What I Think of the Current Mercy

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Barely, a lot of people can’t stay in GM with Mercy anymore.

And more damage.

Mercy doesn’t do damage that’s why her healing output was fair.

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Make a thread of this aha it’s a very solid idea and cam completely change her for the better plus it’s such a unique idea as well, healing 100hp causes an orb to drop on an allies location or by pressing GA you can collect them off of allies. Or even simply just healing gradually increases it?

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Oh, I already did but I got very few replies and it got lost to the ether. :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t wanna “bump” it and get accused of spamming.

I secretly hope that Jeff has something like this in mind though. They did just take the scrap mechanic off of Torb so that gives me hope.

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I’ll go and check it aha, it’s a very well executed idea and could actually work

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Can you give us a link? Id love to read it.

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My main is mercy. And yes i thinks the others bring more flexability and game changer to the table than she does. Big healing values would speak for her if the others woundnt be so close or equal to her and she has nothing beside that.

The only special thing is her rez but that is currently very awkward to use.

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I agree in that statement also being a mercy main but there are so many ways that can make her good or even useful again but at this stage it doesn’t seem possible and it annoys a lot of players… hence my tilt… sorry for that. You bring up decent points on other supports but it’s a shame she’s so down right now. Maybe they can use one of these suggestions as a guideline?

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The sad thing is that Jeff promised to revert her if the rework wasn’t received well.
So the rework comes around, no one likes it. But it still didn’t get reverted.
At first I thought they’d just forgot, but after the first few nerfs I started to lose hope.

The first few nerfs we’re ok, I didn’t like them, but ok deal with it, but now that they’ve taken her healing I’m just mad.

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Considering how long they work on changes it will take quite a while.

I personaly would like to keep the rez ability eventhought it is hard to balance.

I did really enjoy the first mery with itensify and rez ultimate.

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They probably won’t get rid of rez because it defines her, but I hope that they can at least try to balance it. Instead of just nerfing it into oblivion

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I dont know how because res is very inconsistent. If you rez someone than the value you get by doing so is the value the rezzed person does.

In a solo queue you will get someone who actually manages to do somthing and sometime somone does instantly again.

In higher ladder or groups with coordination you can be always sure to get alot of value by reviving someone.

I dont know how to balance a hero ability so that it is consistent through the ladder.

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You’re right, rez is still overpowered. In my opinion changing it back to an ult with longer charge time, maybe a radius decrease, Los requirements or even cast time (but then give her an E ability like damage reduction so she has a chance to pull it off) is the best option.

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My personal favorit would be something that would require more skill or management example:

Mercy get a “healed” bar. While she is healing a certain part of that healing is applied to the bar.

The number in the bar represent the maximum amount of health that will destributed among the resurrected players.

If mercy dies befor she used up the “healed” value than that value is either comletly reduced to zero or by some percentages.

The values also degenerates relative fast, so it force you to heal consistently.

So if res is used on alot of people than they will resurrected with less health and so on.

Something like that sound for me personaly interisting.

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Speaking of the other healers:
I find people use Moira and Ana heals much more on single targets than trying to heal a group. Almost as if teammates take loads of damage or something.

If fact, 3-3 only works with Brig becuase she fits in the fourth tank slot while providing a boost to healing which is just enough to make the comp viable and not have damage out damage the heals.

Anyway, my point is I don’t think the amount Mercy heals is bad, it’s just the over reliance on heals that make people not choose her, and use Ana or Moira to single target heal. Heck, remember with Lucio/Zen was meta? Now that’s suicide cos “too few heals”.

If people just learned how not to take damage (as in didn’t just walk into damage), Mercy would be much more viable, mark my words.

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That only works if all the characters are fighting at range but it will never be a thing because for that to happen you would have to have no teamfights or direct dmg.
The problem with mercy is not healing someone who got a scratch from a far and needs 50 hp back. Her problem is that every other healer in game can either group heal, deal massive dmg to compensate for low healing, burst heal someone to full hp or have ultimates that completely negate damage and while all of them can do that mercy in a teamfight cannot help in any way and after the reduced heal, since she doesn’t have any burst healing, she can’t keep a single target alive during a fight as long as they are targeted.
We all know how overwatch works… and if you can’t sustain a target during a team fight cause more than one person is shooting at them you are basically doing nothing in the game.
You probably don’t play mercy cause you would know if you did that when you press her Q abillity during a team fight you basically watch them all die from above.
Mercy can’t be viable in the game at this state because she deals no dmg herself. Having a mercy on your team, like others before me said, is basically having a 5v6 with good healing(the way she was before cause that was her contribution after all the nerfs) but after the latest nerf she doesn’t even have that. You can whip out the pistol all you like but dealing the least amount of dmg out of every character in the game you are just occupying a slot that could be better used by literarily any other character ATM.

It’s just a fact. So the real question is do we need a useless character in the game? I can tell you as she is it’s better to just delete her completely from the game and make everyone’s lives a lot easier. At least if she is completely removed cause they just can’t bother to fix her we won’t be having any of these discussions and whoever loved her and playing her and didn’t uninstall after that can just focus the little game time they still give to overwatch on other actually relevant characters. :stuck_out_tongue:

Cause let’s be honest we can debate her for a while but honestly if they really cared, after all the uproar this has caused both in forums and on youtube, they would’ve done something or at least announced that they are still working on her and will fix her.

At this point unless they change her, even if they don’t delete her, they might as well put her into the game tutorial for first timers and just remove her from the pick list. xD

Thank you for reading and have a lovely day everyone. It’s just wasted effort talking about her any further really. She’s been gutted worse than any fish in a sushi restaurant.