Why we need Mercy back!

Titanium-1686 · January 15, 2019, 9:16pm

Her Quickplay pickrates are around 6% today. Prior to the rework, they were around 12%.

If Mercy were really more fun and engaging now than pre-rework, her rework wouldn’t have been cleaved by half in the gamemode meant specifically for casual and fun playstyles.

So there’s one of the sources you were asking for. Want more? How about a survey conducted on the OW Forums with thousands of replies?

_https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/mercy-survey-results/230903_

Mercy Survey - Results

Where do we go from here?

7.1% of players would like to leave her alone for now

0.07% of participants feel she deserves a Nerf.

17.4% want a simple, flat Buff

31.6% want a Rework of some form

43.8% of players want some form of Revert to Mass Res (with or without tweaks)

Now, the actual bulk of how to go about it differs from person to person. But in general, over 92% of participants feel she needs to be changed in some direction, while 75% of all participants feel she needs some form of ability revamp, be it her E, Ult, or both (I don’t believe I saw anyone suggesting GA get changed/replaced).

But maybe the overall is a bit biased. Let’s separate Mercy mains from the rest of the group.
As far as Mercy mains are concerned…

2.6% want to leave her as-is

0% want a Nerf

16.0% want a flat Buff

31.3% want a full on Rework

50.2% want to revert back to Mass Res (with or without tweaks)

And the rest (those who don’t main Mercy)…

10.6% want to leave her as-is

0.13% want a Nerf

18.0% want a flat Buff

31.7% want a full on Rework

39.4% want a revert to Mass Res

Hell, I even did for Non-Mercy Support Mains just to double check…

9.8% want to leave her as-is

0% want a Nerf

18.3% want a flat Buff

38.7% want a full on Rework

33.0% want a revert back to Mass Res (with or without tweaks)

Is that not enough? How about the most popular thread on the Overwatch Forums of all time, courtesy of myself, that advocates for a return of mass-Resurrect with changes?

You know… the thread that literally more than 1.5X as popular as the second most popular thread of all time?
_https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/why-i-have-yet-to-not-despise-mercys-current-state/182707_

So, according to all metrics we can realistically collect from representative sources, more people would rather see the return of mass-Resurrect than see Mercy stay in her current state.

Why?

Well… maybe you ought to reexamine this assertion of yours: