MERCY IS NERFED!! Overwatch 2 Patch Notes Breakdown
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The Mercy change was absolutely made by the TikTok guy arguing that Mercy should heal pocket the Tank
BAHAHA THIS
YOU SAW THAT BULLSHIT TOO. OH MAH gawd and he said that Ana’s grenade should get a nerf as well.
pretty sure devs looked at tik tok lmao
LMFAOOOOO I CHUCKLED OUT LOUD
@@leslierobertsm33p Ana's grenade should be 3 seconds, yes.. they only increased it for Roadhog when he could one shot.
I like how they changed everything about Mercy except for the thing people were complaining about.
Ga cooldown?
@@DeertickDanielDamage boost.
@@DeertickDaniel damage boost…
Youre failing to realize that this basically means soj pocket is over. And her damage boost uptime is neutered. Stylosa showed her self healing output and its terrible. If anything tho we'll see a soldier pocket surge but he'll be the only viable pocket bc in a 5v5 environment a healer who needs to be healed is a liability. And with the movement nerf she's gonna get cooked
@@gambeano I think you have it backwards. Mercy will ONLY pocket sojurn now and from behind a wall. Why would you peek out and heal another teammate when her healing output is terrible and GA is slow and won't be ready for a while? You're best served pocketing the sojurn, hoping you win the teamfight and then res a dead teammate after the fight is over.
So mercy got the "nerf genji" treatment, what a love story these two
They wanted to never be played so they could spend more time together off the battlefield 🥰
No, Genji was practically perfectly balanced but Mercy had her busted braindead movement. Now Mercy players have to think before spamming fly
@@aidennicholson2109 this chane makes mercy more braindead.
yup, nerf mercy instead of nerfing the root of the issue (soj) and seeing how that goes ❤️❤️❤️ and nerf the fun part about mercy
@@alfonsovelazquez9565 making you think more makes her less braindead... hmmm okay
As a Mercy main, i think the mercy changes are really good and really add new techs to the character!
For example, my new favourite tech will be uninstalling the game
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
on a real note tho i think everything changed is fine but the guardian angel nerf could have been changed to 2 seconds instead of 2.5, the nice middle ground that doesn't destroy her but still nerfs her movement a bit
@@aidennicholson2109 So Lucio’s wall ride and Genji’s double jump should have cooldowns now too right?
@@Gecoma yes pls
@@Gecoma We get it, I'm in your head rent free you can stop crying now
Finally I can endorse enemy team if they were respectable. Or if they had a rough game.
I loved giving them sportsmanship when they were terrible 😂
Or more importantly, if your team was just shit that game, or if you are 5 stacking so you can still keep that useless endorsement level up
Right
I have a feeling I'll be endorsing enemy support often because I hate when I see the DPS or tank shit on them in chat during the match.
@@PeaceMastah y not your good team lol
The ONE thing Mercy mains didn't want nerfed, and Alec and the team decided "yup, that'll go".
its pretty telling when the ONLY thing mercy mains didn't want nerfed is the most BUSTED aspect of the hero because they KNOW that it basically makes them unkillable.
@@TheChaosblock unkillable if the mercy plays her cards right and her teammates are in good positions to GA to in the first place. Now she'll just sit in the back pocketing sojourn even more and only flying away to a repositioning Sojourn if they get dove or flanked
@@AnymMusic she has to think before spamming fly now, how terrible
@aidennicholson2109 no she'll be more brain dead cause she literally only has one use for if now
@@aidennicholson2109 Bro are you gonna keep spamming this one every comment? we get it, you hate mercy players.
Mercy players be like: *You know what? I’m gonna start Damage Boosting and Rezing even harder.*
honestly tho....this is all i was thinking when i saw this, no more peeling back to help with the supp in need cuz i might not be able to fly to my other teammates in need aka my pocket.
literally though, all its going to make me do is pocket our sojourn even more
@@5tr4wb3rri8 100% of 100% of the time is still all the time lmao this changed nothing, just made Mercies look like downies when they are on cooldown so they actually have to think about their abilities now.
And now they can't fly around unpunished while doing so, W
fr bc thats gonna be the only viable and safe way of playing mercy
The fact that they ignored the damage boost and rez complaints and nerfed her movement is baffling
part of the problem was that at high ranks she’s impossible to reliably pin down and secure a kill on even with multiple people shooting her.
@@wabingus You kind of understand why that logic doesn't fly, right? Legitimately Mercys can go 0 deaths for the whole game and still lose. Her healing output is low, you can kill her team out from under her and there's nothing she can do about it, in fact that's usually the play. Not saying "ignore the mercy", kill her if you can, but complaining that Mercy is hard to kill is like complaining Widowmaker can one-shot you.
@@kevingriffith6011 mercy was meta in season 2 and damage boost is insane and a pocket dps wont die unless you one shot them because her healing might not be great for tanks but its really good for dps or helping your other support making them extremly hard to kill unless you one shot them
@@diegocorvalan5435 because of sojourn
@@wabingus okay? It’s not like she has a bastion turret as her main weapon? She needs her guardian angel and slingshot ability to be able to survive and get away from bad situations. How is it the player’s fault if they’re good with her movement? That just means the enemy team needs to get better aim.
I can't believe they did all that to Mercy and STILL didn't fix the beam breakage when she ults (which was once temporarily fixed in an experimental mode, so it is possible!)
Blizzard does the bare minimum amount of work at all times and is intending to further gut a hero that had 0 playtime in OWL for years
Crazy right?
Some important notes about the Mercy changes. She now has to wait for an entire second after rez if she used ga to get to her target. The CD increase also messes with her beam connection so she can’t play behind cover as well in a fight.
Tanking BOB doesn’t really matter because that’s 4 hogs all under half. Also, you rarely heal four people at the same time in Valk since most comps with mercy are decently spread out. This also assumes people aren’t target focusing at all, so everyone is low health instead of one person dying at a time.
Overall, movement changes mean Mercy should play to pocket more so she isn’t punished, but healing changes mean Mercy should move around more so she gets value out of her staff and can heal herself if she gets jumped. It’s not cohesive in the slightest.
Good. Dump the hero.
Exactly my thoughts, it feels like they're giving us mixed messages here
She's becoming unplayable and it's really sad. I used to be a one trick and still play her sometimes when I'm having a bad game or for specific comps but I would honestly rather she have dmg boost removed or res heavily punished as opposed to her movement touched. It was the one unproblematic thing about her kit and the one change no one asked for
It's adding risk to a hero that was an unkillable annoying gnat that you just couldn't seem to swat
@@lulzywizard7576 skill issue
Honestly, I knew the Mercy nerfs were coming from how much upset there was in the community. I didn't care what they would potentially do healing or boosting, I was just praying they wouldn't touch her movement. Mercy movement was what really drew me to her. The only thing left to do is see how the changes feel. If it's not fun, there's not much reason to continue to play her. I'm sad to see it.
