Let Mercy debuff enemies instead of Rez on E

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Mercy needs burst utility to help out in the midfight, but rez on cooldown is overkill. Either restrict rez to Valkyrie or make it her ult again, and fill the E slot with something that’s more engaging and can be used more often.

Case in point:

Pacify: Skillshot ability. 10 second cooldown.

Mercy briefly disconnects her beams to gather energy at the end of her staff, then fire it like a Symmetra orb. This orb is a Pacify debuff that reduces a single enemy’s damage for a few seconds.

This ability requires mechanical aim, so it’s a good introduction to FPS skills for new players who picked Mercy for her lock-on beams. It stays loyal to Mercy’s theme of “peaceful pacifist healer”, and would be described in-lore as Mercy trying to settle conflict by pleading with the enemy to consider a non-violent resolution.

Voice lines on impact:

“Please, you must calm down!”

“Can’t we talk this out?”

“Violence isn’t the answer!”

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I think we are craming more stuff into mercy and thats not good. I will forever miss, simple, yet fun old mercy :cry:

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Seems reasonable to me. And its unique. Nice :slight_smile:

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Brawl suggested something like this too

the idea is at the bottom!

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Brawl was a big inspiration for this post. I’m so happy that he finally posted his art of Pacify’s ability concept on these forums!