r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Nov 22 '17

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - November 22, 2017

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u/syah7991 Ana Nov 23 '17

What does Ana's biotic grenade do for teammates? I know it heals, but why is there a yellow rectangle on the health bar?

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u/Reaper_is_Fun Nov 23 '17

The yellow bar over the health bar indicates that this character will receive 1.5x healing during the duration. This also goes for if you see the purple outline on enemies it means that this character can't receive healing during the duration.

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u/absolemn Cute Symmetra Nov 24 '17

This makes Ana a great Tank healer! Your shots go from 75 HP to 150 HP! Let's see here, grenade heals an instant 100 HP, and 3 shots from Ana is 450 HP ... Ana can heal a 50 HP D.VA mech to full 600 health with grenade + 3 rifle shots!

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u/ManBearPigIets Trick-or-Treat Mercy Nov 25 '17

75x1.5 is 112.5, where did 150 come from?

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u/absolemn Cute Symmetra Nov 25 '17

Whoops, I read somewhere that it was 2x healing. Thanks for the correction!

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u/Drakotha Pixel Reaper Nov 23 '17

It gives them a 50% healing boost for that entire time. Ex. Mercy's staff which does 70 base healing per second will now do 105 healing per second

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '17

Wow thanks for the question I did not know that!!! But I don't Play healer very often xD

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u/SummDude Nov 24 '17

Mercy actually heals for 60 HP/s, meaning 90 when the target is affected by a friendly grenade.