Battery of Life

[dandy]

Any healers got this RA yet? Is it worth it, from what I can gather most of the class specific RA haven't really been worth it so far, its a whole Ranks worth of point and I dont want to waste them.

Any thoughts, I am thinking of getting it as am Pac specced and another 'kind of' insta-heal might help, also any other advice on RA for healer would be nice

Cheers

 

[Archeon]

The only active RA i have atm is MCL, call me crazy but i prefer the passive ones.

From what i've heard and experienced though PR (perfect recovery) is a very good RA to have especially if your high pac specced (so i assume, not so highly mend specced) nice to be able to res sombody with it (Nice to be ressed with it too )

As for Battery of life, i dunno yet. i'm not too impressed with spread heals, so i'm probably biased. oh and don't forget that BoL doesn't effect the caster (you) so its a group heal in the truest sense of the word

 

[shilak]

Battery of Life is a waste of points, it does a total of 1070hps as a spread heal, is on a 30min timer and you cant be healed by it. Bearing in mind that I generally get 1500hp out of my level 30 spread heal and it can heal me.

Archeon, how high is your mend spec? Can you still cast the lower spread heal or are you forced to use the highest one you have? With my level 30 one I can get 6 casts before going OOP, then another 2-3 after using MCL1, this is more than enough healing to keep most of my group alive for the duration of a fight.

 

[Archeon]

Originally posted by shilak
Archeon, how high is your mend spec?

46+13 i think (11 from items, 2 from RR3 is that right?) either way its too high, i just can't be assed to replace any of my gear

Either way i find my group heal and single target base far more mana efficient than the spread heal.

 

[Subbiz]

How much do you heal for max w/ standard cast heal? the one called "Heal" at catacombs char builder.. noticed that lvl 50 spec heal, 677 value or so, and 2.77 sec cast time.. thats like 50% of a fully buffed tank hits if I am not mistaken, since they heal more than the value says .. any1 tested this ?

 

[Arnor]

yeah, GIF ARCHEON in rvr plzz!

 

[Archeon]

Well, if its any indication my spec group heal does 410 per person and i think my base does 375 or somthing arround that.

I did try the 50 mend on Gorre, its true the final spec heal is a beast of a spell (i'm fairly sure it was 1025hp when it critted which with WH3 was quite often ) it also drained insane ammounts of mana. In laymens terms i could cast it 5 times consecutivly then my mana would be totally gone. In my humble opinion regardless of circumstance thats far too high a sacrifice for anyone but the craziest of the crazy to make.

Originally posted by Arnor2
yeah, GIF ARCHEON in rvr plzz!

Nice to be in demand, sadly RvR doesn't really take my fancy outside of guild groups.


Oh and the 100% insta heals, 100% res kick ass just incase anyone was considering going high mend, especially now they've gotten rid of that horrible 12sec cast timer that came with the res

If i remember right its 75% (2/3) of spec to get the 125% bonus and anything on that lowers varience. Hence i can use my less mana intensive baseline heals as oppose to the spec lines and still get better results. Jeez, i bet it would be worrying if i had some respectable playing skills to back it up. Oh well, i can dream )

 

[shilak]

With 33 (+3 from RR) Mend spec my baseline heals are not as effiecient as my specline heals.

My 47 baseline single heal averages about 160 for 17 power.
My 46 baseline single heal averages about 300 for of 42 power.
My 45 baseline group heal averages about 125 for 25 power.
My 33 specline single heal does 433 for 48 power.
My 31 specline single heal does 580ish for 83 power.
My 26 specline group heal does 220ish for 65 power.
My 30 spread heal does about 1500 spread over the group, with a cap of 526 to any single person, for a cost of 79 power.

Currently the only two out of the above on my hotbars are ...

The 33 specline heal as the large specline heal is too costly per point healed and the baseline heals are less time/power efficient.
The 30 spread heal as it is more efficient than the group heals due to the fact that there are rarely more than a few players in the group being hit on at anyone time.

I respecced to Aug19 Mend33 Pac38 after the last patch and I wouldnt change it for the world as I have enough Pac to do a good job of CC and the Mend is more than enough to keep my group alive through most fights. For RAs I have MoH1 and WH1 to boost my healing effectiveness (crits on spread heals rock), and MCL1 to reduce the OOP problems during longer fights.

 

[old.Leel]

Heh, my healer used ring of illbane (+1 mend, 4% body, 4 piety) and the 15 epic neckie with +1 mend right up to level 50. I think +mend equipment is really important. Of course, I only have 24 mend, so I need all I can get, but my heals are decent enough.
I'm gonna get max +mend on my sc equipment for my shammie, he only has 16 base mend.

 

[Whisperess]

Actually, Battery of Life is pretty damn good and should be on every ( Pac mainly ) healers wishlist ( together with Perfect Recovery ).

What you do is you turn Battery of Life on, then run around with it on until it's used up.

Whenever someone in your group get hurt, he/she will be healed instantly from the battery, until the battery is used up.

Keep in mind that the 30 min. timer counts down from when you turn the RA on, not when it's used up.

Also keep in mind that the healing is instant, not like a spread heal that need to be cast.

It's a 1070hp passive (after activation) group insta heal that's used in tiny portions when needed.

It's a Spiritmasters best friend

 

[shilak]

Probably right there Whisperess, healers without the spread heal will probably find it very useful. But with my spec I find the 10 point cost a little high, maybe after I get Serenity2, AoM2, WH2 and MoH2 Ill reconsider it

As for +Mend spec items, I found them pretty useless with a base of 33 Mend, they didnt effect the healing on my specline heals and the change in variance on the baseline heals was pretty small. Therefore, as I pretty much only use specline heals these days +Mend vanished from my SC setup.

 

[soth-zorena]

With my specc 24 6 48 M a p I found that with or without my items +mending i did the same value in healing.

And I dont think 1070 hp heal for 10rps and 30minute timer can be that good, sorry.

Really wished i could afford 30 Mending tho, but that would require me to lower pac and sence i cant do that.. =( gife 24 spread heal goa!!