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Brash Cleric Suggestion : Kill Astral Shield and Righteousness Together
knoteskad
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I would love nothing more than to see both of these things die.
Astral Shield is just, incredibly overpowered (24% ADDITIVE dmg reduction is MAASSIVE) and also very passive, this ability and Astral Seal alone can pretty much do your entire job for you which is terrible (I'm completely bored on my Cleric). I actually feel like content in the game was designed around this ability with how absolutely insane the dmg mobs in dungeons do, it makes it such an incredibly binary experience and makes this ability 110% MANDATORY. You're in the shield, thinks are k. You're not in the shield, you die, simple.
Righteousness is also a terrible mechanic that has been complained about forever. It was horribly implemented, adjusting healing and making the mechanic : (Heals on people other than yourself are 66% stronger) would've been a huge difference in perspective. However, if Astral OP was removed then that would easily justify removing this horrible mechanic and just rebalancing healing altogether..
And this is a little bit off topic (not really), but I think the passivity of healing in this game needs to be looked at, right now you just plonk your abilities down and they do your job for you, what I mean is : it's too easy and boring.
Pop Astral Shield on cooldown, pop Sunburst on cooldown, pop Hallowed Ground (with healing feat) on cooldown, Astral Seal everything and everyone just gets massive passive healing and dmg reduction then you just run around and keep repeating ad nauseam.
I'm ok with things like Astral Seal, it's decent passive HPS and is also an interesting mechanic which makes it a little enjoyable. But I would love for things to be more active overall, things like Healing Word, Bastion, and Soothing Light are examples of more active ways of healing as you won't really just use them on cooldown constantly and have to target or think a little.
This also goes for threat reduction and cleansing, these are COMPLETELY passive as well which I think is pretty lame, I'd like to see the effect from Break Spirit (threat reduction) find it's way to most of our other encounters somehow instead of things like Soothe so it's active, the same goes for Cleanse, especially the new Cleanse with a 20 second cooldown, still RNG but you still have no control over it AND is limited. Cleanse is something that's very clutch and having it completely out of your control is bad.
Astral Shield is just, incredibly overpowered (24% ADDITIVE dmg reduction is MAASSIVE) and also very passive, this ability and Astral Seal alone can pretty much do your entire job for you which is terrible (I'm completely bored on my Cleric). I actually feel like content in the game was designed around this ability with how absolutely insane the dmg mobs in dungeons do, it makes it such an incredibly binary experience and makes this ability 110% MANDATORY. You're in the shield, thinks are k. You're not in the shield, you die, simple.
Righteousness is also a terrible mechanic that has been complained about forever. It was horribly implemented, adjusting healing and making the mechanic : (Heals on people other than yourself are 66% stronger) would've been a huge difference in perspective. However, if Astral OP was removed then that would easily justify removing this horrible mechanic and just rebalancing healing altogether..
And this is a little bit off topic (not really), but I think the passivity of healing in this game needs to be looked at, right now you just plonk your abilities down and they do your job for you, what I mean is : it's too easy and boring.
Pop Astral Shield on cooldown, pop Sunburst on cooldown, pop Hallowed Ground (with healing feat) on cooldown, Astral Seal everything and everyone just gets massive passive healing and dmg reduction then you just run around and keep repeating ad nauseam.
I'm ok with things like Astral Seal, it's decent passive HPS and is also an interesting mechanic which makes it a little enjoyable. But I would love for things to be more active overall, things like Healing Word, Bastion, and Soothing Light are examples of more active ways of healing as you won't really just use them on cooldown constantly and have to target or think a little.
This also goes for threat reduction and cleansing, these are COMPLETELY passive as well which I think is pretty lame, I'd like to see the effect from Break Spirit (threat reduction) find it's way to most of our other encounters somehow instead of things like Soothe so it's active, the same goes for Cleanse, especially the new Cleanse with a 20 second cooldown, still RNG but you still have no control over it AND is limited. Cleanse is something that's very clutch and having it completely out of your control is bad.
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DOWN WITH ASTRAL SHIELD!
For instance if AS was instead a single target Divine Armor type skill it'd be much more clutch.
Yeah because it's so easy to target a specific player in an instant between adds, 4 other players and 5 companions. By the time you target who you want more than likely they'd be dead. That's one reason AS was used so much because a) you don't have to target a specific player and b) even if you put it in the wrong spot the players who need healing can always move.
This. So very this. People don't get we have one heal. And it just got nerfed.
This would make me happy...
I can keep dreaming!
Well for one, we already have 2 heals that work that way, it's obvious they want to have some single target functionality.
Two, it could just be made an aoe.
Three, make suggestions to make single targeting easier, such as making it so hovering over an ally highlights their character and border/hp/nameplate and shows them through all other mobs. Would make it a lot easier to see who you're targeting then.
It's extremely rare for people to be literally on top of each other, it's mainly just the mass of adds that makes it hard to target.
I use HW plenty and rarely have issues targeting with it TBH, but there are some moments.
But anyway, my point was to reduce the passivity of our healing, just laying down these mindless aoe's on cooldown and letting them do our job for us, and make it more active.
However that doesn't exist. AS is really the all around solution in the present game. Nerf it all they want it doesn't really matter to me I'll just play another class. I'm definitely not married to my cleric.
hahah a few OP things but the general direction is amazing, someone give this man a job or woman.
Bad idea.