, fly to others, fly when ulting, shoot with your pistol, res people⊠are you saying removing mass res turned mercy from a fun character to boring? I dont quite get it. if shes boring now chances are she was boring before and you are only now realizing it
Dude, I main her. I have almoust 200 hours on Mercy and I canât say she is fine from a gameplay perspective. But from a pick rate/win rate and balance perspective, whataver, sheâs awsome. But Iâm sure thatâs no the part that counts the most for the people who play her. Iâll continue to play with her no matter what because a I love the character, but sheâs is in a sad place right now.
Does on average 12k healing across all ranks, giving her the highest healing output on average over any healer.
Is the 3rd most picked character in the game.
Still plays 90% exactly the same as she did when the game was released.
I donât think itâs Mercy thatâs in a sad place, I think that itâs you whose in one. Nothing you say is based on any kind of fact itâs all just delusion opinions.
I have a question for you:
Why claim to love playing a character that you also say is boring to play? Like I just donât see the point in sinking 200hrs into a thing you donât enjoy doing, seems pretty insane to me.
Guess itâs all about stats huh? Iâm done spend time to answer you. Fun to me besides provides a great amount of healing itâs to pop your ultimate and see the game change, Like Zenny or LĂșcio and is able to do by annulate a Dragon blade or a Barrage. And like I said, Iâll never stop playing her because I love Mercy, I only wish to be able to do more than be a heal bot in the game.
apparently you are the one that does not understand that your thread title is about feedback/changes towards mercy, yet no where in the post did you mention anything about mechanical issues or possible balance changes that needed or should be done.
All you did was voice your âOPINIONâ on how you are displeased with how âUN-FUNâ Mercy has become. then when we kept trying to tell you that blizzard is more then likely not going to do anything to change her you started going on a âHoly-than-thouâ quest to prove she need to be changed so she was fun to play because she is all you play.
If you are having problems with how fun Mercy is, then might i suggest playing something else and if you cannot do that, then not playing OverWatch at all.