If you care about damage you wouldn't be using Deep Breath anyway.
The problem is that it's ONLY a burst heal, the resto staff and nearly every other class has a much better burst heal which does other things besides heal. Also do you really need a combustion proc as a healer?
It also procs the Earthen Heart passives with the ability restoring stamina for more dodge rolls in emergencies, gives your group minor brutality to help the stam DPS, and generates 3 ultimate upon cast with a 6 second cooldown on that ult gen.
And when playing a healer any and all magicka return helps keep your group alive. Why my magDK healer throws down a Flame Wall of Elements or Engulfing Flames into a large group of enemies. Adds to the DPS of the dungeon/trial group and has a chance to restore much needed magicka for your healing and support spells.
Sanguinor2 wrote: »Ippokrates wrote: »
The only thing that connects them is a function of "delayed burst" which works great for a combo but that is all. So it would be better to compare this skill to for example "sap essence", which is more similar skill.
Why would you compare it to sap essence? Sap essence is an AoE spammable. If you spam deep breath all you do is shoot yourself in the foot in terms of damage.