So how does cauterize work?

Starlight_Whisper

Can it be on more then one target?

Larcomar

I've switched to FOO now - cauterize is more the pvp morph I guess - but as I remember when I was using it, it would sometimes heal me but if I was in a group the little ball would sometimes shoot out and heal someone else.

You can press it again and get the heal effect instantly, but then if you need a heal, Id hit coag blood. It seems to be pretty standard in pvp builds but I didn't actually think it was very good - though ofc that was with battle spirit.

TwinLamps

Helped me on my low cp accounts when soloing some WBs on sDKs

the1andonlyskwex

You cast it on yourself, and then each tick (including the first) has the standard "smart" heal autotargeting. Re-casting just refreshes the effect on yourself (which includes an immediate tick).

In practice, it's a weird burst-HoT hybrid. The first tick is effectively a small single-target "smart" burst heal, while subsequent ticks are an unreliable HoT (because 5 seconds is a long time to wait before healing someone who's taken damage).

Vevvev

Great for magDK healers or in PVP when you want a little bit of cheap healing for you and the allies around you. It does boost spell critical and the healing does scale with stamina offensive stats if they're higher so can be used by stamDKs, but due to the fact it does not have the weapon critical Flames of Oblivion does it's kind of meh for them. I perfer to use Inner Light, but I due use Cauterize when I use my magDK as a healer because it actually is a nice 15 second long burst like smart heal that targets someone every 5 seconds and heals them for over 5k hp.