Best Healing Class? Race?

Fearfniche3

Guys what's the best healing class and race out there?

By "best" I mean, good powerful AoE heals that doesn't use up too much of your mana.

dharbert

Any class can use a restoration staff, but Templars are the only class that have class healing skill lines.

Nifty2g

Youre looking for a templar

chairenn

Templar, hands down. They (we!) have a whole skill tree for healing, plus obviously the resto staff skill line.

For race, anything magicka-efficient: Breton, Altmer, Argonian.

Fearfniche3

Ok thanks

Mpcolson

The Angorians are the best race to make healers as they have magika bonus and regen bonus. But they have a tail... I don't like having a tail... lol

AlnilamE

Templars have a healing skill line

Sorcs have great mana mangement

NBs have attacks that give allies HoT

Not sure about DKs.

All classes can use resto staff, which has good AoE heals. Cost reduction is helped a lot by gear.

So it realy depends on your play style.

Bloodystab

Wait what? Argonians magica bonus & regen?

Did i miss some patch notes?

Sallington

Breton Templar. 5 piece Seducer, 3 piece Magus.

Healbot activated.

Nivzruo_ESO

Redguard, Stam DK, with bow. Spam that pvp stam heal and frag shield. heavy bow attk when low on stam, go full med, 2H offhand for the 20% increase that works with the heal.. magma armour, bone shield, molten buff that increase heavy damage, pvp cleanse.. bam just made you the perfect heal/support for a pvp zerg team.

Hypertionb14_ESO

templar, Breton.

Best heals and the best magicka racials (all 3 help with spell sustain)

Elijah_Crow

Breton Templar for sure.

grimsfield

High elf templar. For sure. Especially now that templars can dps and use fire skills under dawns wrath.

DeLindsay

Best is relative, I'm a Wood Elf NB and I can outheal some Templars and Magicka is NEVER an issue for me

ashlee17

For burst healing groups, templar. Not even a close call. As for race I would choose altimer. Be sure to train a resto staff. Use 5 light- seducer is a good cheap crafted set to lvl with.

starkerealm

AlnilamE wrote: »

Not sure about DKs.

From what I've been told, DK healers excel as buff healers. So you're using the restoration staff for most of your actual heals, and then buffing them off of one of their skill lines. But... my DK has been neglected since shortly after launch, so I'm not 100% sure how it works.

Darkintellect

NB Breton Healer here. Health Funnel does about twice of Rapid Regen and Rapid Regen heals for 1400-2200 a tick. With those two up on group full time, factoring the 2 second HF and 1.6 second RR, you get around 3150 per second on average to the group. Then while that ticks, you can spam Healing Springs for an additional 6500 a second (with 3 stacks flowing).

Other NB abilities that heal are Refreshing Path which lays a path for 15 seconds which heals everyone in it for 2600 heal a second. Then you have Power Sap which does massive AE damage and heals group for around 3200 per cast, + 20% per mob affected.

Add in the siphon line which can boost healing from resto staff and other heals by 3% per siphoning ability. I usually run at 9%.

Then you have the Siphoning Ulti Soul Siphon, which is 150 ultimate and heals group for 32-40k health over 3.5 seconds. Gives the lowest health target a 10k hp lifetap and gives the group a 30% increase in all healing for 4 seconds.

It's single handedly the most powerful heal in the game, ultimate or ability. It's also up every 30 seconds in a dungeon since my regens give me the constant ultimate buff from the group auto-attacking.

This is all while Im maintaining around 4-6k dps, much more of AE. The group is almost never below 90% hp and if they are for whatever reason, you just Soul Siphon them back to full.

What I'm trying to say is, you can play a few classes with various builds and a few can exceed the Templar. Templars are good if you aren't a great healer and want a class design for healing to be as simple as it can be for your benefit.

mfrd36nrb18_ESO

I have an Imperial Templar myself, at first I didn't know what I was gonna do with him and didn't know much about the mechanics of the game either. Now I made him the best healer he can be (maybe the best around), yes, an Imperial. You could use any class of course for healing, and if you know your class pretty well the better. But, if you know and have figured out the timing, and you know all the dungeons mechanics and you are one second ahead of your team mates, there's no race that can exceed templars, period.

The Breath of life instant healing is incomparably the best ability to save lives at the las second, plus when you have a 4 man group stacked the HOTs you can get are the sickest, using Healer/Seducer set combo, and it goes like this:

Mutageen x200 (or rapid regeneration) + extended ritual x200 (or the other morph) + healing Springs x300 = over 7000 hps, even 800 on best crit.

Im not adding lingering ritual since its cast time makes it not worthy at all to slot it.

And one of the best Templar ability, Repentance or Radiant aura. I recommend Repentance morph for healers and Radiant Aura If you have a Templar stamina build. Of course Repentance works better when you have multiple dead bodies around but it's a no cost big insta healing ability and it restores stamina to your buddies, your stamina build mate or tank will appreciate it the most.

And to sum up, all your gear must be divine vr14 legendary and the best Mundus Stone for it to work is The Shadow.

Any questions, bars loadouts or ingame demonstration ask me, @crashoveride36.

I hope this info worksr out for you.

P. D. Imperial race adds survivability

starkerealm

mfrd36nrb18_ESO wrote: »

I have an Imperial Templar myself...

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend Imperial for healing, simply because they're less efficient with magicka than, say, a Breton. That said, you can absolutely make a good Imperial healer. It's just their racial abilities feed better into their own survival.

omfgitsbatman

dharbert wrote: »

Any class can use a restoration staff, but Templars are the only class that have class healing skill lines.

Nightblades also have a bunch of class specific healing. Funnel health, refreshing path, Sap Essence, soul siphon, veil of blades. I use just as many nb abilities if not more than resto staff abilities while I'm healing.

As far as OP's question, Templars are the easiest class to heal on by far. Because they are the easiest, does not make them the best. Each class has a niche.
Templars are good for fights where the party is very spread out. Sorcs are super magika efficient and can stack a metric ton of it. NB healers always have tons of HoTs rolling. Dk healers keep you topped off and then some with shields.

Find a playstyle you like. Templar is probably the most boring class to heal on. I really enjoy the active playstyle on ny Nightblade.

As far as race, Breton would be the best right now in my opinion for the cost reduction and extra magika.

TehMagnus

AlnilamE wrote: »

Templars have a healing skill line

Sorcs have great mana mangement

NBs have attacks that give allies HoT

Not sure about DKs.

All classes can use resto staff, which has good AoE heals. Cost reduction is helped a lot by gear.

So it realy depends on your play style.

It actually doesn't when you ask what the best combination is or the best class which undeniably is Templar. Sorcs are the second best but in any case, Breath Of life is everything.

If they put BOL as a resto staff skill then what you say becomes true.

eliisra

Breton Templar. Ultimate heal bot.

If healing in PvP, you can also go for Dunmer or Imperial Templar. You need extra stam, high health and will benefit from fire resist in Cyrodiil.

Altmer Templar is another good choice, especially when you dont have to heal so much and can help with the dps.

As far as other classes goes, lack of BoL, the burst heal makes them less awesome.

But NB healer feels much better in 1.6.5. The new healing ulti is great. Also loads of fun and less heal bot playstyle. They also bring dps and mitigation while healing.

Sorc healer = Most boring thing in the world, only have resto spam.

DK healer = Why bother, when you're the best tank and have top dps?

AlnilamE

TehMagnus wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Templars have a healing skill line

Sorcs have great mana mangement

NBs have attacks that give allies HoT

Not sure about DKs.

All classes can use resto staff, which has good AoE heals. Cost reduction is helped a lot by gear.

So it realy depends on your play style.

It actually doesn't when you ask what the best combination is or the best class which undeniably is Templar. Sorcs are the second best but in any case, Breath Of life is everything.

If they put BOL as a resto staff skill then what you say becomes true.

BoL is a good "Oh sh*t!" spell for sure, but that's not all healing is about. If you are good at it, there are different options in different classes.

Father

By all means...Templar is the best with strong class heals. If you're looking for survivability DK is great, Sorcerer and NB for the best Resource management, Sorc gets magicka regen and max magicka passives + huge dmg shield and -15% on ult cost and 4% on all stamina magicka abilities. NB on the other hand has nice DPS skills that has HOT which heals party and has super ultimate gains via siphoning skills, DMG mitgation ULT with heal synergy, AOE stun + Heal synergy ult, AOE + heal, and nice sustain via siphoning attacks, and +10% crit dmg which also affects heals and ur dps when slotting assassin skill [mirage /double take has dodge fits nice].

Just pick one that you like everything is viable for a healer, for trials ppl love templar Healers more than anything else cause of their BOL.

TehMagnus

AlnilamE wrote: »

TehMagnus wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Templars have a healing skill line

Sorcs have great mana mangement

NBs have attacks that give allies HoT

Not sure about DKs.

All classes can use resto staff, which has good AoE heals. Cost reduction is helped a lot by gear.

So it realy depends on your play style.

It actually doesn't when you ask what the best combination is or the best class which undeniably is Templar. Sorcs are the second best but in any case, Breath Of life is everything.

If they put BOL as a resto staff skill then what you say becomes true.

BoL is a good "Oh sh*t!" spell for sure, but that's not all healing is about. If you are good at it, there are different options in different classes.

At equal skill, a good templar healer will always beat any other class in any situation. Once again this thread isn't about "what is viable", it's about what is best and templar is best because of the healing tree and BOL regardless of the fact it's an "Oh ***" spell or not, cuz when *** happens, if you're not a templar, your team mates are 100% dead, unless you've found a way to make Healing Springs appear in two locations at the same time to instantly crit heal for thousands of HP targets that are on opposite sides of the map but still in range of the healer and in that case, do share please.

Nifty2g

Trust me Magnus, arguing with people on these forums does no good, they tend to not understand viability in a raid

Snit

AlnilamE wrote: »

It actually doesn't when you ask what the best combination is or the best class which undeniably is Templar. Sorcs are the second best

Sorcs have literally no class skills relevant to healing. Their only group mitigation skill is an ultimate, and it went from overpowered to unused in the last patch. Templars are certainly king, Nightblades bring a fair bit to the table, DK's at least have some damage mitigation and burst heal buffs.

When I run my sorc healer, however, I have no sorc skills on my bar (not since Structured Entropy replaced Power Surge).

TehMagnus

Nifty2g wrote: »

Trust me Magnus, arguing with people on these forums does no good, they tend to not understand viability in a raid

NP i'm all for sharing knowledge 8)

Snit

TehMagnus wrote: »

At equal skill, a good templar healer will always beat any other class in any situation. Once again this thread isn't about "what is viable", it's about what is best and templar is best because of the healing tree and BOL regardless of the fact it's an "Oh ***" spell or not, cuz when *** happens, if you're not a templar, your team mates are 100% dead, unless you've found a way to make Healing Springs appear in two locations at the same time to instantly crit heal for thousands of HP targets that are on opposite sides of the map but still in range of the healer and in that case, do share please.

^^ This is it. Healing Ward spam can help, but there's just no substitute for a Templar's burst heals. Pure staff healers rely heavily on the group being very disciplined on their positioning. The fights where you have to spread out are a special joy for healers who rely on Springs.

failkiwib16_ESO

Angelic altmer masterrace templar healer. Passives for max magicka, elemental damage and magicka regen, resto staff healing healing is good, but doesn't beat 6-12k or more in burst healing, when needed - without having to aim with the staff.

The only really used skill in the templar healing skill line is Breath of Life. The other skills aren't needed and rarely used by templars. Just make sure you're tanky enough, so you don't get 1-2 shot in dungeons, and use resto staff heavy attacks to gain magicka - that way you can heal through almost anything.

Resto staff skills such as combat prayer etc. are good to buff your team with, since it provides buffs in damage and armor, and healing springs is good to spam with, when your team is stacked. In all other cases Breath of Life...

/rant

Have a nice day ^^

Lord Xanhorn

Templars are really fun because of the multiple ways you help in combat. Healing is good and all but if that's where you stop, you are not a good templar healer. Temps should also be apply buffs, debuffs, and dps when available.

Things temps should also be adding while healing

Luminous Shards....Stam for the tank
Purifying Ritual....Added heals plus debuff removal
Purifying Light....Added DPS for everyone
Circle of Protection.....Added armor for ranged
Repentance.....stam regen from dead adds
Steadfast Ward....shields for ppl taking damage
Heavy Atk .......regen mana
Radiant Destruction.....Execute DPS

If you are doing those mentioned above while also healing, you'll be contributing significantly more to the success of the group than just a healer.