Well, Shaman and AM arn't the same...they look the same on paper and have some identical spells and tactics. But the truth is that AM got the best AP management of any healer in the game while Shaman have the worst. At one point in the game Shaman had really good survivabillity with self punt and Run Away. But that just isn't the case anymore and hasn't been for a very long time.Minerva wrote:I gave you a reason. Your argumentation is wrong. I just didn't say so in plain language.
As for the tactic I wouldn't necessarily use it right now but in T4 it can be a game changer.
The main advantage of this tactic is that it makes the "small heal" actually sustainable for clutch situations, giving your target the time to get away from danger/ get a guard / the casts of the second healer to come through, and then you can go back to AoE/Boon.
The biggest problem for AM's are the cast times, and that tactics takes the edge off a little bit.
There is no solution to overextending/ getting caught, as for reasources with the AP tactic I usually don't have any problems (as an AM ofc). We'll see how it's going to be in T4, tbh I don't remeber plus there are going to be changes implemented, so we just have to wait
Sorry if the explanation is a bit crude, I had my wall of text eaten by the logout timer and I had to retype it all again, the previous version was much more coherent
You can compare ADY and Desperation with Blessing of Grugni/Gods. Both are class only tactics that increase healing. Blessing works all the time. It increase healing from other sources aswell as your own and is functional weather the target is on 99% HP or at 1%. This makes this tactic very solid coz it's functional in almoast any situation compared to ADY/Desperation wich only take effect when stuff has allready gone bad. The pay off is 15% more healing but just from yourself. 25% more healing from 2 sources is actually more then ADY/Desperation. And the target doesn't need need be dangerously low for this to take effect. Blessing is a good tactic. ADY is a bad one. A bad one that we slot coz the lack of alternatives.
Imo this tactic should been based on missing HP of the defensive target. If defensive target is on 99% HP you get 1% healing increase. AM and Shaman allready loose the moast from incomming healdebuffs du to their high base heals. While other classes have ways to combat this with absorbs and decent heal increase tactics. AM and Shaman have a tactic that almoast never do anything.
maybe one day. That's why I mostly talked about AM's.
