Using BotP

Because Ironheart, wellspring, and stream are better for literally everything you'd consider using purehearted for except building chi cheaply (for those of us who leave pureheart at level 1).

Ironheart stacks with itself, so if you use 5 ironhearts you can then spend the next X amount of time doing whatever without worrying about someone dying mid-channel or the like. Wellspring is faster for when you just need to get that emergency HP boost instead of waiting for IH to kick in (the one area where pureheart would have potential if it didn't take so long to go off), and Stream gives a better combined heal with that initial boost AND then a heal over time you can transition into straight out ironhearts.

This basically comes together to make pureheart useless in pretty much every situation. By the time you or your tank have gear that's good enough to make pureheart a viable option (if for no reason other than you don't want to use ironheart for some unknown reason), using stream once every 10-15 seonds or so will give a better result.


And another big problem with pureheart that makes Ironheart so much more attractive is that pureheart heals all at once and then that's it. This means if someone's HP is dipping and you don't get off that next pureheart in time before they splat, that's it. Ironheart and stream, on the other hand, both have a heal over time that will still be healing a person even while you buff/debuff/res/attack/channel something else/die/ragequit squad/etc. Thus making them both better even with how much pureheart heals directly. On top of that, as already stated, because Pureheart takes so long to channel/cast, it can't be used as an emergency heal in the same manner wellspring surge can.






Short version of it all: Every other heal in your arsenal outshines Purehearted for various reasons. So at any time a cleric would consider it, that cleric has a better alternative heal they could have been using instead.

I avoid BotP, but I also avoid using SoR. Both are too slow, and you're doing something wrong if you need that much heal at one time. SoR has slow channeling and a horrible stack. I'd much rather use a wellspring and an IH in the same amount of time, and have a better heal stack and have gotten an initial heal sooner.

The only reasons I use SoR is if someone died and I can use the long channeling during their immunity time (golden aura, can't take damage but can't receive buffs or heals either) so I start casting it before they can receive heals and it takes long enough their immunity is done by the time it finally casts.

The other reason I use SoR is I'm demon and it casts a physical def buff which I use. So imo SoR is for dead people and the defense buff, never the actual heal.

Sakubatou - Sanctuary wrote: »

The other reason I use SoR is I'm demon and it casts a physical def buff which I use. So imo SoR is for dead people and the defense buff, never the actual heal.

You've never healed for a catapult squad in TW then...


Personally, I don't use BotP because its only advantage is its relatively low MP cost, while my skillbar is full of shortcuts that actually save lives. If you're in a situation lax enough that you can afford to use a weaker, slower heal, then probably you could save yourself even more mana and cast a single wellspring and have time left to do something else.

I have to add, two wellsprings is almost identical to one BotP. The two will cost slightly more mana and take a couple seconds longer, while healing slightly more and in a safer fashion. The advantage goes to BotP when it is sage... However, it will be a long time before all those 150 mana you save by choosing to cast it will cover the cost of the skill.

I do use botp in my chi macro while waitin for bh squad or nv squad or any squad in general.

that 25% to regain 5% mp is usefull for that.