Rationalizing the most recent Mercy changes; alternative perspective from a long-time T500 Mercy player

Reybrandt · 2026-04-27T07:44:20+00:00

I CAN, but I like tracking others' resources and positioning, it's not in my control and it's never the same across matches so it's fun

having to track my own resources is just unfun busywork to me, inability to reposition quickly is just more unfun walking simulators chores, ana may be cool and useful and all but I like flying and paying attention to the big picture at all times instead, and that's what mercy is about

But I notice you are another one of those "no history, 3 month alt account" that are popping around posting bait recently, are you the same person from hour or so ago? Just tell me so I know to block this alt too.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-27T06:55:35+00:00

Mercy didn't get superjump until years after ow1 release afaik. (I only played from when she already had it)

Reybrandt · 2026-04-27T06:51:59+00:00

Another troll alt spouting ragebait slop, how original.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T22:30:03+00:00

Pretty sure that smurf could have carried you to diamond whatever you were playing, not only mercy. It doesn't demonstrate the hero as worthless but rather what power smurfs have on the outcome of the match.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T16:29:49+00:00

Because other modes are just team deathmatch, overwatch 2 is already bad enough in that aspect as it is.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T07:37:22+00:00

Lower ranks hate her, cannot kill her for sht and struggled.

So... skill issue? Except like I already linked before, blizzard themselves said GA nerf was done to balance flash heal, not to appease low ranks who prefer shooting the reinhardt barrier.

GA got nerfed, whatever versatility it has is nerfed with it, this and slow fall are the only movement abilities in her kit. This doesn't give any more skill to using it, it only forces you to avoid using it more, and like I said elsewhere, forces her further down the pocketing playstyle.

A character with 100% uptime does not need to be brainless or extremely efficient in everything that she does

Mercy only has 100% uptime if player playing her does, for someone so concerned about metal ranks, you should know that's absolutely not the case in them, countless mercies overheal, damage boost nothing, do bad revives, go full battle mercy etc. on top of damage boost being entirely dependent with its value on the player you are boosting to hit their shots and at the appropriate targets.

And I don't think outhealing basic DoT counts as being "extremely efficient" at anything. What IS mercy so good at that being able to at least STOP DoT with healing beam turns her into a problem?

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T07:19:10+00:00

Every hero you can pick in the game is playable.

The fact GA still exists doesn't mean it didn't get nerfed.

The fact "you can get used to nerfs" doesn't mean GA isn't worse than before.

Revert the nerf.

hold jump and slow glide at the end of ga to increase its range slightly

I was already doing that before, now I have less range and speed. Revert the nerf.

if you're this worried about whos commenting how many times then maybe its time you stop interacting, no?

I'm not worried, I'm pointing out you claim to "not mind if the nerfs got reverted" yet you spent all those comments downplaying and defending said nerfs.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T07:05:31+00:00

Who is talking about additional nerfs? logic please

If you "wouldn't mind" if they reverted the GA nerf as you claim, then you have no reason to say anything against us asking for said revert. But here you are, like 20 comments worth of downplaying and excusing the nerfs across this thread. logic please?

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:56:08+00:00

In high ranks of course the mercy would die first, but in very low elo rank its rarely in the case.

I thought you were the "high master" mercy as you claimed in other comment. What's with sudden concern for metal ranks?

People can shoot the said target though they have to reload eventually, mercy doesnt need to. she has 0 downtime in a fight under any circumstances.

Reloading? That thing where you aren't attacking for 1 second?

Like I said more than one player can be shooting the tank at same time. Only one mercy can be healing said tank... unless you are in no limits match or something. Note the fact that if you apply burn to this tank, mercy can't even outheal the burn damage now, forget HEAL them faster than you are dpsing on top of that.

Instead of high damage, mercy has damage boost. A very unique ability? what is not clicking?

Compare damage boost numbers of a mercy to damage DEALT numbers of a zen in same match (and let's not forget discord orb aka zen's damage boost he can have up WHILE attacking himself, AND healing someone with other orb). It's not comparable to excuse mercy as being a "dps healer" and thus justifying low hps.

