Just not sure
I love the staff. Heals are not good? Try using staff 3 on staff 5, that alone is like ~4k aoe heal. Ticks for 100 hp on AA, which activate the trait that give you another ~100 hp and every heal activates lingering light. Not to mention the movment cability on this baybe. The evade of staff 3,The piercing attacks of staff AA. Love it.
use staff 3 asteral grace into a triggered Healing spring it heals for a lot more than the staff 5 , which i’ve started to use when a opponent tries to range damage me which just makes me immune to most damage while it heals .
trying to blast the staff 5 water wall puts you into a postion where you can be meleed and thust it hurts the recovery even though you just healed 4k all that is , is 2-3 autos from a zerker or 5 shots from fully buffed pet.
so use hs and asteral grace , postion around the target and plant a healing spring out of the way , this gives the target two choices advance to you and you grace away+heal or range pew pew you and heal you through the staff 5/.
I’m in the same boat as you. I’m not sold on it, but I believe it’s main purpose is to build up astral force. If you can already do that no problem during the 10s cool down then I say drop staff and pickup something more offensive instead.