DPS and Supports alike can agree that nobody wanted res as E. But that also means Mercy mains still didn’t get proper kit evolution, something to contribute with. Just like D.Va holding down defense matrix, Mercy can get boring, she’s never encouraged to defend herself or swap weapons even though her output has been nerfed to the level of healers who can self-defend.
The E I would like is her highlight intro Battle Angel. It gives Mercy a vertical boost, and 5 seconds of reflection, during this time any damage aimed at her will be blocked and sent back for half damage.
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Agreed.
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I’m more than happy to see resurrect disappear for good in favor of something more dynamic. Resurrect at this point is just dragging the character down
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I agree
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I wouldn’t mind it either. It only worked as an ultimate nostalgia wise
Hmm… actually an interesting idea… but Deflect on Genji is broken as hell… kinda doubt it would be balanced on Mercy then.
Mercy was designed about Ressurect … it’d be like if they removed Tracer’s Chrono powers, Phara’s flight Lucios Music, Widows Range or Half the Healthpool of every tank
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Current res feels terrible but so does current valk… I am not sure if a new ability would fix that.
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So what? every time resurrects removal is suggested, the first defense somebody comes up with is “it’s her identity”. That is a crap reason to hold onto a miserable ability that nobody can agree on an acceptable state.
Mercy will forever remain 1-dimensional as long as we keep trying to balance her around it. Nearly every other aspect of her rework was either nerfed or removed just to compensate for resurrects power, That’s awful.
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Problem is, if they add that Genji can’t deflect it. And we all know Genji mains think Genji is currently unplayable because deflect isn’t making him invincible anymore…
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I think it feels bad because there’s nothing else to her. Res valk heal valk boost valk. Having a third ability for defense would make her feel more dimensional
I love Ressurect tho and it’s why I player Mercy 
It feels so good to sneakily Rez your Winston and save the fight
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Meaning your still hide and ressing, which is why she needs the self defense E
New ability: Lightning spear (Directly ripped from Attack on Titan)
Damage:100.
Mercy throws her staff like a spear and has penetrating damage. Deals blast damage when thrown from the air.
Drawback: Mercy is in pistol mode until she retrieves her staff.
“Just don’t shoot the angel”
…no thanks
Mercy and Genji are vastly different, and having reflective immunity is not the same as a deflective increased hitbox that goes through walls
To reply realistcly: Do you honestly think Blizz is gonna have that effort to remove Rez, completely redesign her character, adapt that to the lore just to still get sh*t on by a ton of their playerbase?
With that amount of effort they’d have to put in for nothing removing Mercy all together would be more logical, which would still earn a ton of flack and a loss of many players since there are still a lot of Mercy mains out there and it would send another signal of “We don’t care about support player’s opinions!”
They basically have to keep her the way she is and balance her around ressurect… and they need to change it again since E to rez is something noone is really happy about for the “Press E to die” feeling for Most Mercy Players and E still being a normal ability for most other players.
Ressurect was designed to be an Ultimate Ability… changing that just brought this entire S**tshow rolling since I can’t recall any massive hate posts about it before the rework at all.
Resurrect only became problematic for balance when it was turned into a basic ability, almost as if it was meant to be an ultimate or something… Imagine trying to turn Tactical Visor or Dragonblade (or some other strong ult) into a basic ability. It would basically end up causing similar problems.
All rez needs is to be reinstated as an ult as it was originally designed to be, with some modifications such as requiring line of sight and maybe a little channel time (based on number of people being rezzed?) to prevent some of the cheesier situations it got used in.
I think this would be cool. Maybe they could keep rez in Valkyrie if you press Q again when it’s active.
Here are two things I think could conceivably work:
A Fire Strike-like ability that does ~50 damage and reduces the damage output of any enemies it hits by ~20% for a few seconds.
A speed boost for mercy for a few seconds (perhaps also including flight) that also makes it so that any damage she takes in the duration heals teammates in an AOE around her.
Also, I wish they would make it so switching between weapons for Mercy was much faster, as in nearly instantaneous.
I dont understand how this is still a conversation.
There are so many Mercys out there absolutely killing it now that theyve learned how to Rez.
Leave her alone IMO.
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Meaning your still hide and ressing
Lol? Pulling off a sneaky rez is different from hiding and rezzing… One works, and one counts as throwing
By “sneaky rezzes” I mean swooping in behind the enemy team when they don’t see you to bring back your rein who got hooked into the choke. Rez is hard to pull off, but I wouldnt ever trade it for anything 
It’s such a tricky but effective ability to use