I find my healing output is adequate but more buff/debuff on the feats & encounters is totally needed. Vamp embrace; yep, it's lame. I try use it sometimes when I try and tank things for the temp hp, but it just doesn't work well. Also maybe expand that temp hp to party on curse consume? And yes piercing damage. Compounded…
Maybe there is a cool down like the other loot related ones? I heard that was done to reduce botting but these sorts of things always affect the players negativley. Tweak the economy not the gear.. anyway my 2c. Regardless those results are still pretty lame.
I also have this issue with alchemy, the same problem as reported by dbiggy. Arc customer service gave me the finger. I suspect it had something to do with the double xp event, regardless this needs a fix devs. I'd rather have my progressions reset to zero than have a useless skill.