Has Widowmaker received a rework that nobody asked for. Have the developers promised to revert her if it people didn’t like the rework. I’m sorry if I come off as rude but not being able to quick scope and getting nerfed 9 times in a row are complete other things.
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I just want her beam to break on loss of LOS, break, when she is facing 180 degrees the other way.
Like why is still a thing for mercy. She has not a sliver of aim related healing to do in a Hero Shooter/FPS. Try going into the training range and test these Things, you would be surprised how stupidly forgiving her healing is, not to mention it goes through barriers being that stupid as well.
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Quick scope was a rework yes she used to be able to shoot alot faster and animation cancel its the same as when they reworked genji and made it so he could not combo.
Mercy is too easy to play for an entire meta to revolve around her the nerfs was good.
Also what do you mean no1 asked the entire overwatch community everyone but mercy one tricks wanted this rework because it was not fun play vs old mercy or with old mercy when she would just let you die and hide in a corner.
You clearly have never played with a good Mercy or played her yourself because good Mercy players didn’t hide to rez.
They would either tempo rez (revive 1 or 2 people to keep the fight going in their favor) , rez while walking back from spawn or hide when their team was losing the fight (a fight which they participated in).
A nerf was needed we all acknowledged this but now she has just become a healbot and she was considerd a troll pick for a short amount of time.
Most Mercy mains want her back before invulnerability and maybe a longer charge time for her ult. In the post I literally named ways they could have altered her ult to make it more fair.
Not being able to shoot as fast, quick scope or animation canceling is a nerf not a rework. A rework changes the characters kit (in Mercy’s case rez). And in my opinion isn’t as bad as the rework and nerfs Mercy has received.
If I did hide as Mercy it’s because my team wanted me to, not because “it was a good strategy”. People who still believe good Mercy players hid to rez have never actually seen a Mercy rez.
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Full 5 man ress and hide in spawn was actually a strategy to win 2cp what are you talking about?
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That got changed, she couldn’t ult from spawn anymore. which was fair and if you just respawned and your entire team was dead of course you’re gonna rez them.
Im talking about she could hide in spawn and then fly out at last second and full team ress you could not kill her first.
Thats the entire reason it was nerfed because she was too hard to kill first and it was 50-50 if you get her while she flies in whats harder to land widow headshot on guardian angel mercy or shift q on mercy
Most of the time (before invulnerability) she would die right after she rezzed which left her team without a main healer.
You have to remember rez was an ult so she had to work for it. You could stop her from getting her ult by killing her so she didn’t get ult charge.
Ults are supposed to be game changing and Valkerie definitely isn’t game changing right now.
What you have to remember is on 2cp the way you win is by big ult combos and then not letting them trickle in 5 man ress on point and closer spawn means they win the team fight most likely even if it is 6v5 because they just used their offensive ults and it was cancel.
But that does not explain anything she is just trying to say the only reason mercy is op was because of her ressurect that is not true its the damage boost mostly its why zen was picked alot also the 60heal per second was too high as it was outhealing winston and at 10dps winston should land a kill if you let him hit you for that long or the mercy reacts late.
you cant buff winstons dps because then things like nanoboost winston are going to be out of control this was the only way to fix the sniper meta that everyone was complaining about and brig/mercy was the reason sniper meta was a thing.
The only arguement people have for the old ressurect back is fun but if we want to balance around fun then i dont see why genji cant have his combo back, hog with old hook, widowmaker quickscope, mcree no damage fall of thats not how the game works i dont see the devs going backwards just to make a hero more fun.
Mercy is a very basic hero and thats how she has always been she is fun for people who like to do other things while playing she does not take that much thought and can be played by the lower mechanically skilled she has been a must pick over ana since like s4 and its good that we finally have a change now.
You didn’t even read the first part did you? We want her old ult back because rez is still overpowered, there isn’t much left to nerf to rez because everything has already been nerfed. I would have been fine with nerfing her ult cause it required skill and it was fun. Becoming a rock for 1.75 seconds isn’t. I have never seen a Mercy player say they want her old ult back just because of “fun”. You’re just assuming things.
And you do realize Mercy had high healing because she can’t heal and do damage at the same time right? Other healers have lower healing because they do more damage.
Who’s stopping you from playing Ana? literally no one.
You are not listening with the new heroes in the game the old ress would not work can you imagine 5 man ressing a goats comp on a 2cp map?
Why wouldn’t it work?
