Mend Wounds change?

selig_fay · January 2023

If light attacks now have a hard cap, does this affect Mend Wounds and will it get a buff?

CP5 · January 2023

Hey look! Someone mentioning Mend Wounds! I'll be honest, though, they've probably forgotten about that skill since they gutted it in Elsweyr.

selig_fay · January 2023

Oh. So sad(

CP5 · February 2023

It is, and I would have loved to use it in Sunspire, but again that's when the nerf came. Doubt it's in scope for this patch, but maybe during the big chapter release they can give it some buffs to make it worth using again.

Seraphayel · February 2023

This skill unfortunately has been useless in years. There is so much you can do... the HoT on light attack was great, then it got removed. The channeled beam on heavy attack is nice as well, but I wish it would pulsate some kind of AoE healing around the target you channel the heal on. This way the skill could cover different areas, yet it's mostly useless.

selig_fay · February 2023

CP5 wrote: »

It is, and I would have loved to use it in Sunspire, but again that's when the nerf came. Doubt it's in scope for this patch, but maybe during the big chapter release they can give it some buffs to make it worth using again.

I expect that if they don't rework it, they will at least do sets or something like that. We also have sets that work on light attacks or enhance heavy ones. Perhaps something similar. Just ok, this thing is weak. The problem is that I have literally 0 ways to amplify it.

Necrotech_Master · February 2023

any "increase healing done" or the targets "increased healing received" still buffs the heal from this

as far as im aware this skill is a skill, and does not scale off light/heavy attacks as it still has its own healing tooltips even though it changes your light and heavy attacks while toggled

CP5 · February 2023

50% buff to next to nothing doesn't amount to much, though. The new light attack heal is about as powerful as a single tick of the old light attack heal over time, so whereas before we spent some magicka to get 10 ticks of healing, now to get the same healing you have to perfectly light attack weave for 10s and all this to match a single target being healed. I remember trying it to tomb heal in sunspire, but the light attacks to often block your skill cast, meaning you're giving up an actual heal to do a free heal that isn't even worth being free.

I just miss the old mend wounds...

selig_fay · February 2023

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

any "increase healing done" or the targets "increased healing received" still buffs the heal from this

as far as im aware this skill is a skill, and does not scale off light/heavy attacks as it still has its own healing tooltips even though it changes your light and heavy attacks while toggled

It has dependence on statistics now. At least the numbers are changing. But the Restoration Staff will still be better at everything because its heavy attack heals more aoe, triggers a glyph, applies a healing assist buff, regenerates a huge amount of mana, and doesn't take up a skill slot + grants skills. Need a very big reason to use mend wounds.

Sotha_Sil · February 2023

Really sad about this skill. It still has potential to become something one day for healers.