a 1.5sec cast time would make it easily interruptable, and increasing the duration(so less per second) would make it more likely to stop from taking damage.

I would disagree with increasing cost though, because good ability items is more of what the game needs, not +stats spreadsheet stuff!

Good ability items are good for gameplay.

Really, the game needs a whole nother page of consumable, but the number of armor items and such are fine.

i think it doesn't need any dramatic adjustments at all. its mostly fine. simply increasing the cooldown and/or increasing the channelling time would be enough to make the item a bit more balanced. 

shield + Hol is OP, fix it NOAW.

NATfcltatr, you can't prevent Oak from using the HoL for the duration of his shield...

Must have items are better when they are activatable, when you only have 3.

I've played games where I kept having to sell warpstone, or consumables, and stuff, to switch things around.  Like one time I warpstone in, captured flag, locked it.

Well then I died, and still needed flag lock, I needed my bracelet of rage, so I had to sell my warp stone to get a tele-to-building scroll to tele to the flag I locked, since warpstone wouldn't get me there fast enough.

This is depth.

I couldn't of had HoL in that game.  I needed flag lock. I needed warp.  Am I going to give up bracelet of rage for it?  No

So HoL isn't THAT imba.  Like I said, 1.5sec activation and have it take 15 seconds to restore(200 health/mana a sec instead of 300).  What the game needs is more stuff like HoL.  More good activatable items and consumables.

A lot of the activatables aren't good enough.  And really could use a whole nother page of consumables.

The only nerf to this I could agree to would be an extended duration keeping the same total, so basically less hp/mana per second restored but lasts longer.

Giving it a 1.5 second activation is actually a pretty big nerf, since one of the common uses is to start running and hit it so that you can't get hit to interrupt the effect. Bit with an activation time the DG would need to stand still which means by the time he starts running any ranged can already hit it and break the effect, so the HoL would end up being an item mostly to reduce downtime with very limited in-combat use.

Another thing with the 1.5 sec activation is using it with shield up.  I'd help cut down on how much you get healed.  With a 1.5sec cast, and increasing how long it takes to heal to 15 secs, then you'd only get a 800health/mana using it right after shield instead of the nearly 2000/2000 you can get while shield is up now.  HoL is part of oaks imbalance issues right now.

Also, why shold you be able to just wand of speed to get out of range, heart of life, then turn around and kill someone?  I think this is too strong.  You should be have to be considerably out of range before you HoL.

Well, at the same time, it uses 2 consumable slots of the 3 you have to get that combo, and if the length of the effect was substantially lengthened then you retreating this way to heal up will forfeit the ground since it's actually a retreat and you couldn't turn right around to get back into the fight.

But, an activation delay is a good way to make HoL used primarily out-of-combat, if that's the direction GPG wants to take.

I was more pointing out the effect an activation delay would have on it

Umm.. wow. I wouldn't even use it then.

I said something very important in another thread. But I forgot which.
The jist of it that activatable abliity items should be powerful.  You only have 3 spots.

You know what goes in the same spot as HoL?  Tele to building scrolls, potions, warp stone, bracelet of rage, wand of speed etc..

If you want to use more than one activatable ability item, that means you can only pack 1 consumable.  That means no using building tele, capping a portal, and locking the flag.

On one game of crucible i kept having to sell my warp stone to buy warp scrolls and vice versa to back door efffctively enough to win a very close game.  I couldn't even consider using HoL.

What is needed more than a HoL nerf(yes, it does need some sort of nerf which isn't increased cost) is another page of consumables.

If there were multiple items like the Heart of Life I wouldnt mind it. Then you would have to choose which one you used. My problem with the item is if they use it, you have to use it.

I don't like being forced to buy an item just because someone else is using it. I try to play without it but its just too much stacked against you if the enemy uses it...

Later in the game it takes up a slot that could be used by an artifact though, it's pretty unlikely that you will have the heart of life on you above level 15 - there are much better items.

Because many of the artifacts have click to use abilities, they don't take up your normal armor spots.

I'd just love if the HoL was broken into two items: One for health and one for mana.

I also agree that after lvl 15, your better off with something else, but the problem is being low level and having full health and mana between every fight.

Afterthought: Why not just make it give the same health/mana but double or triple the duration?