Post#7 » Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:32 pm
The entire healing tree is the same for both classes. The available equip is also the same. The only difference between a backline healing DoK and a healing WP are a few differenct tactic options.
Most core melee-skills are identical mirrors:
Rend Soul / Divine Assault
Smite / Essence Lash
Execute / Hammer of Sigmar
and so on ...
Other skills are reverse-mirrors:
For example, WP has a +10% parry buff, DoK has a -10% parry debuff.
The true differences lie in a few specific melee skills, namely:
- WP has Sigmar's Grace, a wounds buff for the entire group. The enemy can remove it, but still very powerful.
- DoK has Pillage Essence instead, a melee skill that gives you 95 Soul Essence in one hit. As a bonus, it's an AP-drain on the enemy (something that lacks WP entirely). This is damn strong.
- DoK has Curse of Khaine, a tactic which is probably the best heal-debuff in the game (once you have the proper gear, renown rank and crit% rate; it's useless on a lowbie DoK).
- WP has the Guilty Soul tactic instead, which is de-facto a dps boost (this seems intended to close the gap between WP 2h-weapon and DoK dual-wield; the latter gives slightly better dps due to more proc chances)
- WP has Sigmar's Shield vs. DoK has Devour Essence. Both serve somewhat the same purpose (healing) but in a completely different way. Sigmar's Shield is a pure defensive skill, whereas Devour Essence can be used as great offensive tool. You can even use Devour Essence to apply your healdebuff on multiple enemies. On the other hand, Devour Essence needs to hit multiple enemies to reach its full healing potential. In a 1vs1 fight, Sigmar's Shield will heal more (but does no damage).
- DoK has Covenant of Celerity with a snare-proc. When roaming in oRvR, this is priceless. It's easy to run away from a melee WP, but it's much much harder to run away from a melee DoK (they can spam their ranged ability and use the Covenant as a de-facto ranged snare). The WP mirror is the Prayer of Righteousness and it deals more damage, but the general consensus is that the DoK Covenant is clearly superior because of the snare proc.