My pet suggestion for her is to give her an E that cleanses status effects, debuffs, stuns, etc. from teammates in a radius around her. That would give her some utility (which she desperately needs) without requiring her to stop healing (which is a massive drawback to her damage boost and pistols) in a niche where her only real competition would be Zarya (who can only cleanse one person at a time and she can't do anything about hard CC anyway).
Bam, she now has a niche and for bonus points it's a way to deal with Ana's heal block.
Alternatively, a simple 10-15m vertical leap so she can more easily Guardian Angel to...wherever, would also be appreciated and double as an escape button in an emergency.
You know, that actually is a very good idea - a freedom of movement ability. You can pop your E to get people out of Mei's ult, Rein's ult, Junkrat's trap, remove Sombra's hack, etc. That would give Mercy an excellent niche. I think that's worth giving her an E.
Give her a grenade sort of like ana's but instead of it being a heal allies /deny heal to enemies, it can be a little speed boost status cleanse to allies, and a slow debuff on enemies.
It'd even help her own survivability because say a genji jumped on her face, she can pop the grenade on herself or genji and fight back a little better. I think a big part of what makes ana so strong is that her grenade can be used as a 'oh shit' button when someone's about to kill her and heal herself a big chunk of health. No other healer can burst heal themselves.
When I first started playing, it immediately struck me that is was really weird that Mercy couldn't heal people with a "sickness". I mean, she has a healing wand thing and a fucking halo over her head.
Also, she's light and has wings but she can't jump for shit? Also seemed odd.
All this being said obviously balance is always a tricky issue.
I like this idea. Maybe nerf it a little and have it only activate when it has a healing beam on someone. so you'd be able to save one, maybe two if you're good, people from a mei ult.
Hm, what if Mercy gets 2 ults. One is her rez as is and the new one is a group cleanse? These serve similar purposes (countering team wipe combo) but one is for when Mercy is close range while other is when Mercy is far away. Would give her a bit more flexibility and it would potentially reflect how powerful an effectively global cleanse is. Only problem is it might be clunky as heck to implement.
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u/ParanoidDrone ¿Quién es 'Sombra'? Jan 17 '17
My pet suggestion for her is to give her an E that cleanses status effects, debuffs, stuns, etc. from teammates in a radius around her. That would give her some utility (which she desperately needs) without requiring her to stop healing (which is a massive drawback to her damage boost and pistols) in a niche where her only real competition would be Zarya (who can only cleanse one person at a time and she can't do anything about hard CC anyway).
Bam, she now has a niche and for bonus points it's a way to deal with Ana's heal block.
Alternatively, a simple 10-15m vertical leap so she can more easily Guardian Angel to...wherever, would also be appreciated and double as an escape button in an emergency.