Maria Issues.

[Andy]

Then Maria is totally useless to me. With illuminated mind at 88 that is 13k magic attack.

[sarg_7463373]

Maria hits just fine at upper levels - maybe she doesn't dominate and heal everyone every turn like she does at lower levels, but still incredibly effective. This is especially true in guild war: more than once I've had a scout from the enemy take me from 65-70% health to 95%+ health.

[keltickitten_5766997]

My Maria starts missing my entire formation all the time, while she used to heal well. I do use good runes on her, but she becomes worthless and I feel that she was fine, but now time to replace. I reached level 50 and notice that as soon as you get full set heroes, she starts missing, even if you level up her preciseness rune. On the other hand I see players with a higher level, that do not have full sets or 5 sets of hopebringer's equipement yet, who have lower runes on her, that she heals perfect.

[perawind_8762856]

I'm close testing Maria right now. My testing is being done on Veleno, the LV 68 boss. I am monitoring hit rate throughout the fight. If she misses I immediately make note of that. My results are as follows.

Scenario 1 with a LV 6 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9644, she never misses. Or has so little chance to miss to be nearly perfectly reliable for all intents and purposes.
Scenario 2 with a LV 6 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 10144, she misses a lot. (I added a lv 1 intenseness rune in addition to my setup in Scenario 1.)

The cutoff seems to be around 10000 healing for Maria. I will edit this post as I gather more information from my testing.

Edit 1:

Scenario 3 without a Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9644, she occasionally misses. Conclusion #1 : Preciseness DEFINITELY improves her hit rate when she heals below 10000.

Scenario 4 with a LV 4 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9644, she missed once in three fights, her miss rate is definitely lower with a lv 4 preciseness rune than without one. For the most part she is reliable at lv 4 preciseness in this instance. However she misses about 1 to 2% of the time.

Scenario 5 with a LV 1 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9644, she misses notably more than with a LV 4 Preciseness rune. This is to be expected as such.

Scenario 6 with a LV 6 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9776, she never misses or is so nearly perfectly accurate for reliability purposes. The only thing different from healing for 9644 is that I leveled up her guardian staff by 1.

Scenario 7 with a LV 6 Preciseness Rune : When Maria heals for 9908, she never misses or is so nearly perfectly accurate for reliability purposes. I leveled her guardian staff 2 levels from the 9644 healing scenario.

Edit: The above information is when Maria has 5 stars.

Conclusion : Somewhere between 9908 healing & 10144 healing, Maria starts to miss a lot. I presume the cutoff is 10000, because it is a nice clean dividing line.

[Lockecole_5393515]

It is 10,000....so basically unless you buff her healing so high to the point where it makes up for the lack in accuracy, DONT LEVEL IT PAST 10K.

[Andy]

Thanks for your excellent research. What determines how much she heals? Magic Attack (rune, staff level, embedded chips and Illuminated Mind) or something else? If it is Magic attack what is the number we need to stay under?

[Dawnseeker]

Maria hits just fine at upper levels - maybe she doesn't dominate and heal everyone every turn like she does at lower levels, but still incredibly effective. This is especially true in guild war: more than once I've had a scout from the enemy take me from 65-70% health to 95%+ health.

Now that is thinking strategically. Well done!

[heathermh1998_32327]

I originally had Maria's magic attack at 23k with only hitting 1 or 2 of the 5, but when she did hit them, its moved the health but up to full or just shy of it. After removing her attack rune and switching her armor that affected attack lv to small pieces, *ironheart on armor, both new and old*, i was able to lower magic attack to 13k. Now she only misses 1 every other round, but she is only giving them enough health to raise it about 1/4. Dont know if this helps the discussion any, but i hope it does.
*She has a Preciseness lv 8 that i didn't touch*

[TrueGod]

14 Star Maria
Level 99 Judg staff
Level 50 Judg spirit
Level 12 preciseness
Level 12 intenseness
Level 100 Illuminated Mind

Heals between 1-4 heroes per turn for 70-72K hit points.
Usually a consistent 2-3 heroes per turn heal rate.

I'd like this a lot better than 10k heal.
Very useful in cwf and gws.

[perawind_8762856]

Thanks for your excellent research. What determines how much she heals? Magic Attack (rune, staff level, embedded chips and Illuminated Mind) or something else? If it is Magic attack what is the number we need to stay under?

Magic Attack determines how much she heals. This includes runes, chips, staff level & talents.