[Feedback Thread Continued] Mercy Updates - Jan 30, 2018

[Racillian-1752]

@FutureDoctor-11910

Yes, though I disagree about Valkyrie but agree with the res.

Fair enough, but I would have you consider this:

@Macster-11267

Resurrect (Q)

• New LOS Requirement

• New Blockable by Barriers (Because if you can’t kill a person behind a barrier why should you be able to Resurrect them from behind one)

• New 1.75 Second Cast time with no movement penalty

• 15M Radius

• New Resurrect will now heal allies that are still alive to full HP

• (Added because Mercy was reliant on her team dying to make Resurrect useful)

• New After the cast time, Mercy will have her health fully restored

• (Instead of Invulnerability since Mercy was able to solo carry games with her old ultimate)

• New Can be cast even if allies aren’t dead to fully restore HP to all allies

• New 1950 Ultimate Charge Rate increased to 2200 Ultimate Charge Rate

Valkyrie (E)

• 5 Second Active time

• 15 Second Cooldown

• Unlimited Ammo

• Flight Speed back to when it was first released

• New Uninterrupted Passive Regen Removed

• New Either Stronger Single Target Beam 80HPS and 40%DMB OR Chain Healing/DMB will be 50% weaker so 30HPS and 15%DMB

• Increased GA Range

• New Beam Range distance reduced to 1.5x from 2.0x.

• Guardian Angel (Shift)

• Remains unchanged

I think this will put a new skill ceiling onto Mercy which is desperately needed. Resurrect as an E ability on a CD just feels cheap and wrong. It needs to be earned again. The changes to Resurrect as an ultimate will give Mercy more flexibility and freedom and bring back her game-changing aspect back which she desperately needs again. The New additions will solve the problems that Mass Resurrect needed in order to make it fair to play against. Cast time isn’t bad or unhealthy and will require a lot more skill to pull it off but the slow is just unhealthy and doesn’t flow with her kit.

Valkyrie as an E ability would work much better than an ultimate. It will give the Mercy more freedom and more playmaking options. I like the versatility that Valkyrie has brought Mercy and it’s a good addition to her kit. It should enhance Mercy’s SUIT and WEAPONS, not her ABILITIES! Having an E ability to use freely and effectively is what she needs. She needs to have something to use that she isn’t dependent on her ultimate and Resurrect to be effective.

Thou I would consider the EeveeA suggestion on the Blaster:

@EeveeA-1334

• Remove Infinite ammo, Fire Rate Increased 20%

Infinite ammo serves no direct purpose and discourages helpful gameplay. Removing infinite ammo and increasing fire rate (6/s during ult) allows the pistol to be more lethal in bursts yet empties the clip faster (3.33s during ult), taking up ult time if the player wants to reload and continue shooting (1.5s to reload…). Therefore, this change results in pistol being targetedly useful for self defense or for securing a kill, rather than dedicating a majority of Valkyrie to shoot people.