Healer's Boon, Heal Party and LoD updates

While they do often go after the person with lowest HP (they even seem to know who has the lowest max HP, something that you likely do not know), You can tell who has a lower max HP by watching how far their health bar drops (relative to other teammates) when hit by AoE damage.

In fairness I'm pretty sure Yichi had Whisper over RoF on that level. I ran it another time with some PvE friends after that and only had dual LoD+Dwayna. But yeah :P

You can tell who has a lower max HP by watching how far their health bar drops (relative to other teammates) when hit by AoE damage. An even better guide is how much their health bar moves up when you use a spell on them. You know exactly how much it heals for and how much their bar moved. Or when they start degenning from a known source, bleeding, poison, disease, Conjure Phantasm, Life Siphon, etc. It doesn't take too much practice to be able to guess someone's health total to within about 50 from watching the bar move.

LoD was maintenance for the party. It worked nicely because you just spammed it when you could really. In the 5 seconds between LoDs, you'd throw around guardian, place an RoF, and maybe PS something if you were going against bosses or heavy focus firing. But why were you spamming it if it was having no effect as no one was under 80%?

What I found in using it is that if my prots were going well LoD never did anything, and if my prots were failing LoD wasn't enough to cover the difference. Its value in spamming was purely psychological - to make me think I was doing something.

The new LoD doesn't have the 80% bar, so it can be spammed, but it still leaves you without any solution against a spike. And as far as a party wide minor heal, it does little more than just spamming Prots alone will do. In a healing bar, I'd want an elite that could cover for a spike, in a hybrid bar, I'd probably want the same thing, and in a Prot bar, I might as well just use ZB.