Amber game givews 50% of the dmg, so imagine if full focus healer using great axe with amber gem and deal more dmg than his primary weapon which is life staff (100% focus) how the dmg going to be with full strenght build and perks to dmg. There is nothing to talk, just enter game do some test and you will see who is doing more dmg.
All damage scales with focus, 50% of it is nature though.
Lifestaff can and will kill you unless you keep chugging potions and healing up yourself with say hatchet. Whereas life staff doesn’t have to use any resources whatsoever.
Also, you think focus only increases healing or what? It raises staff damage, and heals are based on its damage.
Then you can also put Amber gem on your off-hand weapon and do good damage still.
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Completely bullshit example on your part. Yeah, sure, a full strength greataxe user will do more damage. But so what? Full focus life staff user will HEAL even more. And in this exchange greataxe will still lose because they have almost negligible sustain compared to life staff.
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So it’s fine they can sustain an entire team alone, while never dying, never having to worry about anyone else and if they focus you, you need to spend hundreds of gold worth of potions and food to survive just like they can if you intend on staying around. Sure, you could just run away, but then what? You run away from every single fight?
I’ve said it before, Life Staff has the highest number of achievements on steam, which means most people are using a Life Staff at a high level of play.
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LOS is a thing
As I’m using Divine Embrace on my teammate who’s pretending to have an honourable 1v1. It’s definitely possible to cast through walls with the auto target shit and its pretty goddamn cancerous.
To make matters worse in all the betas you know what a large majority played? GA Life Staff. Now I’m playing in current game and what do I still see? GA Life Staff. You would think that AGS would realise this and take matters to try and balance either of these.
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Or maybe there are a lot of solo players who like the heals, basing you assumptions off of the achievement seems flawed.
Why? Because you say so? Basing your assumption on what you say seems flawed. Mine at least has the data to back it up.
LS is the easy way for PvE buddies when Soloing. I know 5 people who use LS, only one Person uses it in PvP.
You may reconsider your interpretation of your facts within the hypothesis that Steam Achievement doesnt tell us about the ratio of PvP/PvE Players using LS.
The only thing those achievements told us, LS is fairly used weapon among the whole playerbase.
Allthough i would support more reduced healing passives/perks to hardcounter.
Besides that, Hammer/Spear/GreatAxe can do a marvelous job as a magehunter.
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Well surprise, it’s THE ONLY HEALER WEAPON IN THE GAME, of course it’s % is high, since there is no other choice.
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Because healers are always the highest number players in any other MMO. OH wait, they aren’t. It’s totally not like people flocking to the easy OP route. That’d never ever happen.
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You clearly don’t understand how this works.
1.8% of players are healers (of course we are neglecting the fact that many players use LS as a secondary)
1.1% of players are tanks
6.7% of players are melee
2.1% of players are mages
0.6% of players are ranged
How again healers are most popular?
I am not quite sure what the problem is, but it is certainly not the life staff. The weapon is not overpowered, as I can tell you since I leveled with it, nor is it broken. We also do not have the same power as in the Beta (apparently you missed the nerfs).
The LOS might be a topic, sure, but please tell me how the only weapon capable of healing should be nerfed further - it should not be. Pretending that anyone can carry people with the life staff is a thought that should die with the Depths expedition or any corruption zone at the proper level.
“6.7% are melee”
Did you seriously count 6 weapons in a single statistic versus a singular weapon?
You’re being willfully disingenous to try and prove a point. You’re clearly using Life Staff yourself and desperate not to be nerfed.
Yes, because there is only one weapon which can heal. I counted roles.
Did you complete Genesis or Lazarus as a healer?
“I counted roles.”
Which coincidentally has 6 times more people and yet singularly, still do not beat out how many people use Life Staff. Again, straw manning.
And yes, I’ve played Life Staff at end game. That’s what I do. Because it’s so overpowered. I’m abusing the hell out of it because it’s free easy mode play. Easy kills. Easy PVE farming. Easy PVP.
Nothing wrong indeed. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
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Unrelated to how OP or not it is. Healing in this game is boring AF.
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So, tank builds on con with sw/sh are useless huh?
Heal staff + full plate armor and you can take 4 DD’s with you in dungeons and aggroing the mobs due healing and being unkillable??
I would love to see people who are claiming Life Staff is fine to explain this video lol.
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