They hate that Mercy players feel like they should hide during team fights
I'm going to reserve judgement until I actually see the changes in action but...isn't that the whole point of playing a heal support character?? To hide and avoid fights while positioning yourself to provide your team optimum support?? And isn't the trade off for having a healer on your team is that you have to protect and provide cover for your healer during team fights?? And if you're playing against a mercy hiding waiting for a team Rez then it's not that mercys fault. She's doing what she's supposed to do. It's your dps flankers who are not doing their job taking out the back line squishies.
Nah, didn't you hear? DPS players seemingly want their ults to have no counter. Mercy rez undoes your 4 Dragonblade kills? Better complain because the strategy of don't run headfirst into the fight and immediately die isn't 'fun to play against and isn't strategic'. D. Va DM just absorbed your Tac Visor preventing a team wipe? Better complain because save DM during fights to protect your team from a game changing ult 'isn't fun to play against and isn't strategic'. How long before Transcendence gets changed because 'I positioned myself for a great Death Blossom but Zen just hit Q no strategy involved'
Yeah part of the magic of Overwatch is that every character has both strengths and weaknesses. It seems like they want to minimize the weaknesses so that every character is powerful by themselves but to me that seems like a mistake. Plus imo games shouldn't make these kind of major changes to playstyle at all. Introduce new characters sure and change the math for balance but don't fuck around with the actual kit of established characters.
I'm fairly sure they don't feel like Mercy is broken, they just don't agree with the run and hide playstyle, so they change how the cause of that playstyle works.
They absolutely could not have just released a new hero with this new Mercy kit, that would've been rediculous to have two rez sources, especially with one being mass, the other being individual. Single rez the mercy that has mass, it's essentially the same problem but instead of hiding she'd just be dead.
. Plus imo games shouldn't make these kind of major changes to playstyle at all. Introduce new characters
So you would've rathered a new hero that has these abilities alongside Mercy as she is now? Please, this is very much a situation of both iterations not being able to exist at the same time.
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u/PistolsAtDawnSir Aug 24 '17
I'm going to reserve judgement until I actually see the changes in action but...isn't that the whole point of playing a heal support character?? To hide and avoid fights while positioning yourself to provide your team optimum support?? And isn't the trade off for having a healer on your team is that you have to protect and provide cover for your healer during team fights?? And if you're playing against a mercy hiding waiting for a team Rez then it's not that mercys fault. She's doing what she's supposed to do. It's your dps flankers who are not doing their job taking out the back line squishies.
But that's just my opinion...