Now that mercy has been liv-
ahem What I meant was:
I have been seeing that mercy threads are starting to make a comeback, so while reading some of them saw mixed opinions. So I want to know your thoughts on her current state.
Any changes you would like to see
Any tweaks
Or if you think she is just fine
And the most daring question to ask:
Your thoughts on Mass Rez?
Thou art commiteth Sacrilege
She is perfectly balanced right now, maybe 55hps if I was pushed to come up with some change. I really like her as she is now
Nope. No changes. Though I wouldn’t complain if there was something to raise her skill ceiling.
Nope. No tweaks.
She’s fine as is.
Mass rez was unhealthy for the game. Current rez is fine.
I more used Mass Rez as a tempo rez function to keep a team fight going, I think I maybe got the mythical 5 man rez a mere handful of times
Currently I guess she could be bumped to 55hps
Maybe reduce her slowdown from like…what is it 75% to like…50% or something
As long as they don’t touch her movement ability I’ll still play her, also its fun because when you start damage boosting a hitscan they get stage-fright and that’s kinda cute
(Junkboy is best dmg boost target though)
This seems reasonable. Like…out of all the buffs people ask for, this is the one I am most okay with and actually in favor of.
The only way to bypass it right now is if you have a speed boosting Lucio amp it up in your general vicinity, then you can move at relatively normal speed
I had an idea for her staff healing too
she has a range of 15m
maybe every 5 meters, up the healing by 5 hps
So the closer you are to the fight the more you heal but the more danger you put yourself in, now in double barrier this wouldn’t work since it’s relatively safe outside of doomfist dropping in but I still thought it was interesting.
So it’d be
15m > 50hps
10m> 55hps
5m >60hps
to op:
I find Mercy to be well balanced, fun to play, and quite effective in her current state
I do not wish to see Mass Rez ever return to this game
They should give her M2 on her pistol, something like small orb that can pierce through shields and do 50-60dps.
Heck I’d settle for a rate of fire uptick to be more like D.va’s bunny blaster (she does the same amount of damage just like, her fire rate is 5x faster than Mercy’s lol)
They should fix her mass Rez sticker trophy.
For me she went from ok to boring. Or frustrating when healing an off- tank.
Mass Rez would need so many balance checks for 2,2,2. Amount of ult charge, speed, area of effect, and not have respawn generator outshine the other ults.
She hasn’t felt the same without it and the game has been on a downward trend without it. But I don’t think the ability is ready to come back since who wants to exhaust resources to kill barrier heroes just to have them resurrected to draw out a fight longer.
I don’t Mercy is in an awful state but she’s def slightly under powered. Her healing is too weak. Up her heals please.
Mass Rez was mostly an issue because it lacked counter play. LOS and a short cast time like Lucio beat would fix that along with giving Mercy some damage reduction when she casted. This would also encourage tempo rezing. Mercy has more mobility options now and there’s more stuff added into the game like area denial and stuns/boops. I honestly think it’d be fine if it was added back as long as they also gave her an E ability.
Heals too weak, revert to 60hps.
Every negative balance is solely based around e-rez, get rid of that so she can win teamfights again instead if this weak off healer that follows around dps with boost.
I would like to see prioritization still be a thing in Valk than just as “ez mode”. (Cooldown reset too but not a must)
Would like to see the issues with damage boosting be addressed and maybe increase the amount of ult charge you get from damage boosting in general.
The only ways I would like to see Mass Rez return is:
Custom games and Workshop
A classic mode of Uprising. (Old Torb too)
Buff mercy’s HP to 700 because she eats burger king all day
I just want the old Piece of Cake voiceline back, and more skins with the mom bob haircut.
Just make it so I can have two sensitivity options for both pistol and staff
I want to have a sensitivity option for each
Also I want to be able to use both versions Guardian Angel. Don’t make me choose. Let me hotkey one to shift and the other to a different key
I think she’s fairly balanced, and people need to stop looking at old Mercy through rose coloured glasses.
With all the new heroes and mechanics introduced (like immortality field) I do not see a feasible reason to even bring it back, not to mention as someone who has been playing Mercy as my first healer choice since day 1 I actually prefer her in her current state. And while I previously did not like the change when it first came out, as I adapted and learned the new mechanics I don’t want to go back.
I do not know if she needs tweaks for 2 2 2 though, but prior to 2 2 2 I would argue she was near perfect especially when 1 3 2 was getting somewhat popular.
Honestly, if they don’t wanna touch her healing they should test other things… like increasing the range of her tether to 17m and increasing the LoS before untethering from 1 -> 3 seconds. If consistency is what they keep bragging about then how about not leaving her in a consistently bad spot.
I think Mercy is fine as is, and with dive potentially making a comeback she will probably be seeing more usage than lately