Don’t nerf Healers by nerfing Restoration Staff. For some classes it’s the only useful and reliable alternative for self-healing. And to use Healing Ward you have to equip a Restoration Staff and have to sacrifice using SnB whereas as Stamina you can easily slot Vigor on any build.

Healing Ward as it is now is only OP for some classes (Sorc/NB).

If at all you could decrease the healing strength to 50%. 25% is not high enough and without shield stacking the shield doesn’t last for more than one or two ticks at best.

By the way Healing Ward doesn’t priority target the caster. So a lot of times it’s “wasted” on team mates and not applied to the caster.

Nope, leave it alone. If you are willing to lose a whole weapon bar for more survivability (which they have been trying to get us to do for a long time) then you get something that is worth it. Also considering the new huge cost of shields if they have 10k mag to shield stack you aren’t putting enough pressure on them anyway.

Contrary to what the Sorc apologists in here are trying to portray, it IS incredibly overtuned. Particularly so on Magsorcs, with their ability to layer and extra ward over it then Streak away while enjoying a full 6s of repeated burst healing.

Resto backbar is already good, and probably ideal in Scalebreaker with the nerf to pet builds. It doesn't need extra reasons to be slotted.

Restoration Staff
Healing Ward: Increased the heal strength of this ability to 100% of the shield’s remaining strength from 25% of its strength, but it can no longer critically strike due to being based off a previous value. This will continue to bypass Battle Spirit. We’ll continue to investigate the strength and scaling mechanisms of this ability as this PTS cycle continues.

They are already looking closely at the skill.

25% is a joke without using a BRP Resto but 100% is likely too OP when using one.

It will be toned down but as with a lot of things these videos show how problematic CP is and always has been.

Qbiken wrote: »

brandonv516 wrote: »

Restoration Staff
Healing Ward: Increased the heal strength of this ability to 100% of the shield’s remaining strength from 25% of its strength, but it can no longer critically strike due to being based off a previous value. This will continue to bypass Battle Spirit. We’ll continue to investigate the strength and scaling mechanisms of this ability as this PTS cycle continues.

They are already looking closely at the skill.

25% is a joke without using a BRP Resto but 100% is likely too OP when using one.

It will be toned down but as with a lot of things these videos show how problematic CP is and always has been.

It will overperform in no-cp as well + blackrose resto needs to be deleted from the game.

Just as long as Blackrose DW goes with it.

Clearly broken op and we got folks in here tryna defend it lol.

We see you sorcs.... we see you.

sly007 wrote: »

Qbiken wrote: »

Blackrose restoration staff needs to be significantly tuned down as well.

I think the black rose resto is fine. The problem will be healing ward itself. The burst heal from heaing wards needs to be adjusted and it will. Hopefully back down to 25%.

Yes 25% when they increase the shield scaling back to 300% or at least 200%. With only 100% scaling based on missing health 25% is a pitiful amount for the short time the shield stays on any target before it gets depleted.

Not only adjust BRP resto and DW which are too strong since their release but also remember about other arenas resto staves which are poor and outdated

anguidragon wrote: »

As a Healer healing word is fine , and people need to quit crying about it just because inpvp they're getting smoked by a Healer because a Healer knows how to use skills do you want to talk about being Nerf let's talk about the overpowered night blades who have a 100% critical chance and one shotting people in PvP that should be nerfed matter of fact the critical rating should be caped at least by 50% meaning anything over 50% is capped

Did you even watch either video?

That is not a healer in the video.

10k+ burst heals every second is a bit broken.

Glory wrote: »

Shield stacking is really the only concern I have.

The heals are kind of nutty, but in most situations that 8-10k shield (at 20% health...) is not gonna stay a 10k shield for 1 second.

Two classes can make this the most broken thing ever in the game... sorc and magblade. Streak and Cloak+shade.

Healing ward need a staff and resto line to be use.
Shield stacking is the problem, not the ward.
Vigor have no requirement and it's insanely strong on PTS and I've yet to see one PvP player say it's OP..

They need to fix shield stacking and everything is gonna be fine.

Insco851 wrote: »

Glory wrote: »

Shield stacking is really the only concern I have.

The heals are kind of nutty, but in most situations that 8-10k shield (at 20% health...) is not gonna stay a 10k shield for 1 second.

Two classes can make this the most broken thing ever in the game... sorc and magblade. Streak and Cloak+shade.

So ruin Healing Ward for 4 classes because 2 other classes have broken skills since this game launched? There’s an easy fix for Cloak at least, surpress healing over time while cloaked. Or let Cloak cause Major Defile. It’s an easy solution to fix abuse of Cloak. For Streak... do something similar. Problem fixed. I never understood why NBs can cloak with 20% life and can come back with 100% three seconds later.