For real… I think this update really just solidified me playing into hard meta like kiriko who just has much more fluid and creative movement compared to mercy now. Makes me so sad, I loved mercy.
I'm glad I've started playing mercy less because honestly, she's not gonna be fun anymore. As an ow1 player from way back in the early days, I love her for being a mobile yet fragile character. I thought it was so unique from any other game I've played. Her movement was the one unproblimatic thing about her and they decided to nerf it. It makes no sense. I'd rather they take away damage boost entirely or heavily nerf res tbh
Mercys movement made her nigh unkilliable in the right hands and very hrd to kill in average hands.
Yes being a supersonic fighter jet is FUN to play as but is not BALANCED . Ppl realy need to wrap their heads around these concepts. If fun is all ur going for then y stop where she (was) give her the multi rez back, give her a bigger speed boost in valk give her a rocket launcher instead of the pistol. A game that is multiplayer and competative should not be worked around based on fun, yes fun should be a part but id agrue (and i think i have demomstrated this) that balence that ensures fun FOR ALL is more important
@@nathanherron3947 imagine having the aim and tracking of a potato where you can’t kill a Mercy lol. They have clobbered so many heroes to the point that they are completely unrecognizable chasing metas all because of crybabies like you who suck the fun out of everything
@@nathanherron3947 if you think this game is competitive then you're a casual
These mercy changes have the exact opposite effect of what they wanted. Lower healing means more damage boost, longer ga cooldown mean more playing back with dps away from all the danger while holding down damage beam, making guardian Angel more clunky makes people want to use it less which causes people to play back with their long range dps and damage boost more… who are these changes for? Because it’s not for mercy players and it’s also not for dps players seeing as the things that people had issues with (dmg boost and rez) weren’t touched at all. Instead they opted to nerf what made mercy fun and what gave her a skill gap
Yep, this won't stop me from playing Mercy, this will change the way I play and make the game worse overall.
It's for tanks. The only people who benefit from these changes are characters with 600+ hit point pools.
Well you could look at the dps boost differently, guardian Angel being worse will make mercy easier to take damage, thus making her have to use her new self healing to heal herself, and thus making you use dps boost less. While this is the intended effect I assume, that doesn’t mean it will workout that way.
No it means her stupid pockets are now Killable. Thank God.
Easier to bait and punish GA is the only thing they wanted I’m guessing, and less healing means less oppressive 1v2s if you don’t have a pocket, so even if the dps is dmg boosted they still have to hit the shots instead of just whiffing and being healing. Who knows if it’ll actually do what they wanted tho
The community: "Hey, Sojourn still needs changes. Also, Mercy's damage boost and resurrect need to be looked at because they seem really unbalanced.
Blizzard: "Gotcha, we won't make any changes to Sojourn and we'll nerf the parts of Mercy's kit that people weren't even complaining about."
This balance team needs to be replaced at this point.
Not only replaced, but not allowed to balance a game ever again. It’s embarrassing that they are able to tarnish the games reputation through poor decisions time and time again.
More healing beam will need to be used meaning less damage boost it’s the best compromise the other option is get rid of damage boost
@@MrDerp-bp4qz that’s just untrue, she will still be blue beaming soj all game. I’m not sure what elo you play at, but in high diamond/low masters it’s just pocketed soj all game. They aren’t fixing the main issue which is soj being extremely dominant for 4 months.
Wasn’t surprised with how bad the changes were, this has been their standard since the genji nerfs
Yes they need to fired tbh.
they really do anything to prevent sojourn from being nerfed
I thought for once they actually nerf damage boost or flat out take away the critical head shit from her secondary but nope blizzard loves Sojourn and want her to always be meta……….
Nerf widowmaker tho
@@Relevart9169 they did she's now the most squishy in the game
@@PurpleMoon799 thats my point. They refuse to nerf sojourn who can oneshot and has the best movement ability on a 6 sec cooldown but they nerf widow who's hook takes 13 seconds to come back
Mercy has been causing most the issues pertaining to Sojourn
The only Mercy change I care about is the movement nerf. Her movement is the only thing I wanted to stay the same. They could remove damage boost and rez and I'd still be fine, but nerfing GA is the worst thing they could've done.
Cope
The only thing you didnt want to touch was the most busted aspect about her lol
Same here, I loved her GA. Don't listen to to these dickwads in your replies
Hog mains said the same thing about his hook.
Now you have to think before spamming it... how horrible
Okay basically, the mercy changes are aimed to make her jump from low health person to low health person keeping them up and letting the other support finish off. BUT! Because of the movement nerfs it actually just gives more incentive to pocket. The timer nerf also means mercy will often have to wait a full second before flying away after res. Meaning res is pointless unless you've already won the team fight and your safe
Or your teammates try to die near cover, or a Bap lamps you, or a tank puts a barrier in front of you, or the enemy is out of cooldowns/reloading, or...
You guys are exaggerating. And this is coming from a Mercy main.
Not saying it's not a nerf, but at least wait to try her out before declaring her a throw pick.
Yeah, because if you jump from target to target with the lower cooldown there’s a big chance you get left with no escape, now it’s just safer to pocket someone far back or by cover
@@readyforlol Have tried her out, he absolutely right. The GA Nerf is devastating and directly counters the Triage intention.
So basically they’ve tried to make mercy more of a mobile healer, by nerfing her movement option…
@@Cornin33 yes
So happy they addressed the big support changes to make the role more fun by buffing ball and a lot of dps and then nerfing 2 of the supports to make them less fun/impactful, thanks blizzard good choice
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
In before support makes queue times skyrocket.... again...
@@naclcube6558 As a Mercy main, I will not regret making you guys wait. It was you the community who did this not just to us Mercy main but to supports as a whole. You deserve this.
@@genghiskhan6809 I too am a mercy main so I am with you on this. It's just sad. The role barely has anything fun in it anymore and feels like you are playing with a massive target on you at all times while having one hand behind your back. Let the DPS and Tank players wait longer this season.
Hey now, support did buffs! I mean, Zenyatta got 5 whole balls! That's surely going to make a big splash! Supports aren't ruined after all!
(I'm a Mercy main. Fucking kill me already.)
"Supports are in a really bad spot, so we want to refrain from nerfing them no matter what, even zenyattas super busted discorb...
Anyway so we nerfed ga-"
Legit braindead devs IMO with this.
the fact that they changed her healing and not what we all thought was the issue is funny to me. So she will still be her main role as a DPS pocket.
