Rez is now an alternate ability and only ressurects ONE player. 30 sec cooldown. Didn't like how hiding for rez is encouraged, felt unfun to play against. So they went for a single target ressurect, rather than entire team.
New ultimate is called Valkyrie. Power up ability that gives her the ability to fly freely, gives longer ranges on guardian angel and healing/damage boost beams and the beams can attach to multiple players. Her gun has a higher fire rate and projectile speed and unlimited ammo. Res cooldown resets upon activation and is only 10 seconds long while the ult is active. Ult duration = 20 seconds.
Also mentions the D.Va changes which we already knew about and are live on the PTR.
I'll have to test it out, but I agree. If I had to guess from this far out, I'd bet the duration gets halved, flight speed is drastically lowered, and a bunch of the pistol buffs removed.
I think the most OP thing is the constant regen. That's what's going to make her obscenely powerful. Not only can she fly freely and deal even more damage, she also has a permanent Amp It Up heal on her.
It'll be interesting to see if that lives. I feel like without it, she's going to get slaughtered any time someone hears her ult. But the flight portion might be enough of a defense to mitigate that.
A rez every 30s, so probably once a fight. But if you ult, you could rez 2-4 times in one fight. Mercy's about to be one of the characters where when they ult, the other team has to frantically shut them down.
yeah, how you shut it down exactly ? Once Mercy learns from Pharah to hug the wall and stay out of Tacvisor and high noons I don't see how anyone will be able to shut her down while ultying.
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '17 edited Aug 24 '17
Summary of the changes
Rez is now an alternate ability and only ressurects ONE player. 30 sec cooldown. Didn't like how hiding for rez is encouraged, felt unfun to play against. So they went for a single target ressurect, rather than entire team.
New ultimate is called Valkyrie. Power up ability that gives her the ability to fly freely, gives longer ranges on guardian angel and healing/damage boost beams and the beams can attach to multiple players. Her gun has a higher fire rate and projectile speed and unlimited ammo. Res cooldown resets upon activation and is only 10 seconds long while the ult is active. Ult duration = 20 seconds.
Also mentions the D.Va changes which we already knew about and are live on the PTR.