Not a Lore-Master

Not a Lore-Master

When I first started playing the Lore-Master, I was under the impression that I would be able to do support healing. In my hopeful mind, this meant that I could do a sizeable amount of healing, even though I would never be asked to main heal a group for some place hard. I tend to think of myself as a good healer so I assumed that I’d be able to heal many things, just not the most difficult. This meant, I could both play a hybrid class and not fear that I would constantly pushed into a healing role.

The sad truth is, though, that I can’t heal for beans. I have a pathetic channeled self-heal, a 10-minute cd morale refresh, and a single-target heal, also on cooldown, a heal that crits max for 2k (1/4 of a tank’s health). Sure, I can support heal if by support, one means, basically do nothing except put a bandaid on a gaping wound that quickly gets soaked with blood.

This makes me sad. I think of the LM  has a support class in general. We debuff to help the full dps, we CC to maintain order, and we give power to keep the fight going. Why don’t we give health as well? Even if it were a health drain mechanic, similar to power sharing, where we shared some morale to others. This would require another ability, namely to drain morale over time from mobs, but I would LOVE this.

Would it fit with the class? It seems that we should have some knowledge of enough lore to where we could sap the morale of others, if necessary. It sounds a little sneaky, but then we can drain power. Are not the two conceptually connected in some way?

I realize this would have the potential to make us even more a battery in raids, but I think I would like that. Right now, I take care of debuffs, I share power when necessary, though it doesn’t seem needed that much, not nearly as much as it used to. I cast my pathetic heal out once in awhile and it does help, don’t get me wrong, but it’s nowhere near as dependable or supportive as I would like.

Am I the only LM who’d like to be able to heal more? If you respond with, you just need a different class, maybe that’s valid. The problem is, there really isn’t another class that is a range caster-type who debuffs and power shares. One response would be that I’m asking for too much and the class would then be too powerful. I do not really PvP at all so I’m not sure if that would be a valid complaint. If the morale-drain spell were dispellable and the morale cost of sharing morale were sizeable, I think it could be balanced very nicely. Further, a morale-sharing ability would not be able to be cast on one’s self so it wouldn’t make solo’ing even more trivial than it already is.

If they redo the LM traits in any way and/or add new abilities this year (God, I hope so), I’d really love to see some morale-sharing/draining. You?