As a mercy main, this has significantly dampened my spirits.
I can't speak for anyone else, but 90% of my fun playing mercy came from floating over the battlefield, jumping from teammate to teammate, helping a dps win a 1 on 1 one second then jumping to help the other support who is getting focused, then jumping to the tank to save them.
Being able to keep an eye on the whole battlefield and being able to help who needs help exactly when they need it was fun.
I'll give it a few rounds before I completely condemn the changes, but the geut reaction is not good.
yeah, thinking even more about not playing comp this season
blizzard has ruined this game again
Mercy mains got the hog treatment
same dude
Good
the game doesn't only revolve around how Mercy players feel. Why don't Mercy "players" understand this? Mercy being strong means the game is terrible for the rest of us.
Honestly, as a Mercy main this does suck BUT! You can endorse enemies! That felt like such a needless change, so happy to see that back!
Makes me happy. I’ll be doing that until Blizzard reverts the GA nerfs.
they basically just removed GA cancel for good players to bring our skill expression down. they found a 1 second increase to sojourn's 6 second slide and 25% increased spread to be a substantial nerf, so what does that make a 1 second nerf to a 1.5 second cooldown? manslaughter?
@@thalmorjusticiar1 It's like what happened to Doomfist. A 1 second cd on his rocket punch was enough to bring him back down the tierlist. Same thing's gonna happen here with Mercy.
you're a girl we know you're a mercy main chill
It encourages you to jump from cover to cover, not just GA to anybody, chain GAs to dodge damage and get the fuck out. It means Mercy players will have to actually play around the map, and not just fuck around with their movement
Why haven't they nerfed Sojourn yet? It's simply taking away the critical damage from the secondary fire isn't it?
Because bronze players aren’t good with her and they can’t aim so they are not touching her which is dumb because if bronze players aren’t good with her and higher players want her nerfed just nerf her cause who cares atp
@@GgSanity the she needs a rework
@@GgSanity I'm of the mind that it's fine for there to be characters that are good at different elos. Like Moira rips in low elo because she has a high skill floor, but isn't very good as you move higher unless you're a cracked one trick because of the low skill ceiling.
This nonsense we're being fed that Sojourn needs to be good at all elos, and since she's not performing well in low elo we shouldn't nerf her, is absolutely stupid. Let her be a high elo pick that is shit for lower ranks where people can't aim. That's perfectly fine.
@@GgSanity apparently bronzes are god widow players cuz she's getting nerfed lmao
@@Relevart9169 I mean, she's probably pretty good there honestly since the general lack of movement and good positioning in Bronze likely makes it very easy to pick up head shots with her even if you don't have great aim and positioning yourself. Just speculation though
"Support is in a bad place" *nerfs support every patch*
Facts, my head pounds everytime they attempt to change support
Mercy is not nerfed, hear my words... The mercy that ults in overtime wins the game.
I mean that's totally fair but like why say we're in a bad spot and just listen to tank and dps mains
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
@@aidennicholson2109 that's not the point of the comment at all
lets be honest there is no way your entire team will be that low all at the same time this is a clear mercy nerf.
Good
@@aidennicholson2109 get a life outside of hating on a virtual video game character 💀💀💀
Sidenote: Glad Rein Firestrike can 1-shot Junkrat Tires again
the amount of times I'd see the tire going for me, firestrike it, realize the futility of my actions, and then die was so annoying
@@mag1ckyle799 just use charge bro, it does so much damage
@@defnotnaruto222 More fun to firestrike the tire and charge into backline looking for that rat.
I'm kinda sad that they removed the one shot potential of shatter. It was fun to crush people like bugs
@@Ravitas3 I'm surprised that they did that. I mean isn't hard to 'crush people like bugs' as you say and it's all the more satisfying when it happens.
If I was balancing Mercy I'd leave the rest of her kit alone and put Damage Boost on a resource meter like Defense Matrix or Moira's healing. The primary issue with Mercy and the main complaint is that she has infinite 30% damage boost with zero drawbacks. Putting Damage Boost on a resource meter would not only make it far less frustrating to play against since it wouldn't be up almost all of the time, but it would also increase her skill ceiling a bit, as she would have to determine who she should be boosting and when while managing her resource to make sure she doesn't run out.
Damn wait the resource meter is actually an amazing idea
The problem with this take is that then, if a mercy runs out of her gauge and her teammates are at high hp, she is dead weight.
And no, the pistol shouldn’t be taken out. Her pistol is a survival tool, not an aggressive between fights tool. Plus, according to lore, the primary reason she joined Overwatch was to help people and save people, and was contemplating joining it for a while because of all the shooting and aggressive strategies they used to solve conflicts. They said they’re trying to make the heroes’ play styles reflect their lore.
@@flymeperson9647 It's really starting to seem like Mercy just needs to be reworked from the ground up or something.
If you take away or nerf her damage boost, she becomes absolutely useless and a dump pick.
If you keep it around, the entire game has to balance around it because she breaks thresholds.
Like she's not even really a good or fun character. It's just that fucking blue beam.
Zen's discord orb offers the same problem. He's pretty mid and boring without it, but that one ability is crazy strong and ruins a lot of balancing.
@@flymeperson9647 the literal solution to that is literally a meter system again, have a damage Amp regen if your not getting hit, just like self healing
Leave the rest of her kit alone??? Yeah as she literally resurrects a character from around a wall
they didn't even touch discord orb, or damage boost, or sojourn at all, or balanced the support role as a whole. they kind of just buffed some heroes into meta contention like orisa v hog and called it a day. actually absurd.
And once again they refuse to acknowledge Sojourn's existence and instead nerf Mercy's healing and movement
While we are at it can we nerf genji again ;)
@@Masked_One At least us Mercy and Genji mains can finally chill together like Mercy and Genji do in lore.
And on the mercy valking through ults my dude the example used is him valking 5 hogs on 10 health your healing near collectively 3000 there is no point in the game where that happens especially as mercy
As a Mercy main, I would rather lose damage boost altogether than have an increased cooldown on GA.
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
Mercy needs to not only keep up with her highly mobile teammates, but zip from person to person quickly to do her mid-ranged triage healing. This doesn’t only affect her survivability, her healing output will be worse even before taking the reduced healing above 50% into account. Just don’t complain if you stick your head out and Mercy refuses to help you.
As an og Mercy player I was 100% all for nerfing* damage boost. Made her way too good as a pocket healer and made plenty of characters one shot nearly anything that breathes. But no, they sincerely thought her already low healing was the biggest problem. Movement sure but healing? The one thing that was super strong which is damage boost Sojurne and they left that alone. They do realize this will just amplify her pocketing strat even further, right? Stupid nerf, completely
Regarding the Mercy valk regen, you only have one tank in regular play and tanks in open que have had their health nerfed. There seems to be no way to you could tank a visor, unless you’re playing a custom game.
