Consistency please - make Healing Touch a skill

That sounds reasonable. But if the last update has shown us anything, it's that ANet only alters skills in a way that was requested by us if 99% of people want the change, and if hundreds of people demand it...

Whos moaned about signet of disenchantment or draw spirit? I don't see 100s of people screaming for them on these 'ere forums? ANet does what it wants... you'll be damned if you try to change their ways.

Correct me if im wrong but arnt a large majority of monk skills..spells. Maybe the want to keep it consistent with the rest of the monks skills. Or maybe if it was a skill it would be majorly overpowered b/c of the divine favor being doubled. That would be a very large heal with only a few ways to counter.

also if this is turns into another touch ranger overpowered thread ima just have to laugh

~shote

That's what I'm saying, all of ANet's skill updates are full of completely random bullshit. The only time they fix skills that we say need to be fixed, is if, like I said, 99% of people want it and hundreds of people demand it.
Most people want Assassins to be improved, but I guess we haven't reached a high enouph mark of demands yet to be granted anything but unnecessary nerfs and random crap with the "fixes".
The only change I saw in that last update that was actually requested by anyone was the AoE nerf, and hundreds of people were demanding that change.

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Please don't reply to that, I don't want to hijack the thread.

Consistency is no reason to upset skill balance.

Healing Touch isn't even the only touch spell, besides.

I was fine with healing touch the way it is no real need to change it.

Contemplation of Purity.

And just to fulfill the prophecy.. NERF TOUCHERS!

All of those are offensive skills.

They are classified as "skills" so they can bypass the mesmer domination stuff.

Healing Touch is a very powerful spell, if it was not a spell then it bypass backfire and not be interrupted by "spell interrupts"", think about it for a while.

Cof works on em , I actually power drained a shock I belive, :X, pretty sure it was.

He left out touch of agony - wallows bite - vampiric bite - stonesoul strike.

All touches are skills, only makes sense that healing touch is one as well. This would make for a great reason to use heal in 4v4 instead of boon prot.

If healing touch is such a great skill how come everybody is boon prots! Heal needs re-energized in pvp and this is a good way to do it. This wouldn't make half the impact people make it out to have, how many people actually use backfire/conundrum/migraine/languor?

Ahahah Healing Touch Rangers. That'd be quite funny.

Healing Touch, Healing Burst, Restore Life, Blood Ritual, Star Burst, Shroud of Silence, Beguiling Haze, Consume Soul, Spirit to Flesh. All touch-range spells.

It's a spell, otherwise you wouldn't gain Divine Favor bonus from it. Same with Healing Burst.
Think.

yeah making it a skill is a really bad idea for a monk, they lose out on the divine favour bonus.

And thats the game. No no they need to make all monk skills give divine favor bonus! Even signets and stuff!

Well you must be a hacker then, because power drain only works on spells..

Well, I kind of figured that the people who were asking to make it a skill were implicitly also asking for it to get the divine favor bonus anyway as a special trait of the skill.

Otherwise the suggestion isn't even worth laughing at.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!

Double the none-existent Divine Favor Bonus