Why can Reaper hide and ult, but I can't peek and res

SonnyTater-1204 · August 6, 2018, 3:08pm

Well being angry isn’t going to help you in any way.

You don’t need to remove Valk to balance Mercy. Valk should stay.

Yet another Mercy idea - Serious suggestions for balanced Valk!

I dont think Mercy will ever be reverted and Res still seems to be a big issue for people so I was thinking… what are some ways to change her without making it feel like a hard nerf. Hows this:

Caduceus Staff

I think the 50HPS should stay instead of 60HPS. I think that is a positive change for the game in general.

Caduceus Blaster

Increase projectile speed to 45 (up from 40)

Resurrect

Resurrect becomes a new ability called “Guardian Spirit”. Mercy places a “buff” on a friendly target. Allies with Guardian Spirit receive a shiny halo over their hero.

Guardian Spirit:

Cast time: instant cast

Cooldown: 15 seconds (cooldown starts after Guardian Spirit expires)

Duration: 5 seconds

Effect: While effected with this buff, all healing Mercy does on other targets is also applied to the ally with Guardian Spirit at 1.5x the normal rate (75HPS). Healing the buffed ally directly will also heal at 75HPS.

Applying Guardian Spirit does NOT BREAK beam tether on targets

Valkyrie - Valk upgrades Mercys other abilities

Caduceus Staff:

single target beam at 75HPS AND 30% Damage Boost

Caduceus Blaster:

ammo increased to 40 (up from 20)

Guardian Spirit:

transforms the ability to Resurrect and resets the cooldown

Resurrect:

Range: 7 meters (up from 5 meters)

Cooldown: 6 seconds (down from 30)

Cast time: 1.10 second (down from 1.75)

Movement speed: reduced by 15% (down from 75%)

Resurrect does break beam tether

I think this would be a unique way to tie Resurrect to the ultimate ability again without sacrificing much power to Mercy. There is more room with this version for some nice skillful plays since Valk resets the cooldown on Guardian Spirit.

It would be possible to overlap Guardian Spirit with Res. You could apply Guardian Spirit on your tank, pop Valk and fly to your critical health DPS player and still manage to heal both targets. You would only ever be able to heal a max of 2 targets at once since Mercy should be the single/dual target healer anyway.

To make up for this, you can potentially get 2 Res’s during your ult period and since the cooldown is shorter, you are going to come out of Valk with the ability to use Guardian Spirit again.