Also you dont heal automatically anymore during valk, only when you heal. Like you said it just looks insane in a custom game. I think it might be a nerf to her ultimate as well...
@@epsilonfallen5830 you do auto heal still. That's the passive for all supports. You just don't have the faster regen passive that was specifically for Mercy
@@Antonio-ys5zd I think the passive you are talking about is the auto heal if they havent taken damage. The auto heal the poster is talking about is regarding her healing regardless if she is taking damage or not.
"No way to tank a visor" mofo you're a support
I've seen KarQ do a video tanking bob in valk but he was healing like 5 Roadhogs. So it's probably fairly unrealistic to do heavy tanking like that
I lost braincells with the Mercy changes & she's only my 2nd main
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
It'll be reversed when queue times skyrocket cause the mercy players just go do something else.
If people hate playing against orissa just wait for ball. He will just roll around in the backline harassing you and you can never kill him ever while you get farmed by a pocketed soujorn
Ik I’m so excited
Ball metas are infinitely better than Orisa meta.
At least ball is fun
Id rather ball molest my backline then fight a brain dead orisa
ball has counters
Junkrat: gets a nerf to his one-shot to make it less reliable
Cassidy: hehe grenade go brrrrr
The Cassidy nade is shit, and more importantly, it isn't an ability that does its damage and makes you fly away.
Cass nade is hella unreliable though, sometimes is feels like a homing missile and other times it just won’t lock. They just need to change it an buff other parts of his kit
Such a bronze take
@@michaelj49 true, I only play quickplay
@@nelsongodoy5101 it's essentially tracer ult with tracking tho. It's not super powerful, but it is good
Mercy self heal is good for low rank people because they take more damage, they die more often because of positioning. But for high ranking players, her mobility was her survivability, so it's a nerf for them. Like if a GM genji is bursting you, you better have mobility than 25hps.
I'm low gold and this is a nerf. I can only imagine that Mercies in low bronze are going to be able to get to play ult with the whole team low health...
I hate these Mercy changes; it enables more of a heal bot style and makes her survivability harder with no form of defending yourself efficiently. I also remember when she had 50 hps healing before they buffed it to 55 hps and she felt miserable to play
Good, mercys should heal bot lmao, in high ranks they are practically unkillable and just annoying to deal with
@@yoo912 skill issue
@@yoo912 what are you on
Yeah. Her mobility made her as fun as the other healers. Now it’s just “pocket or suffer”
Blizzard probably uses the tactic of making the community riot and mad but then later on to change her back in some way to say, "see we did what you said". It's a cheap way of listening to fans by only first making them mad. Same with the false sense of sales on the skins in shop, 50% off for a skin that is 1900 coins. That is false advertising. This OW2 has less content than what the first had, there's more taken away than more given. Blizzard is using every cheap and misleading tactics to get what THEY want. Last sense of NEW CONTENT is adding older maps in to say that is newer content. There is no doubt in my mind that this all intentional, no idiot would choose these decisions if it didn't benefit greediness.
*sigh* Not loving these Mercy changes. Nerfing her movement makes no sense.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard
@@DeertickDaniel Judging by your string of whining about Mercy posts I'm not surprised. Good day.
I'm a ball main and am scared of him getting buffs, because now I'm afraid he'll get over-nerfed down the line and he's honestly felt just fine in seasons 1-2.
If you played Overwatch long enough. You know that’s exactly what they do.
yes but no. Bastions, mei and zym wont let u play. u need this buff now to kill that unkillable always healing mercy and genji? well genji is fcked he cant kill a fly. Mercy is just too hard for him to kill.
@@christianrivera5694 Here's the thing though, it's not a buff to survivability, it's a buff to uptime. You're not gonna be surviving situations now where you would have died before, it still takes the same amount of damage to kill ball within the same timeframe where it's feasible. If a ball stops taking damage long enough to let the shield regen kick in now, they've already escaped and would have survived anyway, same as before. The difference is that now they can come back to the fight faster since they need to pick up less health-packs. Plus the piledrive cooldown decrease, he's just able to do things more often. And at skill tiers where ball players already know how to maximize his windows of opportunity (levels where Bastion, Sym and Mei DO NOT, in fact, prevent you from playing the game because you're not trying to face-tank them), that's a scary prospect for people who play against them.
I'm scared of the same thing but as a Ball main I can only get to Diamond 3 on Overwatch 2. Whereas, I was 3600 in Overwatch 1 (roughly Masters 4). So to me as a single tank game he is not fine right now.
@@Link2855 well a 100% up time slow like mei and symetra, or a 3 seconds shred like bastion yes, they do not let u play. and if you do play (You being yeatle) u will not outperform another tank vs those counters. Ball is not in a good spot right now solo tanking. So he still needs the uptimes because Tanks like Sigma and Rein are always on the front doing stuff ball can't and that is the problem. He never was a solo tank and his design was made to be a side tank. He needs it.
Honestly, you can take/tweak dmg boost and rez, do as you please, but LEAVE GA ALONE. I'll give it a chance, but I believe this is going to make mercy only playable in low metal ranks because how easy it will be to kill a mercy. I just hope they fix her movement and give her a rework soon at this point. You can have your 5 bullets back btw.
Thinking before using GA? nah that's lame
@@aidennicholson2109 We get it, you hate Mercy. You can stop commenting on every comment now.
@@aidennicholson2109 use your head dumbass. if you hate when a soj + mercy or a mercy dmg boosts a busted character and kills your entire team no matter what you do, then the dmg boost should be nerfed. if you actually read the patch notes, this promotes a pocket style way more. now Mercys just gonna sit in the back lines playing it safe and pocketing even harder then before. y'all don't think, just hate lol
@@ivyproductions7097 Reported him for spam.
@@aidennicholson2109 why are you so obsessed?? youre in every comment thread bitching about mercy and mercy players. no one wants to hear it bro 💀
These mercy changes are hurting me internally 😢😢😢, she was so fun to zip around the battlefield while healing people when your not boosting DPS and now her movement ability is practically gutted.
Now you have to think before spamming fly... oh no
@aidennicholson2109 that's literally not going to happen. Have fun playing hide and seek, cause now you're not going to see mercy's anymore
Yeah I mean it was fun to zip around risk free, sure
Now you don't. The issue isn't fixed. You need to get punished when you fail, now it pushes you to not even try. The higher CD is fine, the slower movement if it's just behind ? There's no point. Either do it both front and back side or don't do it at all.
