Give Mercy Invulnerability?

[Ryan-111758]

@barbieǃ-1965

Good points, I agree with you. I’m just trying as many ideas as I can to just make her a bit more fun to play and I know fun is “subjective” but I personally dont find holding right click fun at all.

I understand that. I currently really love her but have several ideas to make her more fun/engaging and not too strong.

Ideally, I’d have them:

Reduce Valkyrie to 10-12 seconds
Increase her GA speed by 25% during it
Main beam heals 80 HPS, chains heal 50 HPS
Unleashes an AoE burst of 100 healing upon activation

These changes would make her more fast paced, bursty, and impactful. Shaving off 5 seconds of duration would be the trade off.

Or they could do something like:
Ressurect can be used on a living ally to heal them to full health, sets it on a 15 second cooldown instead of 30.

Or

Pressing R/reload while your staff is out temporarily boosts her healing output from 55 to 75 for 4 seconds. Has a cooldown of 10 seconds.

Or

Mercy gains a new passive called “Critical Care” which

• Increases her GA speed by 35% when flying to a critical health teammate
• Increases her healing by 25% when healing a critical health teammate

to give her better life saving potential.

There’s a lot of changes which would make her much more unique, interesting, impactful, whatever you want to call it. But you have to make sure they don’t lack counterplay/etc.

I see where you are coming from completely, trust me.

@barbieǃ-1965

And I hate when people tell me to play someone else because why should I play someone else, when I like Mercy’s model, lore, and kit and just want her to have a little more oomf, you know? I feel like a Mercy advocate lol. This was just a small idea I had in adding to her kit, you have some great counters to it, I’m not saying oh this is what I want, this is what she needs, its just a n jdea to the many ideas out there. Thanks for your feedback!

Yeah, I get that 100%! In fact I even used that same word “oomph” when I asked Geoff to give her some sort of healing boost ability xD

@GeoffGoodman

I think that’s certainly possible. Overall her healing output is still higher than the other healers, which she pays for by not being able to split focus and do other things while healing. I’d also love to be able to increase the power of her damage boosting, but it causes a lot of issues with various breakpoints where suddenly X hero can one-shot 200 health heroes etc. There are other ways to make it feel better without just adding raw damage though, we’ll see.

But that was two months ago, kind of sad we haven’t seen any sort of changes to her, not even the damage boost buffs he wanted to implement. Guess we will just have to wait and see, I guess!