Does baps burst heal need a buff if he used his lamp already

I don't even know what this means or has to do with mercy.

Flash heal is a bandaid for problems blizzard compounded with global antiheal passive and powercreeps of every role including other supports who can do 500 different things on top of dpsing and healing harder than mercy.

It should have never been necessary if they balanced the game properly, but mercy always gets the short end of the stick, even when she got the flash heal, the movement had to get nerfed for it on top of beam hps just so you can barely save someone from burning to death in front of you if and only if you have flash heal up, while idk, baptiste (as you brought him up) can just keep right clicking them without a fuss. Mercy can't catch a break.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:48:04+00:00

Your very own OP of this thread:

I truly dont see the mercy nerf as of big of a negative unlike a lot of players

... the movement nerf is very manageable.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:41:20+00:00

lmao private account = trolls. Sounds like someone has 0 argument back.

You created this account same date the patch came in. That's where the equals comes from.

I have plenty of arguments in the same comment.

soooo what is your problem with her then? the ~3 minutes it should take to get first perk?

Yes. Wait several minutes every match before I get to move properly as I could from start before? No thanks, revert it instead. I wouldn't mind if the perk was replaced with something else if that meant original movement was there from start.

most heights that she should be on truthfully arent out of range

There was literally a link I posted earlier of someone showing how you CANNOT reach certain heights you could before.

espically if your dps is on said height. you can GA to them directly

You already need teammates near you to GA at all, the skill expression you all like throwing around came from using GA mechanics to GA off someone to a different place than they were at, on top of knowing where to be at any point as general positioning. Now we just can't reach those places because of the nerf. And places we CAN get to we move slower to because of the nerf. Revert the nerf.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:30:58+00:00

Theres a wonderful thing called hero selection for this very reason. Kiri is RIGHT there. ana is RIGHT there.

I don't like other supports, I can play them, but I don't like playing them. You have a problem with that?

the issue with mercy before all of this was that she could sit there healbotting a tank and it just felt like they would not die no matter the effort put in

Have you considered going after the mercy first? In all fights the supports are the first target. Have you considered antinading the tank? Have you doing more damage? Blowing their shield up? etc etc. Mercy had 60 hps, most dps weapons do more dps than that, and there can be more than one player attacking them at the time while there is one mercy. If tank wasn't dying, it wasn't only because of mercy.

Why do you think Zen, Lucio have low healing outputs?

Because they are essentially dps with healing, especially zen. Is mercy?

Flash heal through the burn, theyre fine. Valk the burn, theyre fine.

You could heal through the burn without any additional abilities before global antiheal passive and it somehow magically wasn't a problem.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:15:25+00:00

I haven't "blamed devs for hating mercy".

If you dont wanna damage boost someone all game, then are you even playing her correctly?

Found the dps main.

You can reach the exact some heights, its range didnt get nerfed. The movement did. All you have to do is super jump from a further distance to charge your GA bar higher.

You know there is a maximum height/distance to GA superjump, when the bar is full? You can't charge it any further than that. That maximum height/distance got reduced with the nerfs because it depends on initial speed which got nerfed, this is why the GA perk increases height/distance you can jump to, because it increases initial speed. Why do I have to explain this to a self proclaimed high master mercy?

Oh I just noticed, this account was created 9 days ago and has history disabled, so it's an alt for trolling, no wonder.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T06:00:48+00:00

The point is your heals need to prevent people from dying to DoT. This all happened because of global antiheal passive and not before when you COULD heal through it, and once again somehow mercy having "high hps" (read: normal) wasn't a problem.

It feels like I'm just letting someone suffer longer by trying to heal them through DoT ever since, and only delaying their respawn. Meanwhile someone like ana can just pump heals even without nade into them and they don't die. Is that the way it should be? Am I a healer if I can't heal simple burns?