@@Guarrow Risk free? In metal elo where people can’t aim sure but in higher elo, unless you and your teammates had divine game sense, you die nye instantly to any hitscan character, and if you had the ability to fly around and be immortal, you wouldn’t stay in metal elo for long.
@@alfonsovelazquez9565 im gonna spend all my time behind a wall pocketing my dps instead of having fun with her movement
Didn’t they say recently that they don’t need experimental mode because it’s a “live service game” so they can adjust as needed quickly? I wonder if mercy will get reverted if she doesn’t perform as they thought.
of course she won't, the fact they even considered nerfing GA's cooldown shows they don't want mercy to perform in a fun way, let alone actually going through with it
They don’t like when any support performs. It’s been that way since OW 1 lmao
"Quickly" for them is still weeks lmao.
People are cheering now, but theyll find faults in the next support on their list lol.
"So they can adjust as needed quickly?" My brother in Christ, Sojourn has been hard meta since her release and Hog hasn't been touched for 2 months because of a *"BUG"*, Doomfist got 1 week of being good and got nerfed so hard he became worse than in S1.
Nope. They officially came out to say that the changes ultimately changed nothing. She doesn’t die any more than she used to and she doesn’t win or lose anymore than she used. All they accomplished was that she’s now less fun to play and play against, so they’re going to leave her as is. Lmao. Actually ridiculous.
Now what scares is me the the most is the fact that blizzard didn’t touch anything that people used and still complain about in mercy which is her damage boost and her rez.. now people are still complain about that and they will nerf her even more
Except they don’t listen to people’s complaints, otherwise soj would be in the dumpster where she belongs
Honestly they could probably just revert the changes and make her damage boost either a lot less or it decays after a few seconds so you have to actually be mobile and switch from hero to hero every few seconds , would make her gameplay much more engaging while still making her easy enough to play
yup, that's my fear as well
@@Glizzyman Because blizzard is known for reverting their changes. 😅
@@Glizzyman haha blizzard reverting changes
23:33 I’m already going insane seeing people post that clip saying that Mercy is unkillable now.
It takes 2 seconds of thought to realise that Mercy chain healing 4 under half health tanks will literally *literally* never happen in a real game.
It's like the multi symmetra killgate/kill room videos. They're broken because they don't happen in real games
Yep. Although the Killgate was a thing against idiots. The Unkillable Mercy thing though just cannot happen outside of No Limits.
isnt that nerf to valk battle mercy? bcs she no longer heals if she has her weapon out, i quess this is end for bungee slinging myself to enemy widow
Yes it was legit the most funny thing you could do with mercy
as a mercy main, her new passive is great and im very excited for it. less healing per second is sad but its fine. the only terrible thing is the GA nerf
100% they should've just listened to us and heavily nerfed damage boost and give res a 45 second cooldown or add more reprocussions to it
Nope, now you have to think before using GA, making players think more is always good
@Aiden Nicholson God, you're under every single comment trying to argue about how braindead GA supposedly is.
You do realize that Mercy is the only hero in the entire games roster that has no other defense than a quick reposition, right? Lowest DPS in the entire game, no way to create distance (like a zen kick or brig whipshot), no way to self heal unless she's out of the line of fire, and an ability that literally makes her a sitting duck for you to shoot at. Not to mention that on top of all of this, you still need game sense and a good idea of cover to make it work, otherwise you're just sitting in the skybox begging for a hitscan like Soujorn to 1 tap you.
Not only did they nearly double the cooldown for it, they nerfed the mechanics behind it, and didn't touch the one thing everyone is bitching about.
Bronze take FR
@@anathemat-002 to be fair, this is what bothered me about Mercy, I agree that GA was her escape/engage mechanic, but I feel that having to pick a hitscan DPS simply because one Support is the Darkstar from Top Gun: Maverick is stupid and takes away the freedom of picking who you want (but you can ignore me if you want I am only a metal rank player after all)
@@anathemat-002 facts
Blizzard will do literally anything before nerfing sojourn
what did they do to my girl mercy D:
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
@@aidennicholson2109 ?? im just saying i dont like her changes
all my mains got nerfed. loving life rn :)
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
Sameee :)
@@aidennicholson2109 bro PLEASE get a life and stop meat riding under every comment, we get it, you don't like mercy because you ass, skill issue at this point
That tank Bob thing is such a rare scenario that it’s almost useless especially when compared to a visor
Also that’s 4 hogs all under half. Mercy is now more targetable
Mercy really got the genji treatment
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
They nerfed everything on mercy except the things people were complaining about
Ga cooldown, literally the biggest thing people complained about.
people have been complaining about her crazy movement pretty often wdym
@@Dartnitt Damage boost?
@@DeertickDaniel bro what game are you playing nobody complains about that. The main complaint is damage boost
@@turbobrick3419 you guys always fail to read in between the lines lol mercy is dogshit now
The new Mercy passive is going to make Pharmercy even more difficult to deal with.
_Fun!_
No, you just have to focus mercy first then pharah since Mercy mow doesn't have passive heal + Cassidy and Soldier are now buffed and Ash will likely be meta if they ever merf Sojourn...
@EUROSN7 yeah the Cassidy buff is something I'm very happy about
@@eurosn7322 Mercy does have passive heal, it's just not as strong as before. Not like it was very strong to begin with, it got nerfed with a longer proc time since OW1 and the one thing that made it viable was her ability to stay out of LOS using her GA
Just shoot the mercy first. She now regenerates health by healing. If the pharah doesn’t take damage, the mercy can’t heal.
Even if Mercy's not out of the line of sight, it's not like she's just going to sit still so you can gradually melt her health down. You practically _have_ to get a head shot with Widowmaker while she's way high up as a tiny little target, all the while Pharah is shooting all around at your feet and killing you in two shots.
Good ol' healthy game design.
They essentially just made mercy less fun whilst addressing none of what people actually had issues with….which ironically has basically nothing to do with mercy and moreso to do with other hero’s having oneshot potential through damage boost….
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
Bruh the movement nerfs make her so goddamn clunky
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
People thought that playing support was the least fun experience in OW2 are going to be in for a nightmare now that Ball has been let loose off his chain.
And us reins being able to charge the backline more often
Literally nothing you can do to Ball besides pick zen and pray one of your DPS picks bastion, otherwise nothing can deal enough damage to him before he rolls out lmao
Change everything about Mercy except damage boost and rez that people complained most about, nerf the only thing Mercy players begged to stay the same into the ground, and still refuse to nerf Sojourn. Blizzard really listens to their players.
"killing mercy during valk is too hard", OW2 devs: "bet"
I mean I never die during valk anyways so not much changes tbh
Healing isn't even worse. It's just delayed so they stay on dmg boost longer then swap to healing when they are under 50%. Slightly riskier for their target but it means they get more value. And access to self healing by having 50% health available to siphon heals.
