Fortified brass is garbage. Use pariah or aetherial ascension or trial by fire if you want a defensive set for no proc.

Heartland conqueror would be your other 5 pc.

3 heavy (chest, 2 others) 3 light (gloves, belt, 1 other) 1 medium (whatever is left). Heavy pieces are reinforced, others are impen and/or sturdy.

1 mythic (I'd recommend torc on a healer in no proc), 1 magma incarnate.

Ritual mundas, powered resto + defending ice staff/1h+s

Resto bar
Radiating regen, echoing vigor, blessing of protection, extended ritual, stam sustain rune (allows blocking and sprinting with still some stam return), resto ult

Ice/1h+s bar
Race against time, flex (siege shield, flare), honor the dead/breath of life (this is your "hold block + spam heal when focused or trying to heal someone else who is focused" spell), living dark, repentance, barrier/1h+s ult/templar healing ult

Stage 3 vamp, all jewels infused mag recovery, all gear tri enchants, 30-64 points into hp, rest (or none) in mag

Breton is best race for a healer.

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Udrath wrote: »

Check out impregnable and heartland conqueror. Gives another 8% boost to powered staff. Magicka isn’t really a problem if you’re constantly heavy attacking. Stacked up either on crit chance/spell damage/healing done for monster pieces, and try thief, ritual, apprentice. Could even swap out jewerly enchants for spell damage for strong healing. You get like 450 recovery from rune anyways + food.

I *could* go for two builds here. One for defence support at keeps, another one as support in the field. Which would justify being more selfish and having rune spells to tank with the shield. Hmm.

Impregnable seems better over fortified brass, with that critical resist. That's a lot of critical resist. Hmmmm.

gariondavey wrote: »

Fortified brass is garbage. Use pariah or aetherial ascension or trial by fire if you want a defensive set for no proc.

Heartland conqueror would be your other 5 pc.

3 heavy (chest, 2 others) 3 light (gloves, belt, 1 other) 1 medium (whatever is left). Heavy pieces are reinforced, others are impen and/or sturdy.

1 mythic (I'd recommend torc on a healer in no proc), 1 magma incarnate.

Ritual mundas, powered resto + defending ice staff/1h+s

Resto bar
Radiating regen, echoing vigor, blessing of protection, extended ritual, stam sustain rune (allows blocking and sprinting with still some stam return), resto ult

Ice/1h+s bar
Race against time, flex (siege shield, flare), honor the dead/breath of life (this is your "hold block + spam heal when focused or trying to heal someone else who is focused" spell), living dark, repentance, barrier/1h+s ult/templar healing ult

Stage 3 vamp, all jewels infused mag recovery, all gear tri enchants, 30-64 points into hp, rest (or none) in mag

Breton is best race for a healer.

Interesting set up. Pariah does seem better than fortified brass as well. I've never been keen on vampirism, as the bonus damage taken by fire sounds like a good way to get whacked by artillery, when one of my purposes is to eat artillery fire while supporting others to get through it.

Mythics are out as well, as I cannot be bothered with the tedious grind involved to level up the two skill lines. The items are really good, but the grind would make me hate the game and quit.

WaywardArgonian wrote: »

What is it you are trying to do in terms of gameplay? Will you go and heal groups or just attract zergs and try to survive as long as possible blocking/healing yourself while you kite around rocks? If the latter, anything involving Pariah + Vamp 3 will do the trick.

If you want to heal groups and keep your friends alive, the best combination on no-proc is Heartland Conqueror + Eternal Vigor + Markyn. You can adjust the build a bit according to your own needs, but to give you an example in groups of 8 or more I play 5 medium, 1 light, 1 heavy with Orzorga's Red Frothgar. With groups smaller than that I run 3 heavy, 3 medium, 1 light with either Orzorga's Red Frothgar or Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch/Jewels of Misrule, depending on the class kit. I only play with vamp 3 in smaller groups. Weapon type for me is either dual swords + resto staff or ice staff + resto staff. This is just a rough idea though.

If you want more detailed help just dm me as I've played healer in around 10 different guilds on Ravenwatch so I can probably give you a pretty good idea of what would suit your intended gameplay.

This is good stuff. Let me see if I can properly write out my approach.

I've got a few different roles that I assign myself. During defences, I'm on the walls casting heals, buffs, and snares on the players fighting off the enemy. It's pretty rare that I pull out the 1h+shield in that situation, as once the walls or gate is down, there's not much to be had from buying time for a few seconds.

On the field, I go for a more selfish tank role while chucking out heals. My old (current) build is to have full heavy armour with impenetrable for maximum health and resistances along with rune skills, so I could stand up to several players attacking me at once and not have to fall back. Thing is, that leaves my magicka recovery basically at starting values, so there's not much staying power. I can't afford all the tri-stat potions that I consume in that scenario.

When attacking a keep, I'd be casting siege shield, staying on top of the ram even with oils raining down with all the heals and purges I'd be throwing out.

For the groups, I'd usually just pug it. I did join a big PvP guild, but they were very toxic and bitter men, which killed the vibe for me. Don't care much for people going on off-topic rants and insulting other factions for beating them.