Why doesn’t Fire Breath and Pyre heal allies in its area of effect by default?
Living fire is used by red dragons to damage enemies and heal allies, specifically Living Flame works correctly, so why does Fire Breath or Pyre work differently? Then transfer Fire Breath and Pyre to the fire of the black dragons (Black school).
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I don’t see nothing critical in AOE healing once in ± 20 sec, we still have Emerald Blossom btw. Not calling for Fire Breath to raise a full health bar, just healing effect, and if you’re that worried about balance in this game (which it doesn’t have), okay, healing will equal x1 or x2 healing from Emerald Blossom (which can safely be called cosmetic in the current reality), on 3 FB charges.
Because it would be way too OP for Dev Evokers to have in our toolkit. In pvp I already get to mass dispel up to 3 buffs on every enemy truck. It would be a balancing nightmare.
Yes, then make it black dragons fire as Onyxia had? What the problem? I understand that no one will do this, but it is logical, although who needs logic and common sense, this will do. To be honest, sometimes I want the usual classic fire of dragons, not this miracle of a red ones.
This would result it much higher damage for Scale commander than Flameshapper. There really isn’t any reason to do it other than a lore interpretation, and to that I say the cleansing fire pvp talent would no longer make sense canonically.
If you want a volcanic looking spell, then just ask for a glyph that changes the appearance.
However, before changing anything that has massive balance implications,like a spell school or function. The question you should ask is “what problem are we trying to fix here?” Because by tweaking something like “make all red spells heal if not, make them black spells” your basically asking them to break the class in order to fulfill your idea of the lore, which is a pointless debate. It’s really that simple.
I would imagine not all dragon fire has healing ability. My only guess, and that it would be this way for gameplay at the very least, requiring way too much nerfing of Evokers.
Because balance exists and they would have to take power from somewhere to give us a bunch of innate and free aoe healing.
Balance decisions don’t happen through a lens of lore and what schools of magic ‘could’ do. Imagine if ret divine storm healed everyone in the aoe, etc.
Why volcanic, just as a normal fire, Deep Breath is enough volcanic for me.
I wrote about replacing red fire with fire of the depths, cause I imagined my Pyre HPS in M+ on big pulls.
Fair point.
Agree, but healing amount can be not that big.
I find it difficult to apply this word to this game.
Are you sure about that? As far as I know, devokers are hybrids, as balance druids or elemental shamans, and I don’t see nothing critical in AOE healing once in ± 20 sec, we still have Emerald Blossom, friends, hope you don’t forget. Not calling for Fire Breath to raise a full health bar, just healing effect, and if you’re that worried about balance in this game (which it doesn’t have), okay, healing will equal x1 or x2 healing from Emerald Blossom (which can safely be called cosmetic in the current reality), on 3 FB charges.
Yeah, I wrote about a specific spell, Emerald Blossom
What about Living Flame healing and Verdant Embrace? As a devoker you can heal yourself with healing spells in a short time to your full health, this makes you a hybrid.
There are many different scenarios in the game, both PVP and PVE, I play both in arena, PVP in outdors, battlegrounds, m+ dungeons, raids, everywhere there are different conditions, situations, including different levels of healing, but here I am confident in saying that in many of these scenarios, by healing myself correctly at the right time, I am able to keep my health at a high level.
I even just kite a pure damage dealer by slowing him or stopping, fly behind a pillar and heal myself there while he runs in circles trying to get me and then dies.
Don’t agree here, a hybrid is more about the concept, the possibility of healing or spam healing with various spells in damage dealing specs, elem and enh shamans, feral and balance druids, shadow preists, aug and deva evokers, ww monks and ret paladins.
Yes, your health. Not everyone in range of your target, which is what your proposed change for Pyre and Flamebreath would be.
Gameplay and story segregation, my dude. Devoker is a damage spec, not a healing spec. It has some self heals that can also function as healing your party or raid members in a pinch— that’s your “lore accurate” nod right there.
Red dragon flight fire can destroy amd heal. It doesn’t do both always by default. You think alexstraza was trying to heal razageth when she tried blasting her fire at her? No way. The wielder of the fire determines what the fire will do. In tje case of the wrath gate alexstraza and her brood choose for it to do both. Dracthyr choose for it to do one or the other as they deem necessary.