Dark Miasma

Ever they ever going to update that heal? I understand it also has other effects but the activation of the power is SO slow...it can get your team killed if your the only heals they got. Besides that it seems like it has the worst acc. It's so annoying. Can't they speed it up or something? Among that the healing radius is so small it's hard to get the whole team in it.

With the other powers in the set, the heal isn't bad at all.

Sadly, -tohit isn't always enough, neither is slowing them down. The heal is more of a backup, but that requires the team to stay close together, which isn't always going to happen.

Says my many levels of Dark/ experience.

It gets a lot easier once you throw in Fluffy, I have him specced out for healing so he ends up doing an 400+ pt AoE heal every few seconds.

but yeah, your main task is preventing heals from being needed and yeah, the slot machine effect means -to hit is only so useful.

Still, I've only had activation problems rarely with Twilight Grasp

I personally find that Twilight Grasp to be one of the more useful debuffs in the game. When you look at it by itself, it's not too impressive. The same -tohit debuff as all other dark powers, and a decent PBAoE heal. The part that makes it shine is its -dam debuff and the -regen debuff. This is what allows /DM users to kill AVs. (amongst other things. All I will say on that is that it is a definite contributor, equally as a debuff and as a heal.) What makes Twilight grasp so damn amazing is its short recharge time, and the fact that it stacks. With MINIMAL slotting, even without IOs, you can easily get this stacked x4 on a single enemy and keep it like that. Toss in IOs and watch heads spin. Suddenly that -regen and -dam has rendered foes utterly harmless and incapable of fight-extension via unusual regeneration rates. As a bonus, even that meager -tohit debuff starts to count. The only real complaint I can relate with it is that it does not target multiple enemies, which makes its usage optimal only when soloing or fighting AVs. Even then, the heal isn't half bad.

Twilight Grasp is, in my opinion at least, THE most prominent staple of /DM. There is literally NO downside to it. The animation time you're complaining about? The short range? The fact that it's a healing power that requires an accuracy check? Consider the above. Do NOT look the gift horse in the mouth. Take Twilight Grasp, as it is, and THANK the multitude of designers who pitched in to create it.

The debuffs are great yes yes. But It is annoying if your counting on it for a heal. If your the only one on your team with heals and they keep expecting you to save there lives, it gets annoying when you can't. Oh sure yes..it has a rez but who wants to die in the first place? I rather help prevent debt for my team by keeping them alive. The heal itself is pretty damn powerful and I can deal with the acc problems but the activation time is what bothers me mostly. From the time it takes your characters arms to move to actually start pulling the darkness away the target, the person I'm trying to heal has already moved to attack another target. Yeah this isn't the healers fault but most healing powers trigger the heal once it's activated. What I mean is..once the button is pressed. The person is healed even if they move away. This doesn't happen with this heal. Heals are heals. You can't just say. "Well I hope we don't have to count on you for healing. "

Change my Twilight Grasp when you can pull it from my cold, dead... er... grasp. Of all the Heals on all my toons, I love TG the most, and I dont slot it for the Debuffs, just for fast accurate Healing. As soon as I can, I slot 1 Acc, 3 Heals and 2 Rech. Obviously combined with other bonuses in my arsenal; it is on the high end of accuracy and heals and plenty quick for most circumstances. But even a tricked out Emp/Pain loses a few. Tweak it a bit and find what works best for you, but dont change it; it works just fine.

And if people just expect you to be their own personal Heal-Bot; they deserve to suck pavement. EOS. Survival depends on everyone working as a team.

So you would turn down a faster animation time?

If it means losing the rest of the awesomeness due to balance issues... yes.

After around level 18 or so, I never had an issue getting heals on time, so long as my teammates stayed within range (and I chase them when they need the heal). The animation time is a non-issue if you learn to lead it.

Which is a nice way of saying, "lrn2playnoob"

Eh, if people are complaining because they died after moving out of range of your heal, you should just one-star them and find a decent team to join. Yes, some times people die because they're not in its tiny range or it takes too long, boo hoo. No power in the game is an absoulte 100% face plant preventer. Twilight Grasp is already one of the most epic powers in the game.

I suggest you never play a kinetics character if Twilight Grasp annoys you...

All it means is that as a part healer u need to know when to use it. if u use it all the time at times its going to get people killed. but if u use it right...its a great tohit heal...dont forget people...tohit heals.heal more then auto heals...not sure on numbers but basic at lvl 50- TG heals more then a basic lvl 50 pain dom non tohit heal. so there has to be a downside somewhere.

Indeed, if your team is playing well and working together appropriately, you rarely need much in the way of healing.

Our first static team had an Empath, she often complained that her task was boring, which I think is part of why she took up the roll of scout as well.