WHM: An idea to change the freecure trap and to encourage using damage spells

[glamazon]

If we’re thinking of new healer type abilities what about physicals upgrades to life line which ties the healers own health to the target draining the healer to heal? Or what about a spell called equilibrium which would balance the groups health so everyone had an equal amount?

[Seraphor]

If we’re thinking of new healer type abilities what about physicals upgrades to life line which ties the healers own health to the target draining the healer to heal? Or what about a spell called equilibrium which would balance the groups health so everyone had an equal amount?

Draining HP from the healer sounds like a very bad idea...

[Raikai]

There was always this debacle on what a WHM actually brings to the table and the answer was always "more healing". But in many occasions it's really just overhealing.

It would really be nice if the "boon" was actually WHM being able to do more personal dps without sacrificing a lot of healing, so yeah... I don't know if what the OP suggests is the best route, but something connecting Stone/Glare to a proc that would benefit healing would be nice.

[glamazon]

How about whm brings cc or if not that then extra dps

AST brings buffs not just dmg buffs

SCH brings debufffs

New healer can be jack of all trades w melee strikes that heals and buffs and debuffs

[AnotherPerson]

If we’re thinking of new healer type abilities what about physicals upgrades to life line which ties the healers own health to the target draining the healer to heal? Or what about a spell called equilibrium which would balance the groups health so everyone had an equal amount?

Incoming Raidwide damage pretty much make that skill effectively useless and equilibrium already exists in the WAR kit, but it's just a flat potency self-heal instead of a balance HP spell. Honestly though, I can see the Balance HP spell being used even less since tanks have much higher amounts of HP at lv 80. if the total HP of the whole party was pooled together and then redistributed, the tanks would be losing a ridiculous amount of HP which makes them more even more vulnerable to tankbusters since the HP values in ShB skews the tank's HP by a ridiculous margin. That can easily cause wipes.

[glamazon]

The more I learn about this game the more it seems they have designed themselves into a corner.

[Lyth]

I think that the main issues with healing are that there isn't enough outgoing single target damage to adequately threaten your tanks (and the squishies in your party when the tanks die), that fights don't adequately force resource attrition/management, and there isn't enough reactive/variable elements to healing to keep you on your toes. When you can write out the entire damage script for a fight in advance, healing becomes an exercise in spreadsheet creation.

DPS is a separate issue. Tanks and healer damage output are progressively dropping off relative to damage dealers. Exciting dps rotations are almost an academic point if your skilled gameplay only provides a marginal contribution/benefit to your team. There has to be other new ways that healers can provide value, or else that gap between damage dealers and tanks/healers has to be much more narrow.

If we’re thinking of new healer type abilities what about physicals upgrades to life line which ties the healers own health to the target draining the healer to heal? Or what about a spell called equilibrium which would balance the groups health so everyone had an equal amount?

The original Guild Wars had a really fun ability called "Transfuse Health". It took away half your present health, and healed the target for double the amount lost. With a 1/4s cast time, it was also about 8 times faster than your standard heals. Made for some really interesting PvP situations. You couldn't die from it because it just halves your health, but it still had an interesting risk/reward dynamic to it.