Support fl ele: Benevolence or Life sigil?

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Posted by: Voltekka.2375

Voltekka.2375

Q:

Hey everyone, i wanted to ask if its better for overall healing as frontline support ele to use life sigil (+10 healpower/stack, max 25 stacks) or benevolence sigil (0,5% outgoing healing/stack). My healpower is at 1200ish, without food buffs. Minstrel armor, trinkets vary according to pressure/group comp. I have searched everywhere and cant find a conclusive answer… If this has been answered nefore, pls tell me the url! Thanks, happy wvwing!

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Posted by: Artemis Thuras.8795

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A:

look at the healing power coefficients of the healing abilities you have.

will 250 healing power x coefficient be greater than 12.5% of the heal with your current healing power?
Then things like frequency and which heals are actually “connecting” ( IE actually healing someone) factor into it.
Also as mentioned, benevolence will only boost healing to others. Though this shouldn’t matter much in full minstrels, even on an ele. you should have more than enough self sustain.

There are also several other nuances to a healing ele, but most don’t affect ( or would occur equally regardless of) your sigil choice.

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

I cant remember if someone did the calculations but at already high hp the percentage buffs usually stacks better.

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Posted by: Sneaky Turban.6823

Sneaky Turban.6823

At about 1200 healing its like a 2% difference or something ridiculously small if i remember correctly, the main factor is that life also benefits self healing while benevolence does not, therefore it is the better option 99% of the time.

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Posted by: Evonet.1632

Evonet.1632

You got 3 main sources of outgoing heal:
Aura heal, with a .55 modifier, that makes your full stacked life sigil give a 138 bonus.
WTPA, witha .75, a .5 and a .25 modifier.
Regen, with a .125 modifier.

So basicaly, Life sigil gives you very little bonus, even though it gives that bonus to yourself.
If you are running a minstrell tempest, probably with monk runes and rice food, Benevolence sigil is a no brainer. In fact, you should be running transference, and only adding benevolence to that if you don’t want/need to run concentration.