What do you think of Blessing of Protection Skill?

Tasear · October 2018

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

LeHarrt91 · October 2018

Combat Prayer: Yes, yes and yes. Leave skill as is.

Blessing of Restoration: No, No, and No. I think this skill should provide another minor buff like minor protection. Or Endurance/ Intellect.

WaltherCarraway · October 2018

Combat Prayer is very good I like how much it buffs solo/small scale group play.

Waffennacht · October 2018

I've never been able to slot them on the builds I want to slot them on in PvP because the heal is so small. Blessing is close to being good enough to slot but I really wish it had the same Tooltip as honor the dead.

leepalmer95 · October 2018

Waffennacht wrote: »

I've never been able to slot them on the builds I want to slot them on in PvP because the heal is so small. Blessing is close to being good enough to slot but I really wish it had the same Tooltip as honor the dead.

That would be far too OP, it's a straight up aoe heal.

db0ssman · October 2018

I've honestly only have ever used combat prayer. If it didn't have the minor berserk, I wouldn't even use it. There are more cost-effective ways of healing and in the scheme of things minor resists buff aren't that big of a deal because most people are going to die a terrible death or stay perfectly fine regardless of the couple of percent damage difference they entail. Because of that it's not worth using blessing of restoration.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · October 2018

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

I've never been able to slot them on the builds I want to slot them on in PvP because the heal is so small. Blessing is close to being good enough to slot but I really wish it had the same Tooltip as honor the dead.

That would be far too OP, it's a straight up aoe heal.

I agree, The only 2 AOE heals in the game with tool tips close to honor are hasty prayer and budding seeds. And they both come with huge caveats, the former is 7.3k magic and the later is a double cast. There are enough pug healers that use the wrong morph of combat prayer, in my opinion. They ought to have minor berzerk be in the base morph and both morphs, with the morph differences be a larger AOE size or a larger heal in the same size. That would be better then what we have, as far as I am concerned, blessing of restoration is a dead morph.

idk · October 2018

In trials Combat Prayer is a requirement, but OP knows that already. I have never seen a use for the other skill for serious healing.

Though I have used prayer just to heal directionally in 4 man dungeons, someone using it in that manner and is not concerned about the dps buff would benefit from the other morph since it does cover a larger area.

Emma_Overload · October 2018

I think the real question should be:

"Why doesn't the Resto line have a HoT as useful as Vigor?"

Beardimus · October 2018

Combat Prayer I feel is a real go to. PvE & PvP. Fits in rotation well etc.

Protection ive never used however resistances may play a bigger part now for ward users but I'm unsure that's enough to male me switch

RinaldoGandolphi · October 2018

Blessing of Protection is the better morph for the solo pvper, but you have to build for it.

I use an Asylum Resto + Major Mending on my MagDK and i get a larger heal via BOR then I do from Coagulating Blood at 20% health + Major Mending. Blessing of Restoration also gives you easy 100% uptime on both Major and Minor Resolve and Ward which is pretty good for a Light Armor character.

Combat Prayer can be better in most cases because you don't really need to build your character around it to get the benefits. My MagDK foir example has so much damage, that I simply do not need the Minor Beserk Buff (I hit 12-16k leaps on the reg) I simply don't need that 8% buff, but with the amount of Bleeds and Defiles, I most certainly need a larger burst heal, and added resistances that last for quite awhile. the larger cone also makes it easier to toss my teamates a heal sometimes when they are in trouble, and that heal ends up being large enough to take someone out of execute range in a single cast, Combat Prayer always takes 2 casts to do that.

that being said, Blessing of Restoration still needs a slight buff, something like minor protection would be perfect for the skill.

Donny_Vito · October 2018

Tasear wrote: »

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Combat Prayer? Yes. It's in my healers rotation. In the era of DPS or bust, the extra damage is useful. In most cases, between mutagen and combat prayer, this is all the heals I need to throw up until a BOL is needed.

Edit: Blessing of Restoration...I've never used this morph, honestly. From reading some of the other comments, it sounds more like a niche build use and might have some usefulness if given the chance.

profundidob16_ESO · October 2018

Combat prayer ? awesome in disciplined trial groups and worthless in the rest of the game, especially in Random group finder groups. And now more than ever the skill needs a rework since the newest dlc dungeons start introducing alot of mechanics that require group members to be all over the place which renders close group skills like this as well as sets that have great potential (imperium, lord warden) utterly useless.

increase the radius of combat prayer/blessing of protection or change it large cone area like the warden/templar burst heals and we'll talk...

bottomline an absolute classless reference burst healing skill like this needs to be useful and applicable in all scenarios, period.

