PvE healer with subclassing

KestrelFive · June 3

What base class + optional subclass skill lines would be ideal for a PvE vet dungeon/trial healer? I already have a templar healer but want one more healer with a different setup that can do group dungeons.

NoSoup · June 3

Personally I'm leaning towards Arcanist with Warden Green balance for minor toughness. Reason for maining it on Arc allows me to use two armoury slots to have

Arc - Arc - Warden for groups that prefer high uptime of minor vuln & brittle.

and

Arc - templar - warden for groups that want better resources.

SolarRune · June 3

NB (siphoning), warden (Green balance), sorc (summoning) is one I'll be using. For dungeons you have some damage abilities that heal and atro for some damage and a nice synergy. Gives you an emergency heal and nice hots, If you want to lean more into heals you can with matriarch bird for another emergency heal that will hit most of the group.

Justosay · September 29

There is no "best" healer class or skill line (but a lot of "no-brains-just-follow-meta"

gamers ) here.
Being a healer, your main tasks (except to heal others) are buff/debuff and refill resources, so you must have 2 skills for heal: direct_big (you can get aoe shild/heal from scribing) + hot (to trigger a shield from cp on low-hp or trigger a buff like Spell Power Cure) and cc/debuff skill from any skill line (Shattering Spines, Bone Totem, Mass Hysteria, etc.).
And refilling resources doesn't depends on class at all (Necrotic Orb, Symphony of Blades, Chimera's Rebuke, Lamia's Song).
What to choise exactly depends on tank skills (it has similar tasks) and of course requirement of a "group buffs" if your party/raid is underequipped (not all members have Oakensoul Ring)