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The Mutagen changes in 5.1.4 are awful when you don’t turn Rapid Regeneration into a self heal.

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Title says it all.

Thanks for butchering this skill. Oh and Mutagen emergency heal bringing someone back from the brink of death? In which game?
Edited by Seraphayel on August 5, 2019 10:43PM
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  • Ajax_22
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    Mutagen's burst heal was hitting harder than Breath of Life.

    This change is great it gives healers a multi-target HoT that is casted on players. This is a part of the toolkit healers were lacking with all of these changes.
    Edited by Ajax_22 on August 6, 2019 1:36PM
  • Slowbromance
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    If the change notes mean healing up to 4 people overtime i think that's a great change to help with group heal coverage and makes the skill more viable. I rarely used mutagen unless it was for certain proc sets or ulti regen.
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  • Lisutaris
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    Here, take a hiss .... changes are awful and the ones who wanted them/agreed to it are only playing pvp.

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  • xaraan
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    I like the changes personally.
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  • jaws343
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    If anything, it increases the chance that this skill will actually hit you.
  • Iskiab
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    So it hits 3 players at once now? I’m not sure what they meant in the notes.
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    jaws343 wrote: »
    If anything, it increases the chance that this skill will actually hit you.

    It'll still probably hit the same 3 over and over, just like CBP, and Springs and all the other skills
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  • Seraphayel
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    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality. Now it just hits one more target than on live minus the exclusive function. That’s a nerf. It’s nice that it hits three targets now yet there was no need to remove the emergency heal completely.

    And what exactly is the identity of Mutagen now? Weaker but longer HoT that might hit you vs Rapid Regeneration that’s stronger but the chance on hitting you is less likely - wow, what a choice.
    Edited by Seraphayel on August 5, 2019 9:58PM
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  • Seraphayel
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    jaws343 wrote: »
    If anything, it increases the chance that this skill will actually hit you.


    So what? In that case I’d prefer Rapid Regeneration and would use that morph and not Mutagen.
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  • FrancisCrawford
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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality. Now it just hits one more target than on live minus the exclusive function. That’s a nerf. It’s nice that it hits three targets now yet there was no need to remove the emergency heal completely.

    And what exactly is the identify of Mutagen now? Weaker but longer HoT that might hit you vs Rapid Regeneration that’s stronger but the chance on hitting you is less likely - wow, what a choice.

    It's also a nerf because of the duration/cost numbers.
  • Royaji
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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality.

    So did Springs and Orbs. You had no issues with those getting butchered. Enjoy.

    What goes around comes around, huh?
  • wills43b14_ESO
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    Mutagen was so useful for the cleansing effect. It's a skill rarely run anyways in PvE. I guess I'd need to compare rapid regen tooltip on live to mutagen on PTS, but they're consistently removing identity and pigeonholing the resto staff into damnation at an even faster rate. The new abilities might be good for 4 mans, but in trials you'll probably just spec more into dmg tbh and have dps help w/ heals if need be.
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  • Seraphayel
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    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality.

    So did Springs and Orbs. You had no issues with those getting butchered. Enjoy.

    What goes around comes around, huh?

    Both still have their exclusive functionality. Spamming those abilities wasn’t one of them. But keep being salty because of those changes, I’m glad they’re going through with them.
    Edited by Seraphayel on August 5, 2019 9:59PM
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  • FrancisCrawford
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    Mutagen was so useful for the cleansing effect. It's a skill rarely run anyways in PvE. I guess I'd need to compare rapid regen tooltip on live to mutagen on PTS, but they're consistently removing identity and pigeonholing the resto staff into damnation at an even faster rate. The new abilities might be good for 4 mans, but in trials you'll probably just spec more into dmg tbh and have dps help w/ heals if need be.

    Mutagen was a staple of 4-man healing builds, especially for healers who don't do trials and hence run SPC instead of Olorime.
  • Royaji
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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality.

    So did Springs and Orbs. You had no issues with those getting butchered. Enjoy.

    What goes around comes around, huh?

    Both still have their exclusive functionality. Spamming those abilities wasn’t one of them. But keep being salty because of those changes, I’m glad they’re going through with them.

    Now you can spam Rapid Regeneration to keep your teammates topped up inbetween those Springs and Orbs. :trollface:
  • Seraphayel
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    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality.

    So did Springs and Orbs. You had no issues with those getting butchered. Enjoy.

    What goes around comes around, huh?

    Both still have their exclusive functionality. Spamming those abilities wasn’t one of them. But keep being salty because of those changes, I’m glad they’re going through with them.

