Healing Rain is useless

So, I've been playing with a friend and decided to try area healing spells. The Healing Rain sounded good and has a nice visual. The fight begins, after a while I cast it and we can have a fast regen during fight. Or so I thought.

First of all, every DoT in this game are on the lower bound of making them useful. You can spend 5 focus to deal around 20-30 instant damage or 5 focus do deal 30 dmg over time.

With healing, it's worse! You have casting time, have fizzle chance and costs, to cast an small area 15 heal over 15 seconds. C'mon! I have like 200+ life and I'm only going to cast such spell in fights that I expect to be tough and have longer duration.

Maybe if I invest in 5 healing Rains and stack then, and also invest in 50+ int, maybe the spell will have some real effect, but the investment is just too high to a healing spell. Specially since the basic healing spell, with no fizzle, no casting time, no stacking, heals at LEAST the same 15, potentially the double. It's not area, but in the same time and with the same Focus, I can heal 2-3 people party better with the cheapest healing spell.

Of course I don't want it to be enough for the entire fight, specially the toughest, but it is so weak and worthless right now. I casted it on a noob fighting a noob wolf and the spell didn't heal like 10% his life.

Please, make it better.

 

Thanks for the quick fix Chris, tried it now and seems definitely worthy of a try to include in my build. Two things though:

- The animation stops after 10 seconds, while the effect remains for 20. Not sure if intentional.
- I can place the spell in my non-combat bar, but when I cast it, my character immediately draws his weapons and enter combat mode. Not sure if I should be able to place it in my non-combat bar or if I should be able to cast it and remain in peace mode (like normal healing).

I'm absolutely astonished by the progress of the game. It already has so many fun things to do. Can't wait to see how it all comes by the end of the year.

 

Rez puts you in combat mode too.

 

Even casting light or nightvision puts you in combat. Not much you can do about it.

 

I just tested, and neither Light nor Nightvision makes me enter combatmode. They are just like basic Healing for me, can cast at-will in non-combat. Soothing Rain however, makes me go into combat mode.

BTW, is there a way to lower fizzle chance of spells ingame that I'm not aware of? Because using all cloth, standing still, with 10% Focus passive bonus I have 56% of casting Soothing Rain. I tried raising my int by 30 and got the same numbers, I tried stacking 5 glyphs and got the same number. 56% is a tad too low

 

It might be because you don't have the reagents for that spell? If you have the reagents for a spell you should be able to get to 0% fizzle rate I believe.

 

Only if you wear cloth.

 

Oh, ok, that was silly of me. Never thougth the reagents would boost fizzle chance.