Healers! BoL, truly conal now? and usage of it in trials??

Swiftii · November 2017

Would love everyone to weigh in here.

Is BoL conal, as in no one behind the healer and and direction they aren't facing will not receive it??

2nd, usage of it in Normal and then Vet Trials? Do you use it and how often, why would you not?

Asardes · November 2017

Stopped using it when Morrowind hit. I swapped to Honor the Dead and I use that morph for PvP exclusively. Healing Springs and Combat Prayer are my heals now since they are cheaper and hit more people. I also keep Ritual of Retribution down and every 15-20s a barrage of Healing Orbs.

Kartalin · November 2017

BoL has been labeled as a conal heal for a while now, not sure why a trials healer would not know this by this time. Now, technically there is a bug with BoL where the 2nd heal is ignoring the conal requirement but that doesn't really excuse anything.

Trials healers should be relying on stacking healing springs to keep players' health up. BoL is generally an emergency heal but it'd be really difficult to time it properly without the intended target dying before the healer responds. I guess you could rely on it a bit more in normal trials, especially if it's one where you have to be more mobile as opposed to stacking, but even then there's no excuse for not knowing that you have to be facing your target.

Asardes · November 2017

The objective in trials is to keep everyone at 100% permanently trough stacking HoTs like the ones above and you really don't need burst that much. If I need to burst I simply recast combat prayer before it expires and I heal all people in that general direction. But you generally need to be a proactive, not reactive healer: know the mechanics and start stacking heals before a mechanic starts.

Danksta · November 2017

In certain fights I'm not sure why you wouldn't use it, specifically ones that have mechanics designed to spread you out. Now if your group knows this content inside and out you probably won't be using it much, but it would've been a nightmare for my group trying to finish vAS on the last boss where he does his big lightning attack had the healers not used it.

FakeFox · November 2017

The first tick heals a target in front of you, the second one 360° around you. So in theory it's conal now, in practice nothing has changed. Always slot it, it's insanely strong.

gabriebe · November 2017

I keep BoL on my bar in cases where I need to heal behind me because the 2nd heal ignores the conal requirement. Happens if im the tank healer in vAA, for example, and I have Healing Springs on the main stack in front of me and periodically heal the tank behind me with the axes.

Mureel · November 2017

Asardes wrote: »

Stopped using it when Morrowind hit. I swapped to Honor the Dead and I use that morph for PvP exclusively. Healing Springs and Combat Prayer are my heals now since they are cheaper and hit more people. I also keep Ritual of Retribution down and every 15-20s a barrage of Healing Orbs.

Exactly this!

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · November 2017

Kartalin wrote: »

BoL has been labeled as a conal heal for a while now, not sure why a trials healer would not know this by this time. Now, technically there is a bug with BoL where the 2nd heal is ignoring the conal requirement but that doesn't really excuse anything.

Trials healers should be relying on stacking healing springs to keep players' health up. BoL is generally an emergency heal but it'd be really difficult to time it properly without the intended target dying before the healer responds. I guess you could rely on it a bit more in normal trials, especially if it's one where you have to be more mobile as opposed to stacking, but even then there's no excuse for not knowing that you have to be facing your target.

Not a bug, it is working as intended, read the description again, Beacon your inner light, healing yourself or a wounded ally in front of you for 2914 Health. Also heals one other injured target for [1413] Health, it say nothing about the second healh being in front of you.

Breath has been on my bar since forever and I don't see that changing.

Kartalin · November 2017

Not saying it shouldn't be on your bar, but if your group is stacking then you should be using healing springs (with periodic combat prayers) for the main component of the healing.

Asardes · November 2017

I recently swapped out my SPC staves with Master restoration (powered) and Malestrom lightning (charged) for maximum group support. I thought the 258 stamina return on Healing Springs cast was small but if you spam them when people are block casting skills you can provide enough stamina to keep block up until that mechanic ends; that's especially true for Magicka DDs that have 10K stamina or less and no way to recover it. BoL has no added utility so that's the 2nd reason I never use that in trials.