Healing Ward Nerfed a Little Too Much

NyassaV · August 2019

So as I understand it Healing Ward went from being pretty powerful in the PTS and then recently it got nerfed and now it's a little too weak.

A friend of mine said this in a discord and I have to say I agree with them:
"From my pts tests it went from being too strong (30 to 100% health in a second with a dodge cancelled ward) to being not worth running again... if you can’t disengage or cleanse before casting the ward it just wont heal because of how fast dots remove it... zos should have tried a 60% ward heal first instead of taking it from 100% to 30%"

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · August 2019

*33%

crazywolfpusher · August 2019

Yes the change was huge and makes you wonder if they really know what they are doing in general with this whole thing of combat direction whatever

Kadoozy · August 2019

I always question why they nerf things so hard. I guess it must be because they are under time constraints and figure they can just get back to it in a later patch, but man do they go from 0 to 100 with no in between.

NyassaV · August 2019

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

*33%

I'm aware and so are they, close enough. Overall 3% doesn't do much when the value is already low

The_Last_Titan · August 2019

crits again though, so 33% more like 43% or something on average. Haven't tested though, maybe should still be upped from 33% to 50% or w/e

brandonv516 · August 2019

Not such an overkill like what they did to Curse Eater, but yeah they tend to do that to good things.

susmitds · August 2019

If you decent crit values, you will see fairly good heals from it though. It is not meant to be a regular all purpose. More like a conditional burst heal.

wheem_ESO · August 2019

susmitds wrote: »

If you decent crit values, you will see fairly good heals from it though. It is not meant to be a regular all purpose. More like a conditional burst heal.

Virtually all magicka builds, especially in no-CP, have a fairly low crit rate. I haven't played around with the 5.1.3 version of Healing Ward, but I sort of doubt it'll see much use outside of maybe some Mag Sorcs and Mag Nightblades.

I think making it a bit more like a hybrid of the old version of Healing Ward and this new Scalebreaker version would be best: give it an instant, up-front heal, then a (non-gigantic) heal over time to accompany the shield.

Iskiab · August 2019

wheem_ESO wrote: »

susmitds wrote: »

If you decent crit values, you will see fairly good heals from it though. It is not meant to be a regular all purpose. More like a conditional burst heal.

Virtually all magicka builds, especially in no-CP, have a fairly low crit rate. I haven't played around with the 5.1.3 version of Healing Ward, but I sort of doubt it'll see much use outside of maybe some Mag Sorcs and Mag Nightblades.

I think making it a bit more like a hybrid of the old version of Healing Ward and this new Scalebreaker version would be best: give it an instant, up-front heal, then a (non-gigantic) heal over time to accompany the shield.

Crit is a good healing stat. Maybe the goal was to make it more desirable on healers.

With major vitality from the BRP resto and being able to crit I see the change as more like from 100% to 50%. I’m still planning on using it, but would have preferred that the BRO resto was nerfed and the ability stay stronger.

Derra · August 2019

susmitds wrote: »

If you decent crit values, you will see fairly good heals from it though. It is not meant to be a regular all purpose. More like a conditional burst heal.

Quite frankly said: no you won’t on a class with no means to protect the shield. You get maybe 1 tick of healing - for like 1 or 2k.
That is pretty useless for how much the ability costs.
The only reason to use it would be major vit from blackrose to buff other heals.