what are your thoughts on the merpy changes?

radicalseabies:

honestly?? im pretty unhappy and ive been feeling depressed about it all day. admittedly, as a very active and mobile mercy player, the new ult really is quite fun to use, but overall the change represents everything i dislike about the current direction of the game, and the enormous nerf to her rez feels unbelievably depressing.

ultimate abilities are game changers, with many ults being able to change the tide of battle in an instant, either by wiping the enemy team with massive damage and lots of kills, or in the case of some of the support ultimates, by saving losing games from the brink by preventing and countering the above. lucio can protect his team from an overwhelming enemy attack with his sound barrier. zenyatta’s transcendence can temporarily pump out heals SO FAST that almost nothing short of instant-kill burst damage can kill them. and mercy’s resurrect used to be a very powerful, versatile ability that required a great deal of decision making, with the potential to quickly bring back 1 or 2 fallen teammates keep your group numbers up to help with a push or team fight (this is referred to as ‘tempo rezzing’), and in some cases, even undo entire team wipes, turning a certain defeat into a potential clutch victory.

but now what can she do? …she can fly now… and chain heal/boost more than one teammate at a time if theyre close enough to each other. and do some more damage by herself i guess. which is fun, sure, but her healing per second isn’t nearly enough to support her team through really huge enemy attacks, which used to be offset by her ability to bring her whole team back to life, which she can no longer do, and by moving rez to a separate, single target ability on a cooldown, it’s taken so much of the versatility and value of the ability away. it’s now exclusively a tempo rezzing tool, and i feel like mercy has become less valuable as a solo healer because she can’t really do anything about team wipes anymore. lucio and zen can still prevent them, to an extent, but mercy used to be able to counter them, and now she can’t, and as fun as the new ult is it just feels like a little band-aid over the gaping wound left by the massive nerf to rez.

i feel like with every change to heroes lately the game is just catering more and more to the tunnel vision dps crowd, the ppl who just want to kill as much as possible as fast as possible. dps players are grumpy that dva ate their ult?? time to nerf her defense matrix, and give her new abilities for dishing out damage instead. dps players are grumpy that mercy undid their epic team wipe with a huge rez?? time to nerf her rez to only 1 person at a time on a huge cooldown and give her a new ult where she can fly around really fast and do lots of damage with a powered up gun instead. the lucio rework a while back made him do more damage, too. the orisa buff lets her bullets fly faster, making it easier to hit people, in turn… damaging them faster. the new junkrat buff even gives him a second concussion mine. more damage. it’s all More. more more more.

slowly but surely it feels like they’re dumbing down the game, degrading the strategy and just making it as easy as possible for people to just kill everybody as fast as possible.

honestly, people who thought rez was “unfair” or “overpowered” are fools, imo. selfish, impatient morons who could not be bothered utilizing even a modicum of strategy in this strategic, teamwork based shooter, or practicing good ultimate economy and efficiency. if a team blows all their ults excessively to wipe the enemy when one or two would have done the trick, and an enemy mercy swoops in and rezzes them all, and the team have no ults left with which to counter the rez, that’s on them. they should have played better. but no, they just complained about it until blizzard just got rid of it, making it easier for them. congrats, you awful jackasses, and thanks a lot for forcing me to have to accommodate your needs by having my favourite character suddenly drastically changed on me after 300 hours of play and practice.