I get that heavy healers will be a thing. They can tank 4 to 5 people in wars for a little bit. Thats good less dps on our squishys.
On my server tho heavy healing isn’t a popular anymore. Slowly converting people to light even before the light healing gets fixed.
Our wars consists of 96% great axe hammers if you get locked on In heavy gear. Your side step won’t save you and your melted so fast. Light armor has more survivability than people think yes you take more dmg but easier to get away. Most heavys have double my deaths. Not a back line healer you can’t be anymore.
Pve I can still see people running heavy but honestly you can run either fine.
Tho unpopular opinion there should be a strength 50 check on heavy armor lower mana pool and less healing output. More stamina. The strength will make it so healers have less in focus lowering there healing output by a little bit.
Heavy armor, in practice IS a nerf to your damage and healing output (well, healing when they fix the light armor buffs that aren’t working). If you deal 20% more damage in light armor, then healing in heavy actually is a trade off in protection vs damage/output.
Yeah, i can get taken down much faster in light armor if I am not paying attention, but I can at least escape a great axe in light armor, where in heavy my crappy little lurch dodge doesn’t really get me anywhere - the GA will just be on top of me again in an instant.
The biggest problem is honestly the lag. In light armor, a little bit of lag and you come back to a dead character.
have you even tried to use single target heals? it’s the most clunky system ever designed. single target healing in NW is just plain awful.
on topic: i am still going to use heavy b/c you can’t heal while dead. light armor is simply way to squishy to use in end game content: being 1-2 shot by pretty much any thing sucks.
There is currently a 0% bonus for light. So you’d be healing for 30% more. Everyone should be healing in heavy armor currently or you’re just doing it wrong. There’s 0 reason to heal in anything besides heavy at the moment.
I didn’t consider going light armor, I just switch to GA/WH and go wham. A change in phase every now and then is good, There’s no Focus stats on Void Armor anyway so it’s easy to change class when you’re rocking a full con Void Set.
They need to need heavy across the board, less damage too, tanks have almost no real draw back in pvp they still get the same amount of damage just lose out on mobility and that doesn’t even matter depending on the weapon they decide to use
You shouldn’t be fighting solo as a healer anyways. They need to lower healer threat generation though. Shit is too high. And heavy means nothing for survival endgame. Without a tank with sword and shield any team falls apart.
I think the changes work. You’re basically forcing Healers into Light armor to get anywhere close to what they are healing now.
In fact, a lot of the FS/IG changes make sense once we take into account a future where healing is reduced across the board by 25%. and there are more options for anti-heal. Melee is going to get slaughtered if we clump up too close; even in full Voidbent, getting hit by Ice Storm and Meteor Shower hurts if your heals don’t seem to even keep up with the melee damage anymore.