I’m still kinda confused by the fact that they already exist and have just been hidden. I mean, they have to already exist. Maybe not in a UI friendly format, but how much of this game isn’t already lol
Okay so I wanted to double-check on this before I responded to make sure I was accurate.
Currently, Intellect is the only thing that boosts healing. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, so as of the patch on Friday anything that boosts damage will also boost healing (e.g. Runesmith procs, group buffs, etc.).
As for the general question of why aren’t we exposing more information, it’s on our to-do list. Getting it to show the healing numbers as you heal (just like the damage numbers) is something I really want to happen soon, and I took a stab at it a couple of patches ago but it I noted in the forum post at that time it was going to be a more complicated fix than I thought, which is why it hasn’t happened yet.
Beyond that, I think long-term we’ve discussed having something like damage numbers show up in the output log so people could parse those later to get information like DPS.
It’s not that we are purposely hiding that information, or we’ve made some decision to not show it, it’s just that exposing those values does take some work and it’s just never made it to the top of the list yet, because other things have taken priority (like fixing crashes or core mechanical issues with classes).
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This is huge. We now need to outfit our muskets in rune smithing gear overnight. Not complaining, I’ll take the buff but could we get a heads up on any other changes that could affect tomorrow’s release?
Will strength affect healing as well? My guess is no but I wanted to clarify. Now would be a great time for an info dump on tomorrow’s raid. 
Only Status Effects that specifically affect the damageBoost type will affect it, so no not Strength.
The ones that players would have access to on that front would be the Runesmith proc and then the talented effects like the Warrior and Runemage group buffs.
I have heard that shared streak overwrites selfish streak, but I don’t recall hearing if this was intended or not. With this new musket healing change, would this be subject to change as to not affect current dps if a single mage uses shared streak to increase healing in fights?
Just to clarify here - you’re saying definitively that crit healing exists? Or is that being added as well?
Okay thats what I expected. Will this change be for musket only or will profile healing note be subject to buffs as well?
I don’t think I addressed Crit Healing in my original post, but it has always existed already, the same mechanism which determines a crit already worked for healing as well.
I’m not sure what you mean by profile healing, but the only thing this would affect from a Player standpoint would be healing generated by abilities, not things like potions (if that was a typo).
No changes on that front as of right now.
Provoke healing also… Sorry phone autocorrect is pesky.
Thank you very much Riley. That’s a great change. I’m going to go pick up lots of rocks tonight. 
Thank you very much for the info! I’ve been in game for a long time and it’s always kinda driven me nuts to not know things like base HP, but I just left it in the dust until I recently made up some basic tilesets for my MSK using actual battle to figure out it instead of a training dummy. And here I thought I was special. But as it turns out, everyone was right and I was crazy. My apologies then, but not after tomorrow!
So, in the case of renew I assume it’ll be higher ticks for the HoT? And shield will have a higher potency?
Sooo, any sort of balancing for pvp for the pre healing buff OP musket and now the even more OP musket?
Tile sets alone will completely negate the puny impact the poison debuff had
Just curious, do any affixes for weapons for crit work on heals from orbs in any way? And are any that would be considered useful on the list of stuff for the near future?
If you have a charge strikes gun, I will be willing to test it with you tomorrow if Riley doesn’t answer before then
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Be interesting if iceheart and giantkiller worked on the splash off the boss
I have heard shield is based off of the targets armor. I might be wrong, but shield isn’t strictly part of healing.
Oh and thank you starting the thread, and thanks to the dev’s this will be interesting for Muskies, and the new changes this may introduce.
Thanks for being part of it! It seems more coincidental than anything, but I’m super happy with the results and felt it was very constructive in the end. Can’t wait to see what we can come up with. I do have a hard time seeing chained ability tilesets being viable, but i think that having multiple sets for the same thing with different timers could help fill in the gaps. Cuz right now the timing is close but it’s kind of hard to get it just right since we have to be reactionary as well and it feels like I have to burn a CD to get the next ones to proc. Renew and Shield seem to be the best to try and figure out how to chain though. Thanks to everyone, best of luck to all coming up with some crazy concoctions for this!
I bet you could try working something out with hitting boss, shield -> Proc -> renew
Or hitting boss, hitting turret with cure wounds -> Proc -> renew
Something of the sort anyways. You can play with the numbers of the targets you hit, timings between hits, damage monsters or buffing targets.
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