The Heroic AA Tree ability Protective Instinct should have it's ward cap lifted. Limiting the ward based on a percentage of HP makes the ward significantly less useful in the current healing meta. Given that wards are needed to survive nearly all encounters and that this ward requires "charging up" and only lasts 10 seconds...the cap seems no longer necessary.
Resolved Protective Instinct
- Thread starter Clintsat
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Strong agree here. I had mentioned this back when those beta forums were live. The regenerative portion was fixed, but that cap removal was kind of ignored. It should really be removed to make this in any way competitive, especially considering the amount of AA points it requires. Right now it's kind of useless.
Even with the fix to the regenerative portion, it will only regenerate once during the 10 second ward duration and with the current ward cap it isn't worth the massive AA cost. The cap really does need to be removed to make this ability worthwhile. It would also help tremendously with furies being able to solo heal harder hitting content if this was fixed.
Chath
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What sort of values would it get right now without a cap? Is it a 1:1 conversion? I don't think it matters too much if the ward is several thousand times player health right now, but it could become a problem if they ever start to adjust things so that large wards could expire and wonder if the damage -> ward ratio would need to be adjusted at all. Don't get me wrong, the health cap has to go for this to be useful, I just don't want us to get into a situation where this becomes some weird outlier that breaks the game because it's a few hundred times the value of the next biggest ward.
It's not a ward that can be maintained full-time since it takes 10 seconds to charge it (via dps) and then the duration is only 10 seconds with a 30 second recast. It's a lot of work to get the ward up on the group and it's really only good for foreseeable damage (i.e. boss damage ability that is on a timer) since it takes so long to charge and has such a short duration. Besides possibly removing/significantly increasing the ward cap, the other factor that could make this more usable is increasing the ward duration so it can be maintained more reliably.
Current Proposed change: Convert the ward from Protective Instinct into a standard ward that increases value based off of number of hostile damaging hits dealt within it's record time.
Time Investment for this change would be: 1 hour
Uncapping the ward is a non-starter, due to how player damage ramps up on a completely different scale compared to player health. The above change is a compromise that allows the ward to scale the same as all other wards while also keeping the interactive component with damaging abilities.
Time Investment for this change would be: 1 hour
Uncapping the ward is a non-starter, due to how player damage ramps up on a completely different scale compared to player health. The above change is a compromise that allows the ward to scale the same as all other wards while also keeping the interactive component with damaging abilities.
Thank You. Not mentioned, so no change to the 10sec record time?
I'm always torn between beating a dead horse because maybe they missed the question, or not bothering because maybe they're intentionally ignoring the question.. anyways.... hoping they increase the 10sec. Maybe they'll surprise us.