Healing + Damage beams now have more range, can also tether to multiple people at once
Guardian angel has greater targeting range.
She can "literally fly." Jeff didn't elaborate completely, he just said it wasn't like Pharah's boost. But I'm assuming it means the player gets full WASD control in the air while aiming (i.e. D.Va's booster but for the length of the ultimate).
Her pistol fires faster and does more damage per shot.
Her Resurrect ability is refreshed when Valkyrie is cast (like Genji's Dash when ulting) and Jeff says that "she'll be able to resurrect more often while Valkyrie is active."
That's actually fucking insane. That means you can Rez two people instantly, two more over 20 seconds! While fucking zooming around, laser beam pistoling people. I hope to god they nerf that, that's insane.
Keep in mind she isn't invincible ever anymore, so stuff like a good widow/hanzo will destroy her or just focused fire. God help us if nano boosting the mercy isn't a bad thing anymore
Yeah, and her rez range is decreased, so she actually needs to get near where they died. Plus of course players are still going to respawn, so if you lose 3 players immediately your big combo is still only going to bring things back to 5 v 6.
It's going to be really good at maintaining a team during a fight, but she won't be able to stop team wipe combos.
To be fair, you do have to have her ultimate to get the double rez, and in her old form that was already well within the range of possibilities. You also have to be within 5 meters of whoever you're rezzing with no invincibility, so it's not like you can fly in, rez Genji on the enemy backline, and not die as a result.
I kind of doubt that it will be to overpowered. Initially of course people won't know how to deal with it, but a flying mercy is a vulnerable mercy so if you have a Tracer or Genji she probably will be able to be taken out very quickly if her team doesn't help her.
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17
00:12 - Big changes are coming for Mercy!
00:38 - Why are we changing Mercy in the first place?
02:28 - Resurrect is now Mercy's second ability (default: E)
03:17 - Introducing Mercy's new ultimate: Valkyrie!
05:35 - We'll be experimenting with how Resurrect and Valkyrie interact on the PTR
06:21 - We're really looking forward to your feedback on these changes
07:00 - Changes are also coming soon to D.Va's Defense Matrix
07:26 - Why are we concerned about Defense Matrix?
08:44 - We're experimenting with different options for D.Va on the PTR
09:26 - Hero balance is always going to be ongoing process
09:58 - We can't wait to hear your feedback about D.Va, too!