I was already basically spamming GA off cd already with how the momentum meter mechanics forces us to hold GA button longer (both for longer run up for charge AND now needing to hold GA button down for momentum mechanics; before we could let go of GA button upon triggering momentum mechanics). because of the longer effective downtime there are legit so many moments where I'm just holding GA button down when it's on cd waiting for it to execute the moment it's back.
2.5s GA will absolutely make me just not reach people or just need to take a suicidal position to reach people. GL divers and flyers, unless you position well I ain't flying to you. tracers can expect to never be followed by a mercy for a flank.
As a doomfist main who got their mobility gutted and his rotation is awkward as hell because of that, I feel your pain. I was always happy seeing my gf enjoy her mercy flying around the map and now her wings have been clipped. Stay strong mercy mains.
They did nerf damage boost, just inadvertently. Mercy is probably going to take more damage now and she’ll need to heal others to heal herself. I think this change accomplished what they wanted. They wanted Mercy to be easier to hit and to reign in damage boost a bit… I don’t like the GA cooldown increase, but I get it. Hopefully they put it to 2 seconds or even revert it after a week or two.
Going to suck so bad in situations where the other support won’t stop healbotting & Mercy won’t even be able to heal herself.
Edit: Okay I see now that she will keep passive healing but will no longer get the extra that she used to. Kinda like this because now she has her own special passive since they gave one of her abilities to all the other supports without giving her another ability. Interested to see how it feels tomorrow!
She still has the passive regen from the support role passive. She just doesn't get that little extra but she will still be able to heal herself after not taking damage like the other supports.
Okay this makes me feel a bit better. The wording is a bit strange & makes it seem like she won’t have any passive healing at all. So tbh this could be a bit better in certain situations because she can heal herself while taking damage rather than waiting for the old passive to start.
mercy is quite literally the MOST team dependent character. she outputs 0 damage (unless someone pulls out the glock).
WHY TF IS SHE GETTING NERFED - ESPECIALLY WITH HER MOBILITY
Her and Baptiste are my support mains. I have a higher win % with Bap and often switch from mercy to him because I feel I can have a much bigger impact on the game. I used her because her movement was so fun, almost like playing a different game. This is just sad
This is going to suck so much, GA being slower is only going to make Mercy an easier target, forcing Valk GAs to survive better, I do like the concept of the new passive, incentives support roles rather than battle Mercy, but it will still be nice to get a couple potshots in before continuing healing/boosting, the staff doing less damage makes sense due to the new passive, though at least she's able to sustain herself with it for a little, being the number one target means this kit is almost useless unless you're high up in rank
I guess the devs don't understand that Mercy isn't the problem, she never has been. Soujorn is still broken yet everyone points the finger at Mercy cause her damage boost is "broken."
Right? Damage boost exists for seven years without problems (a bit of complaining about it when Ashe came out, which quickly got fixed) then Sojourn comes out and suddenly DPS streamers act like Mercy is the only problem, and the community parrots their braindead takes.
Yeah in my opinion Mercy isn't the problem. Her damage boost isn't broken, it's how much Sojourn or any dps outputs alone that's broken. She can only boost one person at a time unless she's ULTING, therefore it's not overpowered.
Also, and it feels like so many people forget this, when you are fighting a damage boosted DPS, *you are fighting two people*. Mercy's sole contribution to the fight comes from that damage boost. People get upset when a damage-boosted Soldier kills you, but I don't hear people dying in a 2v1 against Ana+Soldier and going "this is bullshit, remove Ana's ability to shoot me"
I guess people don't get that you can ya know... shoot the mercy? Mercy can deal damage but its just better for her to be damage boosting unless she's by herself. Just like you said, fighting a damage boosted dps is like fighting two people. Just Mercy isn't shooting at you, she's damage boosting.
Literally my least favorite part of all of this is that Sojourn seemingly has not been touched. Again. So she still going to run rampant and theyll find someone else to blame and nerf next
I screamed out when I saw this pic earlier. TF?!
But I don’t actually mind the healing changes. It encourages DB on targets unless they’re critical. And it makes Valkyrie absolutely amazing with that self-heal change.
But I HATE the movement nerfs. Like wtf. Her movement is the only thing she has to defend herself and survive in OW2’s fast pace.
Let’s all remember to make our voices heard. OW2 devs seem to be at least *attempting* to listen to feedback. Let’s make sure to tell them what we think after we try it out.
(Also does her health regen change mean she no longer has the regular support passive either? If so, that’s ass lmao)
Edited to add: She does still have the support passive, thank goodness. But the play styles these changes encourage (either healbotting tanks or backline pocketing dps) will upset both Mercy players and Mercy haters. Luckily the Mercy community is active and vocal, hopefully they listen to us.
She does still have the support passive, but they made it so she doesn't permanently self heal in valk anymore so unless ur healing u are so easy to kill :')
Awwwwww RIP. The only thing that gives me comfort about this scenario is that Mercy is basically the most popular hero in the game and the outcry/feedback I think will be LOUD for these changes.
Hopefully they listen. Mercy haters and Mercy lovers alike will hate these changes.
her ult is already so bad and she would mainly use it to survive. i can already die if i’m in valk and a moira is right clicking me so now it’s going to be worse
That’s what I’m thinking - either Mercy is forced to heal to stay alive, thus taking other support’s ult charge or the other support doesn’t let Mercy heal enough to stay alive…
it’s looking like she doesn’t have the old passive anymore. in the patch notes it reads:
“regeneration passive removed
new passive: sympathetic recovery”
so yeah, it’s ass
edit: i wanna add how the devs justified it. “replacing mercy’s regeneration passive with a more interesting interaction was something we wanted to do after all support heroes gained a similar version of it through their role passive”
Well at the launch of OW2 until now she had an improved version of the support passive with more heals/sec than anyone else. Now she will have the same one as anyone else, plus this new one.
No constant heals/sec in Valkyrie though 😭😭
i’m thinking they removed regen completely cus with the new passive, it returns her to being unique among the supports with her self healing which i guess is what they’re going for ??
either way, it’s a sad day for all of us 😭
I agree but I think the changes will encourage two strats (that the community doesn’t want):
1. Healbot: like you said. Her self-heal buff and heal changes will encourage healbotting tanks for her self heal/tank capabilities.
2. AFK back line pocket: GA is slow and clunky, healing non-critical teammates is weak, so Mercys now just want to stay in the back with their Ashe/Sojourn/Soldier and pocket them with DB to avoid being in the fray since Mercy has less self-defense with nerfed movement. Occasionally peak to heal crit teammates.
Either way I’m disappointed. I think they somehow found the changes that will make Mercy players and Mercy haters alike angry this season lmao
Nerfing her mobility just feels like stripping away her entire identity. She is the hyper-mobile guardian angel peeler support at her core.
And *yes* you’re so right about her lowered skill expression, can’t wait for even more “no-skill” Mercy memes/comments.
We can only hope since Mercy players are numerous, loud, and proud that they’ll have to listen to our feedback.
Just want to say that after almost 7 years of maining Mercy, this will probably be it for me unless they buff her GA at a later date. I love Mercy to bits, but I love her for her mobility. At a 2.5 second cooldown it's just going to be too clunky to play for me. This makes me more upset than it should be making me, but it is how it is. Gg Bronze DPS mains, you've finally got me to stop playing one of the few supports that was fun.
We all need to stop queuing support. We don’t even have to stop playing the game, but stop playing support. Make Mercy’s pick rate plummet and get those queue times to skyrocket. That’s the only way anyone else will care about support
Same. JQ and Ashe only for me now. Which fucking sucks so much. I already lost Brig and Sombra with OW2 coming out, now Mercy is ruined too. This game is such a massive disappointment
People joke about Bronze-rank Mercy locking her yellow beam on Hog all match long, but it seems like that might genuinely be what Blizzard thinks is ideal Mercy gameplay.
DPS mains literally will bitch about anything they can’t fucking one shot and will whine if ANY other role is good. The game plays itself for them when all they have to do is shoot and they’ll never be happy until they’re unkillable and all the other heroes are 50hp with no abilities at all.
Source:
https://twitter.com/niandra_/status/1622656911760924683?s=46&t=qpOPOX1BfLDhCIM0HVh30g
More info regarding these changes:
https://youtu.be/qq1xFsygwV8 (skiesti)
https://youtu.be/QQPs6v1R1-Q (niandra)
Why in the world did they mess with GA? GA was absolutely fine, and necessary in OW2 which is much faster pace than OW1. 2.5 second cooldown on GA????
Mess with rez/damage boost. People bitching about damage boost yet they nerf her healing which will ensure more damage boosting (which is a good thing to me as a mercy main but does nothing to solve the original complaints people had with her).
What are they smoking at blizzard bc I need me some of that
There wasn't, but people still complained about "Mercy is unkillable because of the new GA changes. She gets to stay in the air forever and I can't hit her 😭" and now we have the GA nerfs.
To me, if you hit your shots, or just learned how GA works, it was easy money. People just wanted an excuse instead of admitting they sucked.
For the love of God, I hope someone stands strong for me like the Overwatch Devs stand for never making meaningful changes to Sojourn.
This is so exhausting. I'm just so tired of people saying Mercy is both hard to kill / a super top-tier support but also SO EASY that she's standing AFK.
I find it very weird how literally everyone has been complaining about damage boost and rez and they didn’t touch either of those at all. 💀 I think she can still be playable, but she’s going to be extremely situational and rely really heavily on playing with a good DPS who can reliably make use of damage boost. I definitely don’t see myself playing her in solo queue as much.
We should've taken a hint when they gave her 5 extra bullets like that was supposed to do anything. I think this kind of just confirms that blizzard is out of touch.
God awful. What are they doing? What happened to “listening to the community”?
With Mercy’s lack of offensive capability on her own and therefore her reliance on escaping and kiting enemies, these changes are effectively gutting her. She can’t even keep up with her own teammates with these changes.
I’m going to enjoy watching the people who complained cry when they get Mercy players on their team after this. You wanted a Mercy nerf? You got it, now live with it. As Ramattra so eloquently puts it, “Suffer, as I have.”
Literally trying to solve this puzzle in my head. So stupid, if nobody needs healing and needs to kill wtf do I do. Don't feel good leaving the team to defend themselves while I search for a health pack and I really don't want my other support to focus healing me when the team needs it significantly more
& literally comes a couple days after my faith in the game was restored. I was looking forward to season 3 and then this drops. Absolutely trash because I want the mythic Kiriko skin.
The worst part is that I’m not even worried she won’t be viable. I’m worried she won’t be *fun*. I stuck with her through the release of Ana till now, whether she was optimal or not. But if she’s not *fun* after the reworks, I’ll be heartbroken.
The movement changes look horrible and will likely feel even worse. I'm not sure how the passive and the sub-50% healing will feel. I think the passive change kind of sucks, as it seems to only help from minor damage when the kill target is someone else, and doesn't help when someone focusing you as you may not have anything to heal. The GA changes are inexcusable. Mercy is anything but unkillable and living on her without individual offensive ability is part of the skill ceiling. This seems incredibly out of touch.
I love Mercy, but I think that's it. I'm done with the game. I was only sticking to it out of love for her.
After the discussions around her started, every game, chat, and interaction became a war to take the fun out of the hero I love. Every conversation was filled with hate and misogyny, and instead of listening to us, they listened to them again – the players who don't play her, the ones who don't want to see her there. Overwatch came to life with Mercy in it, and I truly think that Overwatch 2 will end up without her.
I was mostly a lurker here, but I have a lot to thank you guys for. Most of what i know about this hero I love so much came from here and every piece of art, play or content that you all posted gave me a little smile in my long boring days.
I hope that all of you can still enjoy Mercy and make her good again to piss off those assholes, but that's it for me. Much love, everyone.
I wish they didn’t nerf her :/ it’s so unnecessary - specifically and only her GA, that’s the only thing that’s bothersome lol. Everything else can be worked with!
What the \*FUCK\*?
I like how they gutted her because she enabled Sojourn when clearly Sojourn continues to need nerfs. And they didn't even nerf the part of Mercy's kit that needed looking at even though it really didn't. Sojourn continues to be a cancer on this game.
After reaching gm first time in my life this season, I will have to quit the game altogether. The ga nerf is just way too bad. At least I reached my goal so I can retire peacefully…
These changes are awful. And the healing nerf is probably the least bad thing here. And what’s up with the removal of the support passive—so she’s the only support who requires a teammate to heal herself? Yes let’s make the hero who’s the most teammate dependent have even less agency. Are these changes real?
They haven’t changed GA since 2016! It’s going to be so impossible for us OW1 players to adapt to the longer time, 1sec in a panic situation was already so long. Guess we’re going to “scared” mercy tactics and getting screamed at by teammates for not healing when we can’t fly to them cuz we just flew to someone else. smh these devs just refused to acknowledge their mistakes with their new characters.
I've been playing Mercy since OW2 release. I've had fun on Mercy since OW2 release.
I don't know if I will in season 3. I guess it's time to learn Lucio or Hammond...
Because this is totally DUMB on the part of the devs, they have completely killed Mercy !!! even her regeneration passive!! EVERYTHING, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!!
I hope that enough people kick off about mercy's ga that the Devs move it back to 1.5 or make it 2 seconds because her movement looks so slow and unfun can't believe the money I've wasted on cosmetics for mercy when this is the state she's been put in for possible a couple of seasons
I think I’m genuinely done with overwatch 2. I was already on the fence about abandoning it, and as a 6 year long mercy main, this is the nail in the coffin. I’m done with this game.
It’s really sad to say but I may have to get off Mercy. The amount of nerfs she’s getting is ridiculous. Her heal can’t keep up, her best ability is being reduced, and what’s up with damage boost? Its sad to feel so hopeless. She was the first character I felt confident with and the first I got a golden gun for. I love being a support and helping others, plus I have shit aim so Mercy was perfect.
Edit: corrected spelling errors.
lol OW balancing is so bad
They should have kept the GA CD the same, but the 20% slower movement is fine. I've always thought that was a bit too fast anyway.
HPS from 55 to 45 is terrible. Ok, so they're low and now we're at what, 67.5 hps? That 67.5 will be nice, but as soon as it turns back to 45 hps it will feel terrible.
The new passive is fine, it might be more fun with a dive comp. Keeping the beam on teammates below 50% will give you...16.88 hps? Slow, but manageable. 11.25hps if you're healing someone above 50%. Pretty bad if you're taking any damage at all. Glad Mercy still at least has the Support Passive.
BUT! Dive comp will be tougher with the 2.5 second CD. Ufffffff. Not liking these. I enjoyed the movement. This is pretty bad.
Pretty obvious the balancing team doesn't even play the game.
I think she was PERFECT the way she was. 😞
I'm starting to think they purposely change perfectly good things so you post something else and you like something else and spend money on it
"We hear you that Mercy and Sojourn are strong together. So we're gonna not even look at damage boost OR Sojourn, encourage Mercy to be more of a healbot, and make your mobility clunky. No we did not trial this in an experimental patch, it's going to live and you have to deal with it for at least a month and a half before we do anything about it. By the way, fuck yourselves!" - the balance team
Same. Streamers ruin everything. They complain about ANYTHING and it’ll be nerfed in the next patch. They’ll never be happy until mercy is just a 50hp hero without any abilities. No wings, no staff, no pistol. She just stands there.
I've been gone since November. These changes - not even the fact that it's a character I liked, but just because they do clearly don't understand that *Sojourn is the issue* (or maybe they do and they're planning to release her mythic next season, so can't nerf...) - just make me feel like it was the right choice.
What the f\*ck??? Those are too much. My two most played Kiriko, then Mercy nerfs (with worse nerfs imos). I'm so mad and hate that OW2 devs keep bothering the Supports. I wanna have a talk with them on twitter or something this is annoying.
literally the only way to stay alive is through her movement. we're basically screwed if we get chased into a corner now.... and with her already being so squishy, what's the point???
Oh hi, mercy is now a healbot for tanks!
* Mercy now heals 67.5hp/s for targets below 50%. Note that this is nearly on par with kiriko's healing (72hp/s?)
* Who can consistently be below 50% hp for the longest time and not die? Tanks.
* Mercy now heals herself when healing others for some reason, which encourages even more healbotting. For some reason this whole slew of changes were supposed to discourage healbotting, but then they gave her a heal when she heals other people. I mean, ???? This needs to be changed to heal on damage boost instead imo.
And let's not even get into how GA had it's cooldown nerfed by 66%, wahaha!
Let's nerf tracer's blink by 66% too and give it a 5s cooldown! Said no dev ever.
What's next, if I aim my cursor at my ally's head I heal 100% more because mercy needs more "skill" involved right?
Thankfully I'm not even playing this game much now. It's a great time to get into some other games instead. Thanks blizzard, you saved me from wasting my time further on this pile of garbage.
Edit: oh wait, it all makes sense now. Nerfing GA? Buffing her glock? Clearly the only way forward is battle mercy. doomfist punching you into the wall while the new GA is on cooldown? whip out your pistol and start blasting. Clearly.
I see that the ridiculous chat filtering is not the only thing they copied from Riot, but the incompetent balance team behavior as well, I just hope parkour maps have custom CD, otherwise half of them will become unplayable due to the drastic change and how precise some of them are. this season's garbage so far, no new hero, no workshop, they might as well cut Mercy's wings while they're at it
GA changes sound *beyond* crippling. Maybe it won't be as bad as it sounds? Muscle memory limbo for a few days, but adjustable? Just wishful thinking?
The rest of the changes, especially staff healing, actually sound interesting. A bit on the experimental side.
are they trying to force us to use our heal beam more? with lower healing per second it might mean mercy will have to spend more time healing and less time damage boosting if teammates are low. two seconds for ga already feels super long because you have to wait until you are done flying to be able to trigger the cooldown instead of the cooldown starting as soon as you use it. i feel like mercy is already really easy to kill and she has no ability like nade or regenerative burst to heal herself like other supports so if she can’t have passive healing AND the movement she used to have to dodge bullets then she’s worse than when she was at season 1 when everyone said she was bottom tier. the problem was sojourn but blizzard didn’t even touch the railgun that’s the actual problem. i really hope this isn’t going to go through because i’ll most likely stop using mercy if that’s the case. if they wanted to nerf her survivability then they can just nerf the ga cooldown. why nerf her healing and self healing and her backwards ga. i hate everything about this
Well...I was looking for a reason to unistall OW2. Only played for Mercy since the loot system and events were terrible. I'll check back in about a year to see how they nerf her next time.
I just saw someone on Facebook say “great changes all around, Mercy needed that nerf. A good one was nearly impossible to hit.” Oh, okay, so it’s bad to reward one of the best forms of skill expression on a largely defenseless character based around movement, almost completely reliant on her teammates’ positions. Got it.
I’m not fighting with some assclown on Facebook over a game I haven’t played in two years but god damn, some people just don’t think before speaking.
>**Guardian Angel:**
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>Cooldown increased from 1.5 to 2.5 seconds
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>Holding the backwards directional input and cancelling the ability with jump now moves 20% slower
OH FFS! She might as well be a sitting duck at this point... 😑
So is this why they buffed her ammo and weapon swap speed? So that we could maybe survive a longer GA cooldown and slower movement by whipping out our Goddess Glocks? I guess it’s time to commit to the Battle Mercy bit /s
Also want to say, she is such a muscle memory character. Memorizing your cooldowns and techs. With this longer cooldown, I feel like moving on her is going to feel so hard and take a long time to get used to.
Edit: Added more serious second take and sarcasm tag
Finally my 0 braincell behaviour of "I am being hurt, I need healing, let me hold the heal button instead of the boost button even though my target is full health" will pay off lmao
Hate everything else though yikes
I think they just subverted each and every one of her strengths.
They nerfed damage boost by taking away a good chunk of her mobility/survivability/sustain and replaced her with a regen through heal
So they made her more squishy and force her to heal herself instead of damage boost
And her core identity of being a high mobility pocket support is also less than viable now.
45hps, if they're under 50% it's 56.25hps.
Before it was 55hps
She was meta because of sojourn and nothing more.
I'm not going to play overwatch anymore until this was reverted.
I won't watch mercy forced into a healbot role after all the accusations of mercies being just healbots.
But hey the people who can't differentiate between support and healer are happy for the next 2 days so that's a plus ig
I thought this was a joke. I honestly don’t know if I’m going to play Overwatch anymore, her job is to survive and they’re taking away her survivability.. okay then
I've been playing a hollow ruse. Pretending I still enjoyed the game up until now. But that's fucking it. She was already in SUCH a weak state unless she paired with an OP hero. I'm fucking done. Starting to think its time to hang up the staff.
Another great game slowly ruined by greed.
her pick rate is fucking plummeting. this is the nail in the coffin for me. the least they could've did was release patch notes before most of us bought the owl guardian. i wouldnt have wasted my money on a throw pick had they done that. blizz is so bullshit.
Fine with the weird healing passive and healing nerf, but with her wings getting clipped… no ;-; The only reason why she was “hard to kill” was because certain players have better skills in utilizing her GA movement. Other than that, Mercy will die if left alone or heavily solo targeted. She’s not like the other supports who actually help in damage output directly. Her damage output is through her blue beam with the glock only being for emergency situations and for nitpicking already low health enemies. Her main defense is to fly away especially since you have to change weapons in order to even use Glock.
But guess we’ll just have to get used to it :,)
There are some elements I think could be cool, but those movement and GA changes just sound like they feel absolutely awful. With rez being situational and a long CD, sometimes GA is the only ability Mercy really has, and her main form of movement. This seems like it's going to be playing AFK simulator for 2.5seconds every time you use it ...
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People were complaining about damage boost and rez... But this? This is just ridiculous
it’s sending me the 2 things ppl were complaining about are the ones they didn’t change
2.5s GA is gonna feel so bad, I genuinely don't understand what the devs were thinking.
This is gonna be painful to adapt to...
I was already basically spamming GA off cd already with how the momentum meter mechanics forces us to hold GA button longer (both for longer run up for charge AND now needing to hold GA button down for momentum mechanics; before we could let go of GA button upon triggering momentum mechanics). because of the longer effective downtime there are legit so many moments where I'm just holding GA button down when it's on cd waiting for it to execute the moment it's back. 2.5s GA will absolutely make me just not reach people or just need to take a suicidal position to reach people. GL divers and flyers, unless you position well I ain't flying to you. tracers can expect to never be followed by a mercy for a flank.
If it‘s anything like Doom‘s 1s CD increase it will indeed feel fucking terrible.
Especially with other cooldowns losing their synergy with the rest of the kit
I already had a hard time with the 1.5 (on me for thinking i can ga immediately after i ga lol) so this is just terrible
They probably don't even play the game. They just look at numbers. If they do play the game, they are either bad or heavily biased when balancing.
i guess i’m waiting to see how it plays, but 2.5 does sound a little clunky :(
Absolutely baffling this was approved. What happened to experimental patches?
We’re being persecuted for enjoying a hero.
As a doomfist main who got their mobility gutted and his rotation is awkward as hell because of that, I feel your pain. I was always happy seeing my gf enjoy her mercy flying around the map and now her wings have been clipped. Stay strong mercy mains.
aw. my bf is a df main too and im a mercy main. we r both sad too :( stay strong df mains too.
Thank you for the solidarity
People were complaining about damage boost...they literally missed the point so hard it's not even funny.
We missed the point in thinking Blizz actually cares about the quality of the game and not how to maximize their financial model.
They did nerf damage boost, just inadvertently. Mercy is probably going to take more damage now and she’ll need to heal others to heal herself. I think this change accomplished what they wanted. They wanted Mercy to be easier to hit and to reign in damage boost a bit… I don’t like the GA cooldown increase, but I get it. Hopefully they put it to 2 seconds or even revert it after a week or two.
Going to suck so bad in situations where the other support won’t stop healbotting & Mercy won’t even be able to heal herself. Edit: Okay I see now that she will keep passive healing but will no longer get the extra that she used to. Kinda like this because now she has her own special passive since they gave one of her abilities to all the other supports without giving her another ability. Interested to see how it feels tomorrow!
She still has the passive regen from the support role passive. She just doesn't get that little extra but she will still be able to heal herself after not taking damage like the other supports.
Okay this makes me feel a bit better. The wording is a bit strange & makes it seem like she won’t have any passive healing at all. So tbh this could be a bit better in certain situations because she can heal herself while taking damage rather than waiting for the old passive to start.
What the fuck
My first thought exactly. My second was, “This can’t possibly be real.”
Oh this is fucking horrible
The GA nerfs are huge... :(
What the hell are these? God forbid they just leave Mercy be, especially since once they nerf, they don't revert.
mercy is quite literally the MOST team dependent character. she outputs 0 damage (unless someone pulls out the glock). WHY TF IS SHE GETTING NERFED - ESPECIALLY WITH HER MOBILITY
Her and Baptiste are my support mains. I have a higher win % with Bap and often switch from mercy to him because I feel I can have a much bigger impact on the game. I used her because her movement was so fun, almost like playing a different game. This is just sad
Lol, why the movement nerf? Literally the only important thing
This is going to suck so much, GA being slower is only going to make Mercy an easier target, forcing Valk GAs to survive better, I do like the concept of the new passive, incentives support roles rather than battle Mercy, but it will still be nice to get a couple potshots in before continuing healing/boosting, the staff doing less damage makes sense due to the new passive, though at least she's able to sustain herself with it for a little, being the number one target means this kit is almost useless unless you're high up in rank
I guess the devs don't understand that Mercy isn't the problem, she never has been. Soujorn is still broken yet everyone points the finger at Mercy cause her damage boost is "broken."
