The Ressurrect Issue

So, mercy has been nerfed heavily and it’s highly controversial. Although Mercy is known for being two things (easy to use but high skill cap and ressurrect) Blizzard has wanted to change that. With the new resurrect, Mercy can only bring one hero into the fight with a 1.75 cast time. This is an awful change. Mercy can’t res during a team fight which is what it was meant for, now it’s just before a fight or after, which is similar to Reaper’s very old soul passive - Blizzard changed it because they wanted him to be more useful in the fight, not after it.

The quick fix:

  • Make res earnable.

    • Make it so that you don’t just get res on a cooldown, maybe make a resource bar that charges when healing, damage boosting, etc.
    • This will encourage people to do their job as a mercy more and focus on earning res to contribute to the team
    • Res animation time changes to .75 seconds
    • Is harder to charge res during Valkyrie
  • Re-rework Mercy

    • Ultimate is Resurrect again

    • Charges 50% slower

    • 1 second cast time

    • can only res 3 people at max in a medium radius

    • Make Valkyrie an E Ability

      • Allows mercy to be in Valkyrie but only chain to TEO heroes at a time, and is on a 30 second cooldown.
      • Duration shortened to 5 seconds
      • Regeneration is no longer instant, but starts at .5 seconds instead of 1.
      • This will help initiate team fights but not make it too op, as regeneration is nerfed from instant to .5 seconds, so consistent damage can keep her from (seemingly) never dying

These are only a few ways you can fix mercy, or give her something that channels have talked about, where a selected target is invulnerable for a short period of time. Resurrect is one of the trickiest abilities to work in a FPS game, and probably always will be. Mercy has a large fan base but also a large disliking in the community, as if you kill a main dps on the enemy team, mercy can simply res it if behind a barrier, which isn’t that fun for the enemy team to deal with. However, Valkyrie as an ultimate and res on an animation duration feels awful for a mercy player, so if the cost to get res was raised and the duration was slight lowered, mercy might be more fair.

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