InB4 “Mass rez has been gone for two years give it a rest let it go give it up move on it’s never coming back”
Put down the broken record, please. If you have an argument to present on why adding mass rez back would hurt more than it helps, I’m all ears.
Bring more than a bluff to a battle of wits.
The devs did another global ult charge nerf to try and deter ult stacking. I’ve played the PTR, and it’s already clear that it hasn’t worked.
“Ult stacking”, also known as “ult spam” is when you use 3 or more ults to guarantee control of the objective by overpowering any amount of shielding or healing your enemies could bring to bear - Even if they used defensive ults, like sound barrier or trance.
Like GOATS, ult stacking a cheesy tactic that exploits the natural game mechanics to create something that bypasses all normal counterplay routes.
You can say “but if they use all their ults, they won’t have any for the next push”
You don’t need any ults for the next push if you’ve already won. A teamwipe garuntees the other team the objective, and since this is an objective-based game that means that it can guarantee them the match.
The only time that ult stacking wasn’t an “I win” button was when Mercy and Symmetra had ults that could counter teamwipes. Mercy with her mass rez, and Symmetra with her teleporter.
Yes, there were a few player behavior problems with multirez, and it’s viabiltiy waned as you climbed the ranks. But I will stress that these are issues that are fixable with the right balance changes.
Consider the following proposal:
Mass rez becomes Mercy’s ult again. But there’s few critical changes to how it’s used that gives it better counterplay, makes it less frustrating to play against, and adds some extra functionality for helping the living as well as the dead.
There’d be a LoS restriction, and if Mercy were to die before her allies are finished reviving (which takes 2.75 seconds) then her ult is cancelled and partly-revived players are immediately sent to their spawn. “Just kill the Mercy” becomes legit counterplay, hooray!
For the sake of her living allies, any teammates caught in Rez’s range would receive a hefty heal-over-time for 3 seconds (roughly the same amount of time it takes for a dead player to revive)… and maybe an extra status buff, to differentiate it from Zen’s trance.
Ult charge nerfs aren’t working. We need a strong deterrent to ult stacking. If no one has any better ideas, bringing back mass rez into Mercy’s kit is our best option. Now that the threat of GOATS (where the only way to kill anything was ult stacking), is gone, mass rez can come back without the risk of it supercharging tank-heavy comps.
Mass rez could be annoying to play against, but what ult isn’t? Like Sombra’s hack, it’s a nessecary evil for the health of the game.