First of all, I am in love with the Firebrand. It makes me want to find a way to add some healing to a condie set and just go crazy with it, hybriding my face off. I cannot wait to see the new stat combos we are getting in Path of Fire! Second of all, suddenly, the virtues core specialization looks a lot more interesting now. I guess I just really want to lower those virtue cooldowns because I want to get to their awesomeness a lot more faster than I can without this specialization. Within Virtues, the passive group healing traits also look a little more appealing now that we have Firebrands grandmaster trait Loremaster, where virtues apparently retain their passives while they are on cooldown. I think it would be really cool to do some passive healing during the anxious wait for F2 to come off cooldown. Only problem is, the Absolute Resolution + Battle Presence traits (making virtue of resolves’ passive heal stronger + giving it to allies) gives such a small amount of healing for 2 traits.
I think though, if you change our Elite skill: Signet of Courage a little, things become a little better (because obviously, pairing Signet of Courage with passive Virtue of Resolve group healing just seems like the right thing to do). But here you run into the same situation, the heal on this skill is terrible also. It’s a relatively small, shared passive heal that occurs once every 10 seconds which is super underwhelming. In addition, the cast time for the full heal is so long that by the time you use it, it’s no longer effective. Everything changes so fast in combat, after 2.5 seconds (and when I count it, it seems more like 3) either people have already been healed or every one has run to some other spot while you are stuck in place desperately trying to punch a heal out that no one will receive/care about.
What I would like to see changed with Signet of Courage:
(Passive) healing interval changed to every 5 seconds instead of every 10 seconds.
Cast time of active heal changed from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds or less.
That’s pretty much it. I think these changes are all it would take to make me happy, because it would be fun to actually use this elite skill, and for it to feel good, and for the group passive healing route to seem kind of useful.
Please consider updating this playstyle/skill? Thanks so much!
