Thread: 5.05 Healer Changes

Originally Posted by Zolvolt

Absolutely sourgrapes about Energy Drain coming back. Gameplay wise Energy Drain does one thing: Makes it feel bad to use healing aetherflow. If damage aetherflow is an option it will ALWAYS make using healing aetherflow feel bad. Always. Sacred Soil got some amazing frequent use with the new Sch and not we're going to go back to only using it seldom to negate big damage. Your designers knew what they were doing when they removed Energy Drain and to bring it back because people who don't understand class design are crying about wanting more damage is just incredibly disappointing.

Get over yourself. If Sacred Soil is indeed "worth it", then it will still see use. SCHs will not suddenly start burning their Aetherflow on CD on Energy Drain just because deeps, because that's not really how it was ever used anyway.

Energy Drain was either your reward for optimising your healing (and thus a stack dump), or it was a risk you took and if your gamble failed, you paid for it pretty heavily (by having to resort to your less efficient GCD heals). Being able to take risks is vital for a compelling gameplay system. It also gives Dissipation more of a reason to continue existing, because you sure as hell weren't consistently spending your stacks before Aetherflow came off cooldown before, let alone having 6 to get rid of.

Originally Posted by IttyBitty

Get over yourself. If Sacred Soil is indeed "worth it", then it will still see use. SCHs will not suddenly start burning their Aetherflow on CD on Energy Drain just because deeps, because that's not really how it was ever used anyway.

Energy Drain was either your reward for optimising your healing (and thus a stack dump), or it was a risk you took and if your gamble failed, you paid for it pretty heavily (by having to resort to your less efficient GCD heals). Being able to take risks is vital for a compelling gameplay system. It also gives Dissipation more of a reason to continue existing, because you sure as hell weren't consistently spending your stacks before Aetherflow came off cooldown before, let alone having 6 to get rid of.

its not a risk to use a dps button over a healing button every healer is doing that constantly. Its not a risk to use energydrain. having to use minimal healing aetherflow is terrible design. You have 5 aetherflow spells and half of them being spent on energy drain is the reality. Its not a reward its the norm. and if you were using excog and Sacred soil properly you already weren't capping on aetherflow w/ dissipate still having a place for your spread adlo's.

Sch can afford to dump nearly all of their aetherflow on energydrain in trials now because damage can be healed up with a fairy/seraph OGCD + your other healer's OGCD (or lily casts). You only rely on healing aetherflow when you're solo healing or carrying the weight. Energy Drain is only a gamble in a game that has more damage in their encounters.