Healing Herb or Vital Herb?

Drag_Queen - Raging Tide
Drag_Queen - Raging Tide Posts: 3 Arc User
edited June 2012 in Mystic
can you guys tell me which one of these two should I focus on leveling up first or should I just level them both with my current level as I go on ?
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  • thumbs
    thumbs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Vitality Herb; the other is barely useful.
  • Drag_Queen - Raging Tide
    Drag_Queen - Raging Tide Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Thank you =)
  • thumbs
    thumbs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Yw, I should have referred you to: http://ecatomb.net/skillpwi.php so you could look at how they progress yourself.
  • /eren - Dreamweaver402
    /eren - Dreamweaver402 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    vital herb is awesome. healing herb has only one use and its not healing cuz you will get better bonuses from spidervine or befuddling creeper. use healing herb (lvl 1 xD) for boss aggro. what i mean is when you pull a boss for the squad often times it will hit you once before the tank can get the aggro. just throw down healing herb and nothing else and run into it. the boss attacks the plant due to heal aggro and the tank has enough time to attack then you can drop vital herb or whatever your plan is from there. just make sure the healing herb is far enough back that any ranged boss will run in close enough
  • Sirrobert - Dreamweaver
    Sirrobert - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,395 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    /eren - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    vital herb is awesome. healing herb has only one use and its not healing cuz you will get better bonuses from spidervine or befuddling creeper. use healing herb (lvl 1 xD) for boss aggro. what i mean is when you pull a boss for the squad often times it will hit you once before the tank can get the aggro. just throw down healing herb and nothing else and run into it. the boss attacks the plant due to heal aggro and the tank has enough time to attack then you can drop vital herb or whatever your plan is from there. just make sure the healing herb is far enough back that any ranged boss will run in close enough

    Warning if you do this:

    If you use healing herb while your pet is still pulling the mobs, or even if the mob/boss you pulled is still near the mobs you pulled it from, the healing herb will aggro ALL the mobs.
    Now the extra mobs will still reset after they killed the healing herb, but only if noone in the squad touched them. Which is very unlikely to happen.
    So using this technique while pulling can cause a squad wipe pritty easy
    9 out of 10 voices in my head say I'm not crazy... the 10th is singing the music of tetris
  • Mickeylee - Dreamweaver
    Mickeylee - Dreamweaver Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I'd have to disagree with anyone who says Healing Herb is useless - it does a great job healing you. I often use both when attacking bosses or hard mobs whether solo or in squad. It's effects last much longer than Vital herb and does much more total healing over time.
    Both should be used both should be leveled as fast as possible.
  • VoItaire - Harshlands
    VoItaire - Harshlands Posts: 1,033 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    No it actually is useless. Not just because its heals are too small to make any real differencemost of the time, but also because befuddling and/or spidervine is always a better option. Healing Herb doesn't heal nearly as much as vital does even in its full duration. In fact, it barely comes close to a single BitC. The amount of healing vital does isn't even listed, so I'm not sure why you would even make such a claim.
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  • /eren - Dreamweaver404
    /eren - Dreamweaver404 Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    well i never have trouble with my pulling and healing herb taking aggro off me. i send devil in and use its stun attack then let the mobs beat it up. when the boss pulls out from the mobs i quick toss healing herb. works every time for me. and im not sure i agree with that overall more heal.... when i use vital herb its like spam casting IH on the whole party. the healing ticks seem to last several seconds after vitals vanished. both my healing and vital herbs are lvl 8. i can barely see healing herbs effect on squad hp but vital herb gives massive chunks back at a time. i do agree creeper or spidervine are superior choices...just dont know which is better yet cuz i rarely use plants
    if healing herb did heal more over time than vital its impractical. healing is something you want a lot of all at once in combat not something slow when the damage taken is vastly higher.
  • Brillance - Raging Tide
    Brillance - Raging Tide Posts: 1,643 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Drag_Queen - Raging Tide wrote: »
    can you guys tell me which one of these two should I focus on leveling up first or should I just level them both with my current level as I go on ?

    I would say both, because both used together create a fake BB - unlike BB you dont get defence, but you and your party get nice continuous heals.

    If you have to chose between one or the other, then go with Vital Herb, so you can use one of your other plants too.

    Vital herb has a longer cooldown so if a bosses AoE takes it out you have no backup without healing herb. Vital herb also requires a spark, healing herb doesnt.

    Its really up to what you think will work best for you.

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