healer while being a nightblade?

Black_Canary15

I've been wanting to use staffs for destruction magic and healing but i'm a nightblade...don't know if that would be good. would it be better for me to make a new character and build towards magic??

Mhylton44142

You can always use destro and resto staffs as a magicka based NB, (which according to some is the meta build at the moment. Check this build out: http://deltiasgaming.com/2015/04/10/umbra-nightblade-leveling-build/

Stranglehands

I think the particular strength of being a nightblade with destruction and restoration staff is that you can switch between damage dealer and healer at will. You can't spam your way to victory with breath of life like a templar can but what you can do is constantly pump out heals over time to everyone around you. I've got a VR1 nightblade healer and I can't remember if I've been main healer in a veteran dungeon successfully but I've definitely done it in many non-veteran silver key runs, and it's also a killer soloing build. The key to it is that speccing for healer overlaps a lot with speccing for ranged magicka dps so even though i've got the eyes of mara robes, ritual birthsign etc. I can still do serious damage with siphoning and destruction staff skills, and the siphoning skills heal me and my teammates. So if they're not taking much damage I can actually act as a healer without even casting heal spells, just DPSing away at things with funnel health. As I say though, I don't know how well it stands up to the cruel reckoning of veteran dungeons

Sukenlihol

You are a natural-born off-healer.

If you want, you can be a good healer too as a Magicka Nightblade.