Nope, it's absolutely dogshit. Same as it was when they first dropped it on the PC nearly some 8 or more months ago when I was still on it.

The only thing that could have saved the tree was my original proposal to add a multiselector to flip the tree from Beacon of Hope to Beacon of Despair, making it a debuffing and negative energy based tree.

Can I get a copypaste?

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https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/496892-First-Look-Favored-Soul-Beacon-...

Characters that currently splash 1 level of FvS just got 10 heal amp, 10 positive spell power, 1% heal crit chance and Good Hope for 2 ap.  That's pretty decent.

Meh. What you need for hjealing ? Quickened Hjeal, first mass cure, second mass cure, very very rarely third mass cure, maybe just maybe Renewal for particular quests. Awareness, spawns and mechanics knowledge and FAST fingers.

Second Hjeal might be nice but no ability of fluff will make some of those slow mouse clicking toons better at hjealing.

Doesn't give me much "hope" for new offense tree. Anyone can come up with shit"pass" like this in 10 mins.

Change to Bacon of Hope. Playing will still clog your arteries, but criticism will drop until only hairy vegans are crying.

Asheras wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 8:17pm:


You can tell who's played a FVS before their current dilemma and who's willing to roll over and play Healbot based on the responses on the mobo and this thread.

Fuckwit wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 11:09pm:



You're implying they'll actually add meaningful SLAs/changes to AoV. At best you might see 1-2 light SLAs that make AoV look like a watered down Exalted Angel... Oh wait.

Here's why the tree is strong:

1) FvS with previous Hp buff and high sp is already the best raid healer in the game. This is especially true as you maintain wings in US (which is a pretty adamant requirement for the tip top endgame raiding, pushing the envelop of what's been completed difficulties).
2) The buffs have a large impact in terms of smoothness of quest completion. That 30 prr buff put that on your dc caster or squishy rogue assassin during the front part of the quest / raid (when the tank doesn't need the extra defenses). Then switch it up by pushing the tank's stats even higher allowing you to heal and keep them up when you couldn't. Additionally in a raid, you can have both healers defense stats buffed if they are in a precarious position.
3) The dps buffs are nice but aren't as critical as most people are thinking they are except in raids with dps lockouts or boss fights where a significant front load dps will make the raid extremely easy. This will mostly come into play on shroud. Regardless it does help to shore up the loss in dps you take from adding a healer to your group.
4) The slas aren't great but it frees up 1-2 spell slots. Raise dead sla is garbage.
5) Wall of Healing is a significantly better cleric aura except you dont have to be involved in next level stupid game play and bring your healer into melee range of mobs. In high skull reaper it will hurt due to duration decreases but its still worth it for when you expect massive aoe incoming dps or if you need to focus on reupping your buffs on other players for a while.

There are certainly weak parts of the tree but anyone who has played any high skull content but much more importantly high difficulty endgame reaper raids will immediately recognize the power behind this tree. This will no doubt end up being buffed instead of brought down to a healthy level because mobo and devs are retarded.

I foresee every high skull reaper raid healer being a FvS (especially in achievement threads, etc.). And this is without even taking into account what AoV has in store, which no doubt is significant power creep.

Pseudonym wrote on Jun 10^th, 2018 at 2:56am:


EA is goto for questing. US is unquestionably the better choice for raiding. If you die a single time as a healer, you have failed. If you let your tank die as a single time as a healer, you have failed. Your job is to ensure a smooth completion. US accomplishes this much better than EA does.

If you are focusing on the dick measuring contest of kill count, you are not doing your job. Sure throw a mass frog, implosion, destruction, etc. when its optimal to, but if someone dies or could have died (made a lucky dodge) during that time you aren't satisfying your obligation to the group for success.

There's a reason you bring arcane DC casters to the group. You've obviously never pushed the envelope in a challenge run (world firsts, attrition pug runs, etc) - if you ever have the pleasure to run something like this, you'll soon realize that in a true challenge run there are moments where you have to expect EVERYONE in your group to play near perfect. There might be a few moments where you can sacrifice doing your role to perform a secondary role, but for the most part it should end up as a wipe or at least a significant chance of wipe in a true challenge run.

If you still don't understand, nothing I will say will convince you. You are probably stuck on FvS being non-healers because thats the vision you have of them. That or you hold strongly to the flawed idea that they are dps casters. There are no dps casters in high skull reaper: they simply DO NOT exist and for good reason. Disclaimer that certain builds making use of bugged 8-10x multiproc ruin can be useful in certain niche scenarios.

oh EK melee

I remember the days when everyone splashed that shit for free tensers and the knockdown...

...lol

rip laggy deathwyrms and firepeaks---you are not missed.

All they need to do is give a crit multi and some melee power to EK and fix the dogshit capstone and cores.

mmm, exactly what no one wanted ><

Its literally the least they can do