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[Zolvolt]

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Revisiting this now. I've got some break downs for you. I'll use some PF M3s and M2s here that I did last week. M2S is particularly good for auto-attack damage being really high.

M2s:



1.15 Mil healed in auto-attack damage.

Bole: 27.5k 5casts
Ewer: 127.0k 5 casts
Spire: 142.35 5 casts
total: 296.85k

Exaltation: 39.2k 25.3k 3 casts
Total: 64.5k

Celestial Intersection: 103.6k
Intersection: 453k
Total: 556.6k 18 casts

Essential Dignity: 261.2k 8 casts

GCD
Benefic II: 39.1k 1 cast
Aspected Benefic: 177.8k 3 casts

When you say 239k is nothing in terms of healing I just am baffled because here, on an 85th percentile healing parse of a highly damaging encounter, Essential dignity was only 261k, 3 GCD casts are only 177k, Even if I doubled my Exaltation mitigation and healing it would only be 129k. Celestial Intersection is the only thing better than the cards here, and thats only because it can be used so much more frequently, it trumps everything and thats not a bad thing. Because it doesn't compete against the cards for mitigation places. Out of 1.15 Million auto attack damage healed, you can utilize cards to counter a quarter of that all on their own.


Bole, and exaltation both have higher potential too. But 296k from play 2 and play 3 is a lot. Also keep in mind that the affect of arrow is difficult to parse though 20.5 rhps makes it the least useful ability.





M3s has less auto-damage but more frequent and damaging tank busters.
694.4k healed auto attacks
674k tank buster healed
total: 1.3 million total

Bole: 74.6k 6 casts
Spire: 140.6k 5 casts
Ewer: 146.2k 6 casts
Total: 361.4k

Exaltation: 137.6k 159.2k 7 casts
Total:296.8k

Celestial Intersection: 100.7k
Intersection:502.8k
Total: 603.5k 19 casts

Essential Dignity: 628.4k 14 casts

GCD Casts:
Aspected Benefic: 57.4k 1 cast

Essential dignity finds a lot more spot healing uses in this fight, for both tanks and non-tanks. Essential Dignity joins intersection as a power-house tool here because of it. But Exaltation still struggles to reach the power of the cards.

I'm not the best player in the world, (most of aren't) but even to me it is so obvious how strong the cards are throughout these encounters to the point that it is bananas how many people are looking down on them. the only card that needs to be looked at right now is arrow and even then it still has consistent use-cases but it is admittedly more difficult to use properly than the other cards.