Turning Resurrect into a "Mini Ultimate"

General Discussion
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Let’s talk about Mercy and her last nerf and how I, a Mercy main feel about it.
So her last nerf reduced the healing output of her Caduceu Staff by 10Hps (or roughly 17%) which may not sound like much, but actually really affects her healing output.

So why was this change needed? Mercy was still ridiculously OP in the last patch, she had an incredible high healing output, the best ability and a super fast charging ultimate, that provides AoE healing and makes Mercy really hard to hit. Therefor Blizzard attempted to nerf two thing at once, her high healing and fast charging Ultimate. (Obviously her ult needs to charge longer, if her healing output is reduced). Her Rez remains, after many previous changes, the same.

The problem with this is that her healing feels very weak and kinda useless now and rez remains a very annoying ability to the enemy team, making Mercy neither much fun to play, or to play against.

A better Solution in my opinion would be to revert the changes to her normal healing output to 60 hps and instead directly nerf her insane ult and Rez. This could be done by transforming her resurrection ability into a real “mini Ultimate” by making her Rez cost 10% to 20% Ult charge.
(The rest of Ressurect is still the same -> single Person Rez, 1.75s casting time and 30 second cooldown).
This would increase the risk of Resurrect and decrease the frequency of Valkyrie, without changing her core function as a healer.
The obvious Questing would now be what happens when I rez during Valk? Do I get a free Rez or is there a another downside to this? Well, I am not sure about this part, but if there were a downside I think it should reduce the length of Valkyrie by 3 to 5 seconds as soon as you attempt to Rez during your Ultimate.

With this change her focus would be back on her strong healing output and not as of now, on rez. This would also enable Players to play Mercy with different Play styles, one may prefer to Rez, others may find her ultimate more attractive and want to use it as frequently as before, but have to give up on some resurrections in return.

All I can say in the end is that I always loved Mercy and was never so keen on her change in the first place and always hated that she turned into a must pick, but this nerf just took the joy out of her. Healing, as previously mentioned doesn’t really feel right anymore, resurrect is still super strong and to be honest Valkyrie is still charging at a ridiculously high rate.

So please Blizzard make Mercy the strong healer she’s supposed to be, even if it means to nerf Resurrect yet again.

Thank you for reading this wall of text and I apologize for my bad English skills.

Edit: Resurrect would still have a 30 second cooldown.

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They should just revert the healing, take Rez off E and onto Q, and give it a max Rez of 3 people but have a shorter charge. Discourages hide and seek play

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And how would you\the game choose which three people get res’d by hitting Q when there are 4-5 people in the same area? Just give her the old ult and put a watered down Valk on E and call it a day.

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I always preffered her Ultimate Resurrect over her ability and would totally agree with your changes, but Blizzard said multiple times that they have no intention to bring back her ultimate, so we have to work with what the have and I find my solution to be a good compromise.

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Like this?

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I’ll design something slightly different, give me a minute in photoshop xd

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This would work as well, but Blizzard mentioned on many occasions that Old Rez will never return and by Mini Ultimate I mean that Rez requires 10% to 20% ult charge to use.

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The limit of 3 sounds kinda bad. What if it gets 3 people but none of them are a tank? Either all in range or you should be able to pick who.

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What sort of ultimate would it be if Q was Valk Ultimate, and E was Rez Ultimate, and either one consumed all the Ult charge?

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Wouldn’t be a bad idea in theory.

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Valk can be activted as soon as you gain 100% Ult charge and deplets it all, Rez works just like now, but needs and consumes a certain amount of Ult charge (10% to 20%).

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Dunno if being able to rez the same player 3x times in a row without any cooldown would be a good idea.

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It would still have a 30 second cooldown

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this sounds good to me. But is this ult charge like a tax, tagged on with the cooldown? Or is the cooldown removed and now she can rez whenever she has 20% ultimate? and if she has like 80% can she do 4 rezzes really quickly? I would prefer it functions like that, but with a higher toll, lets go with 30% ult. And during her ult she can use it to get 5 rezzes total, and since it lasts 15 seconds then each rez would take 3 seconds off the timer.

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I think something like this would look better:

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Just have a 2nd ultimate bar that res is linked to and give her back 60hp/s.

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That does look better.

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The cooldown remains and you can only resurrect one person during Valk.

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OP wants to post something xd

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Blizzard repeatedly said that her old Ult will never return so this isn’t an option.