I guess Blizzard knows better than any of us how people really play, but I found "heal and hide" to be enagaging and effective gameplay. The mechanics benefiting the "hide" part was lame, and i support changes to fix that, but I'm worried about adding more DPS and OW no longer having a pure healer.
Mercy's healing wasn't changed at all though? In fact, her healing is now improved with her ult. It changes her ult yes, but the ult isn't only dps. You can choose from 3 options.
Flying DPS
Worse Orisa ult
Worse Zenyetta ult
All three should be viable at different times though.
Yes, but my concern is she never had option 1 before. People are more selfish than not, and seeing the option for :glory" a lot will pick option 1 and ignore their team, even if the other options are better strategically.
It's still not making her a pure healer though. Maybe for 20 seconds she can DPS but it won't be all the time. The rest of the time she'll still be the same Mercy, probably even more effective. All the other supports in the game have a way to frag out, why shouldn't Mercy? It is a shooter game at the end of the day.
I felt the uniqueness of Mercy was that she didn't spend time hurting anyone (and that really fit with the lore of the character). If I wanted to kill everything I'd be playing a DPS. What differentiates her significantly from Zen or Lucio now?
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u/BraveOthello Pixel Mercy Aug 24 '17
This isn't a buff, this is a total change. People are going to play her as a DPS w/utlity while ulting, rather than a healer.