Thoughts on AST flavor/re-work

[Teykos]

Reposting in the Healer Identity thread as suggested.

[Reiryuu]

I am going to suggest you re-post this in perhaps the Healer Identity thread. The reason being SE said they would prefer one, long thread to watch when it comes to topics of this nature hence the consolidated thread of WHM salt in 4.0. That way we can comment on it there while bumping that thead and keeping it relevant.

I somewhat agree but disagree, that being said. Since AST is all about durations, a HoT theme or a time explosion theme (ala Earthly Star) seems much more thematic. As for something like Orbs of the Stream from RIFT where you summon 3 healing orbs and they explode when damage is taken, I've suggested that on a few of the other threads and am all for something like that for Noctorunal stance ("sleeper effect healing") while Diurnal is HoTs.

[Teykos]

I am going to suggest you re-post this in perhaps the Healer Identity thread. The reason being SE said they would prefer one, long thread to watch when it comes to topics of this nature hence the consolidated thread of WHM salt in 4.0. That way we can comment on it there while bumping that thead and keeping it relevant.

I somewhat agree but disagree, that being said. Since AST is all about durations, a HoT theme or a time explosion theme (ala Earthly Star) seems much more thematic. As for something like Orbs of the Stream from RIFT where you summon 3 healing orbs and they explode when damage is taken, I've suggested that on a few of the other threads and am all for something like that for Noctorunal stance ("sleeper effect healing") while Diurnal is HoTs.

Ah, good to know. I haven't read the forums in a while and this just randomly came to mind. I'll repost there. Thank you!

And yes, Orbs of the Stream are a reactive heal. Another example would be the specialty heals of the Inquisitor in Everquest 2.