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.
some dudes like to talk a big game about how comedy suffers when people are afraid to offend but man, Mitch Hedberg was a white dude working in the era of peak offensive edgelord and his shit holds the fuck up so while most comedians will never come up with anything as timeless as “if carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up” they could at least make an effort
Every McDonald’s commercial ends the same way, right? “Prices and participation may vary.” I wanna open a McDonald’s and not participate in anything. I wanna be a stubborn McDonald’s owner. I’ll say “Cheeseburgers? Nope. We got spaghetti! And blankets! We are not affiliated with that clown.”
Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read.
I would like to have a product that was available for three easy payments and one fuckin’ complicated payment. We can’t tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is gonna be a bitch! The mailman will get shot to death, the envelope will not seal, and the stamp will be in the wrong denomination! Good luck, fucker! That last payment must be made in wampum!
Hey, if you wanna talk to me after the show, I’ll be… fuckin’ surprised.
This shirt is “dry-clean only”… Which means it’s dirty.
One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said “Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.” Every picture is of you when you were younger. “Here’s a picture of me when I’m older.” “You son-of-a-bitch! How’d you pull that off? Lemme see that camera… What’s it look like? ”
An escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You would never see an “Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order” sign, just “Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
I play golf. I’m not good at golf, I never got good. I never got a hole-in-one. But I did hit a guy. And that’s way more satisfying. You’re supposed to yell “Fore!” but I was too busying mumbling “There ain’t no way that’s gonna hit him.”
When you’re in Hollywood and you’re a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things besides comedy. They say “All right you’re a stand up comedian, can you act? Can you write? Write us a script.” They want me to do things that’s related to comedy, but it’s not comedy. That’s not fair. It’s as though if I was a cook, and I worked my ass off to become a good cook, and they said “All right you’re a cook… can you farm?”
– “Rice is great when you’re you’re hungry and you want 10,000 of something”
– “Tennis is depressing because no matter how good you get, you will never be as good as a wall”
– “I order the club sandwich all the time, but I’m not even a member, man. I don’t know how I get away with it”
help i accidentally created a cleric with a -1 to religion checks how the fuck did i even do that
“hey i just realized, we’ve been on this trip for weeks and i’ve never really seen you praying”
“eh, yeah, i mostly only do that sort of stuff at greengrass and midsummer”
“…. sharindlar literally gives you magical powers. you have a magical tattoo.”
“yeah she’s cool, she knows i’m busy”
religion checks are more about knowledge regarding deities than devotion
“don’t worry, guys, sharindlar will smite the shit outta anyone we need smote, that’s what she’s all about!”
“… isn’t she an avatar of mercy and life?”
“she’s an avatar of shut the hell up”
Character with skill sets that don’t match their class are my favorite thing
When I first started playing Pathfinder I thought “craft” meant like “watercraft” and I gave a ton of it to my Barbarian so I wouldn’t be useless running with the two pirates in our group.
Mid game my DM was like “No… Like… Arts and crafts.”
And I was like “Fuck it he knits, is there any yarn on the ship?”
DM: *Rolls dice* … *Looks up* This shipment is nothing but yarn.
Me: I’m going to knit a sweater.
DM: What’s your craft score again? *Looks at page*………………. Don’t even roll…
DM: So you all pull into port wearing sweaters beautifully knitted by our goddamned Barbarian.
Ragtag group of scoundrels & assassins: Yay!
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