Self HoTs not reliable?

ArgonianAssassin

Edit: I'm using the morph Rending Slashes, not Blood Craze, I forgot I reset my talents and changed my morph, so I'm only using 2 self heals on my bar, not the 3 I thought I was, but I changed my morph from Blood Craze to Rending Slashes for a reason, the self heal isn't noticeable and doesn't accomplish what a self heal should, keeping me alive.

I'm an argonian with 3/3 in quick to mend, with blood craze, swallow soul and entropy on my bar, and either they're not stacking, or they're all very bad at keeping me alive, because they're not keeping my alive at all, I'm dead before they can tick more than once or twice and when they do tick, they healing is completely negated by a single light attack from one enemy, and I'm trying to fight 2 or 3 enemies at a time, as it stands I'd rather use invigorating drain + devouring swarm as my only source of self healing, because I know for a fact I can rely on that ability to keep me alive when fighting a group of 3-4 Dremora, but these 3 abilities together can't keep me alive against a group of 3 normal npc's, even with blocking and dodging all the bad stuff, the other 2 abilities I'm using on my bar are siphoning strikes (chance to restore magicka + stamina with every attack) and rapid strikes (flurry morph, increases attack speed) maybe I should've invested that point into the healing version of siphoning attacks and degeneration morph of entropy would be more reliable but right now, I don't think it's worth it to even test out and waste skill points and gold when I have to respec again. What do you, fellow forum goers, think of this?

ArgonianAssassin

This is pitiful, I can't solo a group of 3, while having 3 self heals on my bar, but I can solo a group of 5 with invigorating drain as my only self heal, something seems off here, and swallow soul is supposed to increase my healing received from all sources, I can't imagine what it must be like to use entropy, or one of these other self heals as some other race, or without having swallow soul (or some other version of strife) on your bar. This is ridiculous.

banespwnb14_ESO

I haven't tried Entropy since beta, but the numbers are underwhelming compared to Strife/Swallow Soul. First, Entropy is a DoT and a HoT, so re-using it withing 12 seconds is just a waste of magicka. Strife does all of its damage on cast and the HoT ticks more often, so re-casting it within the 10 seconds is much less of a waste. Both abilities have the same cost.

The best self heal as an NB is Killer's Blade, especially if you are fighting multiple mobs. Get one mob to low health and then hit it with KB. 300% more damage and 18% self heal.

Blood Craze is okay, but doesn't heal for that much. Currently I'm using bow and dual wield, but end up in bow almost all the time. I was originally going to pair the bow with a resto staff, so I think I may try that again. I have to see how quick siphon does.