Quote Originally Posted by ColMcStacky View Post
The problem is that without the Abyss set, unfortunately Beorning AoE heals are terrible.

If you ask me, not only does the Abyss set need to be fixed (which Vastin said it will be), but the Encouraging Roar HoT needs to be reduced. There is no reason to have a permanent HoT that is that strong. I would much rather see an Encouraging Roar HoT that on t3 is 1/3 its current strength, but have our shorter cooldowns on Encouraging Roar and Rejuvenating Bellow that we used to have. And the current situation with the Abyss set basically creates a situation of haves and have-nots. Sure "anybody" can run an underleveled t2c raid 4-20 times to get the set bonus, but on the less populated servers, this might as well be as rare as the old, golden Warden earring from 85 cap.

Having this trait replace the Vicious Claws buff wouldn't be too bad I don't think, as I don't know anyone who actually uses this trait. It doesn't even matter that it's on the first tier of the traitline, as Encouraging Roar is yellow-line only, so the trait would be useless for hybrid builds. Just make it a 3 point investment for 10%, 30%, 50% of the HoT's total strength on the entire group (as the potency hopefully would be reduced substantially at t2/t3, thus the AoE component would need a bit of a buff).


TL;DR I would much rather see the AoE HoT at a lesser potency rolled into the traitline somewhere, and simply have the set bonus be +x pulses or increased AoE HoT magnitude or something along those lines.
we still have relentless mail and bellows. without the group hot we would still be better than minis and rks in group heals.