+ nerfing mercy's general kit would make her a throw pick, or would encourage mercys hiding with rez - she's just too mobile atm
@@dphboyfriend thank you ppl don’t realize dmg boost is what makes her amazing and nerfing it would hurt her more than her movement
I love how the balance team nerfs heroes the playerbase thinks are problematic, sadly they nerf them all in the wrong ways possible
Like last patch.
Everyone complaining about the Sojourn railgun oneshot... let's slightly tweak how she gains energy?
Everyone thinks Kiriko suzu is busted: immortality + cleanse way too strong... let's slightly increase the delay for her healing recovery?
Next patch; Mercy's damage boost is a problem, so we're going to nerf her movement and fuck with her healing?
The one that I thought was really funny: Sojourn is way too overpowered, so we're just going to nerf Junkrat? It's Nerf Genji 2.0.
@@FlamingNinjaBoi junk rat changes are more justified. It's so easy for him to pop people at close range with his mine.
No, one of Mercy's problems was her movement not being punishable at all, now she has to think before flying to a target
Torb, Zarya, and Ana needed nerfs?
@@aidennicholson2109 So nerfing the only fun part of her kit that made her enjoyable to play is smart? Yeah it needed tweaking with how fast she recovers health in the air, but with these new changes her entire kit is likely gonna feel like 💩
I genuinely do not understand how they ignore feedback. Sojourn has been a big issue, NO CHANGE. They instead nerfed mercy, but instead of nerfing damage boost which was the complaint, they nerf her healing and movement. I'm glad we can get these big changes, but when they are changes that reduce fun factor like with mercy or don't address big complaints. What is the point of giving feedback?
Nerf mercy oke I guess I'm dropping support after maining mercy since ow1 I'm fucking done with this shit
Most reasonable mercy player
Sweet. I can finally get the Snowman Roadhog skin. 👌
Edit: as a huge Brigitte fan, I genuinely think the only tweak I’d make is to *maybe* increase either the healing over time for her Health Packs, or shorten their cooldown. It doesn’t need to be a crazy burst like pre-patch OW1, but a little faster would be nice.
Either that or just have them up more often.
Not exactly a buff but a nice QoL update to Brig I'd like to see is some kind of meter on her screen that shows you when inspire is active. So people can easily tell when to put up shield between mace swings, instead of just wildly swinging because of a vague knowledge that doing damage does healing. Having that visual indicator would just help people who don't have cooldowns or ability uptimes memorized.
@@tau-5794 literally never even thought about having that for brig before and now I don't know why that's not a thing already
@@tau-5794 Agreed, it would be a nice QoL change. Maybe have a small meter above her health while Inspire is up?
Her heal packs doubled up now have the ability to fully heal most heroes that aren't tanks. As a Brig main, combined with her recent +50 shield hp, I think this will put her in a good position until the start of Season 4.
Yeah, her healing is okay, it's just the cooldown that's an issue, i don't get why they nerfed he heals to give the burst, she's not a hero that'll be busted if she's just buffed
Honestly they could rework rez, they could rework her healing or damage beam, they could rework her ult but why the ga???? It’s her entire identity. Mercy doesn’t do damage to survive, she zooms around. It’s like slowing lucio while wall riding or make him detach from a wall at the corners. This change is stupid and will just enable pocket mercy faaaar in the back with the Ashe or Soldier.
But they gave her the 5 more bullets :)
This is a massive buff to her pocket play style imo, I can already see the solo valking to keep her dps alive… not to mention the combos with Soj ult, Genji ult, Ram etc
For me as a mercy main I feel like this is not a buff in the slightest. This does make mercy play much much more like a pocket than before when she could fly to everyone. However, she was already able to play a completely pocket style game. This just nerfs her ability to keep other people alive which is why I liked mercy so much. I preferred to pocket someone and save teammates as needed. This nerf should've been to damage boost and not movement and healing. The devs don't listen I suppose.
pocket buff yes, movement nerf aswell
The Mercy herself is much more killable though.
It's kind of nice seeing some of the mobility creep reigned in. Should do the same to Kiriko.
@@libertyprime9307 now mercy will hide completely out of sight
@@superpieman5773 That doesn't protect against flanks. In low ranks Mercies are flying all over the place just because they can and exposing themselves more than they need to, but I'm in GM, this is a big nerf to Mercy survivability.
Mercy Players: Help this isn't fun
Dev Team: Let's make it even less fun :D
Seriously, I may not be an exactly good player but as a Mercy main I can tell you that the most fun part about her is zooming around and evading damage instead of tanking it. Healing and damage boosting isn't exactly engaging, so the only thing that stops you from getting bored of her is her mobility.
Plus, it's not even what the larger community complains about. Nerf damage boost or rez for all I care but please don't take her most engaging tool away
Exactly. I'm a long-time mercy main and former one trick. She's practically unplayable now and will be just as boring as mercy 1.0 before her res change back in ow1. The only real way to play her now is to sit still behind a sojourn and use dmg beam. You'll die any other way. And her new passive won't keep her alive in combat. It's not sufficient enough. Should've just nerfed her former passive to be on par with the other supports and listened to what the community wanted. Nerf the shit outta damage boost
i wholely agree as a fellow mercy main these make her so much less fun
Woe to me as an aspiring competitive mercy.
@@genghiskhan6809 oof I wish you the best of luck and nerves of steel for this 🙈
Noooo they listened to all the people who refuse to swap to hitscan
Lmfao if you seriously believe that Mercy's general movement wasn't busted then you're on some military grade extra refined 100% pure copium.
Common Mercy main L
@@Kurppalumppu i bet u just use junkrat and complain tht u cant hit her 💀💀 mf just use torb trust me theyll die
@Kurppalumppu Thing is- being an unkillable mercy doesn't harm the enemy. She's not shooting at you, she already had some of the most trash heals in the game, and if you pressure her away from the DPS she's pocketing then the use of damage beam goes away too.
Not to mention that if you just got rid of sojourns 1 tap even with damage beam, which is something we've all been asking for for 4 MONTHS, then blue beam, while still kinda good, isn't anywhere near as problematic and thus, she falls out of meta for supports that enable better than she does.
I make a joke one time and suddenly I'm swarmed by Mercy Haters
i completely agree that amount of changes alone is good for shaking up the meta and making the game feel different if not new.
i would like a guide for numbani from a high lvl player. i believe the tank u pick decides a lot how u will play any map not just numbani....not just numbani...ya so make a guide for all maps mr streamer guy :P
do the devs not remember the experimental patch where they nerfed mercy's healing to 45hps and literally no one played her because she was a throw pick. I understand the impulse healing buff for healing low targets but there's 2 big problems there.
