Eric Musco from Bioware has posted a list of the planned changes for Corruption Sorcerer and Seer Consular coming in Patch 5.3.
Class Changes: Corruption Sorcerer / Seer Consular | 06.22.2017, 08:21 PM
These changes will undoubtedly look and feel harsh to players who have been healing on their Sorcerers / Sages for a long time. The healing changes for Sorcerers / Sages pull the Corruption / Seer discipline down to the target HPS. We say the target HPS instead of their target HPS because all three healers have the same target HPS. In future balance patches, the other healers can expect to see changes to their healing capabilities as well to ensure they are in line with the target.
Note: All changes below are currently in development and are subject to change before being released.
Sorcerer
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Dark Heal by 4.86%
- Increased the base Force cost of Resurgence from 40 to 50 and the amount of healing done by its initial heal by 10.59%, but reduced the amount of healing done by its heal-over-time by 14.29%
- Reduced the amount of damage absorbed by Static Barrier by 5.3%
Corruption
- Increased the base Force cost of Dark Infusion from 45 to 50 and the amount of healing it does by 3.38%
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Innervate by 8.74%
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Revivification by 10%
- Increased the base Force cost of Roaming Mend from 65 to 70 and reduced the amount of healing it does by 25.22%
- Force Bending now reduces the activation time of Dark Infusion by 0.25 seconds (down from 0.5 seconds) and the Force cost of Revivification by 20% (down from 30%); all other Force Bending effects remain unchanged
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Renewal by 14.29%
- Secrets of the Dark Side no longer increases the healing done by Roaming Mend by 5%, but still reduces its Force cost
- Reduced the healing done by Sustaining Darkness by 5.3%
- Twisted Force now makes Innervate channel 10% faster (down from 20%)
Sage
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Benevolence by 4.86%
- Increased the base Force cost of Rejuvenate from 40 to 50 and the amount of healing done by its initial heal by 10.59%, but reduced the amount of healing done by its heal-over-time by 14.29%
- Reduced the amount of damage absorbed by Force Armor by 5.3%
Seer
- Increased the base Force cost of Deliverance from 45 to 50 and the amount of healing it does by 3.38%
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Healing Trance by 8.74%
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Salvation by 10%
- Increased the base Force cost of Wandering Mend from 65 to 70 and reduced the amount of healing it does by 25.22%
- Conveyance now reduces the activation time of Deliverance by 0.25 seconds (down from 0.5 seconds) and the Force cost of Salvation by 20% (down from 30%); all other Conveyance effects remain unchanged
- Reduced the amount of healing done by Renewal by 14.29%
- Erudite Mender no longer increases the healing done by Wandering Mend by 5%, but still reduces its Force cost
- Reduced the healing done by Soothing Protection by 5.3%
- Force Warden now makes Healing Trance channel 10% faster (down from 20%)
DevNotes: The slight Force cost increases for Resurgence / Rejuvenate and Dark Infusion / Deliverance and the reducing of the cost reduction for Revivification / Salvation provided by Force Bending / Conveyance were necessary to keep Force management from being completely trivial at low levels of Force. These cost increases allowed an anomaly for Dark Infusion / Deliverance and Resurgence / Rejuvenate in that they both saw at least partial increases to their healing output while all other healing abilities saw a decrease.
The changes to Roaming Mend / Wandering Mend remove it from normal single-target healing usage. It still remains a valuable heal when more than one target requires healing, or when combined with Force Bending / Conveyance in single-target healing situations where the target simply will not survive if forced to wait for a heal with an activation time.
The rest of the changes for Corruption Sorcerers / Seer Sages all have one singular goal: wrangling their HPS down to the healing target while maintaining the Corruption / Seer playstyle with which players have become familiar.