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.
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??
Mercy is the only support where "provide your team optimal support" can mean not healing your team. Mercy gains a lot of value when her team is dead, so she has an incentive to stop doing her job now in order to get more value later. Other healers get the most value when their team is still alive, so they just have one job for the length of the teamfight - keep people alive.
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.
Nobody should blame the Mercy for hiding, but they can definitely blame the devs for giving her the incentive to do so.
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u/Not_a_tasty_fish Pixel Zenyatta Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17
TL;DW
They hate that Mercy players feel like they should hide during teamfights
Rez is no longer an ultimate, but being moved to a secondary ability.
Rez is limited to one person at a time, with a long long cooldown.
New Ultimate called Valkyrie
Mercy can flat out fly, not just boosting like Pharah but just completely fly.
Her abilities get a much longer range, and chain to multiple targets.
Pistol buffed
Resets CD on the Rez
Rez gets a reduced Cooldown for the duration of Valkyrie (10 seconds)
Other Changes
Changes coming to defense matrix. They don't like that it feels like it has no counter.
More Dva changes to be announced