1- they say it evens out to the same time to heal someone from 1hp to 200hp, which is fine, but how often are you really healing someone from 1hp? if you start healing them at 75hp, it's now going to take you longer overall. yeah sure they'll get that 25hp some quick to get to 100hp but the rest is going to take a lot longer. Also if she's pocketing someone, now when you get that someone low, they'll be even harder to kill.
2- they say they want to incentive mercy diving for low health teammates but then also nerfed her ability to dive to those targets! They literally reworked her to be a better hard pocket for sojourn. try to poke sojourn out, mercy has low health heal boost. Try to pick off the mercy as your other teammates do any damage to anyone around her, well now she can heal through your damage and possibly break line of sight whereas before she might have been screwed.
Here's the movement nerf they should have given mercy, keep the 1.5s cooldown, but revert GA back to OW1 GA where if you wanted to do some fancy flying, you ran the risk of messing it up.
i hope yall are happy, literally sucked the fun out of one of the most unique heros
Mercy is the most basic imo
Mercy is actually pretty standard, but I see what you are both saying. They just don't want to recognize that railgun can be powerful without having to be so close to one shot territory.
I'll be shocked if they don't revert or at least mostly revert these movement changes to Mercy given the reaction from pros and normal players alike
Been a month and it’s still here after they officially announced that the changes had no real impact to her stats. She’s not dying any more, not winning or losing any more or any less games, and she’s only taking a slight bit more damage now (which is a result of her passive probably). They also acknowledged that the changes just made her less fun to play and play against but that they want to wait longer before changing her to see if anything changes. For some reason.
Those mercy changes were definitely not necessary 🫠
Yes they were. Btw I am a zen main and I'd gladly take a heavy nerf to discord if it starts to become a problem in the future. I'd have no problem with my main getting nerfed but Mercy mains seem to live in an alternate reality where their hero apparently wasn't a hyper mobile jet flying around on essentially no cooldown before this patch.
@@Kurppalumppu she's always been able to do that yet she's only ever meta when theres a broken dps she has to pocket lmao. Mercy isn't the issue here
@@Kurppalumppu Damage boost nor rez nor anything that anyone was complaining about was nerfed they just lowered the skill ceiling and raised the skill floor (skill floor significantly) so they basically didn’t fix anything and made the character less fun by keeping mercy players playing farther back and made her healing feel basically useless outside of valk. I personally hate the new passive the most however since it makes you even more dependent on your teammates and if anyone starts focusing you and not shooting your team you can’t heal yourself effectively enough to be able to survive and especially with the second longer window. I’ve made it safely out of fights purely because of being able to get behind cover and mercy’s self heal even with my whole team dead but guess what, without your team your self healing isn’t nearly as effective or quick. The ga cooldown will probably also keep players from being able to react as quickly, you can no longer ever mess up the timing of your ga or you’re just dead, even with the old cool down you can get into very dangerous situations and possibly die within that 1.5 second window and with the 2.5 second window death is just certain. So TLDR they didn’t fix any of the community’s problems with mercy and just made her less fun by making her extremely vulnerable which will just end up with mercy players having to play far back so that they won’t just immediately die.
Her movement and self healing made her unique in that she could play up forward with teammates but now it just sort of looks like she’ll be playing in the back line with her other support 24/7
Tinfoil hat time. The Mercy changes almost feels like creating a reason to have 1 shots in the game. What else can kill her in Valk that she cant just fly out of range of? Dva bomb, High noon, maybe Tire on some maps?
"Mercy needs a nerf to damage boost and rez. What would we do for season 3?"
"How about we nerf her movements and make her less fun to play"
" That's perfect."
This is also the season where we should see actual quick and good balance patches, they have no more execuses: no christmas break, no new hero, no more broken hotfix system. I would be very disappointed and honestly pissed off if this season doesn't have 2-3 hotfixes plus the mid season patch all with solid changes that move around the meta.
Overall I love this patch and the changes they made in general but.. I hope to God those movement nerfs to mercy don't make it through, she is so much fun at the moment even if all you are doing is running away from mean DPS and tanks xD
It literally goes live in less than 20 hours my dude. No tweaks or changes are being made to it now, her movement nerf is 100% going through.
What is there to love in this patch?
Now you have to think before flying... how terrible
@@deathpunch2169 everything
@@aidennicholson2109 No? Now I have to cling to pharah or hide in the back! Nobody will have more fun that way lol
These were not the mercy changes anyone wanted. I don't know how they thought her mobility was the problem when we've been saying for a long time damage boost needs to be toned wayyy down. And maybe get that res cool down up
Or perhaps res has been such a problem because Mercy has had a free get out of jail card after performing the res each time? Now she's actually going to have to think about her positioning for the remaining half a second or so that remains after res before she can zoom away again.
And her mobility was a problem. The only people who don't think so are hardcore mercy mains inhaling some pretty condensed copium right now.
@Kurppalumppu you do realize that res requires that sort of consideration anyway, right? You can't just go into any situation and res somebody and get out scott free. Yes, her mobility makes it easier, but up until now, that was her only form of survivability, so of course she was able to get away with some ease. That's what GA is supposed to do as long as you're making a smart play. I'm not saying the changes are horrible for her. Just that no one asked for this and she may not be as fun to play any longer
@@Kurppalumppu a get out of jail free? You mean like when you hit a sombra and they instantly tele out, heal to full hp, then return straight away to the fight? But Mercy is the one with OP movement?
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
@@fizharris3238 except mercy can do that but also stay in the fight. Bad comparison, just learn a different hero besides Mercy mate
As a support main im genuinely so sad about the rein knockback change it was my go-to as ana to escape him
Why the fuck would they nerf mercy
It’s blizzard, they’re bound to do something absolutely retarded.
Unfun to play annoying to play against, that’s why they reworked her healing.
@@DeertickDaniel
Unfun to play? Garbage take 💀💀💀
@@DeertickDaniel but like she wasn’t meant to heal that much all? They’re encouraging bad mercy play style. First they make it so she can’t heal without healing someone else and they need her movement which makes her so unkilable but since that’s nerf she’s going to be on the ground causing 10x more deaths. So now she’s not a good character jow her movement and damage boost were the reedamble things about her and that’s only if you were good at playing her. Since her movement has been nerfed to ground and damage boosting has been discouraged she’s not going to be a good choice to play. Want to make support more enjoyable and mercy a more beginner friendly option when she already was?
@user-qo8bz9mo3b she was very fun to play, dmg boost/rez made her unfun to play against
As a new player I like having someone explain the patch notes as we go through them. Thank you Flats.
