[Suggestion] Zealot/RP Heal Ritual Procs
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:18 pm
Issue:
Since April, the Zealot and Rune Priest heal rituals have been procing various tactics and are listed as a potential bugs to be fixed according to the Tracker (https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/issues/16402).
Heal Ritual:
List of relevant tactics:
Suggestion:
Allow the heal ritual to continue to be treated as a direct heal and/or when a heal crit is scored, continue to proc both types of tactics accordingly.
Justification:
1) Zealot/RPs are underperforming in group healing, particularly in the forts and cities and especially in comparison to Dok/WP which are outperforming all other healers. Allowing this change to continue will create greater parity between the healers with no disparity in terms of interfaction balance.
2) These changes have already been server wide for 4 months now and the majority of healers are finding these changes not only balanced and useful, but highly synergistic with RP/Zeal's long list of otherwise arguably underpowered tactics.
3) No additional work is required. Continue to allow these procs to continue and monitor/adjust as necessary.
Opposing view point:
1) The heal rituals were considered to be ground pulse heals in a fashion similar to the AoE damage skills of Rain of Fire/Pit of Shades which also do not proc.
2) While the heal auras were allowed to crit and were considered to be direct heals on live, they were likely not conceptually designed to proc anything. In at least one patch note on live, healing auras were found to be procing direct heal tactics, but this behavior was later corrected by Mythic.
3) Increasing the viability of heal aura now makes all other auras obsolete outside of anything other than pve.
Since April, the Zealot and Rune Priest heal rituals have been procing various tactics and are listed as a potential bugs to be fixed according to the Tracker (https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/issues/16402).
Heal Ritual:
List of relevant tactics:
Suggestion:
Allow the heal ritual to continue to be treated as a direct heal and/or when a heal crit is scored, continue to proc both types of tactics accordingly.
Justification:
1) Zealot/RPs are underperforming in group healing, particularly in the forts and cities and especially in comparison to Dok/WP which are outperforming all other healers. Allowing this change to continue will create greater parity between the healers with no disparity in terms of interfaction balance.
2) These changes have already been server wide for 4 months now and the majority of healers are finding these changes not only balanced and useful, but highly synergistic with RP/Zeal's long list of otherwise arguably underpowered tactics.
3) No additional work is required. Continue to allow these procs to continue and monitor/adjust as necessary.
Opposing view point:
1) The heal rituals were considered to be ground pulse heals in a fashion similar to the AoE damage skills of Rain of Fire/Pit of Shades which also do not proc.
2) While the heal auras were allowed to crit and were considered to be direct heals on live, they were likely not conceptually designed to proc anything. In at least one patch note on live, healing auras were found to be procing direct heal tactics, but this behavior was later corrected by Mythic.
3) Increasing the viability of heal aura now makes all other auras obsolete outside of anything other than pve.