Vazarin School, What To Focus On? (Ha, "focus" Haha!...i'll See Myself Out))

[Sir_Alex_Traffo]

Basically, I'm done with both Zenurik and Naramon school, fully unlocked and upgraded on the nodes I feel are really useful.

I was about to do the same with Vazarin, but I realized I really don't know where to start as I have no clue on what's best to unlock and what's not worth it.

 

Could you give me some tips on what to skip and what to upgrade?

 

Thanks!

[DiabolusUrsus]

Well, what's so great about the passives? 

 

Increased affinity sharing range > only 17m at max, and a convenience at best.

Damage reflection > maxes at 10% and we've all seen what Reflection does at 96%.

Heal range increase > still a ghetto Trinity.

Revive on heal > Even at max rank there's a 1-in-4 chance that your buddy will be so weak they get knocked right back over.

Shield restore on heal > more ghetto Trinity.

Shield after heal > Doesn't protect you from melee or AOE, and lasts 10 seconds with more than 2 minutes on cooldown.

Stun aura > Maxes at 10 seconds and is on a cooldown.

 

Sure, they'd be more useful combined in some cases, but that just makes the cooldown obscenely long. Being able to instantly revive your teammates (or be revived) is very useful and much easier to access consistently. 

[DiabolusUrsus]

I'm getting the most use out of New Moon (insta-revives.) It's pretty decent even while I'm only able to save up one at a time (gotta upgrade...) and I imagine it will be a lot better when you can save up 3 or 4 revives per cast of Mending Tides. 

 

The healing is meh, damage reflection has a history of being meh, affinity share range increase would be nice but the difference is small enough I don't think it warrants the extra cooldown, and I have no idea what to think about the energy shell side of the tree. 

 

Basically Vazarin is a heavily support-oriented tree, and the revives sound the most useful out of anything else.

[Cyborg-Rox]

This is the school I picked, but all I'm upgrading is insta-revives and cooldown. It's just so incredibly useful compared to anything else imo.

[Sir_Alex_Traffo]

So basically you're saying that other than the main skill and the cooldown the rest is meh? Even the passives?

[(PSN)V1per_x3]

All I've concentrated on so far is ranking mending tides, mastery & new moon.

I can't see any of the other features being useful enough in their current form to warrant the time / xp investment that I can put in at the moment.

[NekroArts]

One of the best thing about Vazarin heals is that it can heal ally objects or fighters such as defense pods, fomorian core, and specters.

 

Generally you want to go for:

Max Mending Tides 

Max New Moon

Max Mending Tides Mastery

 

Optional:

Protection Ward

Strengthen Defense

 

The reason why I listed Protection Ward and Strengthen Defense as optional is in case you go solo in missions, get more protection for yourself. New Moon becomes almost useless unless you solo missions that involves AI allies. Everything else is pretty useless. The cost to use them does not justify the benefits either because they last a few seconds or the value of its ability isn't convincing.

Edited January 22, 2016 by NekroArts

[Sir_Alex_Traffo]

Thanks everyone!

[OniGanon]

Instant revives passive, cooldown reduction, base ability. Maybe heal range increase. In roughly that order.

[TheSteelRat]

For me:

 

Mending Tides

Mastery

New Moon

Strengthen Defenses (only way to get oversheilds on your sentinal and Kubrow)

Protection ward

 and maybe guardian presence

 

I am not bothering with:

 

Mending shower... dont need more range

Polluted waters 4 revives should be enough in 285 seconds.. anymore and you might be over your head

Command words, there are abilities and status effects that work better

Disciplined approach... again doesn't need more range

Retaliation... not enough to make it worthwhile.

 

Once I get the first group above maxed out i am going to a different school

[(XBOX)BluAina]

W/e ya want really, personally maxed cool down mending tides and new moon working on retaliation and then switching the 4 revives per I think 150 to 180 sec is insanely useful