There's a ton of AoE heals that aren't Holy Presence. Most AoE raid healing in raids I'm comes from that too, at least in my experience (outside of very casual raids). Holy Presence has a 6s cycle, and you often can't wait up to 5s for the next tic after you take damage. For certain much of raid healing is AoE heals, but most of that is someone pushing a button. If your raid group can survive 6s between heals, you can push one button every 6s and ~nothing will change. It is for sure nice and it helps a lot if you're low on healers (like if a Sorc is running it), but it's not required.
I just returned to the game after a lengthy hiatus (including generous spending) because I found the game fun and interesting again.
i will try to be a healer and will probably post the outcome - my answer was just to say we have a constant group and that was the ability that saved our whole party for the last 2 years. and in raids mostly there were like 1-2 aura doing guys, seldomly doing 1-2 mass cure {insert level of wounds} wounds. sometimes one person heal sometimes mass ..
I think the devs might have their feet dug in for certain changes already. If you've got to suggestions for other epic strikes/tree buffs/work that would help THF then I suspected the devs would love to hear those. I also wonder if the underlying tech would support 2 different cooldowns based off what type weapon style is equipped when using adren, so THF would be 8s and it would be longer for other attack styles instead of it being a one-sized glove fits all button.
With all do respect to you and your guild, for pushing stuff as you do, there are a lot of players who are not ready for reaper, let alone R10 anything. DDO is part past lives, and part skill as a player, and part memorization of the game, and all of its mechanics, and part running with good players. Years ago, I played a lot of DDO and was just an average player, and then I started playing with people who are better than me, and learning from then, and now I suck less. Simply saying "It might be harder to do but its certainly do-able" probably isn't true for most players. The same thing goes towards players who solo anything past R5, one player finding a "legit" way to solo an R10 quest is an awesome thing, nerfing the ability for that player to do so, also effects players who can't solo R1 without hires.
I don't know what their tech limitations are. This is why conversation is essential.
Nothing about DDO is casual. You need a Masters in D&D 3.5 to build characters, and a PhD in SSG to understand how it's been basterdized for online play.
I don't expect a casual player to suddenly do well in r1 raids or even elite raids. My point was relevant to the tools a healer has and can do without using EAs aura; hence it is "do-able"; "do-able" will be relative to the difficulties they can handle, but the tools to heal are there. As another poster said, the time between ticks on EA's aura is a long time in a raid and many people will die if they're not getting actively healed in that time period; mass cures spells are a bread and butter thing to spam when the damage is coming in hot. I healed long before EA ever got it's aura and I'll keep healing after this change too. I can't speak to the skills, reflexes, or other aspects of other healers only to what abilities a healer could potentially use (there's plenty of folks who are better than me and make me feel like a subpar healer when I'm around them).
I don't think we're likely to see anything officially detailed for all the various reasonings (we could, but I doubt it). You should post your wall of THF suggestions for things that apply to epic destinies while devs are actively working on them and see what sticks; because once u66 is out, it could be a long time until EDs get another pass.
Given extensive prior precedent, nothing detailed here will stick. They're past their 2nd preview at this point. If I feel like making a post at some point, I probably will. But right now, I'm just turned off by this update.
the funny thing is adrenaline is just the best for every melee dps. there is no viable option for twf/thf (unless you're centered or have a favored weapon in which case you still lose major boss dps.)
Yea, but my argument is that it hurts THF worse than the other styles because of the really slow attack speed.
Let's face it, we've given mountains of feedback and suggestions and the devs have only taken a few small tangential details. We'll even see if when it comes live the EA mantle works with warlock.
There are always styles that are more affected than others. In the case of casters, the short straw always goes to the non-bypass casters, even if the nerfs are with the intention of lowering the A+ casters. In the melees now it's THF's turn. That's DDO.