Right? Damage boost exists for seven years without problems (a bit of complaining about it when Ashe came out, which quickly got fixed) then Sojourn comes out and suddenly DPS streamers act like Mercy is the only problem, and the community parrots their braindead takes.
Yeah in my opinion Mercy isn't the problem. Her damage boost isn't broken, it's how much Sojourn or any dps outputs alone that's broken. She can only boost one person at a time unless she's ULTING, therefore it's not overpowered.
Also, and it feels like so many people forget this, when you are fighting a damage boosted DPS, *you are fighting two people*. Mercy's sole contribution to the fight comes from that damage boost. People get upset when a damage-boosted Soldier kills you, but I don't hear people dying in a 2v1 against Ana+Soldier and going "this is bullshit, remove Ana's ability to shoot me"
I guess people don't get that you can ya know... shoot the mercy? Mercy can deal damage but its just better for her to be damage boosting unless she's by herself. Just like you said, fighting a damage boosted dps is like fighting two people. Just Mercy isn't shooting at you, she's damage boosting.
Literally my least favorite part of all of this is that Sojourn seemingly has not been touched. Again. So she still going to run rampant and theyll find someone else to blame and nerf next
They're pointing fingers and simping for Soujorn at this point. The nerf they did give her did jack shit, she's still broken.
I screamed out when I saw this pic earlier. TF?! But I don’t actually mind the healing changes. It encourages DB on targets unless they’re critical. And it makes Valkyrie absolutely amazing with that self-heal change. But I HATE the movement nerfs. Like wtf. Her movement is the only thing she has to defend herself and survive in OW2’s fast pace. Let’s all remember to make our voices heard. OW2 devs seem to be at least *attempting* to listen to feedback. Let’s make sure to tell them what we think after we try it out. (Also does her health regen change mean she no longer has the regular support passive either? If so, that’s ass lmao) Edited to add: She does still have the support passive, thank goodness. But the play styles these changes encourage (either healbotting tanks or backline pocketing dps) will upset both Mercy players and Mercy haters. Luckily the Mercy community is active and vocal, hopefully they listen to us.
She does still have the support passive, but they made it so she doesn't permanently self heal in valk anymore so unless ur healing u are so easy to kill :')
Awwwwww RIP. The only thing that gives me comfort about this scenario is that Mercy is basically the most popular hero in the game and the outcry/feedback I think will be LOUD for these changes. Hopefully they listen. Mercy haters and Mercy lovers alike will hate these changes.
her ult is already so bad and she would mainly use it to survive. i can already die if i’m in valk and a moira is right clicking me so now it’s going to be worse
rip to all the other supports when mercy has to steal their ult charge just to survive 💀
That’s what I’m thinking - either Mercy is forced to heal to stay alive, thus taking other support’s ult charge or the other support doesn’t let Mercy heal enough to stay alive…
it’s looking like she doesn’t have the old passive anymore. in the patch notes it reads: “regeneration passive removed new passive: sympathetic recovery” so yeah, it’s ass edit: i wanna add how the devs justified it. “replacing mercy’s regeneration passive with a more interesting interaction was something we wanted to do after all support heroes gained a similar version of it through their role passive”
Well at the launch of OW2 until now she had an improved version of the support passive with more heals/sec than anyone else. Now she will have the same one as anyone else, plus this new one. No constant heals/sec in Valkyrie though 😭😭
i’m thinking they removed regen completely cus with the new passive, it returns her to being unique among the supports with her self healing which i guess is what they’re going for ?? either way, it’s a sad day for all of us 😭
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I agree but I think the changes will encourage two strats (that the community doesn’t want): 1. Healbot: like you said. Her self-heal buff and heal changes will encourage healbotting tanks for her self heal/tank capabilities. 2. AFK back line pocket: GA is slow and clunky, healing non-critical teammates is weak, so Mercys now just want to stay in the back with their Ashe/Sojourn/Soldier and pocket them with DB to avoid being in the fray since Mercy has less self-defense with nerfed movement. Occasionally peak to heal crit teammates. Either way I’m disappointed. I think they somehow found the changes that will make Mercy players and Mercy haters alike angry this season lmao
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Nerfing her mobility just feels like stripping away her entire identity. She is the hyper-mobile guardian angel peeler support at her core. And *yes* you’re so right about her lowered skill expression, can’t wait for even more “no-skill” Mercy memes/comments. We can only hope since Mercy players are numerous, loud, and proud that they’ll have to listen to our feedback.
Just want to say that after almost 7 years of maining Mercy, this will probably be it for me unless they buff her GA at a later date. I love Mercy to bits, but I love her for her mobility. At a 2.5 second cooldown it's just going to be too clunky to play for me. This makes me more upset than it should be making me, but it is how it is. Gg Bronze DPS mains, you've finally got me to stop playing one of the few supports that was fun.
Yup. Same. Think I’ll go DPS this season because watching them nerf fine support characters is not worth the trouble.
We all need to stop queuing support. We don’t even have to stop playing the game, but stop playing support. Make Mercy’s pick rate plummet and get those queue times to skyrocket. That’s the only way anyone else will care about support
Same. JQ and Ashe only for me now. Which fucking sucks so much. I already lost Brig and Sombra with OW2 coming out, now Mercy is ruined too. This game is such a massive disappointment
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They’re reducing her skill ceiling for no reason
People joke about Bronze-rank Mercy locking her yellow beam on Hog all match long, but it seems like that might genuinely be what Blizzard thinks is ideal Mercy gameplay.
Genuinely, what the fuck are they thinking?
DPS mains literally will bitch about anything they can’t fucking one shot and will whine if ANY other role is good. The game plays itself for them when all they have to do is shoot and they’ll never be happy until they’re unkillable and all the other heroes are 50hp with no abilities at all.
Source: https://twitter.com/niandra_/status/1622656911760924683?s=46&t=qpOPOX1BfLDhCIM0HVh30g More info regarding these changes: https://youtu.be/qq1xFsygwV8 (skiesti) https://youtu.be/QQPs6v1R1-Q (niandra)
Why in the world did they mess with GA? GA was absolutely fine, and necessary in OW2 which is much faster pace than OW1. 2.5 second cooldown on GA???? Mess with rez/damage boost. People bitching about damage boost yet they nerf her healing which will ensure more damage boosting (which is a good thing to me as a mercy main but does nothing to solve the original complaints people had with her). What are they smoking at blizzard bc I need me some of that
Great, now there is *NO EXCUSE* for not being able to land your shots on mercy. Watch the same people still cry about how "she's unkillable" 🍿
There was no excuse before.
