How to be competitive as healer in PVP?!?!?!

Thealteregoroman

How are healers staying alive without the zergs and STILL being able to survive 1 VS 1?

I am now going to start PVPing and I play primarily as a healer in PVE and Dungeons.....What are my options for surviving and being able to dish DPS to destroy my enemies in PVP?

Am I going to have to always piggy back of off a DPS player?

I am a Magicka Templar and MOST of my CP's are geared towards healing.......

What are my options?

GrumpyDuckling

If most of your CPs are into healing then it's going to be very hard to win 1v1. You could roll vampire and repeatedly pop Elusive Mist to reach safety of a zerg or a keep your alliance owns when faced with 1v1 scenarios.

Otherwise, you may want to redistribute CPs into damage.

AzuraKin

javelin plus solar flare plus bol are some good skills for pvp.

ColoursYouHave

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

How are healers staying alive without the zergs and STILL being able to survive 1 VS 1?

I am now going to start PVPing and I play primarily as a healer in PVE and Dungeons.....What are my options for surviving and being able to dish DPS to destroy my enemies in PVP?

Am I going to have to always piggy back of off a DPS player?

I am a Magicka Templar and MOST of my CP's are geared towards healing.......

What are my options?

If you want to play effectively without a group, you're going to need to be able to do some DPS. I'd recommend dropping the whole idea of tanks, healers, and DPS when you go into PVP altogether. Many of the best builds are able to do all 3. The only "healers" in Cyrodiil are people who run strictly with a group. As a Magicka Templar, you should have no problem focusing on DPS while having enough healing to keep yourself alive. Breath of Life is really the only healing skill you'll need, although skills like Cleansing Ritual or Repentance can be really useful too, as they provide additional benefits on top of healing. Rune Focus, Annulment, and Mist Form are all skills that can help you prevent incoming damage. Then skills like Puncturing Sweeps, Spear Shards, Dark Flare, and Radiant Destruction will help you deal damage. My best advice would be to just look up some recent PVP builds online. You don't need to copy them exactly, but they can provide a good starting point for building a solid PVP character.

Kartalin

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

I am a Magicka Templar and MOST of my CP's are geared towards healing.......

What are my options?

Heavy armor works well, at least five pieces. I also use sword and board on my healing bar, and either DW or destro (for the ult) works on your offensive bar.

Joy_Division

Thealteregoroman wrote: »

How are healers staying alive without the zergs and STILL being able to survive 1 VS 1?

I am now going to start PVPing and I play primarily as a healer in PVE and Dungeons.....What are my options for surviving and being able to dish DPS to destroy my enemies in PVP?

Am I going to have to always piggy back of off a DPS player?

I am a Magicka Templar and MOST of my CP's are geared towards healing.......

What are my options?

Healing isnt easy. The moment you pull out that resto staff and start spamming healing springs, you become a huge target. I would only do so when you are in zero danger of being attacked.

Healing on the front lines typically involves heavy armor and sword and shield.

If you want to heal and dps, I would use sword and shield bar for healing and duel wield bar for damage.

Either way you go, magic regen you're going to need. Recommend Lich set as your second set. Even better if you get lich jewelry + sword and shield.

driosketch

Front bar DPS, back bar Heals. You're going to need to think in terms of a balanced build rather than pure healer. For instance, run purple food instead of just blue health/magicka. You'll need some stamina to beak free, roll dodge and sneak. Have some form or crit protection.

Tri-pots and immovable pots are important, and invisi-pots might help you escape. Don't be afraid to run if you need to. Experience and gear will help you survive a 1 v 1 encounter. Other than that, don't try to be a hero. Be aware of your position and the health of your allies. You keep your friends alive, and they in turn should keep enemies off you.

Thealteregoroman

Thanks Guys!

Paraflex

You won't win any 1v1s as a group healer just learn to walk away.

Use 5-1-1 Heavy
Infuse big pieces
Impen on small pieces
Have minimum 2k impen base

Use transmutation jewelry and sword and shield

Use 5 Kags crafted

Use Blood Spawn/Chokethrone

Restro on the back bar.

Go vampire use mist form if you need to

I will add a video to get you some looks at PvP I have plenty listed for small groups and larges groups.

https://youtu.be/szi3f09V8g8

Paraflex

If your a true healer you won't be able to 1v1 unless you put dps on your skills and gear...

Thealteregoroman

Paraflex wrote: »

You won't win any 1v1s as a group healer just learn to walk away.

Use 5-1-1 Heavy
Infuse big pieces
Impen on small pieces
Have minimum 2k impen base

Use transmutation jewelry and sword and shield

Use 5 Kags crafted

Use Blood Spawn/Chokethrone

Restro on the back bar.

Go vampire use mist form if you need to

I will add a video to get you some looks at PvP I have plenty listed for small groups and larges groups.

https://youtu.be/szi3f09V8g8

This is AWESOME!!!!

runagate

You can't be a competitive healer when you've allocated all your CP into excessive punctuation.