Blood alter is moreso used in pvp and only used by one person. It’s the best way to proc the gossamer major evasion. Magic steal can be applied by a templar with restoring aura.

It’s how one person can apply gossamer to more than 12 people at a time.

For PvE maybe blood alter with Ele drain would work well.

I see well good to know.

Which means 2x Heal and 1x Tank with altar can play with SoB to boost group.

Luckylancer wrote: »

Did you read his post? He dont want to get 4x effect of blood altar. He dont want to get more healing. He wants to proc sets with healing other.

Except multiple people couldn't reliably proc sets that heal others using a debuff mechanic that bottlenecks the heals to one caster. The answer remains the same: in an organized group, only one person should be using Minor Lifesteal in any form. Anybody else would have to use another source of healing if they want sets to work.

It'd work great for a random zerg healer who didn't have somebody else in group doing the same thing. It's not going to work in the context of a 12-man group with 4 people trying to do it simultaneously. It needs to be one guy - preferably the Gossamer guy, since that's such a short-term buff. Everybody else needs to find their own heal if they want to remain effective.

I’ve also been wondering this. We usually just run 1 Altar in trials so that we know the tank using it can proc Symphony on the group. However, I’ve been in groups that use 2 Altars so that both tanks have access to the heal synergy, and Symphony appears to work from both tanks (but maybe procs fewer times?). It’s definitely unclear how the Minor Lifesteal is prioritized, if it’s from most recent cast or just random. I don’t think the synergy heal counts as originating from the one who casts Altar, I think it’s considered a self-heal from whoever synergizes.

Interested in hearing if anyone has a concrete answer here. Until then we’ll stick with 1 Altar (usually from off-tank) and skills like Vigor or Cinder Storm on the main tank.