Game director Jeff Kaplan discusses upcoming changes to Mercy and D.Va which are currently available for testing on the PTR.
Learn more: http://blizz.ly/2wrXbAa
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!
As a D.Va player, these changes feel like the opposite they are intended to be, they feel unfun. I am a tank, my role is to attract damage and protect teammates. I can’t do that with half the Defense Matrix duration and same recharge rate. And missiles are not what we need, if I wanted more damage output, I wouldn’t be playing a tank.
Edit: Ok, this is kinda blowing up so I’ll develop further. Is Defense Matrix OP? Maybe, but I don’t think this is a good direction to go. Maybe half the recharge rate too? That way is similar overall uptime but you can’t delete ults that easily.
Also, you guys act like like DM is unstoppable. I love when I’m playing Zarya and a D.Va tries to DM in my face. And about the ults, yeah, she can eat them, but you wouldn’t use 76’s ult when Rein’s on the choke with full shield, right? Then why would you try to use Barrage when you know D.Va is around?
Too bad this game is dead!
Hiding in the right moment is how you play mercy. Mercy is all about position. People want Mercy players to hide in order to turn the teamfight. Same goes for enemy team. I dont like those new changes because she will be less Mercy and her playstyle will completely change, Ana or Zen will take her place in competitive because none of those changes give her a good reason to be played more.
This is how you make a hero boring. People want to win games not fly around. And the damage buff on the gun will make people throw more games because the will go suicide with ult on and stop healing and go all in with the gun and die.
Why so much hate? Do you know how crushing it feels to get a team wipe which you worked so hard on and then mercy just comes out and resurrects everyone? The changes would not only make it more fun to play against mercy, but I’m also gonna start playing mercy now. THe changes make her much more engaging than hiding in a corner not doing anything then coming out and ruining the enemies psychologically. If you say you’re not gonna play overwatch because of those changes, you shouldn’t be playing overwatch in the first place. I’m not saying everyone who doesn’t like the changes is a one trick mercy, just sharing my opinion on a topic that I really think should not even be an issue.
EDIT: I now see how some of you might be mad at those changes. I still stand by my opinion and I like the mercy changes, but that is my opinion and I can see why some of you will be angry about it. Still think the ones that are saying they’re gonna quit overwatch are overexaggerating.
REPLY
Honestly not happy with this
Roadhog still isn’t getting any love… Feels bad man.
Im a Mercy main and I say… THIS IS EPIC!!!
1. Reviving is now constant which I like.
2. Her new ULT sounds like a lot of fun (I am battle Mercy BTW) and cant wait to play ;D
3. She definetly will have a higher skill cap now which will be fun to re master her.
4. Thanks Blizzard 🙂
I’m both shocked and highly interested in these changes. D.va and Mercy were two characters who I thought didn’t take much skill and were always boring in game-play (D.va just shoots, blocks, flies, rinse, lather, repeat. All Mercy does is patch up the team and resurrect, but nothing more skillful or exciting.) These changes turn those one-trick players on their heads and allow two characters to be more versatile and powerful, which is incredibly great for a support character who has never been big on independent game-play survival. I can’t wait to try them! (On a side note, I hope they do the same for my harambe-spirit animal Winston.)
To so cool and all but could we talk about how a good hanzo can 1 shot pretty much every character? What’s that bull?
Mercy, Reinhardt, Symmetra main here–
A- I’ve never seen a Mercy hide just to do a mass rez
B- I’ve never seen a Mercy tell people to die intentionally.
C- Single Rez is absurd, that would need to be nerfed for 3v3
D- “Valkyrie” is a poorly chosen name for that effect, however, if her flight mechanics aren’t dreadful and there’s a warning BEFORE IT ENDS then it could be a well rounded option.
E- If you think we hide to hit rez then you don’t know your players.
F- If you nerf a mass rez then nerf mass kills such as those of Pharah, Junkrat, DVa.
G- The counter to Defense Matrix is hitting her in the back, sides, or top… How you’ve missed that is beyond me, Jeff
Now what we really have to worry about is everyone yelling at us to Rez them “REZ ME!,” “NO REZ ME I HAVE MY ULT!!!” Oh god it’s just ringing in my ears…
I think new Mercy should have an ult like Symmetras, she get to choose between two kind of ults. One is the regular rezzurect, and the other one this we have now. I understand that almoat everybody is gonna choose rez, because that is much more OP, but you can also make it so you cant hold rez forever.
Like so they can see.
Stupid decision from you Blizzard. It’s your most played hero and now you can expect a lot of Mercy mains who will stop playing Mercy / Overwatch. You simply ruined the hero and I am saying it as someone who never play Mercy. Instead of punishing trolls and fixing the matchmaking system so people will pick balanced compositions with support players and not go 6 dps, you ruin heroes that should not be touched. RIP Roadhog, RIP Mercy. Hello broken one punch Doomfist.
I hope those 10k dislikes will wake you up and get the message blizzard and jeff……
“Hey guys it’s Jeff and we wanted to make sure that mercy isn’t required in team comp so we made her even more required in team comp”
Oh hey, the braindead healbot now takes some actual skill and judgement!
Now the Mercy mains cry.
as a mercy main since beta… i think this change is for the better. the old play style was too simplistic and lame at times and rez was so broken with its charge speed i’d have it every 30 secconds lol. i love how we can fly now these changes seem super awesome keep up the awesome work overwatch dev team! 🙂
People don’t realize how good this mercy update is lol
Everyone acting like this is a nerf, this is a huge buff to mercy