Curious as to what everyone thinks so…
I personally think rez is fundamentally flawed and is what holds mercy back.
It is an incredibly strong tool to be able to erase a kill in your team, but as long as your team is succeeding mercy’s kit seems lack lustre.
Now I understand that there’s an arguement to be made that if you don’t need to rez then I don’t see the issue.
But
Sometimes it’s not always possible to get a rez off in the first place.
I personally feel like getting rid of rez and adding a new ability that allowed for some sort of skill shot or timing ability could give mercy a more intuitive kit while not needing to buff the other aspects of her kit (which in my opinion is balanced)
Perhaps instead of Rez you could have an ability that applies a 2second or 1 second buff to any Allie that “if health drops below 1hp while buff persists, heal target for 200hp” long cooldown regardless of if it worked or not.
Let’s not debate the numbers of this idea so much as just the idea itself.
In the end all I’m getting at is I think that rez is what needs to be addressed in her kit because I feel like the rest of her kit is nicely balanced as is and is just missing that noticeable value/skill shot.
Valkyrie is what needs to be addressed. Valkyrie is what’s lacklustre. Mercy mains have said this from the start.
Putting AOE healing on a single target healer was never a good idea, and has proven to be a bad idea by the 50 HP’s nerf. When you use it, it’s boring as hell. It’s less useful as a support ability and more useful for escaping ults.
i personally don’t like the current version of rez since it doesn’t fit the rest of her kit, i very much prefer valkyrie to mass rez and this is what i wish mercy’s E ability was
I said this in another thread. Rez is the most powerful ability in the game. The only way mercy and her healing output would change is if they rid of Rez. However, I don’t believe they will so whilst it remains there is no argument to buff any of her kit or healing
Except it isn’t. Mercy has the lowest damage & healing (including damage amp) when combined compared to any other healer. Mercy’s Resurrect ability was also over-nerfed just like her healing to thrust her out of the meta because people were sick of the moth meta. She has not been properly revisited since then.
Mercy is either balanced or she isn’t. You could be right, or I could be right. If I’m right, then Mercy could get some buffs to help her out as she is struggling atm. Resurrect is too iconic for Mercy to straight up remove. Resurrect should at least be part of Valkyrie if you remove the ability from one of her regular ability slots.
Argued against this change back when they first introduced this “rework” on the PTR 2 years. That was also the time I learned that no matter what we say here, anything that gets put on the PTR is 95% chance of hitting live as is. Was also the day I quit Overwatch when it hit live servers.
They don’t freaking care. It’s just DPSwatch at this point.
Yeah, like why would they not at least somewhat revert the insane Baptiste fire-rate buff instead of gutting Immortality Field? I guess Blizzard wants fights to end quickly.
I think the old res could have been balanced, but Blizzard pride and laziness prevented that from happening. Also, Valkyrie is extremely boring and underwhelming.