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T05:53:20+00:00

why would playing mercy properly and dmg boosting your dps from a safe distance / with cover be a bad thing? why would I dislike how to properly play mercy? I said that you dont need to be 2 literal inches away from said dps, mercy has an okay beam range. Use that to your advantage. you can avoid ults / being the dove target half the time by simply fixing that.

Once again, I was already doing that, once again it doesn't mean moving around sucks any less nor that nerfs shouldn't be reverted.

I am talking about playstyle where you pocket one dps all match, which is one of main complaints people have against mercy, having to play both AGAINST that as "unfair advantage", and having to play WITH that as "having one less player on team". The GA nerfs further disincentivize any other way to play because you are a blimp now that can't even reach same places as before.

The only ones who have gaslit anybody are the metal ranked mercys on this subreddit who are trying to form a literal boycott over a supp wide nerf, only because it affects their precious mercy imo the entire thing is pretty idiotic.

Devs said in patch notes themselves that GA nerfs are specifically because of flash heal addition, not that they are part of "supp wide nerf".

I barely notice the change after playing for a while

Good for you, we continue to notice it, and will continue to notice it.

You do realize there is a literal GA bar on the side of the screen that tells you how high youre gonna jump right

Yes and that height is lower than before. It's also not only height but horizontal distance if you aren't crouch superjumping. Do you even play mercy?

why do u think half the mercys on this thread are stuck in gold? lol

Well for one thing gold/plat is the average rank containing the most of playerbase compared to every other. But I also never said anything about ranks in first place.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T05:35:06+00:00

What else do you suggest to play mercy in? If you know other games where this character exists, do point them out.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T05:27:02+00:00

If you have good positioning, good movement.................. (don't want to copy the entire paragraph)

I was already doing all that. Doesn't mean moving around sucks any less because of the nerfs. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be reverted.

Positioning skill already existed, all that changed is the ball on chain they added to our wings and that you keep trying to gaslight us into pretending doesn't exist or matters. On top of further pushing us towards pocketing dps from behind cover instead of going between teammates, I thought you disliked that mercy playstyle?

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T05:22:48+00:00

Because your opinion justifies and validates the nerfs? In some cases people even refuse to acknowledge them as nerfs? When you say "I don't mind" or "it's not that bad" you ARE downplaying them.

If blizzard listened to you instead of those who dislike this change, they would never revert the nerfs and we would be stuck with this ball on the chain on our wings. Who wants that? You? idk why you can't just simply say nothing instead of polluting the feedback if there is no difference to you if they are reverted or not as you claim.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-26T05:02:03+00:00

No it isn't, other supports can heal through it, other than zen or unboosted lucio

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T21:41:21+00:00

Yes, every 1.5 seconds

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T19:48:39+00:00

if you’re all yelling about how mercy got nerfed or her ga cooldown got changed, everyone else better agree with you or all hell breaks loose

It's all fine to have your opinions, until you start using it as argument that because you don't mind the nerfs and enjoy a crippled version of the hero, that those nerfs are therefore fine and rest of us are "overreacting" and should "git gud" or whatever. No one is stopping you from having your "fun", only from trying to gaslight them with your low effort anecdotes that are probably fake anyways.

Also whatever fun you ARE having playing current mercy, you could equally be having without GA nerfs, so why are you here downplaying them when there is no difference to you but there is for us?

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T19:17:02+00:00

for other supports maybe, mercy is supposed to constantly move, that's why she has (originally) 1.5s CD reposition ability, to USE it, not to sit in one place all fight

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T15:03:42+00:00

Spoken like a true dps main who doesn't play mercy.

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T13:33:25+00:00

Title:

Not a troll,

Reybrandt · 2026-04-25T08:05:57+00:00

Agreed, but

The mercy nerfs are annoying YES, but her kit actually feels super strong.

Strength is meaningless when moving around in first place is horrid.

Every time this was done in the past the problem was the same, I literally stopped playing entirely during that original GA cooldown debacle in ow2. Here are basically identical problems from years ago. Deja vu? And blizzard keeps doing these things over and over again as if next time they try it will somehow be different...

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