I have been able to molo a bunch of ToV mobs with no problems whatsoever since ToV's release, the past few days, cant keep my pet alive with healer merc alone. Did something change? Sostenes
i had same issue 2 hours ago { in TOFS }, was wondering what was happening to the healer merc, he was casting few heals ( i got group hot, hot, delayed heal blocked. then i switched merc for another healer merc and it was fine.
Switched healer merc, still performing as bad as prior, he casts heals, but not as he use to as my pet keeps dying if I dont assist merc with heals.
OP Has a Valid Point. I have been fighting in Velk's since expansion released. No problems with Merc keeping pet alive. As of a few days ago I have become the main healer. Not sure what's going on because I can kill higher lvl mobs in GD and CC without ever having to heal my pet. Maybe a Dev or someone can look into this please ?
Slightly off topic since I am not in ToV, but I have had healer merc simply stop working in Gribbles HA more than once. Luckily I box with a shaman, but I always keep tabs on if the healer is doing its job or taking a break from now on. They'll do weird things sometimes as well. I had one run off following the puller way away from the rest just to buff the puller. Cycling puller and healer setting seemed to "reset" the merc, granted this may be totally unrelated.
Healer mercs are using a very poor choice of spells currently. Had a real cleric log in while we were using 2 healer mercs, cleric joined group but we left 1 healer merc to heal to allow the real cleric to nuke the undead in ToV, real cleric was doing back up heals when things got risky. On a number of occasions the cleric said "what on earth are they using that spell for". Who ever created the healer merc needs to re-evaluate the choice or spells they use, either talk to the top healers or talk to Aristo who creates the spells, cause current choice of spells are not cutting it.
Same problem here, content that is normally trivial is trashing me, something has definitely changed. I don't think it's merc spell choice I think it's something else. I watched my merc chain heal himself even though he's full and leave me sitting at 40% health after a combat. On the subject of spell choice though, is there an updated list of spells that people recommend being blocked, there's an older post with a great list, but it is for spells up to 110 and since it's just the number of the spell I'm not sure the easiest way to extrapolate it to add 111-115 versions of a spell line.
Healer mercenaries were coded for their spell book and selection in SoD. I don’t believe the spell selection has seen much if any update since the original design. In SoD, Cleric Remedy was 1.8s cast time, healed for 3k and had a 3.5s quiet spell lockout timer and Light was focused down to 2.3s cast time, healed for 6k and could be spammed. In summary, the only direct Heal worth casting in SoD was Light or Renewal, and the remedy line was now trash Now if you jump forward to ToV, Remedy has a 0.5s cast time, the Heal is now closer to 75% the value of light rather than 50% it was originally. The superior method to fire heals quickly is to chain remedies because there’s no timer linking them together. But the mercenary logic is stuck in SoD when remedy was useless and light was the only heal to chain. Yea Mercs have long had an issue trying to prioritize preemptive spells mid-Combat round like casting a Promised Renewal that won’t pay off for 20 seconds or casting a HoT that won’t pay off entirely for 24 seconds etc. These issues can be resolved by blocking Promised, HoT, and Group HoT spells. But the bigger issue is still that they’re relying on slow-mode heals that aren’t really the backbone of healing and haven't been for most priests (except druids) for about 6 years now. Damage spikes are much more prevalent in modern content and the original bread and butter light line is simply too slow to deal with these spikes especially if you don’t outgear the content.
This is a great post, but it doesn't address the OP's issue. You're right about why mercs in general are not as good as they could be and how to correct the problem, but there is a new merc healer issue which has just shown up in the last week or so that is something different from their general inefficiencies.
This is absolutely correct. My healer Merc ends up with full mana and I am almost OOM ? I ran some different zones and Velks/ToFS seem to be the worst, but it is happening everywhere. Merc just stands there (and laughs at Full Mana) while I am barely keeping pet alive. I've talked to others and they say the same is happening to them. Could someone please look into what was changed ? Makes my game unplayable. BTW, I have raid geared toon with all AA's and Raid lvl Pet. shouldn't all the sudden have issues killing lvl 112/113 mobs. I never had this issue until last week.
Dunno, don't have spells block and mercs seem to heal me fine in ToV. If its ToFS, maybe its that old geometry bug where if your merc ends up on a wall at a higher Z elevation than you, its like they lose sight of you and stop healing. If you block those heals on a merc, you've blocked them from your cleric using them on you too, right?
Maybe there is cleric code suggested from a very old and surly cleric that instructions them to let you die....alot...
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