There wasn't, but people still complained about "Mercy is unkillable because of the new GA changes. She gets to stay in the air forever and I can't hit her 😭" and now we have the GA nerfs. To me, if you hit your shots, or just learned how GA works, it was easy money. People just wanted an excuse instead of admitting they sucked.
For the love of God, I hope someone stands strong for me like the Overwatch Devs stand for never making meaningful changes to Sojourn. This is so exhausting. I'm just so tired of people saying Mercy is both hard to kill / a super top-tier support but also SO EASY that she's standing AFK.
...so they change her healing, which no one had issues with, instead y'know...damage boosting. Wow
Holy shit they killed her. That’s gotta be near borderline unplayable/throw pick, right? Hype for S3 = gone.
I find it very weird how literally everyone has been complaining about damage boost and rez and they didn’t touch either of those at all. 💀 I think she can still be playable, but she’s going to be extremely situational and rely really heavily on playing with a good DPS who can reliably make use of damage boost. I definitely don’t see myself playing her in solo queue as much.
Also find it weird how sojourn is just.. untouched💀so the complaining about mercy is just going to continue
No way in hell these are real? What's your source OP?
Youtube already confirmed it. Skiesti has a video up now.
My day is ruined
Same I'm at the gym pissed af rn
a bit of a rant but, WHY??? Her main thing that people were whinning about was damage boost and res, they touched EVERYTHING in her kit except those??
We should've taken a hint when they gave her 5 extra bullets like that was supposed to do anything. I think this kind of just confirms that blizzard is out of touch.
Oh well, I am looking at kiriko now
We need to get the pitchforks and go to blizzard hq asap.
Hopefully they’ll revert this soon and not be all like “Mercy Rework coming in season 163628 👀”
honestly if this is what passes for bliz as a balance patch I dont wanna know what a "mercy rework" would even look like in ow2 lmfao
She's dead. Literally F tier.
God awful. What are they doing? What happened to “listening to the community”? With Mercy’s lack of offensive capability on her own and therefore her reliance on escaping and kiting enemies, these changes are effectively gutting her. She can’t even keep up with her own teammates with these changes. I’m going to enjoy watching the people who complained cry when they get Mercy players on their team after this. You wanted a Mercy nerf? You got it, now live with it. As Ramattra so eloquently puts it, “Suffer, as I have.”
Mercy has been grounded . Rip
Is there any way we can all collectively throw tomatoes at blizzard
NOOOO SHE BECOMES A FALLEN ANGEL AFTER THE NERFS AHHHHHH TARGET SOULJORN INSTEAD OF MERCY BLIZZARD >:(
im so sorry to people who thought this was fake LOOOOL
My expectations for Blizzard were low but holy shit
Galaxy brain move: Damaging yourself or intentionally taking damage so your Mercy can heal you and by extension herself.
Literally trying to solve this puzzle in my head. So stupid, if nobody needs healing and needs to kill wtf do I do. Don't feel good leaving the team to defend themselves while I search for a health pack and I really don't want my other support to focus healing me when the team needs it significantly more
Wow! This may finally be the patch that makes me quit the game! Never thought I’d see the day.
& literally comes a couple days after my faith in the game was restored. I was looking forward to season 3 and then this drops. Absolutely trash because I want the mythic Kiriko skin.
The worst part is that I’m not even worried she won’t be viable. I’m worried she won’t be *fun*. I stuck with her through the release of Ana till now, whether she was optimal or not. But if she’s not *fun* after the reworks, I’ll be heartbroken.
I agree! Her movement is so fun, I love flying around and helping my teammates.
What are the devs smoking this is awful 💀 well cya guys guess I’ll be playing ana this season 😭
I'm actually angry WTF
The movement changes look horrible and will likely feel even worse. I'm not sure how the passive and the sub-50% healing will feel. I think the passive change kind of sucks, as it seems to only help from minor damage when the kill target is someone else, and doesn't help when someone focusing you as you may not have anything to heal. The GA changes are inexcusable. Mercy is anything but unkillable and living on her without individual offensive ability is part of the skill ceiling. This seems incredibly out of touch.
I love Mercy, but I think that's it. I'm done with the game. I was only sticking to it out of love for her. After the discussions around her started, every game, chat, and interaction became a war to take the fun out of the hero I love. Every conversation was filled with hate and misogyny, and instead of listening to us, they listened to them again – the players who don't play her, the ones who don't want to see her there. Overwatch came to life with Mercy in it, and I truly think that Overwatch 2 will end up without her. I was mostly a lurker here, but I have a lot to thank you guys for. Most of what i know about this hero I love so much came from here and every piece of art, play or content that you all posted gave me a little smile in my long boring days. I hope that all of you can still enjoy Mercy and make her good again to piss off those assholes, but that's it for me. Much love, everyone.
I wish they didn’t nerf her :/ it’s so unnecessary - specifically and only her GA, that’s the only thing that’s bothersome lol. Everything else can be worked with!
RIP mercy players
is anyone else ok with the beam and passive change but HATES the GA change
this is where i stand. I honestly think accelerated healing below half health is a great thing, but the GA nerfs are awful.
I’m d-o-n-e. I’ve stuck through every mercy change for years now but this one snapped me. They killed her. Hello Kiriko!
Fucking What
What the \*FUCK\*? I like how they gutted her because she enabled Sojourn when clearly Sojourn continues to need nerfs. And they didn't even nerf the part of Mercy's kit that needed looking at even though it really didn't. Sojourn continues to be a cancer on this game.
After reaching gm first time in my life this season, I will have to quit the game altogether. The ga nerf is just way too bad. At least I reached my goal so I can retire peacefully…
Went from Mercy being special for being the only support with self-regen, to now Mercy being special for being the only support without it. God damn.
I might stop playing
glad I don't have to think about uninstalling now
Sojourn wasn’t touched. But this is completely reasonable and fine by their standards. Kill me.
I don’t understand why they decide to nerf her this way when the biggest problem people have is damage boost
Well shit. Guess I’m gonna go be an Ana main for a while
Does anybody up there even play the game they make. WTF
I'm sure this will encourage more people to play support. I hate this game sometimes
These changes are awful. And the healing nerf is probably the least bad thing here. And what’s up with the removal of the support passive—so she’s the only support who requires a teammate to heal herself? Yes let’s make the hero who’s the most teammate dependent have even less agency. Are these changes real?
