I’m not really familiar with the sorc heal but it lacks proper healing skills imho, so I believe it will be templar + warden instead, as it was before the necro came in.
For the 2 seconds proc, it’s only for the “sticky” heals, not the “ground” heals, so I don’t think it will change anything: radial regen is already 2 secs proc.

TheGreatBlackBear wrote: »

In all honesty a necro healer was useless anyway. Necro dps is in such a good spot that almost any utility would be covered by one of the many Stamcrocs in group. The healer in any serious group is one of the weaker classes.

You still often want a necro support in optimised trials on live right now for empower. No stamcro is going to cast the zero-damage empowering grasp twice to give the buff to all DDs every 5 or 6 seconds (I forget the exact duration without looking it up, but it's very short, and you must cast it twice to hit the full group). It's a rare example of the buff a class gives not just being a case of "have one person of the class on any role in the group and done".

Since all the fun seems to be getting sucked out of playing my main DD, I was planning to focus more on my necro healer since it's a fun playstyle with some challenge to it, and despite loving the challenge of keeping up empower for a full group, I felt the change to 10 seconds duration on that skill was one of the few good changes on PTS.

Now it seems it's gone and my groups will have zero use for a necro healer.

Necro healer still has an AOE instant revive ultimate, ain't much but can clutch a raid if a mistake wasmade

Rip Spirit guardian , heal every 2 seconds 4,6k with 5k spell dmg (Live server), now ...
-48% every 2 seconds , XD 2.3k and on pvp -55% , 1k every 2 SECONDS xDDD (500 every 1 second ) extreme... this morhps... dont need -48% heal ... you can drop to -15 , -20, but -48% ??? gg , RIP Necromancer ....

Horny_Poney wrote: »

I’m not really familiar with the sorc heal but it lacks proper healing skills imho, so I believe it will be templar + warden instead, as it was before the necro came in.
For the 2 seconds proc, it’s only for the “sticky” heals, not the “ground” heals, so I don’t think it will change anything: radial regen is already 2 secs proc.

Templar hasn' been in favor for awhile now

what exactly does necro healers offer the group nowdays that isnt provided by other classes setups? minor protection via totem? a situational res ult that costs a ton use? major vuln that a diciplined tank can now almost keep 100% uptime on via sets?
empower was the one really strong thing left that necros could offer a team and it’s now gone

Well, my trial group just died, too many people are leaving, even our raid lead announced stopping trials yesterday. So I guess that solves the issue for me.

To be fair that’s not related to U35 specifically (we’re on PlayStation, we don’t have U35 yet): some people have less time for TESO, some are quitting because they don’t like the way TESO is going, some others just lost interest in TESO.