I like most of these changes, but as a Mercy and Ana main in Support, I'm a bit disappointed. Understandable for Ana, but with Mercy... wow.
if you didn't know already, you can recast GA after you jump to start the cooldown sooner. that should more or less feel the same cooldown wise if you weren't already doing it.
honestly, it was a good call to nerf orisa's range, it was what pushed her over the edge, now shes back to being a unkillable tank that struggles to peel for allies
mercys changes are..weird. they refused to address damage boost, and instead just nerfed her really badly. some parts i actually really like, like making her stronger at lower hp percentages, that probably could push her into main heal territory, since her single target healing on low hp targets is pretty insane, meaning she can keep the team alive a lot better now. theorycrafting, this could potentially "fix" the issue of pocket mercy without gutting the character, they just need to buff guardian angel's cd to be 2 seconds, not 2.5 thats a bit harsh,
Now she has to think before using GA
@@aidennicholson2109 you can stop spamming this trash opinion pls. So what if ga has low cooldowns? Mercy is not shooting at you, she's not pharah. And her healing is very low and now nerfed even more
There is a bug that has been in the game since Day1 of Overwatch 2... Genji's mythic skin in potg causes it to disappear and only works for the heroic intro
that's why they should nerf him
So question, if ball has regular, shield, and armor health... I dont remember if this was changed in OW 1, but wasnt something where the shield would take on the properties of armor as it would be the first removed by damage? Was this ever changed? Or is ball going to have effectively 300 armor with 150 of it regening?
In regard to Mercy, I'd keep the old GA, keep the new healing mechanics, but change her damage boost to something else entirely. Maybe a damage reduction on the target and while she's channeling it she keeps a small portion of the damage reduction herself to mirror the new healing passive. So she'd keep the same gameplay style but not have the ability to increase the damage output of other characters. Granted that may be a bit strong on tanks, but she'd also have to be up front/above to keep the damage reduction on them unless they're holding a corner. Might also make Reaper a menace but eh, just a thought.
I agree with you saying the old GA should stay the same and the new healing. I read someone else's comment which I thought was a great change to damage boosting. The damage boost could become a resource and have a meter like moira's healing. This way mercy has to manage her damage boosting instead of always have a constant increase of 30% on someone. It would make her pay more attention and overall feel more skilled.
@@whitesnake2931 While putting damage boost on a metre might seem nice, Mercy already has a metre - Guardian Angel. And more importantly, when the metre runs out, mercy can only contribute to the fight by healing...but if no one needs healing, then Mercy can't contribute in a meaningful way. She'll be stuck doing nothing for a moment and that hardly seem fun for Mercy players. The easiest solution, to me, appears to be simply reducing the damage increase from 30% to 20% or 15%.
@@whitesnake2931 I don't think a resource would work. Moira recharges her meter by doing damage. She even has a 6-second CD damage orb to help her with that. And enemies are easy to damage. Mercy would need to heal teammates to recharge her meter in a meaningful way, and not all teammates will need healing, especially if the other support is doing their job. And Mercy only has her staff to heal, nothing else.
The two abilities cannot be compared, as they operate in very different ways.
But she can still damage boost just fine
I feel like for the enemy endorsements you should have two for teammates and one for the enemies.
or just give us 3 endorsements back tbh, ive never needed more than 3 but now i feel like i gotta be picky more often when more than 2 people deserve it
The mercy changes actually incentivizes damage boost pocketing even more now. Mercy gameplay will essentially be damage boosting until an ally gets below 50% to heal, then once they get to 50%, go back to damage boost. As a Mercy player, I can see myself purposefully letting teammates get below 50% before healing them so I could activate my passive.
I am interested to see how the mercy changes play out- but they really do not fit with the character in terms of lore.
This should be a Brig like thing, as it's kinda like a paladin.
I would really like to see them do something with her beams scaling with GA, starting at lower than live values to higher. This scales only with new GA targets- which would stop the solo pocketing and make it so mercy has to jump around to get max value
i feel the mercy changes will help if you try to kill the mercy instead if the pocket because then she is forced to use her long ga cd to fly away, leaving the pocket to die. other than that i feel they kinda suck
Blizzard: Nerfs Mercy in a way that makes her less fun & also doesnt address what people have been complaining about.
OW players: "Everyone disliked that"
I think the most important change brig needs is a visual change for inspire bc ppl dont seem to realize when they are being healed by it
This is why the mercy mains are so sensitive about having their main nerfed 😂 because they knew blizzard was gonna tank it
You weren't here for the 18 consecutive nerfs over 2 years. This is likely just the beginning of our pain.
Numbani coming back is such a win, it has always been my fav map to play, both defensively and offensively
literally this, and now that all the new kids who just downloaded ow2 because it was free on battlenet launcher are here and dont know how to attack on numbani, its even easier than before to win, not to mention the lack of double dive tanks we feasting on first point babeyyyy
It’s been one of my least favorite offensive maps since it was added to OW1 lol. I hate it. The first point is hard af to take and ridiculously easy to defend.
Mercy gonna become a even bigger healbot for ranged characters or maybe just tanks.
As a mercy the biggest nerfs are the ga and backwards jumping one of the few times I didn't need to adderall flick my camera to go somewhere now being taken away. And I really don't get the healing tbh especially with the ammount of times I've heard kiriko, ana, bapteist, Moira all outheal mercy
Junkrat nerfs are completely fair. Even as a junkrat player he's still gonna be great you just need to be better at mines and get better at follow up.
Man and i wanted to be a dedicated mercy main :/
I guess im going back to lucio :(
Having to think before using an ability? Unheard of
Here's an idea for Sombra hack rework: Hacked target health bar becomes unreadable to their team as well as on their HUD. Remove the added damage Sombra does, but instead remove HUD indicators of where damage is coming from and possibly audio inverts/spins around the hack target. Idk just made this up, maybe too OP/unfun to play against or too weak 🤷♀
You don't get to keep as much ult charge when swapping. But they did reduce the time to get ults. So is there actually a difference here for swapping heroes?
Pharah-mercy will be crazy , you can’t just focus and kill the mercy easily now that she has self healing and you can’t kill pharah since she gets more healing when she is low .. unless u one shot them with widow .. who got nerfed
Huh? Do you even play Mercy? Mercy's GA was butchered. With this you won't be able to go all the lengths with a Pharah without risks from falling or being left behind by the Pharah.
Lets goo
Bruh nah PharMercy is dead now. The GA Nerf alone kills Mercy. They literally just nerfed the only fun thing about her. Blizzard is actually fucling awful at balance.
Cass got buffed
U realize she only heals herself if she heals the pharah right?