I’ve had to stop my group and explain how my heals work after we started wiping on trash with huge AOE damage.
I just tell people, if you’re behind me you probably won’t get healed and that my heals are either AOE or they FAN out in front of me, with my protection spell being a huge gold ball, if you see it, run to it! lol
Story of my sub 20k AoE DPS, every time. Alternatively I have a second, not as good, aoe build that’s similar to essence build, and just focus on using pyre a lot to reduce DB cd… Depending on pull sizes I won’t even take eternity surge.
They felt strong while leveling but at max level they feel week outside of when everything off CD then you can keep up for a short while.
Mines considered “General” but I’ve yet to look at WoWhead or Icyvein and see what their “Recommended” setup is.
Edit: Apparently mine doesn’t match a lot of the builds, obviously a lot of talents are taken similarly but not in combination usually. Suppose mine’s more… ST focused? But from what I’ve been able to pull off, is still strongly Multi-target capable too.
This is my biggest issue we’re wearing the second strongest armor type in the game and die faster than a half naked Mage