Astral seal does 70% less heal to the caster since the 2 last patch

mour76 · October 2013

Hi,
Have you noticed that astral seal does about 70% less heal to the caster since the 2 last patches?
in the combat log it write:
your astral seal heal you for 153(511) when i strike for 1300 an enemy, the others players are healed correctly.
I've spent 5 point in power of the life to have about 20% heal form astral seal and now is gone, point wasted.

what are your felling about that?
Have you noticed this or all is working as always (bad).

p.s. sorry for my english, i'm not english speaker.

theosymphany · October 2013

Astral seal is a bit of a strange one. From my tests (which are inconclusive) astral seal usually heals for only about 30%, 40% or 50% of the bracketed amount for myself. I assume the loss is from Righteousness, but not entire sure why the loss amount varies unless it was my other feats proccing. As far as I know it's not related to defence/damage reduction.

Tests were done pre-Feywild so not related to latest patches.

I couldn't remember the results for party members (I think they also had a reduction by around 50%), so will update if I know more. Someone can correct me if they have info.

craeh1 · October 2013

To me is everything fine with the seal...
Healing allies around 200, myself around 120~ (200-40%=120)

Never checked with Power of Life, cause I've never skilled...

mour76 · October 2013

I've filed a bug report with a screenshot. As you can see I critical hit for 2652 and astral seal heal me for 141, note that I've 5 point in power of the life, accord to the tooltip description it would heal me for 20% of damage, about 520, if proc rigtheousness around 312
but it heal me for only 5% of the damage.
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?505201-Astral-seal-does-70-less-heal-to-the-caster-since-the-2-last-patch

diogene0 · October 2013

It just means astral seal doesn't heal critical damage, just base damage. Not sure it's a bug.

craeh1 · October 2013

If the seal deals critical damage, it also heals critical.
If it damages normal, the heal is mostly normal (still a little chance to crit some single heals).

Guess you may missunderstood the tooltip...
Power of Life heals for 2/4/6/8/10% more, thats all the tooltip says.
Also Astral Seal tooltip itself don't say "heals X% of dmg" - it only says "it heals on attack".
So based on your powers etc, it should be healing a bit lower than 130hp, +10% PoL = ~140hp

I've never noticed a change in astral helings since beta started...

whistlingdixie · October 2013

Please see my thread here for Astral Seal mechanics. It's a very odd one:

http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?469821-Punishing-Soothing-light&p=5876331&viewfull=1#post5876331

"So it turns out that if you are hitting really quickly, you are healed less for consecutive hits. It works out to be 100%, 50%, 33%, 25% base healing. With Righteousness it's 60%, 20%, 13.2%, 10%."

mour76 · October 2013

Thanks for the tips, I was thinking that the seal was working like life steal (heal proportional to damage dealt), but is not. The tooltip doesn't help you. Another unusefull power, usefull only for proc healing related abilities. I must respec my char.

vorphied · October 2013

Thanks for reposting that link, whistlingdixie. Somehow I had missed it the first time. Great info.

Astral seal does 70% less heal to the caster since the 2 last patch

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