merics should be better

[night wigeon]

literally just revert the stats of the meric back to the SE counterpart.
180 health
Dmg: 8
Heal Amount: 20
Then you increase the healing rate, increase the cost, decrease the troop housing space, and improve the AI
boom you have a fully functioning meric that might be useful

[rose kernel]

SE meric would kinda suck in the sw3 environment

Only problem with meric in sw3 is that it’s healing rate is trash

[night wigeon]

yeah thats the main thing the meric has going for it

And its trash

i have heard GM say their bubble shield is powerful tho

[near pawn]

Let's us break it down.
20 healing with max temple is insane.
Dmg is bad acutally, as now the meric is wasting time dealing damage instead of healing.
30 more health ain't gonna do much.
No more shield.
Increase in cost.
And what do you mean improve AI? There it nothing to improve. You can just use the hold command if your merics run into frontlines.

Massive nerfs for a small benefit

Makes meric more RNG dependant and reduces skill

This is clearly a from me

[night wigeon]

the healing buff is definitely needed though. merics very bad rn

also merics can keep the shield though

give them a cure/heal toggle = more skill

the cost is to balance out the buffs they get

yea the AI shouldn't be running into the front lines though, but still more of a quality of life change

[small wren]

bruh

[strong pollen]

Cure/heal toggle is gonna be clutch against dot sources. Tho since meric can outheal volt & burn, I'd remove her ability to cure these which is funny enuf a buff.

Max temple & +20 heal & increased rate is actually nutz. But +20 & increased rate w/ no temple is ok especially if ur gonna revert gold cost to 300. Max temple does make meric gud, but the thing is magic units r rly dependent on temple to be gud, cuz base meric now is actual garbage. I'd go w/ the +20 heal (& maybe the higher rate) like u said but nerf temple to 15%/30%. So temple makes meric go from viable to gud instead of useless to gud.

Also, temple nerf means cost increase isn't prolly needed for my changes.

Also, dmg would make them more independent of other units. Defo dont wanna see meric spam bruh.

[dire hemlock]

Whole meric is a trash because there is so much better healing options than merics

[ruby urchin]

Honestly, depends on your strat, because merics have overall the best healing in exchange for being more expensive than other heal sources and taking up population

[keen copper]

Tf is dmg

[ruby urchin]

Merics also have the shield ability

[ruby urchin]

Damage

[dire hemlock]

What about population

?

[ruby urchin]

I already said that

[dire hemlock]

But

[keen copper]

Ik but merics Don't have damage

[ruby urchin]

I mistook this for a different post

Anyways

Merics had damage in sw2 and SE

And this post wants to bring back sw2/SE merics, which also means giving them damage

[strong pollen]

In SE they do, pr sure if u disable their heal & cure, they start picking fights

[dire hemlock]

Any way the merics a
Takes population and literally useless against any spell because heavy healing wisp gives 60 hp per second and healing ward give heal to a whole army

[dire hemlock]

You are also right

[ruby urchin]

Healing ward is legit the most useless healing source

[dire hemlock]

And I am talking about population again and again because they are useful in any spam

[dire hemlock]

N o

They are better

Than merics

Fast and more heals

[ruby urchin]

Also if HHW healed 60 HP per second, it'd be enough to heal 2 speartons, while HHW in reality can't even fully heal a spearton

[ruby urchin]

No

Merics are better

[dire hemlock]

But in a close and fight hhw is useful

[strong pollen]

Funny enuf, I think merics r better @ healing. Against constant dot sources, ward is arguably better.

Still worse than wisp & vamp lmao

[dire hemlock]

And in starts they are exllent in starts against archer spamer

[dire hemlock]

100%

[ruby urchin]

Against constant dot sources, merics are still better in most cases, you'll just need more micro

[dire hemlock]

Ya that's right that mana or crystal is also required

But any way they are slow

And some time they run in farther than front lines

[strong pollen]

Meric useless against volt bruh, this reflects current game meta

[dire hemlock]

And if it's reaper grabbed a spearton then the whole meric group will run before spearton

And dies

Most

Times

[ruby urchin]

Against constant dot sources, merics can at least protect your backline from being sniped by a single tdead, while hw can only do it for a period of time and your backline is back to being poisoned to death

[ruby urchin]

Hold command:

[dire hemlock]

90% fails

[ruby urchin]

That's a problem with your game then

You're probably lagging too much, that is a very common cause of the hold command being a moron

[dire hemlock]

That's a glitch during big fight

[ruby urchin]

Lag

[dire hemlock]

Exactly

[strong pollen]

Frontline busted tho. & W/ ward, u can stuff ur army w/ more pop to fight better.

Thera tho.......

[ruby urchin]

Thera is the better healing ward

Especially because of temple

[strong pollen]

Yeah, ironic cuz her ward is free. Temple makes it recharge even faster than the spell.

So, her ward is just better

[near pawn]

No, they are not

They just need either brilliance or manaburst

So buffing them while nerfing brilliance and manaburst would be more then enough