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Priest/Warlock P/Wl - how does Life Surge (lvl 70 elite) work?

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Uure

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Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 4:12pm

P/Wl - how does Life Surge (lvl 70 elite) work?

The description of Life Surge mentions 'continuous casting'. I just wondered:
* if it's a channeling skill, it seems to be pretty useless - you have 15 seconds when you can't heal at all (except for the Spirit Embodiment)...
* but if 'continuous casting' is just a weird description and it means in fact hot/dot style buff that you casts once and it keeps ticking (whatever it would mean) while you can still cast other skills it could be really amazing (even considering the %mana costs).

Has anyone got it? What is it - channeling or hot-style? Does the buff last just the 15 seconds or more?

The elite heals of P/Wl seem a tad stronger than generic P/ skills (*), but P/Wl lacks a cast-speed increase and pt buffs of P/R, and lacks surviability of P/K. It seems to me that if Life Surge was a buff not blocking healing the total package would be quite attractive, but if Life Surge blocks everything else for 15s then in fact a P/Wl has just the healing to offer and this sounds way less attactive...

What are your thoughts? Does eanyone play an end-game P/Wl?

(*) note also that the numbers in the link come from a P/Wl with "normal" priest stats - stating more wis would still increase the effect of P/Wl heals, so the healing elites might be actually way better than the urgent heal etc.

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Rougetopriest

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Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 4:55pm

I never got my P/wl's 70 elite, however I believe it is a 15 second channeled skill with a 4% hp heal and 10% buff to all members in range. This may be a useful way to start off a burn fight, since heals are not needed much in 50% of burns. The best part of P/wl I've always thought however, was the combination of prayer of tribulation, and spirit embodiment. This puts out 8 very strong heals in 1.5 seconds, 4 going to the tank (also increasing their defenses by 16%), and the other 4 automatically given to party members with the highest % of there hp gone (while also reducing damage taken by 10%). All of these 8 heals being a little higher then the super popular, urgent heal. On top of that P/wl has some great utility as well, being able to immune someone else in the party for 3 seconds, or pull someone back if they are about to be in trouble. Not to mention most healers love having a p/wl around also, because with a maxed Blessed Spring Water, everyone in the party gets 8.7% greater heals received... ch/r's gotta love that ^.^

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Needundead

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Monday, June 30th 2014, 10:18pm

I was wondering about this myself and hopefully anyone can be able to answer it. On another note, Prayer of Tribulation with that little fairy is just too op.

edit: After doing some research and translation from german forums it appears that yes, as Rougetopriest suggested it is just a 15 second casting buff. Nevertheless, the class combo is still very viable.

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Rougetopriest

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Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 12:03am

Yea, it's a little over over the top, but so are many other combos ;p The best thing about the fairy, is it lasts for a complete boss fight of 95% of RoM's bosses, and it's cool down really isn't too short, or too long to wait.

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SHAYdynasty

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Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 7:14am

Use the 70 elite with the 50 elite.

Go grab yourself a snack and come back 15 secs later. You thought 50 + PoT was good, try an infinite soul source FOR THE WHOLE RAID for15 secs with the attribute% buff.

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psrq

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 8:37am

Life Surge is commonly used in sige wars, it heals 60% HP of a Gate in just 15 sec. That is the only use i found for it.

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Uure

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 9:23am

Quoted from "psrq"

it heals 60% HP of a Gate in just 15 sec

Wow, the description of Life Surge on RoM wiki says just "recovers 4 HP" so I expected it would be really crappy healing and if anyone used it it would be for the pt buff... From what you are saying its healing is not bad at all. Well, in this case it would be another reason to use it at the beginning of a boss fight (call Spirit Embodiment, then Life Surge, then "go grab yourself a snack and come back 15 secs later" [SHAYdynasty] - the only thing is that it's probably easy to be interrupted by an aoe - but then you just switch to PoT etc.).

Thanks for the replies everyone!

Really encouraging. Even though Life Surge is a "channeling" skill as I worried, I think my P/Wl will get much more love now. :thumbsup:

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Needundead

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Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 9:39pm

Quoted from "Uure"

Wow, the description of Life Surge on RoM wiki says just "recovers 4 HP"

Yes its an error, what it is supposed to say is "recover 4% HP". I might try to edit that later to contribute something useful. Basically it recovers 4% every second during 15 seconds, hence the 60%. However, I don't think it works as good as Shay says. The 4% is every second, Prayer of Tribulation is still much faster ticking 4 times in around 1.5 seconds. Nevertheless, it is still very viable and if you are really lazy or have very low energy, it's still a life saver.