Another way that might help and I do that when I play Mercy is ask however needs most heals to come closer to the spawn so the that I can guardian angel/fly to them quickly, heal them and help the rest of the team as well.

I do that if they're on voice. If not, I'll just use the Group Up signal and hope they "get it".

Yea I sometimes reply with the "Acknowledge" option but sometimes they continue to spam since they're not paying attention. I honestly never considered the "Group up with me" option (and never ever use it tbh) but that is a good idea. Sometimes they're either pushing too far forward and it's dangerous for the healer, or you can't get there in time before they die.

I'm one of those people who creates my own party and never uses the in-game voice chat to talk to other players. Just not my thing. Course I could always just remove my mic since it's detachable from my headset but I don't like listening to people whine or complain either lol.

I'll be glad when the double XP weekend is over so I can get back to playing normally. It shouldn't take me five headshots to kill someone.

lol, I'm glad I wasn't the only one asking that. For a moment it made sense to me, but then I remembered I was thinking about playing Total Mayhem and not the XP thing.

Because the lag is killing me.

Sooo how did everyone do during the anniversary event? Did you get what you wanted? I ended up getting a decent amount of skins (but I'm ashamed of how much money I put into loot boxes LOL). I got the skins for Tracer, Pharah, Symmetra, Lucio, Genji, Mei and D.Va. I purchased Genji's since I had been wanting it. I would've liked to get Hanzo's and Bastion's skins but oh well. I also bought Zenyatta's dance emote since that was the one thing I really wanted but never got it through a loot box lol.

Overall I'm kind of glad things are back to normal now because I kicked myself every time I purchased additional loot boxes lol. It made it worse when most of them contained duplicates, sprays/icons, or legendary skins that you can get at any time (and aren't event-specific). The drop rates were really horrible, especially since they had "100+ anniversary items" but only a small number were actually skins.

I got absolutely nothing of value from my non-purchased loot boxes so I too spent an embarrassing amount of money on boxes. And yup, seeing all those "here come three grays and a blue!" animations killed me slowly. I ended up getting everything I wanted except the Symmetra skin- I got Lucio, Pharah, Mei, Tracer, Genji, Hanzo, and Bastion (I wish we could gift/trade skins, lol, I never play Hanzo or Bastion and have skins for both that I like more) and a number of dance emotes. I bought D.va's skin and Tracer's dance emote, those were really the only two must-haves I didn't get.

Also I'm so glad this event got me hooked on the 3v3 elimination; I was playing a game where it was down to me and the other team's last person, both of us as D.va, the point has unlocked, and we proceed to stand on the point firing at each other long enough for each of us to get shot out of our suits and then get back in two times each before I charged theirs off the point. Dueling D.vas is the highlight of my entire Overwatch experience and has taken years off my life in stress.

I ended up getting pretty much everything I wanted between unboxing and spending currency. The only things I didn't were Tracer and Genji's skins, which I just thought looked cool but didn't buy because I never play them.

I'm kind of hoping there's a break before the next event so I can take days off without feeling like I'm missing something and so I can save up some currency again :/

I got D.Va's, Symmetra's skins that I cared about, plus a few others on people I don't care for. I cared more about getting the dances and voice lines for the ones I play because they'll be useful / fun in any skin. Plus, salty Mercy lines give me life.

Oh my god, I laughed so hard at her new "you're welcome" line. I wish they'd make salty medic lines for the other healers, too (though it might be a bit out-of-character for Lucio...).

Here is a video of most of the Overwatch VAs doing their characters' dance emotes; it is super charming!

I think Lucio would sound disappointed and encouraging, not salty.

Even at launch Mercy had so many tired or salty lines. I hate the fandom characterization of her as kindly loving team mom. She is much more complex and much more in conflict with the ideals of the rest of the team.

I think Lucio would sound disappointed and encouraging, not salty.

Even at launch Mercy had so many tired or salty lines. I hate the fandom characterization of her as kindly loving team mom. She is much more complex and much more in conflict with the ideals of the rest of the team. I guess I want the lines for the people playing healer more than for the characters? Mercy's really the only one who has that trait "built-in", but lbr, all healer mains are secretly filled with rage even if we're playing Lucio.

I think there's a little bit of Team Mom in Mercy, but it's very much jaded by the time of the game. I guess people could be overplaying it in fanworks or something but I haven't read any fanfic in forever so idk.

She's a team mom but an overworked and exhausted one. Who wishes her damn team learned to dodge.

Yes, exactly.

And what is with that? I can understand the tanks having a bit of a hard time, but offense heroes really need to learn to step out of the way sometimes.

That's one of the boons of maining Mercy; you learn to do all those things, and then when you go and play DPS you're better at it than you thought because you've learned by example -- mostly bad examples to avoid emulating.

lol, yeah. I learned that before I moved to Overwatch (though I wish it was as easy to run around and dodge with Mercy as it is with Medic; I still haven't quite gotten the hang of it with her, or maybe it's just because the teams are a lot smaller in OW so there aren't as many people to hide behind...)

Playing all the different roles is probably just a good idea in general so you know what they need from you in your preferred slot, and to work on different skills.

I hadn't played a FPS since the original DOOM in the 1990s ... so there's been a bunch of learning. But the game I was playing before was a tank simulator so the same kind of mindset of tactical thinking was required, and pinpoint aim. And why a tank simulator? Because one of my fictional characters was a tank commander in her younger life so I needed to be able to see the world from that mindset