Beardimus · October 2018

Ive found C Prayer actually has a pretty effective range used right it's a handy snipe heal to turn to that one player. However I'm talking distance over width.

profundidob16_ESO · October 2018

Oww I was just contemplating on the 1-shot problem and realized this is a great opportunity.

Give blessing of protection morph an extra unique functionality to save people from 1-shot mistakes so smart healers can save them:

"makes the affected target immune to all dmge for 3 seconds" - CD 1 second

so you when you're at the 2 ogres fight in vet mode and see that newb that is not standing behind the pillars or not running into a circle, cast this ward on them right before the BOOM comes in and show off your expert healing skills

Waffennacht · October 2018

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

I've never been able to slot them on the builds I want to slot them on in PvP because the heal is so small. Blessing is close to being good enough to slot but I really wish it had the same Tooltip as honor the dead.

That would be far too OP, it's a straight up aoe heal.

I agree, The only 2 AOE heals in the game with tool tips close to honor are hasty prayer and budding seeds. And they both come with huge caveats, the former is 7.3k magic and the later is a double cast. There are enough pug healers that use the wrong morph of combat prayer, in my opinion. They ought to have minor berzerk be in the base morph and both morphs, with the morph differences be a larger AOE size or a larger heal in the same size. That would be better then what we have, as far as I am concerned, blessing of restoration is a dead morph.

Exactly, it's a dead morph and they only way for me to not keep it dead is if it had a honor the dead type tooltip. Go ahead and make it on caster only. No one uses it as an AoE heal (or at all) anyway.

It's too weak to be useful

Kadoin · October 2018

I rarely slot either in PvP.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · October 2018

Waffennacht wrote: »

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

I've never been able to slot them on the builds I want to slot them on in PvP because the heal is so small. Blessing is close to being good enough to slot but I really wish it had the same Tooltip as honor the dead.

That would be far too OP, it's a straight up aoe heal.

I agree, The only 2 AOE heals in the game with tool tips close to honor are hasty prayer and budding seeds. And they both come with huge caveats, the former is 7.3k magic and the later is a double cast. There are enough pug healers that use the wrong morph of combat prayer, in my opinion. They ought to have minor berzerk be in the base morph and both morphs, with the morph differences be a larger AOE size or a larger heal in the same size. That would be better then what we have, as far as I am concerned, blessing of restoration is a dead morph.

Exactly, it's a dead morph and they only way for me to not keep it dead is if it had a honor the dead type tooltip. Go ahead and make it on caster only. No one uses it as an AoE heal (or at all) anyway.

It's too weak to be useful

The point of my post is to basically make combat prayer the base morph and then have one morph do more healing, like you are asking for and the other morph make the AOE larger. This would remove a dead morph and give an actual choice that is interesting.

swirve · October 2018

Tasear wrote: »

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Only use CP and in PvE, rarely PvP unless with good sieging / defending group.

Dont break CP please.

Tasear · October 2018

swirve wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Only use CP and in PvE, rarely PvP unless with good sieging / defending group.

Dont break CP please.

Just casually asking questions to swirl conversation and understand concerns.

Hotdog_23 · October 2018

Tasear wrote: »

swirve wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Only use CP and in PvE, rarely PvP unless with good sieging / defending group.

Dont break CP please.

Just casually asking questions to swirl conversation and understand concerns.

Just wanted to say Thanks Tasear for asking questions like you are. I don't generally respond but I appreciate the time and effort you are putting towards making ESO a better game for everyone.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · October 2018

Hotdog_23 wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

swirve wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

What do you think of the morphs?

Combat prayer
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Blessing of Restoration
Do you use this in pvp, dungoens or trials?
Do you find it effective?

Only use CP and in PvE, rarely PvP unless with good sieging / defending group.

Dont break CP please.

Just casually asking questions to swirl conversation and understand concerns.

Just wanted to say Thanks Tasear for asking questions like you are. I don't generally respond but I appreciate the time and effort you are putting towards making ESO a better game for everyone.

