That gem is bugged…
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But as a healer it’s difficult when you have multiple agro of mobs. Usually casting Sacred Ground then switching weapon does help, but being a full on healer where your stats are primly just Focus can be challenging because you hit like a school girl LOL.
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Well that does suck; Still you can whip out something else; and still do decent damage. I was walking around with 0 strength (all Int) and doing fine with my GA/Hammer/hatchet
Use a great axe with an amber gem, I do and it is fine. Of course you don’t do as much damage as a full strength great axe build, but you shouldn’t! This is just a good way to actually hit more than one mob at a time (most efficient is to round up 5 or so, drop sacred and beacon then swing away). I started using the great axe because I just got so bored of shooting things with a life staff; try it, it’s fun.
And yes, the nature damage only scales 50% of the damage but it is more than enough when you literally can’t die.
I am not quite sure the change is that terrible, if I may be entirely honest with you. As a healer main since it came out, I have noticed a few changes to my healing strategy but not much
- My build relies on stacking % healing buff increases, and my gear has perks for such, not including my gear and JUST my buffs I get an full 130% extra healing when it’s all active
- Sacred ground is my largest heal by far, ticking just above 800 per second, and i’m level 55 with 287 focus.
- the AOE light attack may not heal you as much, but your circle SHOULD negate nearly all damage you take as long as you play within your circle, Even mobs in shattered mountain take a while to kill me, for context I have 6k hp and am in light armor.
All in all, I am not saying you are playing it incorrectly, But being evasive and looking at your passives, and how you can stack them will make your life 1000x easier. My life staff also hits for a decently healthy 1.2k per hit, if not more since 90% of corrupted and lost mobs have an inherent weakness to life magic, then Orb of protection and beacon can be chained together with a heavy attack every 10 second for orb and 45 for beacon, with the light attack cd reduction it makes it a lot more managable. For further context, I exclusively use my lifestaff, nothing else. My secondary hammer is just a stat stick!
Sorry for the long post, was just throwing some ideas on how to possibly help you, I know some areas are hard as heck, and some bosses are exceptionally difficult as a healer.
It isn’t, it only changes 50% of your damage. They have reduced the scaling so it is not so OP.
I use an amber gem in my great axe with 300FOC and I do more than enough damage to take on 7 or so lvl63 mobs without dying. If anything it needs more of a nerf.
Oh god i must ask. What are you doing? I got to 60 yesterday as a healer (270 focus, 150 con) bought some lvl 60 gear and started farming lvl 63-64 mobs and i can stand in my aoe healing and tank 3-5 lvl 64 mobs at the same time and kill them within a minute. Healing is so good in this game it makes me wonder why are you having trouble killing lvl 45 mobs, and in pvp i am immortal with heavy armor, sure i can’t chase enemies down for the kill but if they stay there is not 1 weapon stronger than life staff at the moment.
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According to Amazon you are incorrect. According to Amazon it is meant for PVE and PVP to compliment each other in NW. Also how do you expect healers to level up? Just PvP? Everybody knows even the hardcore pvp’ers; pve’ed their way to 60. There are exceptions of course, but most people had to PvE first, and hell all us bottom feeders were told don’t pvp until you hit 60 anyway. So which is it? PvP or PvE or both?
As proof: Cited from [Dev Blog] PvP, War, and Territory
“Let’s start by reiterating our high level vision. We want to create a game where PvE and PvP not only co-exist but support each other. We also want “wars not ganks”— meaning we want to support meaningful PvP in War and the open world conflict between the three Factions.” (Zin_Ramu New World Developer)
I use life staff/great axe with 300FOC and I can kill 7 lvl63 mobs in about 30secs. That is doing more than enough damage for a healer.
Of course it is, there are multiple videos testing the gems out. The wording on the gem says it should SCALE the damage with focus which is not doing, as you said it’s only changing the damage depending on the level of the gem you have.
No. It is scaling with focus, just at a lower rate. I tested the gem with 100STR and 230FOC, then again with 0STR and 330FOC. The damage with full FOC was 1% less than with 100STR, how is that not scaling off focus?
hmmm time to get me a great axe
Meanwhile people using hatchets with a amber gem as the second weapon are soloing elites just fine. So yeah, just quit if you can’t adapt.
Simple response:
The game was created for people to enjoy either PvE or PvP.
Less we forget the fact that the end-game dungeons currently take a ton of PvE grinding to farm. You’re not getting those materials through outpost and wars. 
A major element is PvP, but that’s not all you’re offered lol.
The only gears healer should equip are heavy gears.
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saying the new world was not created for PVE considering how horrible the PVP and Combat system are shows how either troll or FOS you are, Considering all MMO’s have retained their members because of the PVE aspect, not the PVP one.
That is a bug one of thousands on the game is currently not a fair comparison now is it?
I’m maining Dex with Rapier/Bow or Rapier/Musket, but made a second account as a healer because they have more demand for dungeons. I understand what you say totally… I either die alone with the full Dex build because can’t survive 10 mobs ganking me with poison arrows coming all over… Or spend 40 hours as a healer clearing one mob just to realize, the previous has respawned already xD.
I’m trying to find a balance between dmg output and self sustain, carrying to sets of armor each meant for dps and healing. At 56 lvl, I have 200 points in Dex and 150 const, when I swap to focus (without respec, just armor/weapon swap) I get 100 focus and and 150 const with some useless 90 points on Dex. Not bad so far.
Ew. Lostark looks awful. We need western mmos.