WHM DPS

[Ghishlain]

On paper, Dissipation as a healing CD isn't bad. Consider the following:

• Fairy Embrace is approximately 200 Potency every three seconds. Over the course of the 30s cooldown, you've lost 2,000 potency.
• Three AF charges will give you back 1,800 potency on Lustrate (2,000 if you use one charge on Indomitability in a two tank scenario). You've now made up or close to made up the amount of healing lost with the use of Dissipation.
• In the case of using all three charges are for Lustrate, you'll need an additional 3 Physicks to make up the remaining lost Potency from Fairy loss. Anything beyond these three Pysicks is icing on the healing cake.

Effectively what Dissipation does is front load a SCH's healing. Unfortunately, this is marred by two scenarios:

• The cost to resummon the Fairy requires 1,768 MP and generally Swiftcast to reduce downtime.
• There aren't enough scenarios in the game where a SCH needs to front load that much healing for that kind of duration. The only scenario I can think of is at the beginning of Wave 9 in A2S where ALL THE DAMAGE is going out at once for a prolonged period of time.

The MP cost to resummon the fairy is worth four Physicks and the only way a 20% healing buff makes up for that is if you Physick 20 times in those 30 seconds which is impossible to do, let alone the fact that you shouldn't need to be constantly healing for the entire duration of the buff. There's also the non-measurable cost of consuming your Swiftcast to resummon said Fairy quickly.

Just on the vein of "how to fix", I was just thinking that it would be neat if every time you use an AF stack for healing purposes (Lustrate, Indomitability, Sacred Soil) while Dissipation was active, it would provide a stacking buff that caps at three that reduces the cost of the Fairy resummon by 25% and cast time by 33% that lasts for 45 seconds. Maybe a little too wild but I liked the thought in my head. lol.

[Nekotee]

• Fairy Embrace is approximately 200 Potency every three seconds. Over the course of the 30s cooldown, you've lost 2,000 potency.
• Three AF charges will give you back 1,800 potency on Lustrate (2,000 if you use one charge on Indomitability in a two tank scenario). You've now made up or close to made up the amount of healing lost with the use of Dissipation.

Since dissipation give you a +20% healing bonus
shoulnd't the 3 lustrates have 2160 potency ?

[Werhusky]

Since dissipation give you a +20% healing bonus
shoulnd't the 3 lustrates have 2160 potency ?

Lustrate is a Skill and won't get affected

[Nekotee]

Lustrate is a Skill and won't get affected

Oh crap wasn't sure and didn't test
My bad !

Too bad... Would have been great

[Judge_Xero]

Didn't realize that SCH healing abilities do not get the +20% buff. That is kind of messed up.

The other scenario I was thinking of though with the new skills was Dissipation + Emergency Tactics paired with Succor, or Aldo + Deployment Tactics.

[Risvertasashi]

Didn't realize that SCH healing abilities do not get the +20% buff. That is kind of messed up.

To be fair, WHM's and AST's healing abilities don't get it either. The issue is, with Lustrate and now Indom, SCHs rely a bit more on abilities than the other two...

[Yuyuka3]

To be fair, WHM's and AST's healing abilities don't get it either. The issue is, with Lustrate and now Indom, SCHs rely a bit more on abilities than the other two...

How so? WHM has Assize, Tetra and Asylum as abilites. None is affected by healing buffs (or debuffs, besides CS). That's not that much less as SCH. The one healing class with the least amount of abilities is AST, I guess.

[Rawrz]

How so? WHM has Assize, Tetra and Asylum as abilites. None is affected by healing buffs (or debuffs, besides CS). That's not that much less as SCH. The one healing class with the least amount of abilities is AST, I guess.

SCH can't use a 650 potency cure II equivalent, we have Lustrate, a 600 potency ability. We also have Emergency Tactics + Adlo, but the MP cost is 20%+ higher than Cure II and a 30 second ability timer. MP isn't an issue most of the time on SCH, but spamming Adlo is one way to make it an issue. Abilities are the brunt of our healing. We have shields, but we can't "catch" up like WHMs without Lustrate in some situations. 80% of the time You'll be casting Adlo, Physick, ask is shield broken: if yes, Adlo, if no Physick, but sometimes its not enough to keep the tank in a healthy position. So Lustrate is our powerhouse to get them back up. The same can be said about our AOE with succor. Emergency Tactics + Succor = a 20+% more MP costing medica, Compare that to 700 Potency Medica II. We do have Eos, when we need the AOE (At the current cap, rousing her will result in ~700 potency HoT once every 60 seconds) Most of the time we'll stick with Selene for DPS.

I am fine with heal bonuses not affecting abilities. If they did, heal detriments would also affect them and I'd rather have a heal that can cut through anything.