Mercy Overwatch changes have been released this year which have really changed the way the healer is used in combat.
And while Players enjoying the new Overwatch Halloween event, the development team are busy trying out some new ideas.
Blizzard use the PTR on PC to test out all the changes they’re thinking about implementing in the core game.
And now a new build has been released which affects Overwatch’s Mercy, again.
This latest tweak gives Mercy a free Resurrect charge when she uses Valkyrie, which is only available for the duration of her Ultimate move, Valkyrie.
It looks like Blizzard have been trying to reduce the amount of Resurrects the healer can pull off in a game, although this latest change does bring a bit of balance to it.
The development team recently released another Mercy PTR tweak, which saw Valkyrie stop reducing Resurrect’s cooldown and instead doubled its range.
Now Blizzard have produced their latest work on Mercy, which also affect her flying capabilities too.
This is the latest from Blizzard on the subject: “Mercy can now get an unlock boost from her guardian angel by using the jump key. This unlocks you from your target and lets you fly past them for a little bit, and sort of use your target like a slingshot.
“This somewhat replicates some of the behavior the recent Mercy zero-air resistance bug caused, but in a way that is more consistent and with less buggy side effects.
“Valkyrie has also changed a bit, in regards to how it affects Resurrect. It no longer increases the range of res, it now instead gives you one free ‘charge’ of res that you can use any time during Valkyrie.
“I do not use this free res, it will be removed when Valkyrie ends. Valkyrie still no longer affects Resurrect’s cooldown directly now, but this method preserves some amount of ‘burst ressing’ when needed, while making it more flexible to use.
“For example, in the past if you want to res two targets with Valkyrie, you had to first res one target, then ult (causing the cooldown to reset), then res the other target. With this new change you can now hit Valkyrie first, fly in quickly and res two targets instantly.
“However, overall this still reduces the overall numbers of Resurrects Mercy can provide since Valkyrie no longer reduces its cooldown.
“We have also made some changes to Lucio’s speed boost when jumping off a wall to try to compensate for the super-boost bug fix that just went out. He now gets a more significant boost off a wall.”
It’s unclear if these latest changes will be ready to launch during the current Overwatch Halloween event.
It ends on November 2, so we could see some kind of implementation before the end of the month.