So now I know what the developers think Mercy’s fantasy should be.

Want to know what my Mercy fantasy is?

I say heroes never die as I revive someone else. Because I am no longer a hero, I am just playing as a lifeless attachment.

Me being completely and utterly helpless on my own and being 100% at the whim of a single DPS player on my team and having my entire fate as a Mercy main decided by their skill level and absolutely in no capacity is my fate decided by my own skill level or familiarity of the game.

My fate is 100% in their hands.

My fate is 0% in my hands.

I have no say over how the match goes.

I am just a robot attachment.

Know why? Because I’m just an added attachment clipped onto a DPS hero. I’m no longer a hero, I’m just like a car modification.

I no longer feel. I no longer think. I no longer have any influence on the outcome of the game.

I am Mercy. I am the attachment you picked up from that car shop that you augmented your beaterwagon with in order to make it slightly better.

The grand sum of my contributions is how good the DPS I am attached to does.

Know what my new Mercy fantasy is?

QUITTING MERCY.

Remember how in old school MMORPGs you’d need to have another window open with a mana-dispenser class leveled?

That’s all Mercy is now clearly. A literal bot attachment used to fuel the gameplay of the DPS.