Arcane Lotus ( Rose new ability )

arcane lotus is not good. It recovers about 50 lives and you cannot see your teams health. It last a shorter time but still protects you from damage. 

Underwhelming, just like the super guided ball for super brainz.  I tried it for a short while and then left it.  I suspect the idea was that nec'rose would hang out by the back or flank of a base, jinx zombies capturing the base, and float in with a bit of healing every now and then.  But in my experience the reality is different.  

It's too short, comes with a serious movement penalty, and does no self healing.  It's even too short for you to gain health normally.  Altogether a bust in my opinion, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong by someone.

I don't like that alternate abilities used to come in sticker packs, but now are sold for a half million coins instead.

@ShavedThronel0

arcane lotus is not good... it doesn't recover 50, it recovers 4 health x 7 ticks.. so it's evern worse than you think, at least afaik

I use Arcane Enigma as an 'escape option' and almost never a a direct attack so I decided to swap out for Arcane Lotus to see how it compared since I wouldn't miss the damage option.

I've run through a few games of Turf Takeover and I'm pretty sure I'm switching back.

As outlined by others, there is a movement penalty and it does last for a shorter period of time, so as an escape option it's inferior to useless despite the fact that you remain invulnerable; you simply can't cover enough ground to get behind cover and out of harms way.

As a healing option, it has no effect on your own Health and unlike a Sunflower you can't tell which of your teammates is in need of healing unless you were standing there at the time watching them get hit so while it does Heal +4 over the Sunflower Heal Beam's +2 it's short duration only makes it good in a pinch, and only if your teammates are right around you.

If it provided self-healing it'd actually be useful but as it stands any healing benefit is situationally limited and minor, it offers less time being invulnerable as an escape option and it slows you down which further hampers your ability to remove yourself from harms way- I'll continue to use Arcane Enigma.

Her new skill is just as useless as the Combat Heal Station. Doesn't last long enough, doesn't heal fast enough. And on top of that does it take away most of her invulnerability.

It's already on my list of skills that need a buff, right besides the Combat Heal Station and the Super Sticky Goop.

@Screion

What is the Combat Heal Station. First I've heard of it.

I mean this thing here:

http://plantsvszombies.wikia.com/wiki/Armored_Heal_Station

It's impossible to destroy it. But unless you have 2 or 3 of them at the same spot it's useless.

I think I read on the reddit some time back that you can destroy one with husk hop.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_m-eg3_QPQ&feature=youtu.be

Anyway, yeah, no one uses those things.

Yes because the Husk Hop is as broken as it can get. But in any real combat situation no one will spent a skill to destroy a weak heal station when there are people to kill.

In general you could use the new Rose skill as a temporary heal station while capturing, just like the armored one. But their low efficiency in a fast paced combat situation just doesn't make any difference. And since you can't heal yourself as Rose, you are always better off by simply playing as Flower for heals.