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Old Nov 09, 2007, 02:14 AM // 02:14   #1
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Default LoD: keep it or replace it?

Is LoD still worth bringing along now that it's casting time has been nerfed? Seems way too easy to interrupt now and it's now a cheaper version of HP. Healer's haste will help bring it back to what it was, but now you have to have 2 skills on your bar.
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 02:17 AM // 02:17   #2
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Worth bringing? No. Absolutely not.
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 02:18 AM // 02:18   #3
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This is probably just a small hit on hybrid monks. Like you said maybe healer's haste can help it bring it back, and even better, in that the conditional <80% Life for healing was removed.

So I still don't know what to think about the change until I see it in play!
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 02:26 AM // 02:26   #4
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Unless you have over 600-700 health, the conditional healing really wasn't a problem.
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 03:27 AM // 03:27   #5
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Holy Haste is garbage. I cant believe it's even being mentioned.

"This Enchantment ends if you cast another Enchantment."


Are you freaking kidding me? RoF? Prot Spirit? SoA? Who the hell carries zero other enchantments?


As for LoD, the 2 second cast has completely blown this skill out of the water.
And the sad thing is, there are no replacements. Zero replacements. Monks are now forced to revert back to the way we all played back before LoD ever existed, only we still have to deal with LoD-era damage.
Yup, sounds fair to me.

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Old Nov 09, 2007, 03:30 AM // 03:30   #6
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 03:57 AM // 03:57   #7
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As for LoD, the 2 second cast has completely blown this skill out of the water.
And the sad thing is, there are no replacements. Zero replacements. Monks are now forced to revert back to the way we all played back before LoD ever existed, only we still have to deal with LoD-era damage.
Yup, sounds fair to me.
Tru dat.

Enjoy taking that mass dmg to the whole party, on a constant basis without a descent party relief heal skill. LoD was the only of its kind, there is no possible replacement, that made many HM pressure scenarios manageable. Now we get to struggle with the inefficient crap from our old healing days... hurray.

And yes, it was nerfed PURELY because of the PvP issue. 2 LoD hybrid monk backline was way powerful. IMO, if they insisted on a change, reduce amount of healing but leave the cast time intact... jeez.

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Old Nov 09, 2007, 04:10 AM // 04:10   #8
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I'd rather they double (-20hp), or even triple (-30hp) the nerf to LoD's healing than increase its cast time.
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 04:38 AM // 04:38   #9
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I'd rather they double (-20hp), or even triple (-30hp) the nerf to LoD's healing than increase its cast time.
Agreed. With the long cast time, LoD is now worthless. Two AoE ele spikers can now wipe a party before LoD gets one shot off. LoD should no longer have a gold outline. Time to go back to WoH and Healing Hands
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 04:45 AM // 04:45   #10
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On a hero, I'll probably just stick with LoD. On a human, Healer's Boon with Glyph Lesser and Heal Party seems like a better route now.
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Old Nov 09, 2007, 06:38 AM // 06:38   #11
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I relly like the buff to WoH, might try it again
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Old Dec 11, 2007, 02:44 AM // 02:44   #12
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Holy Haste is garbage. I cant believe it's even being mentioned.

"This Enchantment ends if you cast another Enchantment."


Are you freaking kidding me? RoF? Prot Spirit? SoA? Who the hell carries zero other enchantments?
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Well then don't bring enchantments, most monk Heal Spells are direct spells anyway and not enchants, hell just run a straight healing build and leave the enchantments to the Protect Monk.

You don't need to have 2 Hybrid monks you can have a perfectly functional team with 1 Straight Heal and 1 Straight Protect.

The nerf was probably more directed to PvP then PvE but I find it still works well in most cases. LoD maybe weaker then HP but at least it costs 5 energy while HP is 15 and they did remove the 80% conditional heal so you can spam it more often and easily too.
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Old Dec 11, 2007, 08:03 AM // 08:03   #13
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Ummm, sorry but 2 hybrid monks > you.

The only 3 spells under healing prayers that were ever any good were LoD, D kiss, and cure hex, and thats it. Oh yea and the signet.

If you have 2 monks, one doesnt need to fill his bar with useless 5 or 10e heals when D kiss on top of an aegis chain blows them all out of the water.
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Old Dec 11, 2007, 09:15 AM // 09:15   #14
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Why is everyone bashing LoD? I agree is worthless in PvP but in PvE is still works very well. Just finished Eotn with a LoD hybrid and I didn't have any problems with the casting time.
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Old Dec 11, 2007, 11:46 AM // 11:46   #15
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This might just be me but I've found pure healing monks useful in PvE. You may think 5 direct heals is useless but I find having around 3-5 direct heals very useful in situations where enemy mobs are attacking 4 or 5 of your allies at once cast one heal then cast another, and another while your favorite heal is still recharging. I think I might be more efficient then cast D Kiss, LoD, then sit on your hands while they recharage.

Don't forget there are areas in PvE where enemies strip/shatter/remove enchants constantly it can even be dangerous if the removal is via shatter enchant. Monks reliant on enchants to power heals like D Kiss would find their effectiveness reduced.

I'm not saying that Hybrid monks suck, I mean I have several Hybrid builds I use myself, and I think they are most useful in high end PvP where monks can fall unexpectedly. But in most situations a Monk concentrating on straight healing, and a second straight protect can still be effective working together just as well as 2 hybrid monks could be. From my personal experience I've never had a problem with that kind of setup in most PvE and PvP situations even in HM.
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Old Dec 11, 2007, 07:44 PM // 19:44   #16
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Pure healing builds like LoD + Holy Haste are decent for heroes when teamed with a human prot monk, because heroes suck really hard with prot anyway, so you might as well give them something that's harder for them to screw up. But human monks have no excuse.
Human monks shouldn't even give pure heal build a second look, or even a first look for that matter.

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Why is everyone bashing LoD? I agree is worthless in PvP but in PvE is still works very well. Just finished Eotn with a LoD hybrid and I didn't have any problems with the casting time.
Agreed. It turns out I overreacted a bit to the LoD nerf in threads like this one. I was clearly one pissed off dude a month ago.....

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As for LoD, the 2 second cast has completely blown this skill out of the water.
Blows it out of the water for PvP, yes. But it's still good in NM PvE. Not ridiculously over-the-top great in NM PvE like it used to be, but still good.
I still take it over WoH in NM PvE, and I always will (unless D-Kiss ever gets deleted from the game for some reason).

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And the sad thing is, there are no replacements. Zero replacements.
I stand by what I said here; there truly are zero viable replacements for LoD. You either continue to run LoD, or you drop party heals all together.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 12:17 AM // 00:17   #17
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The only way for LoD to be effective in PvE is for a pure healing Monk and a pure protection Monk.This is if you want to use holy haste otherwise in hybrid build. I would only use it in desparate situations but don't rely on it.I wouldn't use in HM as it is to interruptable especially in areas that have D-Shot around.I would use the old standby heal party along with GoLE.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 01:05 AM // 01:05   #18
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I stand by what I said here; there truly are zero viable replacements for LoD. You either continue to run LoD, or you drop party heals all together.
HBoon + GoLE + Heal Party as already suggested works out just fine except for the bar decompression factor.

Otherwise, dual WoH hybrids works out alright.
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Old Dec 15, 2007, 05:29 AM // 05:29   #19
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I stand by what I said here; there truly are zero viable replacements for LoD. You either continue to run LoD, or you drop party heals all together.
You leave party heals to other professions now.
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Old Dec 16, 2007, 02:37 AM // 02:37   #20
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You leave party heals to other professions now.
Good idea but I doubt they will go along with it though.
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