Why is no one talking about mercy?

[GreyFalcon-11737]

@Pawsitivity-1402

Mercy

So I didn’t vet these ideas with many Mercy mains yet.

But what ya think?

@GreyFalcon-11737

• Mercy - Damage Boost: Can’t boost headshots at long range
• -Problem: It’s difficult to balance ranged burst damage, especially a pocketed Widow.
• -Solution: Permanently solves that issue… Now range limits… are limits.
• -Result: Most ELOs wouldn’t have even really been using this much, and the ones that do hate it. So they’d love that it’s gone.

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• Mercy - Rez: Literally the same OW1 PVE Rez, where it puts a bot on the player and it autorezzes. But just swap the bot out for a hologram of Mercy (i.e. Repurposed EchoMercy variant) or some other VFX Magic Spell. But the trick is the Hologram has 200hp, and it doesn’t move at all. And the autorez has a long deploy time. (i.e. 1.75sec or 2sec) Then just play around the with HP values and bot-deploy-cast time.
• -Problem: A lot of people really don’t like Rez, and the tech to make it even somewhat legit is really glitchy. A lot of Mercy players really don’t like Rez, because they gotta stop doing the mobility thing, and stand still like a target practice dummy.
• -Solution: Easy fix, just make it a deployable that can be destroyed. Throw some pretty VFX on it, and make skin-specific VFX, and you’d even make some extra money off of this.
• -Result: Generally a lot less people will be aggro about Mercy. She’s way easier to balance across multiple ELOs, and this ability will be usually less useful at high ELO because people have better aim.

@GreyFalcon-11737

Mercy - Guardian Angel: Just give them back their 1.5sec GA already sheesh. Heck, maybe even go wild and block the current GA mechanics, and allow for “Legacy GA” in the options menu as a different control scheme. I don’t really see the harm in that.

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• Mercy - Valkyrie: Any player Mercy has healed in the last 2 seconds, gets 25hp when casting Valk.
• Because apparently it’s hard to code the beam not breaking, or the visuals are off. Who knows So just make it kinda like a really tiny/restricted aura heal. It’s 25hp, it’s not much, and it would usually only affect 1 player, but it would emotionally make a big different to Mercy mains. Just trust me on this.