I think it's best we revert mercy now

General Discussion
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"Rez is too powerful.
We need to replace it with a more powerful rez."

:thinking: wut?

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But most mercy mains love the troll pick more than this current trainwreck created by the balance team.
Idk though for some mercy mains that likes her to be OP like 2.0 and the next iterations

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I think you inferred it wrong. And besides, being able to Resurrect only when in Valkyrie would make her more balanced as being able to Resurrect every 30 seconds is just too overpowered.

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Considering the average rez per game is 6, I highly doubt that.

Making it instant cast and used more than 6 times per game (on average), would not be a “nerf”.

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30s rez with cast time and mobility limitations isn’t all that bad compared to the craziness that was instarez. However, this meta also lends itself to where the Mercy is very safe to get the rez off on any given target. Shrug.

It’s funny how for so long the narrative was “omfg cast time rez with mobility limitations is useless!! It’s a death sentence!! I won’t do it!!!” To “Rez on CD is why she is OP!” Funny…

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I’ve seen like 20+ topics in the last week.

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Having the potential to Resurrect every 30 seconds by itself is not balanced. Just because the majority don’t get too many resses off doesn’t mean Resurrect on a 30 second CD is balanced.

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And what set of circumstances makes such a thing balanced? Having to ez farm charge for it?

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Well, I’d be fine with two slow rezzes in Valk, and possibly even one instant cast rez.

But not two instant cast rez. That’d just be a straight buff.

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As time goes on, peoples opinions change. Also, this is just a false stereotype made to antagonize the Mercy playerbase. Most players did not say that Resurrect with a cast time would kill Mercy.

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Any iteration of Resurrect only in Valkyrie would be alright with me. Anything to get rid of the mess that is current Mercy…

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Huh?

The majority of the complaints, at the time when cast time was introduced to rez, was that it was a death sentence to be basically standing still for nearly 2 seconds in order to rez someone. You are being a revisionist if you suggest anything else.

That’s not to say there weren’t people saying differently etc etc. Ofc there are. There always have been. I was just addressing the majority consensus and what was said the most on average.

Lot of Mercy mains seem to be trying to misrepresent what was being said during the different stages of the rework. Tsk tsk.

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In comparison to current Mercy, it would be more balanced as it would limit Resurrect to an earnable ultimate rather than a 30-second ability. I can’t, however, compare it to other supports because Resurrect is extremely powerful compared to other support abilities.

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Then slap a resource meter on single rez and done. No need for mass. And honestly doing so will just punish the majority of the playerbase. At highest levels itd be more of the same. Tanks would feed charge to the Mercy like they already do for all supportnults.

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Not the majority. It was just the few who overreacted to any Mercy nerf.

Well, I personally wouldn’t want to be generalized so negatively. Besides, the majority of Mercy mains didn’t even think this so ofc they’d want to preach their innocence.

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You with your 19 posts going to tell me how it went down?

Yes, the majority were pushing that narrative. I was there.

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Blizzard declined this suggestion claiming it was too complicated though the idea is good.

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Cool, I disagree so do the vast majority of players.

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We’ll be back to square one.

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:frowning: I’m posting with my smurf because I don’t want my main to be associated with any controversial threads in the forums. Trust me when I say that I was here when the nerfs came out.