Mercy used her light to blind the driver in the Storm Rising trailer (at the end).
Would any of you like this as a new ult (blinding people’s screen for a few seconds) ?
I know many FPS games such as Rainbow Six use this feature (Blitz for instance).
Thoughts ?
Having this as an ability on cooldown would be horrible though… we don’t want our eyes damaged !
Edit : Adding a blinding light that lasts 2-3 seconds max whenever she pops her Valkyrie ult could be it.
I think it’s just special effects to make the trailer more epic. If that’s actually an ability I don’t know how I’d feel about it.
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Doesn’t seem like a support ult to me
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Still more useful than Symm’s ult and Symm’s not even a support anymore.
Same. This was just a question to collect people’s thoughts about it. It also reminded me there were no “blinding” abilities in the game yet. I’m a former Rainbow Six player and it made me think of an agent called “Blitz” that could blind people in front him.
Edit : Now that I think about it, it doesn’t have to be an ult on its own. Some people still find Valkyrie to be underpowered so adding a “blinding light” to her ult when she pops it could a little something when it comes to game impact.
Maybe something like 2-3 sec only blindness.
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The only ultimate that I see well on mercy is the rez (I don’t say the mass rez, even single). Or blizzard decides to remove the rez
Would much rather have Valkyrie over a blinding effect.
Save the blinding effect for a new hero imo.
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I would be mad if that was her new ultimate, I really like Valkyrie
Well support doesn’t necessarily mean heal, it could just be anything that assists your team to do something they couldn’t do without you. Baptiste’s ult boosts your damage, Brig gives you armour, it’s perfectly feasible for a support ult to blind the enemy to help her teammates retreat to safety or engage the enemy with a quick sight advantage.
Looks more like a highlight to me
Will Winston be able to flip cars with his new ultimate?
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Yet no comment on the HOVERBIKE?!
No pls not a flying blitz
I don’t think I could handle that.
Haha, well if it’s just one-mini blitz for 2 seconds when she pops her Valkyrie ult, it could add some skill ceiling to Mercy.
Soldier could still use his visor ult for instance and whenever you hide behind a wall or in a room, the blinding light would not reach you.
It could also force Mercy to use her ult to escape which can be good to the enemies that already force Zen’s trans to win fights.
It would be funny though, Mercy 1.0 had to hide to have a good mass rez, now the enemies would have to hide from Mercy not to get blinded xD !
Isn’t that just a perfect turn of events ?
I think it could be a cool ult. Maybe have her fly up into the air then raise her staff, releasing a pulse light, blinding enemies and healing allies?
Not the allies. It’s as if Dva’s ult could kill allies, it doesn’t make sense and both Mercy and Dva would get so much rants from their teammates.
The way I see it is when Mercy pops her Valkyrie, it blinds people in a radius close to Sombra’s EMP.
If people are hidden behind walls or rooms and not in LoS of Mercy, then they wouldn’t be blinded by her light.
I think that was just special effects from her wings, dont think it actually blinded them but they were more likely startled at the winged person coming towards them.
It was clearly part of the plan to stop the car : Mercy blinded the driver that had to slow down a bit and Genji was ready to slash the car !
It kinda confirms the new mission is gonna be a pursuit / chase (it’s even hinted in the trailer with the “chase the truth” sentence).
I just hope it’s not on a timer to achieve the mission. Achieving Legendary difficulty is already hard enough with random players, if we have a timer then it’s gonna be even harder to play as a team !