[Archmage] Funnel Essence/Healing Energy

[Nekkma]

Been testing the change and it seems to work without any bugs. It is a small buff and a nice quality of life change. Beeing able to use it more often really highlights just how high the ap cost is though.

[Sizer]

The current change is only a small buff for heal AMs. At least they got something to use while moving now.

However, I guess heal AMs still won't be able to compete with other healers.

And don't tell me about epic imba solo dps AMs now. I don't give a **** about them. This ain't a 1v1 game.

Ams cant compete against other healers because other healers (and by other healer i mean wp/dok) are ridiculously imbalanced. Has nothing to do with ams.

The heal on the move change isnt bad, its been suggested a lot before bit hasnt been tried til now. So we'll see. Kind of sucks for shaman though, theyre the only one out of the 4 cloth healers that wont get a lot of use from it due to ap issues. But again, who knows, il be playing mine this week and see how it does.

[Cornerback]

Well, zealot and rp also don't get a real use from this change, as they still have better skills

i'd go with HoT+flashheals+absorb rather than rune of mending.

And don't get me wrong. The change was awesome for AM.

And regarding the imbalance-thing... it doesn't rly matter if other healers are too strong or AM is too weak. Fact is, AM is weaker then the other two healers. And as long as this is the case, AMs will be the unloved underdogs.

[gungnir08]

I don't agree that we need to be careful with the idea of making HE / G'FI and possibly DM / RoM cast on the move, because those skills are currently absolute crap. RP/Zealot don't even hotbar them and AM/Shaman use them grudgingly considering how much AP they burn to cast.

Additionally, the tactic which buffs those heals might actually see some use!

I guess I'm in the minority then, because I've always used Balanced Mending. The extra healing often makes the difference between saving someone and falling short, and I used Healing Energy a lot before any changes, too.

Hell, even on Live, the four tactics I'd slot would be BM, Wild Healing, Restorative Burst, and Desperation. If I had AP pots, I'd replace RB with Master of Tranquility, or later, Isha's Encouragement, but I didn't usually unslot BM for any reason. With all the buffs AMs get, the initial heal could crit around 2k under the right conditions, even without an RP around to spam Blessing of Grungni on my heal targets. Even the AP cost wasn't a dealbreaker; between Wild Healing, the AP drain, and AP pots/Restorative Burst, the 55 AP cost could be dealt with easily enough.

That said, I look forward to testing the change you made today with regards to Healing Energy. It's always been one of my favorite abilities.

[Sulorie]

I guess I'm in the minority then, because I've always used Balanced Mending. The extra healing often makes the difference between saving someone and falling short, and I used Healing Energy a lot before any changes, too.

Hell, even on Live, the four tactics I'd slot would be BM, Wild Healing, Restorative Burst, and Desperation. If I had AP pots, I'd replace RB with Master of Tranquility, or later, Isha's Encouragement, but I didn't usually unslot BM for any reason. With all the buffs AMs get, the initial heal could crit around 2k under the right conditions, even without an RP around to spam Blessing of Grungni on my heal targets. Even the AP cost wasn't a dealbreaker; between Wild Healing, the AP drain, and AP pots/Restorative Burst, the 55 AP cost could be dealt with easily enough.

That said, I look forward to testing the change you made today with regards to Healing Energy. It's always been one of my favorite abilities.

You mean it was ok to slot 2 ap tactics and spam ap pots to make a healing spell halfway usable, while having to skip all useful tactics?

[Tesq]

for what i remember the ap problem was solved with sov ap proc, so you slotted only 1 ap tactic + use the ap drain.
(at least shammy in my guild never told if they had run out of ap )

[Sulorie]

Yes, but this is the reason why ap, se, rf regen procs have to be removed from upcoming armorsets.
It's the primary cause for wp/dok being fully viable as backline healer.

[Nameless]

um no. this proc made dok/wp insanely strong

(2 Piece Bonus): On Heal: 10% chance to increase Critical Hit chance by 15% and increase added value from criticals by 30% for 10 seconds.

rf/ap procs were put on sov to adjust the realm balance according ap/rf resourse managment since there is some difference at that favouring much more one of the realms

[Tesq]

if you want to spam you couldn't stay backline as a dok/wp you still need to rec with the aoe attacks.

with the def chalice of t4 influence instead sov but full sov armor i still needed to rec, i just stop use the ap rec which is totaly nice since you cannot stay channeling 3 sec...
The same goes for am/Sm that ap proc + ap tactic + ap drain made their classes a lot more viable.

[gungnir08]

I guess I'm in the minority then, because I've always used Balanced Mending. The extra healing often makes the difference between saving someone and falling short, and I used Healing Energy a lot before any changes, too.

Hell, even on Live, the four tactics I'd slot would be BM, Wild Healing, Restorative Burst, and Desperation. If I had AP pots, I'd replace RB with Master of Tranquility, or later, Isha's Encouragement, but I didn't usually unslot BM for any reason. With all the buffs AMs get, the initial heal could crit around 2k under the right conditions, even without an RP around to spam Blessing of Grungni on my heal targets. Even the AP cost wasn't a dealbreaker; between Wild Healing, the AP drain, and AP pots/Restorative Burst, the 55 AP cost could be dealt with easily enough.

That said, I look forward to testing the change you made today with regards to Healing Energy. It's always been one of my favorite abilities.

You mean it was ok to slot 2 ap tactics and spam ap pots to make a healing spell halfway usable, while having to skip all useful tactics?

Reread my last post. I said I'd use either the two AP tactics, or just Wild Healing on its own if I had AP potions. As for foregoing better tactics, I also said which ones I tended to use above. I can't think of any useful healing tactics beyond what I mentioned, though I concede that there's no way I would have been able to use every good tactic at once since I include Balanced Mending in my count of good tactics. I also didn't say that I spammed Healing Energy. Generally, if I had the time or opportunity to spam it, I would have had time to cast Boon of Hysh instead.

My point was that, since AM didn't have much in the way of on-demand healing beyond Funnel Essence on Live, I got plenty of mileage out of Healing Energy, in spite of its cost and inability to be cast on the move. I'm not saying it was great, but to say it wasn't usable is a stretch. It had its uses, and when Funnel Essence was on cooldown, I found that Healing Energy was a spell that I used often enough to merit picking up Balanced Mending.