I know it's called Damage Boost, but unlike other healers Ana is using her weapon to heal allies, so maybe it would increase her healing. Does anyone know how these two abilities affect each other?
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Both interesting points- I may be able to test this. Shouldn't be too difficult– KizTrapAug 22, 2016 at 12:26
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Why would the method of delivering the heal change the fact it's a heal and not damage?– Nathan KAug 22, 2016 at 13:20
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1@NathanK because it's from the same weapon that damages enemies, no other healer delivers that way. Seemed plausible in my head anyway– mjrAug 22, 2016 at 13:26
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3I'd be more interested to know Mercy's damage boost interacts with Ana's damage, since Ana's damage is DoT (damage over time). Does the boost last the full DoT, or only while Ana is boosted? If Ana attacks and then gets boosted, does the DoT still get partially boosted?– BlueRaja - Danny PflughoeftAug 22, 2016 at 20:50
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1@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft what your looking for may be answered here: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/265085/…– hammythepigAug 22, 2016 at 21:12
3 Answers
No.
Mercy's Damage Boost alternate-fire increases the damage as the damage event occurs. As Ana's projectile only heals or deals damage on contact, the projectile itself cannot be "boosted".
Furthermore, as Ana's damaging shots are damage-over-time based, we can compare this directly with Widowmaker's Venom Mine.
As we know, her Venom Mine deals 75 damage over 5 seconds (source). This means that, if a Mercy is boosting a Widomaker for only half the duration, half of the ticks are not boosted.
Using this logic, Mercy's damage boost on an Ana projectile striking a friendly target will not register as a damage event, thus the healing will not be boosted.
If the Asker requires, I can provide some quick footage displaying this when I am able to test with 3 other people.
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The damage event clause is exactly what I'm looking for. Your logic makes sense, in-game testing is always nice but not required :P– mjrSep 26, 2016 at 13:40
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"the projectile itself cannot be "boosted"." - So mercy can't boost junkrat?– JakeJul 28, 2017 at 20:29
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@Jake Mercy can boost Junkrat- but she needs to be boosting him the moment the projectile hits the target, not when it leaves the weapon. If she cancels her beam while the projectile is in flight, it will not increase the damage of the projectile when it strikes.– KizTrapAug 23, 2017 at 10:58
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Ok: so similarly, Mercy can boost Ana's damage so long as the boost is applied as the DoT is ticking away health. Thanks! I had read in some places that Mercy couldn't boost Ana at all which didn't make any sense to me.– JakeAug 24, 2017 at 5:16
Her alt fire is DMG boost. Damage is the key word, her DMG boost on Lucio and Ana will not effect their healing
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From the wording it sounds like you're just guessing. Have you tested this in the game? Sep 25, 2016 at 17:34
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2The difference on Lucio is his healing does not come from the same source his damage does.– KizTrapSep 26, 2016 at 11:56
No, they don't with each other.