A brand new season coming quickly to Overwatch 2, bringing a brand new battle go, map rotation, and an array of stability adjustments to shift the meta.
But one adjustment wasn’t anticipated in any respect by gamers, they usually have been baffled once they found them within the patch notes.
Mercy acquired a heavy nerf alongside stability adjustments after she dominated the ladder’s increased tiers in season Two. The developer, nonetheless, didn’t communicate of these adjustments forward of time, and gamers are nonetheless confused, criticizing the sudden adjustments on social media.
“Overwatch 2 has become a lot more fast-paced and if Mercy can’t keep up with that then she’s done for. The core of her survival is movement,” claimed a participant in a highly-voted thread on Reddit. Another posted a joke by modifying her Valentine’s card.
Mercy’s nerf is more likely to bear a major affect on her common efficiency within the recreation. It undermines the ability of her Guardian Angel by growing its cooldown and decreasing her dashing velocity, which is significant for her to outlive and heal effectively in a spherical.
While she’ll have a more durable time surviving, her therapeutic potential has additionally acquired a nerf with a common therapeutic discount, compensated by a lift for allies who’ve misplaced greater than half of their HP.
She’ll regenerate much less when out of fight, too, as she’ll have to heal allies to regenerate her HP.
Players complained about Mercy’s adjustments, saying they requested the developer to nerf her injury enhance to make her extra balanced within the meta, moderately than hitting her survivability and therapeutic potential, that are her essential strengths.
They additionally argue that Mercy will get extra boring to play in decrease tiers, as she received’t be capable of swap targets simply and will probably be compelled to play passively because of her Guardian Angel and self-healing nerfs.
Mercy’s mild rework will shift her position in a workforce. Her therapeutic enhance for targets beneath half HP (50 % extra therapeutic finished to them) is meant to spice up her burst therapeutic potential, moderately than giving constant assist for the workforce.
It would possibly make her extra situational than a go-to-pick, but it surely’s too early to inform what would be the actual affect of nerfs on the meta.
Overwatch 2‘s season Three will kick off later as we speak, at 11am CT.
