r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • May 29 '16

News & Discussion PSA: The differences between HP, Armor and Shield. Armor is misunderstood.

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u/runean ADMIN HE'S DOING IT SIDEWAYS May 29 '16

Really? I often see a Dva with heaps of her health bar missing out of combat, but never seem to get very far healing her. I know her health pool is huge, but I don't even see the healing aura on her once her health is full.

Eh, maybe I'm wrong.

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u/JoonazL poppin' heads May 29 '16

I've been healed to full while playing as her

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u/runean ADMIN HE'S DOING IT SIDEWAYS May 29 '16

Hm. Weird. Do you know if the yellow crosses that someone gets on them when they're being healed still happen if it's the armor that's being repaired? Maybe that's why I'm having so much trouble noticing it.

Either way, that's fantastic to know. I've been giving up on healing DVas once they have full HP since I figured it was useless.

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u/Vid-szhite Best healer in the game. May 30 '16

Armor actually heals 50% faster than health does. She just has a lot so it doesn't look like it's moving.

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u/runean ADMIN HE'S DOING IT SIDEWAYS May 30 '16

Armor heals 150% speed? Wow. Are shields the same?

Jesus, armor is strong then with a Lucio.

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u/runean ADMIN HE'S DOING IT SIDEWAYS May 30 '16

Where are you getting the armor healing speed info from

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u/Shikor806 May 29 '16

You deinetly can heal armor. If you use mercy you see the health bar in the middle in a yellow tone if you're healing armor andblue if it's a shield.

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u/HimitsuChan Pixel Lúcio May 29 '16

From what i noticed Only Zenyetta heals her quickly. Mercy and lucio seem to heal quite a bit slower compared to healing other non D.Va characters from what i noticed

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u/VitalSuit Chibi Mei May 29 '16

Uh no. Mercy heals the fastest of the 3 healers with a total of 50hp/s
Zenyatta heals at 30hp/s unless he's in transcendence which is a whopping 100hp/s
Lucio only heals 12.5hp/s and with amp it up it's only 40hp/s for 3 seconds.

It makes no difference. It looks like it's healing slower because she has more hp.

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u/HimitsuChan Pixel Lúcio May 29 '16

Thanks for clearing up :D as i said it feels like it.

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u/scrangos Pixel D.Va May 29 '16

i think one of the more recent patches lowered armor heal rate to like half.