Quote:These are the issues I have with the enhancement.
For it's cost, I (me, personally) can spend those points elsewhere.
Empowered healing feat is a waste.
350 base for heal is plenty, crit @ 650-1k=gravy.
Mass heal (mass heal, not mass cure) is also a joke of a spell.
I've seen too many instances in raid situation where the divines watch 2-5 party members go *splat* mid-cast.
Low health bars do not inspire your melee to go full-bore on raid bosses.
These reasons negate empowered healing feat.
But..but..I have quicken too!
Great now you've wasted 2 feats.
Put your points in concentration nOOb.
'Newer' players are seeing this enhancement line as a replacement for interaction.
Just yesterday, running genesis, I have a cleric RS join the group.
I was already in and clearing.
Rest of party gets in and this guy shows up with RS rolling.
0 buffs except DW when it was asked for.
He never used one shrine, start to finish.
Of course the caster is away from the rest of the party and looked to have about 50 hp left.
I mentioned that he might consider healing the caster before she died.
About 10 secs later he managed to throw a cure her direction.
I tell this guy he really should consider opening his wallet and letting some mana out.
I have never seen such stingey use of a terribly powerful class.
Stand next to the melee and shield block, that's all they do.
Worse part about all of it, is now I feel like I have promoted this poor playstyle by getting some jackass closer to flag.
This is only one example of the pleth'aura' of shitty players feeling they are making a contribution by simply being there.
This has been witnessed too many times from alot of different players to make me feel otherwise about it.
The good clerics I run with upon occasion that have tried the enhancement have mostly reverted to their previous setup for enhancements.
I'm glad they have too...
I would hate to decline them for a raid.
I doubt that the expense of AP and feats to acquire radiant servant gimps any cleric build to the point of significant impact in any raid or epic, but the playstyle is definitely an issue.
It's like a badge of honor with some clerics nowdays to say "I healed the whole quest/raid/whatever without using any mana! I'm the shiz!" What the fuck u saving than mana for, jackass? Think you can put it under your pillow at night and the mana fairy will come along and give you plat for it?
Most likely, that fairy is a glue sniffer. "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.
So, for your party's sake: for your daughter's sake, how about dropping a heal every now and then?