Leeching Vines Targeting Issue

Tethalion

Leeching vines is one of the most valuable skills for a Warden Tank (pretty useful for even non-tank builds) because it synergizes with Nature's Gift and becomes one of our best sustain tools. But it has this problem where often (and I'm talking about at least half if not the majority of the time), it miss-casts and lands on a teammate rather than yourself; the group's Tank.

If there are a bunch of trash mobs hitting everyone, it's not such a problem. But when you're tanking a boss, not only do you not get the heal, you don't get the resources either which is extremely detrimental. This often causes you to have to recast by turning the camera away in just the right way so the cursor is targeting nothing by a large angle, which consumes more resources.

I really don't think this is a learn-to-play issue as it's just a very clumsy mechanic that forces Warden Tanks to constantly spin their camera around just to overcome a poor targeting system. It's very disruptive to the flow and enjoyment of combat. Even if the cursor is completely over the mob/boss, the cast will still more-often-than-not land on someone other than the Tank.

Any chance we can get some attention to this and make this skill more fluent?

Thanks.

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@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Nidro

I Agree to this.

I barely use this skill on my Warden Tank.

only in fights where i dont have to move much and where the minor lifesteal is good Support.

Dakmor_Kavu

I'll agree with this as a warden healer even. In packs if the spell ends up on the dps that's fine, it's probably still going to be helpful, but when it's just the boss it's not very reliable.

The problem is that a 30k hp tank who's hurt is likely going to have more health than a fully healed 17-20k DPS, and some tank even push well beyond 30k so it only gets worse.

This is doubly frustrating because not only do you miss out on spreading a debuff (life steal) but also the semi hot that the spell gives goes to waste if the dps gets it rather than the tank who would arguably benefit more.

Even if you take the living trellis morph, which is a great way to easily sustain a tank with the nice burst heal at the end, the targeting is a ***. It ends up being more like a secondary ward ally from the restoration staff which is redundant.