Rat-King wrote: »

Your magicka makes staff attacks stronger

indeed!
but that's as far as it goes.

it's like using a healing staff is all about the other players and keeping the team alive but has nothing to do with cool magic powers (i know that's pretty much a wizard but i love the healing staff!)

hope that makes any sense

Ahzek wrote: »

Back in the day heal staffs increased your damage dealt by up to 10% based on how much HP you had (100% = 10% bonus).
This led to basically every class spell using damage build running a heal staff to deal damage, which was not in line with how ZOS intended damage builds to be, so they changed that passive completely.

actually, having a bonus attack from you HP sounds VERY logical for a healer.
so basically now (other then the quality of your staff obviously) - having more magika points is the only way to make your healing-staff's attack stronger?

WolfingHour wrote: »

If you want to do damage just use your class skills or put a destro staff on your second bar and use that.

We can't have the best of both worlds - healing and dmg in the same weapon - because that wouldn't be neither balanced nor varied, now would it?

good point, sir.
thank you!

I'll put it simply.

Restoration, by definition is the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.

Meaning, the whole point of restoration is restoring.

The whole point of destruction is destroying.

It would not make sense to make something that restores, destroy as well.

This is why we have one of each staff.

NBrookus wrote: »

TheNephilimCrow wrote: »

It would not make sense to make something that restores, destroy as well

But resto staff does do damage with attacks, which I find utterly counter-intuitive.

True, but they probably made it that way to be fair. And, because a) It's technically a weapon and b) it helps restore magicka.

I've always thought ESO's skill-based design was a complete mess to be honest. No other MMO's let you dish out crazy damage at the same time as being able to heal to the same degree by simply hitting a weapon swap key to instantly change your role.

This is why we have the PvP mess of burst damage builds that have ridiculous survivability. They recently had to blanket-nerf the entire population with a 50% nerf to damage and healing to try and fix that mess, which hasn't really changed the core problem.

Many MMOs do have hybrid classes but they are balanced by sacrificing potential to provide versatility.
If you play a healing role then you should be healing and supporting. If you want to kill something then couple up with someone that kills things and keep them alive. That's how every other MMO works. ESO tried something different and got it wrong imo.

TL:DR - Hit weapon swap key and wreck face.

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Well restoration staff used to increases spell damage and regular damage such as light and heavy attacks. But well pretty sure you can figure out why ZOS removed that from something that's meant to heal and not DPS. It was the GS of the 2 staffs basically why use fire or frost when healing staff deals more damage.

Yeah. Using 2 swords to boost your spell damage is so much better than using a magical staff that only gave you damage when you where healthy. Maybe it wast the damage that made destro unappealing but the crappy skills and passives.