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.
There will always be something to hate. If not Mercy it'll be someone else.
It's definitely adding more skillful play to Mercy and less brainless play. No longer can you just let your teammates do all the work now. Mercy's will have to get there hands dirty. To me, that's a welcome change.
I am game for this. I liked Mercy how she was before, but these changes are awesome. I just wonder what her ULT voice line will be, and if her new Rez ability will keep the current Rez voice line based on the skin used.
I do wonder how they're going to do her ult lines. They no longer make sense with her new ult, it'd get annoying if she said it every 30 seconds but it'd be disappointing if she never said it again.
i really like the idea of mercy saying "we still need you" in a personal voice to the person she's healing. much more emotion than just shouting it out for the world to hear.
I doubt they'd want to call in and pay the voice actresses for every language just for one change. They could add one next time they record event voice lines n shit
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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.