OP Healer - Wait what a Sorc?

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Ok so I've been grinding my 'Baby Sorc' and with all the laughs of the 'pet build' I thought lets have a little fun

Next thing I know I'm in dungeons replacing the healer and watching no one die.. Introducing the dawn of the Twilight!

Ok so you have the usual Sorc damage bar duel wield or Destro and a Resto bar with healing springs, Mutagen and your Twilight! That's right forget breath of life, twilight hits harder, especially on crit, doesn't cost that much to cast and will cast on an extra player. Ok so down side:

No shards or repentance
No healing ultimate (but lets be honest how often do we use this)

With countless ways to restore magic and a Sorc and the good old resto restore attacks, you don't even need that high a recovery on Magic. Lets take this up a notch and go 5 piece Twiceborn with either (max magic or recovery) and then increased crit, pop on 3/4 piece Julianos and you should be looking at around a 72% crit on your duel and 69% without. If you are lucky enough to get the Maelstrom Resto then you should maybe think about swords of Torugs Pact and a Mosnter set.. Hey if we're going full pet build, why not crack out the Clanfear and... Derek (Maw of the infernal)..

OK so you may not be looking at the trials healer of choice for the moment but as an 'off healer' you're in there with decent finishing and damage skills. But for regular PVE dungeons it'd be my healer of choice.

Hope you've enjoyed the read

WillhelmBlack

Get the Master Resto (VR14) and you'll be an OP trial healer too.

Horker

or do the disco mutagen spam x)

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WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Get the Master Resto (VR14) and you'll be an OP trial healer too.

Genius, completely forgot about that! Stamina restore problems solved..

stevepdodson_ESO888

x_t7ink_x wrote: »

Ok so I've been grinding my 'Baby Sorc' and with all the laughs of the 'pet build' I thought lets have a little fun

Next thing I know I'm in dungeons replacing the healer and watching no one die.. Introducing the dawn of the Twilight!

Ok so you have the usual Sorc damage bar duel wield or Destro and a Resto bar with healing springs, Mutagen and your Twilight! That's right forget breath of life, twilight hits harder, especially on crit, doesn't cost that much to cast and will cast on an extra player. Ok so down side:

No shards or repentance
No healing ultimate (but lets be honest how often do we use this)

With countless ways to restore magic and a Sorc and the good old resto restore attacks, you don't even need that high a recovery on Magic. Lets take this up a notch and go 5 piece Twiceborn with either (max magic or recovery) and then increased crit, pop on 3/4 piece Julianos and you should be looking at around a 72% crit on your duel and 69% without. If you are lucky enough to get the Maelstrom Resto then you should maybe think about swords of Torugs Pact and a Mosnter set.. Hey if we're going full pet build, why not crack out the Clanfear and... Derek (Maw of the infernal)..

OK so you may not be looking at the trials healer of choice for the moment but as an 'off healer' you're in there with decent finishing and damage skills. But for regular PVE dungeons it'd be my healer of choice.

Hope you've enjoyed the read

I call my Maw of Infernal Daedroth "Fluffy"...go figure

Kathrein

I basically play healer on every characteri have, i love it and every class has something nice to boost heal or make it simple.
The only down side it not being able to give stamina back, cause the master resto(vt14) it's not near enough and i'm not spamming heal constantly anyway, i like to damage too.
I really hope they will wake up and change some resto staff skill so we could be able to give stamina back.

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Kathrein wrote: »

I basically play healer on every characteri have, i love it and every class has something nice to boost heal or make it simple.
The only down side it not being able to give stamina back, cause the master resto(vt14) it's not near enough and i'm not spamming heal constantly anyway, i like to damage too.
I really hope they will wake up and change some resto staff skill so we could be able to give stamina back.

That would be a nice implement @ZOS_GinaBruno is there anywhere we could start a request for this?

Asmael

stevepdodson_ESO888 wrote: »

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Ok so I've been grinding my 'Baby Sorc' and with all the laughs of the 'pet build' I thought lets have a little fun

Next thing I know I'm in dungeons replacing the healer and watching no one die.. Introducing the dawn of the Twilight!

Ok so you have the usual Sorc damage bar duel wield or Destro and a Resto bar with healing springs, Mutagen and your Twilight! That's right forget breath of life, twilight hits harder, especially on crit, doesn't cost that much to cast and will cast on an extra player. Ok so down side:

No shards or repentance
No healing ultimate (but lets be honest how often do we use this)

With countless ways to restore magic and a Sorc and the good old resto restore attacks, you don't even need that high a recovery on Magic. Lets take this up a notch and go 5 piece Twiceborn with either (max magic or recovery) and then increased crit, pop on 3/4 piece Julianos and you should be looking at around a 72% crit on your duel and 69% without. If you are lucky enough to get the Maelstrom Resto then you should maybe think about swords of Torugs Pact and a Mosnter set.. Hey if we're going full pet build, why not crack out the Clanfear and... Derek (Maw of the infernal)..

