So my main on Stormhold is a Necro, and she's working towards getting her Tainted Heals AA. Having never played a Necro much on live, I'm wondering exactly how this ability works. It says "for every Manipulation spell cast, pet is healed". Which spells are considered manipulation spells? When I examined all my spells I see Subjugation, Disruption, Ordination, I haven't seen a one that says Manipulation! Am I missing something?
Root, stun, fear kind of spells. When you have the AA the tooltip will tell you which ones heal the pet
Manipulation abilities are those that change a mob from its normal state. In terms of tained heals this would be mitigation/resist debuffs, stat debuffs, and crowd control (excluding charm). Abilities that will trigger this are necromantic pact (not the trigger but buffing the pet with it), siphoning of souls, mortality mark, I don't remember off-hand but I believe absorb magic, grasping bones, root, and fear do so as well.