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    Double potency would be too OP, it would be Adloquium but AoE. I think 200 potency would be about right, maybe 250, and possibly have a 15% chance to make the next Adloquium an instant cast, cost nothing, and 100% crit. That last part would probably be too OP though
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    Quote Originally Posted by peaches View Post
    Double potency would be too OP, it would be Adloquium but AoE. I think 200 potency would be about right, maybe 250, and possibly have a 15% chance to make the next Adloquium an instant cast, cost nothing, and 100% crit. That last part would probably be too OP though

    Sometimes I gotta wonder if you've paid attention to the healing total of medica II, which is WAY more than 600 damage prevention.
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    Well I'm only level 35, so I've never seen it in action. I know its better, but we can't have the exact same spell with a bubble effect. It'd be a cheap way to go.

    I posted this in another thread, but it works well here:

    In situations where everybodys HP is dropping super fast from unavoidable AoE, there isn't much I can do. Everybody is constantly losing HP, but I can't just cast Adloquium on the tank to heal the dps, since he's taking that AoE plus the damage of the boss/adds. So I have to focus on my healing, and hope my fairy heals the dps, until a point where the tank is fairly stabilized and I can spare 2.3s to cast and another 2.5s gcd.

    It feels almost 100% useless to use Succor in these situations. It heals for me around 150 HP, and with the constant damage the bubble is eaten instantly. I'd have to spam succor around 8 times to fully heal everybody from them being around 40-60% health. I know that's not its use, and I would be instantly OOM if I did that of course, but the crazy low potency bubble on it makes it feel pointless to cast for a bubble, and same for the heals. I feel like Succor really has no place on my action bar. I don't know if it changes later, but that's how it feels to me right now.

    Maybe it would be better if it was made into an AoE 250 potency Bubble. I feel like it needs to specialize. Maybe if it was a pure bubble, it would be good to cast BEFORE an AoE to prevent the damage, as opposed to trying to work with a measly cure and bubble effect that don't really do much of anything together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by peaches View Post
    In situations where everybodys HP is dropping super fast from unavoidable AoE, there isn't much I can do. Everybody is constantly losing HP, but I can't just cast Adloquium on the tank to heal the dps, since he's taking that AoE plus the damage of the boss/adds. So I have to focus on my healing, and hope my fairy heals the dps, until a point where the tank is fairly stabilized and I can spare 2.3s to cast and another 2.5s gcd.

    Let me just say in this case you should be manually controlling the fairy and telling her who to heal between your spell casts. If you leave Eos or Selene on auto and forget about them you are missing out on half of the Scholars power.

    That said, Succor has a place. Not a very big place, and usually only after you get a free proc of it. I honestly have no problem with its potency, but the cost for what it does is rather high.

    One of my favorite tricks as a scholar? Healing two people at the exact same time. try that as a white mage!
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    Last edited by Tinker; 09-17-2013 at 04:56 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tinker View Post
    That said, Succor has a place. Not a very big place, and usually only after you get a free proc of it. I honestly have no problem with its potency, but the cost for what it does is rather high.
    ... and we have no almost no other alternatives for that place succor struggles to fill, other than single target healing as many people as possible as fast as possible.

    Succor's lack of potency is what makes the MP cost too high for what it does. Cutting the MP cost in half, doesn't really fix the above problem.
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