10/28/2024
Mend and Mar
- Mercy now heals all allies within 20 meters for 150% of the damage she deals while not in Valkyrie, previously 100%. Healing for damage dealt while Valkyrie is active remains at 200%.
Power for a Price
- Caduceus Staff's damage boost now heals attached targets for 10% of their damage dealt to enemies, previously 7.5%.
Sustained Servant
- The cooldown is reduced to 7 seconds, previously 10 seconds.
Witches Never Die
- We have increased the health of the shield health from the deployed Barrier Projector to 600 from 300.
Fall from Grace
- While using Angelic Descent, Movement Speed is now increased by 20%, previously 15%.
8/20/2024
Developer Comment: Mercy's Guardian Angel movement enables her to be highly evasive and difficult to engage with for many heroes, but is also one of the most fun parts of her ability kit so we'd like to keep that strength, so we're moving her to 225 HP and increasing the output of her Caduceus Staff beams.
- Base health reduced from 250 to 225.
Caduceus Staff
- Primary fire healing increased from 55 to 60 health per second.
- Secondary fire damage boost increased from 25% to 30%.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Goodbye, 0 damage numbers!
Caduceus Staff
- Damage boost from Secondary Fire removed.
- Secondary Fire is now Damage Staff. (Ability 2 on Controller.)
- Damage Staff Fires Caduceus Blaster projectiles.
- Projectiles have a smaller size.
- Size gets bigger during ult.
- 2 more damage.
- Projectiles reload automatically while not firing.
- Projectiles reload at twice the speed while healing or after 4 seconds without firing.
- Can fire projectiles at a reduced firing speed if healing beam is active.
- Healing beam can heal at a reduced rate if Damage Staff is active.
Caduceus Blaster
- Removed.
2/20/2024
Caduceus Blaster
- Base projectile size reduced from 0.25 to 0.2 meters. Total projectile size is now 0.3 meters.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 250.
Guardian Angel
- Active duration on jump/crouch cancel reduced from 1.5 to 1 second.
Sympathetic Recovery
- Health recovered increased from 25% to 40% of healing dealt.
12/5/2023
Developer Comments: This is just a small quality-of-life improvement to help keep Mercy healing or powering up her allies without penalty for activating her ultimate.
Valkyrie
• Activating Valkyrie no longer disconnects Caduceus Staff from its target.
10/31/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Crouch Activates Glide - On by default.
- Automatically Toggle Angelic Decent After Guardian Angel - Off by default.
- Rise During Valkyrie With Ability 3 - Off by default.
10/10/2023
Added the hero-specific options:
- Toggle Angelic Descent - Off by default.
- Secondary Fire Activates Angelic Descent on Gamepad - On by default.
8/10/2023
Developer Comment: Damage amplification effects have been an often discussed topic lately, and Mercy has been performing strongly at all skill ranks. We’re reducing the potency of Mercy’s damage boost beam but want to make sure it stays powerful enough to feel like an effective and interesting gameplay choice, as making the decision between healing or damage boosting is core to Mercy’s gameplay.
Caduceus Staff
- Secondary fire damage boost reduced from 30 to 25%.
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Caduceus Blaster Input - Primary Fire by default
- Relative Caduceus Blaster Aim Sensitivity - 100% by default
- Relative Caduceus Blaster Gyro Aim Sensitivity - 100% by default (only available on gyro-supported platforms)
4/11/2023
Developer Comments: The recent increase to Guardian Angel's jump-cancel mobility still needs to be kept in check in some way, but while the last iteration was simple, it also had some unintended effects, such as not being ready to use GA again after flying in and using Resurrect. This revision provides more flexibility, and allows Mercy to opt into an additional 1.5 second cooldown when using the increased mobility from the jump/crouch cancel options or otherwise waiting for the base cooldown time.
The increased healing multiplier condition on Caduceus Staff was intended to help Mercy players feel more agency in trying to save critical-health allies and to add depth to the healing mechanic without changing the total time to heal to full health. However, the overall rebalance of the healing values received significant negative feedback, both from those playing as Mercy and those playing against it. There wasn't a satisfying middle ground where we could reduce the potency of this effect while still having it feel impactful, so we're reverting it.
Caduceus Staff
- Healing-per-second increased from 45 to 55
- Healing is no longer increased for allies under half health
Guardian Angel
- Cooldown reduced from 2.5 to 1.5 seconds
- Jump and Crouch cancel active ability state duration increased from 1.0 to 1.5 seconds
- The Jump and Crouch cancel active ability state can no longer be manually interrupted to begin the cooldown early
Valkyrie
- Support role passive healing is now active for the duration of Valkyrie
2/7/2023
Developer Comment: Replacing Mercy's Regeneration passive with a more interesting interaction was something we wanted to do after all support heroes gained a similar version of it through their Role Passive.
For the Caduceus Staff change, this will empower Mercy even more as a triage healer and enable her to more often save low health allies. The overall time it takes to fully heal a 200-health hero from 1 hp is about the same as before.
For Guardian Angel, the cooldown increase is necessary to reduce the greatly increased mobility resulting from the recent rework to the jump cancel. It enabled Mercy to quickly launch herself long distances in any direction and be overly evasive for such a short downtime.
Guardian Angel
- Cooldown increased from 1.5 to 2.5 seconds
- Holding the backwards directional input and canceling the ability with Jump now moves 20% slower
Caduceus Staff
- Healing-per-second reduced from 55 to 45
- Healing is increased by 50% for allies under half health
Regeneration (Passive)
- "Regeneration" Passive removed
NEW! Sympathetic Recovery (Passive)
- Mercy heals herself for 25% of healing done with the Caduceus Staff
12/6/2022
Developer comments: This is a change that will enable Mercy to better defend herself or even go on the offensive at times. In 5v5 these situations occur much more often.
- Weapon swap time reduced from 0.5 to 0.35 seconds
Caduceus Blaster
- Ammo increased from 20 to 25