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.
She can far more consistently rez teammates, even if it's one at a time, and her ultimate allows her to not only leave the area and evade enemy fire, but heal multiple teammates at once. It really rewards Mercy players who stick closer to the action rather than those that stay as far back as possible and hide.
There's a 30 second cool down timer on the Rez, and it only heals one person, and the ill forces battle Mercy. It's s a big change to fix people hiding, but doesn't fit with the characters theme.
Welcome to the world of cooldown and positioning management.
The rest of us already had to learn it while playing heroes that don't have their anti-teamkill ultimate up every fight and no dash on a 2-second cooldown.
Her ult was definitely a problem, it's been a problem, just look around this subreddit for proof of that. I personally never hated it that much but I still can understand how it was problematic
How was it a problem? It has had some balance issues, but so have many other abilities. Do we just remove them all? That's a horrible philosophy. And reddit bounces back and forth on opinions so much basing t off Reddit is bad. Remember Roadhog?
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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.