heal adorn

[Dorf]

<p>My alt is an 80 wiz, decently geared with myth, pretty much the best instance gear, and a few raid pieces.  I have 4 toons to spend plat on mastering and crap.  I linked some gloves in the wizard channel and quickly got flamed for having a 45 heal adorn on them.  I raid with my wizard once in a while, when my pally, coercer, or mystic is not needed (which is rare), and when i do raid, i die alot from some of the aoe's from lack of crit mit and higher end raid gear.  I figured a cheap way to help survivability, was to add a piece of gear which has dmg spell crit, and +75 heal and spell dmg on it, along with the 45 heal adorn on my gloves to raise my magi shielding, ward of sages, and mail of frost by a total of 120 pts each, giving me an aditional 360 pts of warding all together.  The way i see it is, if it prevents me from dieing, i will do more dps, than if i died.  With 4 toons, i dont have alot of plat sitting around.  So i decided to buy the 4 plat adorn which helps survivabilty, instead of the 50 plat adorn which would increase dps slightly.  Anyways, here come the flames!, does anybody else think for the plat, this was a wise move? especially since the 50 plat adorn is way out of my price range for this alt, or would a 2 plat 16 stat increase be better than the heal adorn? oh also have a 45 heal neck adorn, so thats an additional 135 to my wards, for a total of 495 warding, most of which regenerates.</p>

[Azol]

<p>I was always thinking adorns to be "+heal amount" and our shields to be "damage shields" on top of Magi Shielding and similar abilities.</p><p>Are you positive that +heal adorns actually modify our damage shield values? Does it work "as intended"? I believe +heal adorns were supposed to make healing spells more potent.</p><p>These adorns were too pricey for me to try it out anyway. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> And of course the price of +damage Fabled adorns for neck/gloves/symbol is even higher - there is no reason to place such adorns on items unless you have top-end gear for these slots.</p>

[Dorf]

<p>Yes, i am positive it works for our wards, buy a cheap piece of +heal gear, and see for yourself if you like.</p>

[Barx]

<p>Heal amount should affect wards unless they are specifically tagged to not be affected by indirect means. There is a cap at 50% of base for +heal however, but that +heal on some gear does actually have a use even if you don't have an actual "heals for X" kind of heal.</p>

[thajo]

<p>It's not dps breaking, its just not optimal.  It's pale in comparison to specing the two 2.5% hp character traits, using +100hp adorns or using an constitution pot that gives ~400 - 500hp.  If you are dying to AoE's you should get a shaman in your group.  We have several avenues for giving ourselves that extra notch of survivability, and +heal adorns is not a common, nor highly inpactful area, to keep your toon alive.  So most just go straight for the +spell damage route.</p>