Blood altar

e.chiesa73b16_ESO · January 2015

Hi all,
I was wondering how this skill works:
- the window of opportunity to activate the synergy last for the entire lifespan of the altar? Or just a few seconds after one cast it?
- allies have to stay in the altar's aoe to activate the synergy? or they can be scattered around?
- once activated, how many players will heal?
- synergy has a cooldown?

Ty in advance and sorry for my bad english. I hope you'll understand my questions.

Ahdora · January 2015

Honestly? Don't even bother with it as it stands. It's a nearly useless ability right now. It has some slight utility earlier on, but endgame it just doesn't earn a space on your bar. That may change after 1.6, though.

That said, I will try to answer your questions: The synergy is available as long as the altar is. You have to be in range to activate the synergy. Each player can activate it, but it only heals the one who activated it. I'm pretty sure you can't pop the synergy more than once, so there's no "cooldown" so to speak.

And some of that could be wrong, as I haven't used it in ages and ages, so if so I'm sure someone will come along and correct me.

Merlin13KAGL · January 2015

e.chiesa73b16_ESO wrote: »

Hi all,
I was wondering how this skill works:
- the window of opportunity to activate the synergy last for the entire lifespan of the altar? Or just a few seconds after one cast it?
- allies have to stay in the altar's aoe to activate the synergy? or they can be scattered around?
- once activated, how many players will heal?
- synergy has a cooldown?

Ty in advance and sorry for my bad english. I hope you'll understand my questions.

Stays up the entire duration of the cast with base level effect.

Synergy is only available below 60% health, I believe? This is a good thing, because it means you won't waste it.

Allies do have to be within the AoE range.

Only the player activating the synergy will heal the additional amount, but all players (see item 2) will have opportunity to use the synergy.

Synergy on its own does not have a cooldown, per se (other than your latency), however, you cannot activate the same character's synergy twice in a row (then there is cooldown).

If you're a duo - you're hosed. Count on waiting around until the timer runs out.

If you're in a group of 3 or more (or even have passerby's), just have someone else activate the next synergy and then you can get the 3rd one.

So, if there is me, you, and the other guy:

You grab the first synergy from me - whatever skill it is.
The other guy is the only one that can grab the 2nd immediately.
After that, you are the only one that can grab the 3rd.

Do it in this way and you can take advantage of synergy whenever possible without restriction.

BTW, Blood Altar by itself is not that great. Use it as a supplement to healing in certain situations, however, and it can be the difference between living and dying.

Only real thing that bites is that you cannot activate the synergy to self heal, even if you meet the criteria otherwise.

Hope this clears things up for you. (And your English is just fine!)

*EDIT: My English was far worse than yours

e.chiesa73b16_ESO · January 2015

Thank you for the answers.

What I don't understand is:
- if I cast an altar, every party member will be able to use the synergy with the same altar? So party member A drops below 60% HP -> use the synergy. After few seconds party member B drops below 60% HP -> use the synergy. All with the same altar?
- in a party of 4, if I'm the one who cast the altar, every other party member will be able to use the synergy once. Right? After the other 3 party members have used their synergy, what happens? The altar is spent and I have to recast another altar, thus starting the sequence over again? Or it's over: no more synergies from any altar for few x seconds?

Thank you again for your help
(it should be ZOS duty to answer these questions

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