Hey everyone! Hate rez on E? Let’s put our heads together and brainstorm a replacement ability that Mercy can use much more often.
Let’s not talk about Mercy’s ult here, okay? It might stay Valkyrie, it might go back to mass rez, or even become something completely new. Just assume that whatever ult you prefer will be on Mercy’s Q, while we talk about her E slot.
Feel free to post your own ideas below, and if they’re not already here I’ll add them to the op.
For the sake of a streamlined post, I’m going to separate all E ideas into three categories: Utility, Mobility, and Other.
Utility
Abilities for Mercy to aid her team
Leap of faith
Mercy sends an interact prompt to the ally she’s tethered to. If they accept, Mercy can quickly move them around with her beam for 2 seconds. If Mercy brings her ally too close to the edge of the map, Leap of Faith automatically cancels.
Projected fortify
Resource meter ability. Mercy lowers her staff and channels a fortify buff onto a teammate.
Pacify
Mercy fires a bolt of energy from the end of her staff. Enemies hit with Pacify will deal less damage for a few seconds.
Reader suggestions
Mobility
Abilities for Mercy to position herself indepenently
Valkyrie
Free flight and longer beams/GA range for a few seconds
Superjump
Clone of Pharah’s jump jet, with an added AoE knockback on takeoff
Flare gun
Mercy pulls out her pistol and shoots out an artificial soul. She can use Guardian Angel on it until it fades.
Wing flap
Space-bar ability. A copy of Hanzo’s lunge, modified to be half as slow but twice as high. Mercy gets two charges, represented by a wing icon on each side of her crosshairs. Activated by doubletapping spacebar (or whatever button jump is bound to).
Other
Abilities that don't fit into the first two categories
Apply a condition to someone for like 30-70% damage reduction at range of about the length of healing/dmg boost beams and have like a 8-10 second cooldown, but the effect lasts 2-4 seconds.
Cleanse: placing an aura around a target, making them immune/removing CC effects for x seconds. (x second cooldown)
Pro-active Resurrect: Places an effect on a target that lasts x seconds. increases targets healing received by x%, If target dies within effects duration, target is brought back to life) effect is visible to enemies
Spear: Throws her staff at a targeted location, deals minor damage and knocks enemies back. the staff stays planted for x seconds and Mercy can use it as a GA target. Mercy is unable to use her heal beam/damage boost until the effect runs out, or Mercy GA’s to it.
Change her ult to a Mass Rez that she can use even on herself while dead, that leaves all rezzed players invulnerable with the speed and damage effects of Nano Boost 1.0 for 30 seconds.
Bro it’s totally gonna get locked… eventually. I made this thread knowing full well that it will last (at best) 24 hours before it gets redirected to the megathread. Mecy-related discussion that isn’t praise, demands for nerfs, or lore-related never lasts long on the main forums.
But that then conflicts with her lore. Making artificial souls is pretty controversial tbh, therefore, it would make more sense for Moira to have such an ability (remove GA ofc).
