Boosting just isn't fun ...it's great for the team, but you don't get any credits for it. It just looks like you're not healing enough. I think the mitigation column in the leaderboard should be changed to be unique per character. I'd love to see ~"boosted dmg" or something, so I don't hear "heal diff" when the enemy team is better, lmao. Additionally, to make her more viable in comp ...I like the simultaneous boost+heal idea. Putting a 10% boost when healing and a 10% heal when boosting would be interesting. Maybe you could do something with the ulti as well and up it to 20%.
Frankly, they’re not gonna. They have spent the last serval years barely touching Mercy and every time they seem to go somewhere with a rework or change to her it’s too busted and they actively revert or remove it instead of seeing it through and adjusting. She is in a permanent state of kit hostage where until she is heavily reworked and kinda changed from the ground up into effectively a new hero with what exactly she’s providing and how she’s going about it this isn’t going to change. The way res is in her kit, the way damage boost works, the way she’s lacking in sustain by comparison to flex supports yet arguably one of the most annoying sustains to stop beyond bursting through it. She is just fundamentally wrong cause her current kit and even initial one is not suited for the position and role she has and probably will continue to have in the future as a main support. The ideals and thought process behind what she’s doing and how isn’t lining up with how she’s played or how she is properly utilised now. They will refuse to touch this character until she’s on deaths door like they always do with characters like her who’s kits had small or slightly large game balance issues that have only become more messy and expanded with constant alterations to everything but the core initial problem and now we have a laundry list of problems with her. How do you balance her? You don’t, you just change her simple as that. Mercy players will be weary of it, everyone else will probably despise it but it’s gonna have to be done to start chipping away at mercy to integrate every bit of value and design to her kit matches up and compliments her new found position as a main support well. It is sad the position she’s in and there’s a few more characters like her that I also main (Sym) that really won’t be addressed ANY time soon but are probably imo the MOST requiring of significant change to their fundamental designs of their kits if not a complete revaluation of wtf they’re supposed to be. That saddest part is that this isn’t something that’s new. This is something that Mercys’, Syms’ and others who are in this not so unique balance state predicament of being outdated and in-cohesive have said for years about their characters. With each subtle change and alteration feeling pointless due to it being reverted or frankly lack any true impact to their state in the game. People have screamed into the void for years and years and years. Yet still they don’t listen and never really do, Sym players tell them how bad the turret nerf was, they give her pointless buffs and then some correctors bandaid buffs to her health/beam, Mercys’ complain about the only thing that gives any reason to playing mercy anymore being nerfed (damage boost) and they don’t listen ON TOP of indirect survival changes once again affecting Mercy’s value overall to where 25% DB is somehow struggling. These are just the most recent of this years change that these characters have gotten and have been blatantly against what their community tells the devs and actively what is said will happen does happen to the pick rate and usage of these characters. Then we’re out here several months later scratching our heads as to “huh why is said character so bad and not picked” which then inclines to the annual “this character needs help!” video. I’m just tired of seeing vid after vid by people who actively don’t play these characters addressing their state and problem after a string of changes or even just a singular one that hurts them significantly say they need help but all ideas for significant reworking/changing is largely ignored or undermined by the community against these characters. They always hang in the balance of JUUUUST not terrible enough to argue they should have their one and ONLY niche that gives them very little play time to be stronger than it is until they nerf it. I feel like I’m screaming into a cave with my words just coming back at me with no actual response cause no one truly listens. If they care for the state of the game and their character overall THEY WILL get off their asses and help the poor characters who have been low pick rate characters for MONTHS and MONTHS at a time with heavy duty reimagining of their kits. Then again that sounds like hard work on their end and they can’t have that can they? So just let Sym, Rein, Mercy and whoever else have outdated asf kits that don’t belong in OW especially not with the current format of 5v5 and new modes/maps that are released and ESPECIALLY against newer characters. Outstanding video btw as always! 10/10! 👍🏻 also sorry for the doomed comment it’s just nothing new for your local Sym/Mercy player in terms of conversation lol.
I don't think they will either.. its paralysis by analysis .. I honestly think they are afraid And I've heard another mercy main say they boxed mercy in It really bums me out knowing rein mercy arguably the most popular heros ever are left outdated. Poor symmetra she needs so much tlc 😢 I don't know if devs will ever fix her. My best guess is that they just have too many fires to put out. At this point with how little effort is being put into mercys reintegration I don't blame you for feeling like they don't listen . Hard work yeah not for them.. their the team who recolor skins.. I spent like 3 days just researching this after cross told me I should make a video on mercy.. then consulting a mercy main about it I talked to them for 4 hours while they explained it all since I wanted to express it correctly I'm glad you enjoyed it nom I tried my best to make a video that might help mercy players let's hope it does something cause I love having mercys in my lobbies the more the better
@@dravenbluesummers Agreed but the sad reality is that they’ve been more willing to tackle problems like Sombra, Doom, Orisa and Hog almost entirely with ease and somewhat accomplished depending on who you ask but a majority would think as much. They have the capability and capacity to greatly change characters kits and fundamentally alter them with a willingness to commit to buffing/nerfing them accordingly after the fact to make their concept works. So why it’s such an issue to draft up something new or something old for these characters and take a step back to fully ask themselves want they want these characters to be idk. Maybe looking backwards on what changed and how previous attempts failed would give far more of insight as to what to do with them and what they should be prioritising in their next iterations. I was astonished and taken aback with how successful and fun Sombra’s rework was and even more with hog coming out a character more realised and efficient than ever. It’s the only thing beyond a ton of OW2 changes upon release that gave me a sigh of relief that they CAN LISTEN and CAN tackle new AND old problems. OW reworks are never perfect and will always have constant controversy and fine tuning required or debates on whether it’s for better or for worse. But being stuck in a limbo with an outdated kit is probably the most cruelest and worst ways to kill a character in this game. It’s long and tiring and just demotivating to even ponder on why you even play OW anymore. If they want change then they’re gonna have to be brave and REALLY crack down on it. Cause it’s unfair to keep going on like this just blatant shoving these characters into a niche corner to not address or mention for years at time even.
@@nomthepainaway.5187 yeah it is odd how they address other heros with more vigor Sombra shocked me with how good it was for sure I feel like they have a weird rule with rein mercy .. your so right though they need to really do something because Torturing players with limbo land is lame
If mercy is meta, it usually is a miserable experience for everyone. Unless they make her a numbers monster (which would make it miserable only for the enemy team) playing with AND against a mercy is always a frustrating experience. Especially if you buff her numbers and don't nerf her movement... she's already basically unkillable if she has thumbs. She doesn't have to aim her heal, it goes through shields, etc. meaning that if you buff her healing, she's just got better healing than the other supports with more survivability.
