Reduce BW Heal Debuff from 30s to 10s

[Brennika]

Problem: Current BW heal debuff has a 10s up time and 30s c/d, a 66%/20s downtime, out of line from every other specced 50% heal debuff.
Reasoning: 1) the 30 second cooldown lines up with most immunity timers, making it that gaining traction can just be CC'd off
2) unable to apply pressure vs detaunts, which have a 100% uptime
3) Any kill attempt lasting longer than the 10s uptime causes a 20 second reset period, giving targets too much of a recovery chance to be effective.
Follow-on problems: Heal debuffs are a must in scenario play against any organized group. With the BWs being ineffective due to only a 33% uptime vs 100% on other classes, it limits order DPS compositions. For "core" dps classes, current classes that have a 100% uptime 50% heal debuff are:
Order: Slayer, WH, SW
Destro: Choppa, Mara, WE, SH.

Recommended solution: reduce the BW's heal debuff to 10seconds, like all other 50% heal debuffs.

[Avernus]

Problem: Current BW heal debuff has a 10s up time and 30s c/d, a 66%/20s downtime, out of line from every other specced 50% heal debuff.
Reasoning: 1) the 30 second cooldown lines up with most immunity timers, making it that gaining traction can just be CC'd off
2) unable to apply pressure vs detaunts, which have a 100% uptime
3) Any kill attempt lasting longer than the 10s uptime causes a 20 second reset period, giving targets too much of a recovery chance to be effective.
Follow-on problems: Heal debuffs are a must in scenario play against any organized group. With the BWs being ineffective due to only a 33% uptime vs 100% on other classes, it limits order DPS compositions. For "core" dps classes, current classes that have a 100% uptime 50% heal debuff are:
Order: Slayer, WH, SW
Destro: Choppa, Mara, WE, SH.

Recommended solution: reduce the BW's heal debuff to 10seconds, like all other 50% heal debuffs.

And don't forget to reduce its range to 65ft because devs are sure that being available to the pull (and quite close to the melee is a must for rdps healing debuff; too close, in fact...)

Unless you are SH, of course, its totally okay for SH to have an option to apply healing debuff from safe distance.

[Sever1n]

That 30 sec thing indeed looks weird in age of disrupts. But on other hand sork dont have even that.

[Alubert]

Anything that help magic casters is good at current game state but how about sorc?
Sorc don’t have hd at all.

[Fey]

The fact that DoK and WP have %100 uptime, or better %50 heal debuff is wild. Absolutely insane.

[Brennika]

That 30 sec thing indeed looks weird in age of disrupts. But on other hand sork dont have even that.

Anything that help magic casters is good at current game state but how about sorc?
Sorc don’t have hd at all.

Sorc having access to a HD exists outside the scope of my reasoning, and is a separate issue worthy of its own topic/forum post. The point I was raising was from a faction-balance issue, specifically when it comes to viable group composition in scenarios (2-2-2). On paper, both realms with their core dps classes have access to four heal debuffs each. Order has BW, SW, WH, and SL; Destro has Choppa, Mara, WE, and SH. Equally balanced *Insert cliche Thanos meme here.* I'm assuming that the Dev's are rational actors here, and that this is by design. So the reason why the sorc doesn't have a HD has to do with why the Mara does, and the WL doesn't.

*Deep breath*

Back to the original point, the BW's HD functions significantly worse compared to the other 7 available HDs. To the point that it's non-functional. This limits what class compositions you can bring into scenario play. Out of the 21 possible dps compositions available on order (assuming 2-2-2), 29% (6) don't have access to a functional HD. On destro, 14% (3) of compositions don't have access to a functional HD (Sorc-Sorc; Sorc-Magus; Magus-Magus). This is the imbalance I am trying to highlight, and the reasoning is meant to be class-agnostic/purely numbers-based.

*In conclusion*

Which classes having the HD and which don't is irrelevant to the above reasoning, just the amount of classes on each faction.

I want to emphasize, I'm not arguing for or against the Sorc having it, but that giving it to the Sorc would throw the balance off again (5 vs 4). If the Sorc were to gain a HD, and to maintain balance, either an order class would have to gain a HD, or a destro class would have to lose one. That's a completely different topic that is definitely worth its own discussion.

If someone who is much better at words than I am could TL/DR this, I'd appreciate it!

The fact that DoK and WP have %100 uptime, or better %50 heal debuff is wild. Absolutely insane.

Definitely a matter of opinion, but at least its faction-balanced.