OK so you may not be looking at the trials healer of choice for the moment but as an 'off healer' you're in there with decent finishing and damage skills. But for regular PVE dungeons it'd be my healer of choice.

Hope you've enjoyed the read

I call my Maw of Infernal Daedroth "Fluffy"...go figure

My clannfear goes by the name of Timmy the Purplesaurus.

Nova Sky

My clannfear is named Hank.

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Update - I've received a few salty comments with regards to the major mending on a templar, can i just clarify with the extra magic regen that's natural from a sorc you can concentrate on a higher max magic and a higher crit.

I'm not saying they will replace a Templar, but they are good enough for most dungeons

Thanks!

myrrrorb14_ESO

Anyone can get major mending now that it's on the Resto staff. Doesn't last long, but weave in a few heavy attacks and there you go. Sorcs look good on paper. With the healer "rebalancing" Sorcerers are very good healers now.

They've always been good imo, just much better now.

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myrrrorb14_ESO wrote: »

Anyone can get major mending now that it's on the Resto staff. Doesn't last long, but weave in a few heavy attacks and there you go. Sorcs look good on paper. With the healer "rebalancing" Sorcerers are very good healers now.

They've always been good imo, just much better now.

So many patch notes.. I missed that part, just read it thank you

captainwolfos

Everybody do the daedrasaur

Ghundy

I've been healing as a sorc and healed through vet ICP and vet WGT, granted I did have a pretty good group of people, but they weren't even off healing. I have seen a lot of potential with my sorc healer at least, I believe it will have a future for dungeon healing.

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Completely agree.. I cant wait to fully max out the armor etc when i have a fiddle around and check out the final stats xD

dsalter

issue with sorc twilight healing is that pets die to damn fast, their HP hasn't been compensated for how high enemies or players can hit

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dsalter wrote: »

issue with sorc twilight healing is that pets die to damn fast, their HP hasn't been compensated for how high enemies or players can hit

Only takes a second to get it back though

KhajiitiLizard

captainwolfos wrote: »

Everybody do the daedrasaur

Everybody, everybody on the floor, everybody walk the daedrasaur... err dinosaur...

And then I think about that crappy Super Mario Bros movie that's so dumb it's amazing.

Autolycus

Been running with a guy for a year and a half now, and he's always been a sorc healer. TG updates made healing more desirable - not simply possible - than it was before, given access to Major Mending and burst heal capabilities for classes that previously didn't exist. What we have now, versus pre-TG, is more versatility. There isn't anything about the OP I would disagree with necessarily. I'm glad that more people are picking up healing on non-Templar classes and having a good time with it.

Templer is and always has been the easiest class with which to heal. Many buffs and passive benefits that come naturally for Templars have been desirable for other classes for a long time. TG gave us access to those benefits too, or at least some of them, but didn't just hand it over to us on a silver platter. There are inherent disadvantages to skills like Twilight and Cauterize that don't necessarily make them better or worse relative to BoL, rather they have defined those classes as healers but in a different way.

Healing in ESO is headed the right direction. There are some changes ZOS has made that I wouldn't necessarily agree with, and there are some things that outright aggravate many people who play this game (such as the nerf to BoL, 2 targets instead of 3) that grind my gears too. But I also see the reasons why they made some of these changes, and as someone who plays every class on the reg, I can say that from a balance perspective, with respect to healing, we're in a much better place now than we were a year ago.

CasNation

Autolycus wrote: »

Been running with a guy for a year and a half now, and he's always been a sorc healer. TG updates made healing more desirable - not simply possible - than it was before, given access to Major Mending and burst heal capabilities for classes that previously didn't exist. What we have now, versus pre-TG, is more versatility. There isn't anything about the OP I would disagree with necessarily. I'm glad that more people are picking up healing on non-Templar classes and having a good time with it.

Templer is and always has been the easiest class with which to heal. Many buffs and passive benefits that come naturally for Templars have been desirable for other classes for a long time. TG gave us access to those benefits too, or at least some of them, but didn't just hand it over to us on a silver platter. There are inherent disadvantages to skills like Twilight and Cauterize that don't necessarily make them better or worse relative to BoL, rather they have defined those classes as healers but in a different way.

Healing in ESO is headed the right direction. There are some changes ZOS has made that I wouldn't necessarily agree with, and there are some things that outright aggravate many people who play this game (such as the nerf to BoL, 2 targets instead of 3) that grind my gears too. But I also see the reasons why they made some of these changes, and as someone who plays every class on the reg, I can say that from a balance perspective, with respect to healing, we're in a much better place now than we were a year ago.

Well said. I have been healing on my sorc since PC early access, and the changes have not really impacted how well I heal, but rather how I do it, and what I am able to do while I am healing.

The Twilight has given me a burst heal that allows me to play more aggressively than when I had to rely on healing springs/ ward. Missing one global cast of springs could mean death during the FG final boss channel, or the Hive lord boss ground pound in vDSC. Now, I can afford to spend my global doing something else: casting ward on my pet, reapplying ele drain, Overload light attacks...whatever. It has rally invigorated both my build, and my fun factor when healing.