I made a post yesterday about exactly that, I didn’t feel like quoting myself when I wrote in this topic, but here you go:
By “redistribute” I mean, give her back her 60hp/s and give her a new E-ability that’s not as insanenly difficult to balance as Resurrect. Possibly a new ultimate as well. I offered ideas for that above. Whether or not they’re good I cannot say. But I like the idea of them, how they’d feel to play, a lot better than what we currently have. They’re not even my own ideas, I read them somewhere and liked them.
I can only agree with you here, the synergy that Valkyrie and Resurrect used to have and were intended to have, has been removed without compensating in any way.
I feel your pain, I had the same experience this season. I’m “lucky” that Mercy is only my second favourite character to play as, so I always happily play Moira if I have the chance or Mercy doesn’t work out.
I think so too. A lot of people do, apparently. But I doubt we’ll get it back. That’s why I’m actively advocating to remove resurrect altogether to hopefully finally make Mercy fun again in some other way. Because I also think that can be done, possibly more easily than trying to get them to revert back to mass rez (with changes).
i tried,
too bad they shut down any mercy forums and call it unfit or straight up calling it toxic commentary,
even though the toxicity and hate are coming from people who hate mercy,
and those trolls get away while the mercy player is getting suspended for no good reason,
it’s so bad that it’s making me question if there aren’t other people that could do the job better.
She stopped being fun, when a) resurrect became E ability and b) we got independent mobility, at the cost of ultimate.
Resurrect still strongest ability Mercy has, but it’s not earned and relies on luck more, than on your own choices: if random enemy decides to walk through that empty area, where you were busy resurrecting teammate, you are most likely dead.
Valkyrie removes multiple things: mastering GA, mastering healing management, mastering using damage boost at the correct moments. And it doesn’t have power spike ultimates usually have, either.
Like I said, 2/3 of her kit is changed. Then there’s her base healing. Almost everything about her got changed therefore it is understandable if people no longer find her fun to play.
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Nice try, but it’s true: resurrect is luck based now. Only choice you get to make is use or don’t use it. If something changes in those 1.7 s, success can slip out of your hands. Even most guaranteed, and safest option, resurrecting in empty area with no enemies present, is no foolproof against random enemy looking there for health pack…just to find you standing still.