Well, the difference is that everyone can (in theory) have hit and tools to deal with evade, but not everyone has interference. But let's not go too much into that comparison.
The big issue with heals isn't only elves and spellthief I'm afraid. Elves are op for sure, and spellthief is one of the best, but imo there's a much deeper issue with healing, and it's the fact they turn any lengthy battle into a win, especially when kiting or reviving comes into play. The value of heals is always present.
From a purely mathematical standpoint, healing is not reduced by defenses. So healing for 150 is more effective in the "damage race" than dealing 150 damage, unless you have like 0 defenses. (Which is why healing is so powerful on tanky builds). It's like heals are protection ignoring evade ignoring resistance ignoring abilities in that sense. It's inherently superior to an attack.
Secondly, healing is almost always useable, because it only needs to hit your allies, not your enemies. Whenever there is a slow down in the pace of the fight, as in, both parties are mostly out of rangr, it's to the advantage of the healers because they are always in range to heal. If their formation is good, their aoes also hit a lot of allies, but it can be hard to hit many enemies with aoe.
All in all this means that the side with less heals in any engagement is constantly needing to put pressure on the healer party, because otherwise they will quickly lose the progress they made in damage without being able to recoup themselves. This dynamic means the non-healer party may need to take excessive risks to keep up pressure.
This is obviously exacerbated when the healer has even decent kiting capability. You have to catch up constantly and keep attacking. But if you kite, then you are effectively delaying and thus getting more heal cooldowns to go down. Even if it's 1 for 1 on momentum. I move, heal. You move, attack. In a long fight this can mean slowly gaining value, and the enemy is forced to keep up or the match slips out of their hands due to the point above.
The big issue with heals isn't only elves and spellthief I'm afraid. Elves are op for sure, and spellthief is one of the best, but imo there's a much deeper issue with healing, and it's the fact they turn any lengthy battle into a win, especially when kiting or reviving comes into play. The value of heals is always present.
From a purely mathematical standpoint, healing is not reduced by defenses. So healing for 150 is more effective in the "damage race" than dealing 150 damage, unless you have like 0 defenses. (Which is why healing is so powerful on tanky builds). It's like heals are protection ignoring evade ignoring resistance ignoring abilities in that sense. It's inherently superior to an attack.
Secondly, healing is almost always useable, because it only needs to hit your allies, not your enemies. Whenever there is a slow down in the pace of the fight, as in, both parties are mostly out of rangr, it's to the advantage of the healers because they are always in range to heal. If their formation is good, their aoes also hit a lot of allies, but it can be hard to hit many enemies with aoe.
All in all this means that the side with less heals in any engagement is constantly needing to put pressure on the healer party, because otherwise they will quickly lose the progress they made in damage without being able to recoup themselves. This dynamic means the non-healer party may need to take excessive risks to keep up pressure.
This is obviously exacerbated when the healer has even decent kiting capability. You have to catch up constantly and keep attacking. But if you kite, then you are effectively delaying and thus getting more heal cooldowns to go down. Even if it's 1 for 1 on momentum. I move, heal. You move, attack. In a long fight this can mean slowly gaining value, and the enemy is forced to keep up or the match slips out of their hands due to the point above.
![[-]](https://neus-projects.net/forums/images/collapse.png)
