How the new Synastry works

[Sapphidia]

Just did some testing on the buffs to Synastry and it's.... FAR stronger than the patch notes make out.

Synastry heals the target for 40% of any single target heal you cast EVEN HEALS YOU CAST ON THE MAIN TARGET OR YOURSELF.

If you cast Synastry on the tank and then cast Benefic on the tank for 3000, the tank will be healed for 3000 + 1200. This is in addition to the 20% healing boost, so what -would- have been a 3000 Benefic turns into a 3600 + 1400 heal. 5000. It's a +66% healing boost on the target if you spam them.

The 20 second healing boost debuff is a separate buff on yourself - also note that you can't extend Synastry via Time Dilation as before - it extends the target's duration to 35 seconds but both buffs fall off when the healer's one runs out.

Also, it seems AOE heals and heals over time do not proc the synastry effect as before, so if you cast Aspected Benefic neither the AOE heal nor the HoT it leaves will heal the Synastry target more than once. This is to be expected though!

Still... wow. Say hello to the strongest tank healing cooldown in the game.

(cross posting a post of mine from reddit, apologies for those reading it there too).