Another question: Templar Healing

Soafee

Okay so.. Tell me if this is even a possible strategy.

I've never enjoyed playing DPS classes in any MMO i've ever played in. So I thought, I could make a "pure" healer in ESO. I picked a Templar. I have all of the healing class skills maxed out, and all of the restoration staff maxed out... I was looking over the mage guild talents and such and honestly I don't see any that I would even enjoy having. So I have like 10 or more skill points just sitting there doing nothing because I don't care about any of the other talents. Could I start putting them into my crafting trees?

I'm not 100% sure how this game works yet so I was wondering if doing a pure healer would put my group at any significant disadvantages later on or if I should start leveling my dps skill trees? I really don't want too

wayfarerx

With even a semi-competent group there will be plenty of times when your group is healed up and buffed up, at those times adding extra DPS to the fight is the way to go. When I'm healing on my templar I like to throw lots and lots of shards (you should be doing this anyway to support your tank and stam dps) and weave in puncturing sweeps whenever possible. A well timed meteor never hurts either.

Soafee

shards?

wayfarerx

Soafee wrote: »

shards?

Spear Shards and morphs from the Aedric Spear skill line.

Loc2262

There's a number of support skills you can do in addition to pure healing, some of them doing damage too.

Shards and Repentance (stamina for the tank and DDs), "bubbles" (Mystic Orb, magicka for the DDs and damage), Elemental Drain (magicka return and reduction of boss spell resistance), Combat Prayer (8% more damage done for the DDs), Puncturing Sweep (heals yourself and does AoE damage), Crushing Shock (damage and ranged interrupt), Siphon Spirit (health and magicka return on attacks), and of course the "Jesus Beam" (Radiant Oppression, the strongest finisher in the game).

Lots of options to sink your skill points into and to fill your skill bar.

Nestor

Soafee wrote: »

I was looking over the mage guild talents and such and honestly I don't see any that I would even enjoy having.

You for sure want Inner Light for increased Criticals to help your Healing. Its the first active skill in the Guild.

Also, while you say you don't want to DPS, you should at least put some points into Jabs (morph of Puncturing Strike), as it heals you and does damage, and at least Spear Shards as that can give Stamina and or Magic back to a player in the group. Also, Sun Fire can be good for the Snare to help the group.

Also, Jabs and Reflective Light can take you solo through almost all the content in the game as do things to gather skill points and loot and such for other game related things.

azfardajiwang

You should really consider putting some attention towards DPS even if you decide to be a main healer. Towards end game, there are groups that can sustain themselves pretty well with self-heals or you may sometimes get frustrated that your group isn't doing much DPS.

Even as a DPSer in dungeons, sometimes I end up needing to help healer heals.. I feel that as templar, it's strength is it's ability to be versatile and switch roles whenever needed and still be relatively good. After awhile, you'll also realise that healing in eso gets boring (i started out as healer and jumped to magplar dpser)

As for crafting skills,I think you're better off getting a new character that is focussed on crafting skills unless you don't mind going around finding skyshards because you will eventually end up wanting to try out another skills and skills costs skill points and skill points need 3 shards

Soafee

Thanks for the feedback