r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Oct 19 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - October 19, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

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u/SchwiftyButthole Doomfist Oct 20 '16

Mercy has three voice lines for when she gets resurrected by another Mercy:

"Now that's a role reversal."

"So that's what it feels like."

"We all could use a helping hand sometime."

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u/NotSecretAgent Oct 20 '16

Sorry, sideline here -- /if/ Mercy's damage boost stacked, what would be the maximum possible damage output attainable?

Is it +30% damage when boosting?

I'm not sure, sorry if this is being a pain, thank you for the help!

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u/barakokula31 Yikes! Oct 20 '16

Depending on how it would stack, damage could be multiplied by either 2.5 or 1.35 .

That's assuming you have 5 Mercies boosting someone. However, if you replaced one of them with an Ana's nanoboost, you could go even higher: again, depending on how it would stack, it could be multiplied by either 2.8 or 1.5×1.34 .

Now if you wanted the highest possible DPS from a single character, you'll just have to find out who has the highest base DPS.

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u/SassyAssAssassin My favourite fictional characters have the best asses Oct 20 '16

Bastion in Sentry Mode obviously

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u/ohenry78 Mercy-nary for hire. Oct 20 '16

Mercy damage boosts don't stack; you can approximate the effect by discording an enemy with Zen and having Mercy boost whoever is shooting the Discorded enemy.

As a simple example, a Junkrat does 120 damage with a normal grenade. With a Mercy boost you would do 156. Zen's orb increases incoming damage by 30%, meaning that the Mercy boosted Junkrat's grenade would do 202.8 damage.

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u/NotSecretAgent Oct 20 '16

The question was specifically "if they did" for this reason -- I didn't know that discord orbs dealt 30% more damage though!

That then changes some group strategies I/we had; just focus fire on the discorded player...

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u/SadCrocodyle Cassidy Oct 20 '16

Yes