No heals for melee in dungeons except aoe abilities on cds, once again pve group healing gets nerfed. Melee dps will either have to go ranged or bring pots. We will no longer be able to hit the boss because we have to use light and heavy attacks to heal tanks in between cds.
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You never had an enemy in your face? Your attacks would heal you at that distance.
Now you have to position yourself to line up the tank between you and the mob, for me this means no more free backstabs to improve my damage while still healing with light attacks. This will change my playstyle but hopefully its not as major an issue as it seems.
Its a āfeatureāā¦seriously though, at this point Iām not even surprised with these changes. Seems like thereās no communication within the studio and everyone is working on their own thing without knowing what others are doing.
If those healers relied all on exploit to cheese PvP duels then Iād give them a well earned good bye and play with healers that actually play healers.
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The life staff still heals, it no longer has a 3m radius heal though and it has to pass through an ally to do so - like the description says.
It was actually broken before when it made a 3m radius heal.
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I sincerely hope this is a bug.
I canāt believe that a visual effect on the auto hit was a bug, it was intended and now itās just a nerf.
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How LA heals worked before this totally made sense and you would know this if you ever healed a dungeon. Iām fine with removing the selfhealing but not the cleansing with HA and the AOE splash with LA. AGS really should stop balancing with only either PvP or PvE in mind. They need to look at the bigger picture.
Hopefully we get clarification if this is yet another bug or intended.
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An exploit?
I canāt heal at all with light attacks now lol
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From what has also been said in this thread, the nerf has been the removal of some heal/cleanse mechanics on attacks that werenāt supposed to happen going by the tooltip of the passives in question.
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So that makes it a bug not an exploit. No one knew it was not supposed to have that small AOE that it had.
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A nerf definitely.
If you were using heavy attacks to cleanse, you were wasting a valuable passive perk anyway. No proper healer used that and very few people actually cared about the measly 535 heal every 2.5s it could do. It was so insignificant that most would rather reduce their cooldowns than they would sit and try to heal players this way.
This is going to be massive for Wars and it wonāt affect PvE a whole lot. 10 Healers spamming a point in War could do 5k heals every 2,5s. That is gamebreaking.
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LS is now pretty aweful from everyones perspective. AGS mission accomplished.
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To me the nerf is the removing of the small AOE on the light heal. I only use the heavy attack to get the heal bonus and then to remove debuffs if needed.
In PVE it will force me to change my positioning as I would try to get behind mobs that my tank was hitting to get rear attacks. Without the small AOE of the light attack heal I will now need to reposition.
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They used it to hold control points thatās why they so mad
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Well, moreso than a nerf, it was a bug which feels like a nerf, because everyone expected the aoe circle to be how it worked. I actually got a bit confused the first time, because I was like - this is not what the tooltip says it should do.
Yeah, this forces you to play strategically. I donāt see an issue with that honestly. Makes it more engaging than just spamming your heals on cooldown and stay in one spot more or less.
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In the end it really just nerfs my damage more than anything really. I too as surprised when it healed me the first time as I wasnt expecting that AOE either. In the end you are still going to spam light to lower cooldowns. So for me its just stand behind the tank so my heals pass through him.
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Invalid point - Duels should have absolutely zero to do with any balancing decisions.
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I can heal it just gives no numbers for it and it no longer does the splash effect
Does not seem to heal very often tho