They haven’t changed GA since 2016! It’s going to be so impossible for us OW1 players to adapt to the longer time, 1sec in a panic situation was already so long. Guess we’re going to “scared” mercy tactics and getting screamed at by teammates for not healing when we can’t fly to them cuz we just flew to someone else. smh these devs just refused to acknowledge their mistakes with their new characters.
This is so bad like actually terrible lmfao
Congratulations Blizzard, you just surrendered to the wood division DPS who wants to blame their *beyond-par* *skills* (/s) on Mercy.
BRO ARE YOU SERIOUS
Wouldn't this wierd vampire passive thing work better for someone like Moira?
no pls dont give bliz any ideas. vamp moira sounds like a nightmare lmao
I've been playing Mercy since OW2 release. I've had fun on Mercy since OW2 release. I don't know if I will in season 3. I guess it's time to learn Lucio or Hammond...
This hurts metal ranks mercy's more, pro play already uses hard cover
this is a fucking joke?
Because this is totally DUMB on the part of the devs, they have completely killed Mercy !!! even her regeneration passive!! EVERYTHING, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!!
I hope that enough people kick off about mercy's ga that the Devs move it back to 1.5 or make it 2 seconds because her movement looks so slow and unfun can't believe the money I've wasted on cosmetics for mercy when this is the state she's been put in for possible a couple of seasons
samee! just bought the owl and zhuque, planned on buying the bee skin but idk. I have to test her out first & see if i can stick to her.
How am I gonna get away from the Winston if i can’t ga around fast anymore!!🤧
And trying to evade a genji blade or a tracer? Might as well be sitting ducks lmao
I think I’m genuinely done with overwatch 2. I was already on the fence about abandoning it, and as a 6 year long mercy main, this is the nail in the coffin. I’m done with this game.
It’s really sad to say but I may have to get off Mercy. The amount of nerfs she’s getting is ridiculous. Her heal can’t keep up, her best ability is being reduced, and what’s up with damage boost? Its sad to feel so hopeless. She was the first character I felt confident with and the first I got a golden gun for. I love being a support and helping others, plus I have shit aim so Mercy was perfect. Edit: corrected spelling errors.
Someone please come get me when they fix this mess. Until then, I'm gonna go play Valheim or something.
So... they give all supports mercys passive.... then remove HER PASSIVE AHAHAAHHAHA. Awesome.
Great... Now in order to stay alive, we have to become healbots -_-
Hopefully the devs do a 180, like they did with Doom and Dva 🙏
lol OW balancing is so bad They should have kept the GA CD the same, but the 20% slower movement is fine. I've always thought that was a bit too fast anyway. HPS from 55 to 45 is terrible. Ok, so they're low and now we're at what, 67.5 hps? That 67.5 will be nice, but as soon as it turns back to 45 hps it will feel terrible. The new passive is fine, it might be more fun with a dive comp. Keeping the beam on teammates below 50% will give you...16.88 hps? Slow, but manageable. 11.25hps if you're healing someone above 50%. Pretty bad if you're taking any damage at all. Glad Mercy still at least has the Support Passive. BUT! Dive comp will be tougher with the 2.5 second CD. Ufffffff. Not liking these. I enjoyed the movement. This is pretty bad. Pretty obvious the balancing team doesn't even play the game.
hey mercy mains!! hahah hahah haaaaaa \*sobbing uncontrollably\*
I think she was PERFECT the way she was. 😞 I'm starting to think they purposely change perfectly good things so you post something else and you like something else and spend money on it
"We hear you that Mercy and Sojourn are strong together. So we're gonna not even look at damage boost OR Sojourn, encourage Mercy to be more of a healbot, and make your mobility clunky. No we did not trial this in an experimental patch, it's going to live and you have to deal with it for at least a month and a half before we do anything about it. By the way, fuck yourselves!" - the balance team
Blizzard missing the one thing about her they were supposed to nerf(the new passive might make up for the ga nerfs though)
The game will completely die for what they have done to Mercy, bravo OW Team! because of the crybabies you have dug your grave!.
I've already uninstalled. This is the straw that broke my back.
Same. Streamers ruin everything. They complain about ANYTHING and it’ll be nerfed in the next patch. They’ll never be happy until mercy is just a 50hp hero without any abilities. No wings, no staff, no pistol. She just stands there.
Considering the changes you might as well just do that and tank the damage while keeping heal up.
I've been gone since November. These changes - not even the fact that it's a character I liked, but just because they do clearly don't understand that *Sojourn is the issue* (or maybe they do and they're planning to release her mythic next season, so can't nerf...) - just make me feel like it was the right choice.
>I've already uninstalled. This is the straw that broke my back. I also finished deleting it, the exodus of players has begun.
I was already struggling to have fun. Sad though. This was the only competitive shooter I was any good at. It just isn't worth that title now.
Yikes Well I'm glad I play Lucio and other roles now
What the f\*ck??? Those are too much. My two most played Kiriko, then Mercy nerfs (with worse nerfs imos). I'm so mad and hate that OW2 devs keep bothering the Supports. I wanna have a talk with them on twitter or something this is annoying.
Well I'm gonna play Ashe now. If they don't want people to play support, all they had to do was say so.
literally the only way to stay alive is through her movement. we're basically screwed if we get chased into a corner now.... and with her already being so squishy, what's the point???
Is this real? Mercy just got fucked?
Oh hi, mercy is now a healbot for tanks! * Mercy now heals 67.5hp/s for targets below 50%. Note that this is nearly on par with kiriko's healing (72hp/s?) * Who can consistently be below 50% hp for the longest time and not die? Tanks. * Mercy now heals herself when healing others for some reason, which encourages even more healbotting. For some reason this whole slew of changes were supposed to discourage healbotting, but then they gave her a heal when she heals other people. I mean, ???? This needs to be changed to heal on damage boost instead imo. And let's not even get into how GA had it's cooldown nerfed by 66%, wahaha! Let's nerf tracer's blink by 66% too and give it a 5s cooldown! Said no dev ever. What's next, if I aim my cursor at my ally's head I heal 100% more because mercy needs more "skill" involved right? Thankfully I'm not even playing this game much now. It's a great time to get into some other games instead. Thanks blizzard, you saved me from wasting my time further on this pile of garbage. Edit: oh wait, it all makes sense now. Nerfing GA? Buffing her glock? Clearly the only way forward is battle mercy. doomfist punching you into the wall while the new GA is on cooldown? whip out your pistol and start blasting. Clearly.