Because killing a goats comp rein/zarya/hog/brig/moira is already hard enough imagine all 5 of them coming back after you finally combo an ultimate.
look bro if you dont understand the game enough to realise that ressing a rein/brig/zarya/hog on top of you in a team fight is bad then there is no talking to you this would make 2cp and koth unplayable because everyone would just run this comp.
Nothing will be clear because mercy mains are delusional its a very low skill hero and bringing old ress back now would ruin the game for every dps player killing brig is hard enough in a brawl comp nvm if they all had 2 lifes.
Giving her mass res as an ultimate while still having to cast is not really making it more fun either is it its just making her stronger.
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As a Mercy main, I’m not asking for her old ult back, but nerfing her heal has taken it too far. Mercy can only heal/power-up/pistol at one time. You also assume that Mercy players always go for 5-man resurrections, which is where you’re delusional. With GA’s speed down by 75% it’s so much easier to kill a Mercy flying in. Also, respawns have cooldowns so you’d have to kill all 5 of the team in a relatively short time-frame and in close proximity to each other for a Mercy to land a res, given she actually positions herself at a point where she can 5-man res. Furthermore, as AppleJuice said, no one is forcing anyone not to play Ana or any other healer, just because you’d prefer some other support doesn’t mean the crowd-favourite or meta or whatever should be changed to please the DPS or tanks of the game. We’d also like to have fun as you would.
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Its bad that a hero has a kit like mercy and/or rine… You just can’t balanced that on a fair and competitive level, they are heroes who are useless if they miss one shot and they are heroes like Mercy that cant miss or missplay anything. If mercy has a chance to win a top 500 game with her kit then the game is unfair since for sure mercy takes nothing to be masterd atm.
Some heroes have to make plays and have high mechanical skills, other takes aiming and tracking, mercy take you to not fall asleep when you are playing to get her full power and viability in a team… I dont hate Mercy as a character but i despise her kit it does not pomote any mechanical improvement nor doesnt it take anything to execute something right, all mercy take is basic game knowage.
Someone gets killed is it safe to ress him no, dont/ yes ress him.
Someone is presuring you? Just ult away and be immune to 75% of the games playable heroes if that wasnt enough enjoy aoe healing and dmg boosting when you are immortal for 15 sec.
Someone is flanking you? just jump to the farthest teammate and your gucci.
I just dont see that kit being fair, the moment they make the current mercy good people like me will come and complane until its nerfed. Just rework that hero, give her something that will take some time to learn and a lot of time to master, let her have ways to misplay other then jumping in to heal a teammate whos trowing or is 1 v 6ing.
I understand that you’re tired of hearing Mercy players complain, but we just want to have fun again with Mercy. Right now she feels like a healbot, just hold right or left click (depending if they have full health or not) and if you mess up you have an undo button every 30 seconds.
They nerfed her because Blizzard THINKS Mercy players hid to rez (so she stopped healing) which isn’t the case at all. Right now she has to hide to rez because she literally becomes a rock for 1.75 seconds and guess what, she has to stop healing to rez. A nerf was necessary to the old Mercy I know but, this is too far in my opinion.
Her healing was the only thing really going for her and now they took that aswell. It’s alot harder to solo heal as Mercy now. People forget that she doesn’t do damage while healing, that’s why her healing was higher than the other supports because they could swap between healing and damage really quickly.
Most Mercy players want her back before invulnerabilty with a few nerfs to her ult. Video games are supposed to be fun and Mercy isn’t. Her old ult did take alot to master you had to think if you should tempo rez or go for a big rez, whether you should save your ult or not. Now if you fail just wait 30 seconds and you can try again.
Wanna know why they nerfed Mercy’s healing? Well ill tell you, its cause Zen and Mercy are the best support duo.
Stacking two dmg’s buffs isn’t fair at all, nor does it take any set up, nor can it miss. Unlike Ana’s nano and Orisals Suppercharger they are an Unlimited dmg buffs.
That said they just needed to break up that due and removing Mercy from the Main healers/supprot category was the best way they can do that. Now if you want to run 2 supports that can infinitly damage boost they need to be bad at consistant healing outpoots. That said mercy is still a good healer, shes just a lot more fair atm.
I know you wanna have fun with mercy, BUT mercy was the top support from season 1 up untill now. That only stoped for the season when Ana was added into the game, but then they quickly nerfed Ana and it was back to Mercy again.
I dont wanna be rube but Mercy mains had 10 seasons of exploiting her power creep since she was a must pick or a good meta pick at that time.
Personally atm im happy to see other support getting played. Especially Ana.