Empathic Healing

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Is it just me or does the cooldown seem highly unnecessary? I use to love it since it was the earliest healing ability I could get, however now it just seems unusable in most cases unless you run out of combat. The ability is easily stopped by damage and even if it's spammed for the initial tick it doesn't do enough to stop a constant barrage of hits.

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Ive always liked psionic healing more than empathic. tap is an energy builder, and its a charge heal which is slightly under the full HoT effect of empathic.

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This Power is currently completly useless.

With a 6 second cooldown and a charged effect that is broken the instant you take any damage -the Power simply never works.

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AND the fact that using it even just as a tap causes a sick amount of aggo...

Well 3-4 days ago I loved this power, as it used no power to heal someone else. Basically I would be able to get a nice long heal off and maybe a tap on me before everything would run for me. Now with a 6sec cooldown, AAAAND 10power to tap with 10 power every half sec, this is USELESS...

Not only that, because of the change I have to go out and quest/sell to make enough cash to respec and remove this crappy power. Which means I cannot gain anything else until it is gone.

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Glad I'm not the only one. I used to love having the ability before the changes, it wasn't OP at all and it did it's job well. If someone didn't want us healing their target all they had to do was switch to us and place a dot on us or just do a quick slap and it stopped immediately. I don't mind the energy cost at all, but the cooldown is just unreasonable. I'd rather have the cooldown on psionic heal or mindful reinforcement since they can be used through damage.

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Glad I'm not the only one. I used to love having the ability before the changes, it wasn't OP at all and it did it's job well. If someone didn't want us healing their target all they had to do was switch to us and place a dot on us or just do a quick slap and it stopped immediately. I don't mind the energy cost at all, but the cooldown is just unreasonable. I'd rather have the cooldown on psionic heal or mindful reinforcement since they can be used through damage.

So help me god if they put a cooldown on psionic heal because of your suggestion ...

Psionic heal is the healer's energy builder, imo. A cooldown on it would break it worse than empathic healing.

I have no idea why they put a cooldown on empathic, but I don't think 6 sec is completely gamebreaking. Totally unnecessary, but not gamebreaking.

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That is my mistake, I was a bit too vague in my original statement and should be more specific. I see the cooldown on empathic healing to be very unreasonable in comparison to other healing abilities, considering the mechanics behind it. Now on the part of psionic healing I should have said that the charged (.05 and greater) aspect of the ability I'd understand having a cooldown , not the tap effect which returns the. However if it is not possible to place a cooldown on only one part of the ability(in this case just the charge and only the charge) without effecting the other than I would not suggest doing it. Mindful reinforcement however I'd completely understand, because when I used it overall it seemed to render the other two much weaker.

If they decided that they just had to pick one ability out of the three, I myself would have redirected it at mindful reinforcement. I say that only because I'm used to shielding abilities of this particular nature to have a cooldown. While the cooldown on the ability is not gamebreaking, it certainly makes the ability near worthless as a choice.

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This ability should do one of either: Break as soon as you take damage, OR, have a cooldown.

With both it never works. And as we are currently unable to respec, it would be good to see some fix here soon.

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This ability should do one of either: Break as soon as you take damage, OR, have a cooldown.

With both it never works. And as we are currently unable to respec, it would be good to see some fix here soon.

Agreed 100%

Loved the power before they put in the cooldown and the interruption. Now, it's completely frustrating.

Also, the threat it generates is insane. Add to that the damage break and there is no way the heal can keep you alive. (and your team can't get there fast enough to protect you). So in PVE it's ineffective and in PVP, it's useless, especially since a good opposing team will head right for you, the main healer, and interrupt any heals you cast.

I never felt like the heal was overpowered before the fix. It was just a simple effective heal. Didn't keep everyone alive 100% of the time, but it did the trick.

Fix pretty please?

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Skip it, I use psionic heal and mindful reinforcement (the bubble).

I just couldnt find a single instance I really wanted to use empathic heal so i respecced out of it shortly after i bought it.

I'll check out some of the sorc heals sometime later.. dunno how well they work so we'll see.

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Skip it, I use psionic heal and mindful reinforcement (the bubble).

I just couldnt find a single instance I really wanted to use empathic heal so i respecced out of it shortly after i bought it.

I'll check out some of the sorc heals sometime later.. dunno how well they work so we'll see.

I see what you're saying, but what's the point in having a power out there that no one wants to use? I'd rather they fix it or learn about combinations that make it more viable.

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Skip it, I use psionic heal and mindful reinforcement (the bubble).

I just couldnt find a single instance I really wanted to use empathic heal so i respecced out of it shortly after i bought it.

I'll check out some of the sorc heals sometime later.. dunno how well they work so we'll see.


I do the same thing and the combo seems to work pretty good (well good for heals in this game). The Sorc heal is pretty decent btw, but it does use a ton of energy with no energy tap back effect. On my Sorc i use it, but don't think I will on the Tele with Psionic, and the bubble.

Btw with the dev saying Ego doesn't help on holds what are some of you telepath's doing for primary stats?:confused: