I got the Benediction new skill when I turned 66 Bishop. Anyone (EllieBelly, for instance) have any advice about it.
I got pulled to the other side of DVC cave the other day because I clicked on a party member to heal them, but they were in another room, and forgot to unselect him... Got pulled way over there and along with me and the person AF'd on me, we were killed by about 6 aggroed mobs. I tried to use Benediction, but it took too long to cast... So this is a problem. What good does it do if you are down to 25% HP and it takes so long to cast it's useless??? Any suggestions???
By the way, this is a problem, being pulled towards someone not in your area just because you clicked on them. Doesn't even show that you targeted them. I try to remember to click on someone else immediately after that, but sometimes too much going on to remember.
I have majestic robes (15% cast speed) a Sov with acumen (15% cast speed) +4 WIT tattoo and I always use BSPS. It's still not fast enough, considering the tiny slice of health you have to be at to use it in the first place.
I find it useful for when your party leaps off a cliff and everyone is at 1 hp, cast it, full hp for all! Woot.
I've also used it twice in normal areas, once was during a festival and once was during a nasty Forge of the gods pull. It's doable ... it's just SO restricting (must be very low hp, have 200 ish mp to spare, and enough time to cast AND NOT DIE). It really should cast a lot faster than it does.
Apart from jumping I have used Benediction only few times. With some help you can get your health reduced down to 25%. That is, someone in group hits you for a while watching your hit points. It's not practical for regular hunts, but quite possible on epic bosses.
I agree. It's a last ditch spell to save not only yourself from near death, but to save the whole party as well. PR2 doesn't take 3 seconds to cast. PR2 also doesn't require the EE to be almost dead either.
Benediction should be insta cast.. no matter cast speed... IMO..
Benediction is our last resort...
EE have PR, Destroyers got frenzy etc.
You know, we don' have any significant bishops population. So our cries are not heard by developers. Screw it. Yet another useless spell.
By the way, do you care about poison? :p
Benediction should be insta cast.. no matter cast speed... IMO..
Benediction is our last resort...
EE have PR, Destroyers got frenzy etc.
You know, we don' have any significant bishops population. So our cries are not heard by developers. Screw it. Yet another useless spell.
By the way, do you care about poison? :p
i did when i was a NG noobie taking down golems on teh island.
You know, we don' have any significant bishops population. So our cries are not heard by developers. Screw it. Yet another useless spell.
And it's not going to help that last few that still hang around are rerolling or about to do so.
Another extinct class, yay for devs!
(Btw there's no much other way than getting boosted some time (in next century), not much to left nerfing... except if nukers get Bsps nerfed, it affects us too, lol)
actually, benediction is a very good skill: one which i get a lot of use out of. for starters, i wear light armor, not robes, so i have enough pdef to actually survive long enough to get the spell off. getting nailed by a spell crit is often enough to get the spell off as well with little risk to you, since the odds of back to back spell crits from a mob are next to nil.
if you have a second healer in party, you can often start to cast benediction, catch a heal from the other healer to keep you standing, and still get the spell off as a result.
lesson: just because your setup doesnt allow you to get the spell off easily enough, doesn't make it useless.
No one said it wasn't a good skill, because it is.
It's just yet another highly situational heal that you almost never get to use because of all the conditions placed on it.
1) Very low health
2) Slow cast, could be interupted by death or spell cancel
3) Need 200+ extra mp.
The times I've used it so far, in situations other than falling damage, I have to stand there not only making sure I don't blow my mp for benediction, but pray I get low enough on health AND don't die.
Chances are if you have to use benediction, which you can understand is an OMG last ditch effort to save the party spell, it's VERY unlikely if you have another healer that they even have enough to heal, much less time it in conjuction with you doing benediction. And I think my set up is far superior to light armor and it's certainly not EASY to get off.