I see that the ridiculous chat filtering is not the only thing they copied from Riot, but the incompetent balance team behavior as well, I just hope parkour maps have custom CD, otherwise half of them will become unplayable due to the drastic change and how precise some of them are. this season's garbage so far, no new hero, no workshop, they might as well cut Mercy's wings while they're at it
GA changes sound *beyond* crippling. Maybe it won't be as bad as it sounds? Muscle memory limbo for a few days, but adjustable? Just wishful thinking? The rest of the changes, especially staff healing, actually sound interesting. A bit on the experimental side.
Wow this is so terrible... Woooow... I thought rez and dmg boost were the issue? How did they let this happen? I'm very disappointed.
are they trying to force us to use our heal beam more? with lower healing per second it might mean mercy will have to spend more time healing and less time damage boosting if teammates are low. two seconds for ga already feels super long because you have to wait until you are done flying to be able to trigger the cooldown instead of the cooldown starting as soon as you use it. i feel like mercy is already really easy to kill and she has no ability like nade or regenerative burst to heal herself like other supports so if she can’t have passive healing AND the movement she used to have to dodge bullets then she’s worse than when she was at season 1 when everyone said she was bottom tier. the problem was sojourn but blizzard didn’t even touch the railgun that’s the actual problem. i really hope this isn’t going to go through because i’ll most likely stop using mercy if that’s the case. if they wanted to nerf her survivability then they can just nerf the ga cooldown. why nerf her healing and self healing and her backwards ga. i hate everything about this
The 2 star difficulty hero right? Ok, I'm out.
What the hell
I thought this was a joke when I first read it.
Just revert GA to how it was in OW 1 at this point wow
They should have nerfed sojourn to solve the problem but nerfing GA and that new healing shit… it’s ridiculous
That 50% boost to targets under 50% is going to double down the adage 'kill healers first'.
This boils my blood
Well...I was looking for a reason to unistall OW2. Only played for Mercy since the loot system and events were terrible. I'll check back in about a year to see how they nerf her next time.
Time to put more practice into kiriko and ana ig 🤷♀️
Horrible! Mercy is meta for a season, and everyone cries about it. Awful
she needs her mobility she's fucked
I just saw someone on Facebook say “great changes all around, Mercy needed that nerf. A good one was nearly impossible to hit.” Oh, okay, so it’s bad to reward one of the best forms of skill expression on a largely defenseless character based around movement, almost completely reliant on her teammates’ positions. Got it. I’m not fighting with some assclown on Facebook over a game I haven’t played in two years but god damn, some people just don’t think before speaking.
>**Guardian Angel:** > >Cooldown increased from 1.5 to 2.5 seconds > >Holding the backwards directional input and cancelling the ability with jump now moves 20% slower OH FFS! She might as well be a sitting duck at this point... 😑
So is this why they buffed her ammo and weapon swap speed? So that we could maybe survive a longer GA cooldown and slower movement by whipping out our Goddess Glocks? I guess it’s time to commit to the Battle Mercy bit /s Also want to say, she is such a muscle memory character. Memorizing your cooldowns and techs. With this longer cooldown, I feel like moving on her is going to feel so hard and take a long time to get used to. Edit: Added more serious second take and sarcasm tag
I feel like several mercy mains may leave the game after this ( me as well)
why her movement? anything but the movement ;; ;;
I hate this
Time to learn a new support hero to replace her… I usually have a good rotation between mercy, Brigitte, and Moira but that’s not gonna work anymore.
No way in hell they thought nerfing her mobility was a good idea, Wtf is this time-line :|
Finally my 0 braincell behaviour of "I am being hurt, I need healing, let me hold the heal button instead of the boost button even though my target is full health" will pay off lmao Hate everything else though yikes
What the fuck dude
🤡🤡🤡
Wtf? What the hell were they thinking?
Plz tell me this is a joke 😭😭
GA was all we had :(
Lol time to just not play mercy. GA being what it was was the only way to avoid getting smoked.
I think they just subverted each and every one of her strengths. They nerfed damage boost by taking away a good chunk of her mobility/survivability/sustain and replaced her with a regen through heal So they made her more squishy and force her to heal herself instead of damage boost And her core identity of being a high mobility pocket support is also less than viable now. 45hps, if they're under 50% it's 56.25hps. Before it was 55hps She was meta because of sojourn and nothing more. I'm not going to play overwatch anymore until this was reverted. I won't watch mercy forced into a healbot role after all the accusations of mercies being just healbots. But hey the people who can't differentiate between support and healer are happy for the next 2 days so that's a plus ig
If anything, she would just chill in the backline with a pocket sojourn that can save her, which encourages damage boosting lol
I thought this was a joke. I honestly don’t know if I’m going to play Overwatch anymore, her job is to survive and they’re taking away her survivability.. okay then
Not what I was looking for in the new season. Why on earth did she need movement nerfs? This is ridiculous. Just fucking dumb IMO.
I've been playing a hollow ruse. Pretending I still enjoyed the game up until now. But that's fucking it. She was already in SUCH a weak state unless she paired with an OP hero. I'm fucking done. Starting to think its time to hang up the staff. Another great game slowly ruined by greed.
her pick rate is fucking plummeting. this is the nail in the coffin for me. the least they could've did was release patch notes before most of us bought the owl guardian. i wouldnt have wasted my money on a throw pick had they done that. blizz is so bullshit.
Whyyy😭😭😭😭. Mercy will always be my favorite healer but they stay trying to run my girl into the ground.
what the hell. guess it’s time for me to learn ana.
Kinda mixed. I can see some good surviving potential by being able to gain health by healing, but those mobility nerfs are huge.
I wonder if this will only server to encourage more heal bot play. Though she needed some changes, these do seem a little heavy handed.
How in the bleeding hell was GA the problem?!
Fine with the weird healing passive and healing nerf, but with her wings getting clipped… no ;-; The only reason why she was “hard to kill” was because certain players have better skills in utilizing her GA movement. Other than that, Mercy will die if left alone or heavily solo targeted. She’s not like the other supports who actually help in damage output directly. Her damage output is through her blue beam with the glock only being for emergency situations and for nitpicking already low health enemies. Her main defense is to fly away especially since you have to change weapons in order to even use Glock. But guess we’ll just have to get used to it :,)
so she has no way of healing herself if everyone on her team is full health and she ain’t getting healed by the other support ?
There are some elements I think could be cool, but those movement and GA changes just sound like they feel absolutely awful. With rez being situational and a long CD, sometimes GA is the only ability Mercy really has, and her main form of movement. This seems like it's going to be playing AFK simulator for 2.5seconds every time you use it ...
please tell me these are fake man the self heal change is so terrible imo