"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Honestly, I think the support portion of it will far outweigh pistol use regardless, except for extreme circumstances. The beam length is HUGE and has quite a range on the chaining, never underestimate dmg boosting 4-5 teamates or healing them all for 60hps (in a perfect world.... 300 split hps.... damn)
As opposed an Ana trolling your team by Nano-boosting Widowmaker? Terrible players are going to make terrible decisions regardless. Her pistol damage is getting nerfed, and with the influx of Widowmakers incoming because of her buffs, Mercy is going to get shot out of the sky at an alarming rate even with Nano-boost.
I fail to see how that's a problem. There are Hero's that can shoot her out of the sky. She's not going to be a Pharah who can 2-3 shot her supposed counters, she has to be in danger, in line of sight, and also doesn't take away the fact she'd get much more value healing/damage boosting her team.
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"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Wow that is probably the biggest change to a character the game has ever had. Considerably bigger than the Symmetra changes.
I do see where they're going with it but it might be a bit extreme...
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You'd think that this would give Widow and Hanzo a viable niche, but it never has before.
I like the changes. As a general rule of thumb they should have skill play a larger factor in gameplay. Mercy one-tricks are a complete mess on the game atm.
I disagree. That one gif upthread isn't going to be typical. Going aggro is begging to get yourself killed; Mercy's self-healing isn't THAT great, and she gets zero defenses other than speed here.
Now, going Valkyrie and flying above your team behind a corner while you chain-heal/DPS boost your whole team as an unkillable Norse godling, sure. THAT'S gonna happen, but that's awesome.
It "not being typical" isn't going to change that's what people will expect.
Just like people expect your average Genji to play on Seagull levels. People see it, and then suddenly expect that to be the norm, and will rage when it doesn't happen.
Mercy was never about going DPS though, unless it was a last minute pinch.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Which is what encouraged her shitty playstyle. Since she brought nothing of value outside of her Mass rezzing that other Heroes couldn't do better. Now she can do much more to support her team. If you pop Valk and most of your team is already Healthy, then you can use some of her newfound DPS to still be relevant to the match.
No, what encouraged that was the fact that if she died, her ult was useless. So it was more useful to have her stand to the side while others waste their ults on your team.
And that's exactly what my issue is with this, as a support, her ult shouldn't be offensive.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
What?
I'm saying it has too many uses is the issue. Mercy is a support, her ult should be supportive more, not encourage people to fly out and battle Mercy, or make teammates feel as if their support should be doing that when Mercy has never played that way before.
The Sym rework is more akin to what I'd want to see, since she still at her core, played the same way but better and more interesting.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
I guess if there was something to complain about, it would probably be how completely unhittable Mercy is going to be when she ults. She is going to have way more actual movement than Pharah does, and we all know how hard it is to get your hit scan teammates to take her out. Projectiles hitting a flying Mercy should be pretty much unheard of.
And speaking of Pharah, these changes will probably makes those Pharah/Mercy combos infinity more annoying. Actually manage to kill the Pharah? Insta solo rez. Kill her again? Ult and rez. Probably won't be a huge game changer in the higher ranked games. Mainly in lower levels where people have yet to master hit scans.
Why though, Support are EXACTLY that, Support. The Category isn't "Healer" it is "Support". Being able to add in some damage inbetween healing or buffing is the very definition of being a Support. You are only looking at her Ult as Offensive when it has both Defensive and offensive uses.
Last edited by Super Kami Dende; 2017-08-25 at 04:04 AM.