Please add an option or toggle to prevent healing others in PvP

Major_Mangle

The problem: My self heal goes to anyone but me when doing PvP such as battlegrounds, and there is no way for me to prevent this. More often than not when I need to use a self heal such as Healing soul, honor the dead (or any other single target heal of similar nature), the heal goes to other nearby players if their HP % is lower than mine. This leads to situations where I sometimes can spend 50-70% of my resource bars trying to heal myself without getting a single heal when I need it. Eventually this leads to more deaths that could´ve been prevented. Note that it doesn´t matter if I´m turned away from my allies or face the camera in a different direction, due to "smart healing" the heal will automatically to a nearby ally depending on their HP vs my HP. Sometimes the heal can even ignore LoS and heal allies that are on the opposite side of a solid object (no heal whatsoever should ever ignore LoS imo). Going over some recorded PvP footage and Combat metric stats I sometimes see 30-50% of my self heal going to other nearby allies when I need it.

The solution(s): Now there are a few approaches to this.
1. Add a toggle that prevents certain heals from healing others, while I´m not familiar with the technical aspect of coding this, the mechanic exists in the game already to a certain degree (Blood for blood prevents you from being healed or shielded by others, maybe some "reverse variant" of this could be possible).

2. While I despise what Vengeance is, one of the few good things that Vengeance had was that in order to heal someone with a singel target cross heal, I had to actively highlight/target their character, if not, the heal would automatically go to me (basically no smart healing). I personally would like to see this suggestion being implemented, since it would also add another level of skill to playing a healer in PvP instead of just "fire and forget".

If anyone have other suggestions or potentially better solutions I´m interested to hear your thoughts.

Thumbless_Bot

Healing soul is terrible. It is worse than the necro or plar heal because with those you can aim at the ground and heal yourself. With soul the heal will go through a wall, or the floor to heal someone else. I doubt any meant to heal their teammate on the floor beneath them when they cast the skill. At least, the very least, make healing soul work like the class heals, but I agree, all skills should have the option to heal yourself.

pinkpom

Healthy Offering
Pour out your lifesblood and channel the arcane, healing yourself or an ally in front of you for 3600 Health, while draining 1080 Health from yourself over 3 seconds. After casting, gain Minor Mending for 10 seconds, increasing your healing done by 8%.

Shrewd Offering
Pour out your lifesblood and channel the arcane, healing yourself or an ally in front of you for 3485 Health, while draining 810 Health from yourself over 2 seconds.

They should change either morph to self-healing only.
The current options make little sense.
Changing to self-healing or random-healing makes sense.

MincMincMinc

Thumbless_Bot wrote: »

Healing soul is terrible. It is worse than the necro or plar heal because with those you can aim at the ground and heal yourself. With soul the heal will go through a wall, or the floor to heal someone else. I doubt any meant to heal their teammate on the floor beneath them when they cast the skill. At least, the very least, make healing soul work like the class heals, but I agree, all skills should have the option to heal yourself.

Smart healing is so smart, it aimbots through walls for you. In reality this probably has more to do with healing soul being a projectile. Regardless, yeah a self heal button would be a good addition. Or just not make 99% of the heals in the game an aoe smart heal.

Healing needs some major reworks performance and combat fun wise. We already saw the resto staff heals in vengeance cause major lag issues on the 2nd test compared to the 1st test. Many see healing as boring, because in most cases it is in ESO. The active combat is for the most part removed and replaced with an auto "smart" aimbot.

• AoE performance wise can quickly get out of hand, but functionally there are no good ways to make something that is supposed to hit a bunch of people.....not hit a bunch of people. The only way is to not be an aoe, which is possible for many skills that SHOULD be a single target, but instead is a hidden massive conal skill. For example breath of life or soothing spores.
• Hots performance wise and combat wise linger and stack far too often. Rule changes could be put in place where hots are once again treated as unique buffs and wont stack like they used to. Another method is to make long term 5s+ hots purge themselves if they overheal.
• Single target skills need to be aimed. Some could even be projectile like healing soul where allies may even dodge your skill if you cast it at the wrong time.

tsaescishoeshiner

I don't think there should be a setting for this, rather, I think there should be a better universal self-burst-heal. As it is, you have to pick the right class skill line to get one. If Scribing offered a self-limited, single-target one, that would be great.

Attorneyatlawl

Pepperidge Farms remembers when there was a "target self" hotkey back in early beta.

Major_Mangle

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

Pepperidge Farms remembers when there was a "target self" hotkey back in early beta.

If that was a thing I want that tech reintroduced right now.

CameraBeardThePirate

Honestly just make Healing Soul 180° instead of 360°. Less work for the same benefit.

With every other heal, you just turn around really quick if you need to heal yourself.

MincMincMinc

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

Honestly just make Healing Soul 180° instead of 360°. Less work for the same benefit.

With every other heal, you just turn around really quick if you need to heal yourself.

Or a single target heal should be aimed, like every other single target skill. Probably one of the good parts not talked about in vengeance. Maybe the server wouldn't be so bogged down if 90% of heals weren't hidden massive aoe "smart" heals

Kaelthorn_Nightbloom

The target-based cross-healing on Vengeance Healthy Offering felt good. The only time I ran into issues trying to self-heal was on flags with lots of allies. But even then you can still look around to clear target and self-heal.

Healing Soul is a disaster. The logic will get you killed if you're surrounded by any allies that are also low health.

Major_Toughness

Attorneyatlawl wrote: »

Pepperidge Farms remembers when there was a "target self" hotkey back in early beta.

This should be brought back, that sounds like a good on-the-fly compromise to make sure I am the only target for a while, then being able to still support the team.

Cathexis

The solution is just use a different healing ability.