    Now you can spam Rapid Regeneration to keep your teammates topped up inbetween those Springs and Orbs. :trollface:

    This would make sense when Rapid Regeneration wouldn’t be the morph that’s basically the ST version yet doesn’t apply to the caster. The problem here is Mutagen lost its identity and is just a weaker 3 target RR whereas RR still isn’t a self heal.
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  • Royaji
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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Royaji wrote: »
    Seraphayel wrote: »
    Mutagen had an exclusive functionality.

    So did Springs and Orbs. You had no issues with those getting butchered. Enjoy.

    What goes around comes around, huh?

    Both still have their exclusive functionality. Spamming those abilities wasn’t one of them. But keep being salty because of those changes, I’m glad they’re going through with them.

    Now you can spam Rapid Regeneration to keep your teammates topped up inbetween those Springs and Orbs. :trollface:

    This would make sense when Rapid Regeneration wouldn’t be the morph that’s basically the ST version yet doesn’t apply to the caster. The problem here is Mutagen lost its identity and is just a weaker 3 target RR whereas RR still isn’t a self heal.

    The new morph has great identity. It's more useful for healing a bigger group. Exactly what is needed to offset the change to Springs and Orbs. And you don't even need to spam it as much too. :trollface:

    Except it's still absolutely trash and pointless but this is the kind of logic ZOS utilises. You've decided to stand with them on this once. Now it is time to pay the price.
  • maxjapank
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    Mutagen is a good change.
  • Sandman929
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    I like the mutagen change, I'd like it more if it could only hit group members
  • Grandma
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    I haven't been able to test it, and nobody should be jumping to conclusions before they can, but if it means that having mutagen lets mag healers still exist in raid environments then i'm here for it. that's probably too hopeful though. 3 people on cast means 4 casts for a full raid group, whereas before it was 6. If it's smart, that means both healers only need to cast twice to cover everyone. That, with new springs and orbs should be able to heal most content, I would think. but that's asking for a lot of stars to line up, and somehow I doubt ZOS had the foresight to make it work like that.
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  • Seraphayel
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    We’re going from a 2 target + cleanse/emergency heal Mutagen to a 3 target Mutagen. How is this a buff? It was already a pretty cheap heal and with two casts you covered everyone in a dungeon/group and had added functionality. Now you hit three targets which is only good in huge groups, e.g. trials or ball groups.

    If RR would be the exclusive self heal the Mutagen change would make sense yet both heals are still not the self healing tool that one morph of them should be.
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  • Sanguinor2
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    Time to adapt I guess?
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  • Cheezits94
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    Great change imo, the skill only hitting 1 target, and a random one at that, made it a no-go...
    If you can't even spell sets, locations and items, you probably have no clue what you even are talking about.

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    Seraphayel wrote: »
    We’re going from a 2 target + cleanse/emergency heal Mutagen to a 3 target Mutagen. How is this a buff? It was already a pretty cheap heal and with two casts you covered everyone in a dungeon/group and had added functionality. Now you hit three targets which is only good in huge groups, e.g. trials or ball groups.

    If RR would be the exclusive self heal the Mutagen change would make sense yet both heals are still not the self healing tool that one morph of them should be.

    You can adapt, right? Maybe that new Power Surge will help? You can proc it more with new Mutagen.
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    The previous pts changes made mutagen heal as much as Coag Blood, even considering its low health bonus. That, attached to a strong HoT, was too much. Instead of nerfing the burst heal, they instead allows it to be the team healer morph people asked for. Still a strong HoT that helps the group
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    Same char, same food, same gear.

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    Sanguinor2 wrote: »
    Time to adapt I guess?

    Uh, all those salty healers crawling out from under their rocks. I will adapt and I already embraced most of the changes. To change Mutagen in the last iteration to the most boring version they could have changed it to is a sad choice. I’ll live with it though.
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  • Sanguinor2
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    Seraphayel wrote: »

    Uh, all those salty healers crawling out from under their rocks. I will adapt and I already embraced most of the changes. To change Mutagen in the last iteration to the most boring version they could have changed it to is a sad choice. I’ll live with it though.

    I dont even have a healer, just enjoying throwing the "jUsT ADaPT" back at People, People Always come into Topics with it but dont like it when someone tells themselves to do so.
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    Mendosa wrote: »
    Same char, same food, same gear.

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    Looks great, a good and strong Magicka HoT that's worth using in a trial! :)
    If you can't even spell sets, locations and items, you probably have no clue what you even are talking about.

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    Mendosa wrote: »
    Same char, same food, same gear.

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    Wut. That tooltip doesn’t make sense, sounds like it’s only you or 3 nearby allies. I take it that the ability’s 3 targets every time?
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