+1

GreenHere · October 2018

db0ssman wrote: »

I've honestly only have ever used combat prayer. If it didn't have the minor berserk, I wouldn't even use it. There are more cost-effective ways of healing and in the scheme of things minor resists buff aren't that big of a deal because most people are going to die a terrible death or stay perfectly fine regardless of the couple of percent damage difference they entail. Because of that it's not worth using blessing of restoration.

Exactly this. Minor Berserk is the only reason this skill even has a slot on anyone's* bar at all.

GreenHere · October 2018

Emma_Overload wrote: »

I think the real question should be:

"Why doesn't the Resto line have a HoT as useful as Vigor?"

I would have liked a skill that was some cross between Pulsar (or whatever the unmorphed name is) and Vigor. Like a Resto staff Vigor with the Pulsar animation. I remember being disappointed the first time I unlocked all the skills in the Restoration line to learn that nothing like that exists.

db0ssman · October 2018

GreenHere wrote: »

Emma_Overload wrote: »

"Why doesn't the Resto line have a HoT as useful as Vigor?"

I would have liked a skill that was some cross between Pulsar (or whatever the unmorphed name is) and Vigor. Like a Resto staff Vigor with the Pulsar animation. I remember being disappointed the first time I unlocked all the skills in the Restoration line to learn that nothing like that exists.

Pulsar is a destro staff ability. Not saying you definitely meant a different skill, but it's a little confusing to see you talk about Resto line and name a destro ability.

GreenHere · October 2018

db0ssman wrote: »

GreenHere wrote: »

Emma_Overload wrote: »

"Why doesn't the Resto line have a HoT as useful as Vigor?"

I would have liked a skill that was some cross between Pulsar (or whatever the unmorphed name is) and Vigor. Like a Resto staff Vigor with the Pulsar animation. I remember being disappointed the first time I unlocked all the skills in the Restoration line to learn that nothing like that exists.

Pulsar is a destro staff ability. Not saying you definitely meant a different skill, but it's a little confusing to see you talk about Resto line and name a destro ability.

Yeah, I suppose I should have provided a little more clarification on that; thanks for pointing it out!

The Destruction Staff ability Pulsar is a circular aoe skill, centered on the caster, and has an animation that I like. I wish there were a Restoration Staff ability with a similar animation, but that functioned basically exactly like a magicka version of the Assault skill Vigor. Vigor is a better heal than pretty much everything in the Restoration Staff line, which seems amiss to me.

Reverb · October 2018

This topic terrifies me, because I suspect Zeni is watching it with the intent of nerfing Combat Prayer.

db0ssman · October 2018

I don't know if I'd go as far as to say better than everything. it is a good skill to be sure, but the heal is relatively weak for endgame content and since it only lasts 5 seconds you have to baby it to get a good uptime. I'd say it is probably 3rd behind healing springs & combat prayer. 4th if you count all non-class healing skills (again behind orbs). Though, vigor is better than orbs if no one procs the orbs synergy.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · October 2018

GreenHere wrote: »

db0ssman wrote: »

GreenHere wrote: »

Emma_Overload wrote: »

"Why doesn't the Resto line have a HoT as useful as Vigor?"

I would have liked a skill that was some cross between Pulsar (or whatever the unmorphed name is) and Vigor. Like a Resto staff Vigor with the Pulsar animation. I remember being disappointed the first time I unlocked all the skills in the Restoration line to learn that nothing like that exists.

Pulsar is a destro staff ability. Not saying you definitely meant a different skill, but it's a little confusing to see you talk about Resto line and name a destro ability.

Yeah, I suppose I should have provided a little more clarification on that; thanks for pointing it out!

The Destruction Staff ability Pulsar is a circular aoe skill, centered on the caster, and has an animation that I like. I wish there were a Restoration Staff ability with a similar animation, but that functioned basically exactly like a magicka version of the Assault skill Vigor. Vigor is a better heal than pretty much everything in the Restoration Staff line, which seems amiss to me.

Regeneration (mutagen/rapid regen) has the same animation, you lift your staff up.

Numerikuu · October 2018

Reverb wrote: »

This topic terrifies me, because I suspect Zeni is watching it with the intent of nerfing Combat Prayer.

Same... It honestly wouldn't surprise me at this point.

Hibernato · October 2018

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

"makes the affected target immune to all dmge for 3 seconds" - CD 1 second

No