Wood elf Templar?

king408

I want to make a healer , but also use bow as my weapon, should i focus more on healing or weapon to make the build better? For grouping, soloing, questing, pvping?

White wabbit

Delete and pick a better race and drop bow that's for starters

vamp_emily

I would love to make a wood elf Templar. I have a few healers but they are all high elf templars and are very tall.

I think you should do this:
create a wood elf stam nb: bow and DW
create a healer ( high elf or Breton )

Both are fun to play.

Note:
I use DW, 2 handers, and B&S on most my wood elves. PvP I like to use a bow and 2 hander, but when doing group content I like to use B&S and DW. DW is good at grinding mobs.

king408

Thanks, i guess time to reroll ;p

davey1107

Races tend to be inclined toward stamina characters, magic characters or health (tank) characters. Take a look online at each race's racial passives...this is how you tell.

You can make any race either a stamina or magic character...it's just that if you go opposite a race's inclination they'll miss out on some powerful buffs. You could make a stam wood elf and get the racial buffs, but a stamina character won't make a very good healer. But you can ignore the racial passives and pump magic into a wood elf if you like.

Now...can you play any race in any role and be good for 98% of the game's content? Sure. It's just that if you take the character to end game and want to play very hard content, they'll be at a 2-5% disadvantage. Which is somewhat significant.

My advice is to play what you like. If you're new to the game, there's tons to learn. If you take a character down the wrong path, respec later. If you created a magic wood elf, theres a very good chance you'd shift them to a stamina character eventually. But this isn't a horrible process...you don't lose skill points or anything significant, you'd just have to spend a little gold then put some work into leveling up alternative, stamina based skills.

As for bows...ignore the other poster...they have no idea what they're talking about. On a stam wood elf, dual wield and bow combos are very good. The bow is entirely powerful if you know how to use it...it is currently a favorite for back bar in end game pve, and either front or back in pvp.

EDITED NOTE: Ha, I forgot this, but my friend wanted a wood elf Templar healer previously, but passed on it because of the racial passives instead he made a Breton at the shortest setting, played with his ears to give them kind of tips, gave him a Mohawk, and designed him so he could pretend he's half wood elf. And the toon is always mistaken for a wood elf...he's freaking tiny. So there's an option for your healer.

DocFrost72

Healers and tanks don't need min maxed racials. Don't believe me? Google Woeler's khajiit tank.

As for healing with a bow, try a warden. Vigor, soothing spores, and green lotus is more than enough to make you a bow healer capable of vet dungeons!

AcadianPaladin

I love wood elves and bows also but, honestly, a Bosmer templar bow healer is, in my opinion, a bridge too far. That is the bad news.

The good news is you only really need to drop one of those non-meta factors. I have a Bosmer magplar healer and she is fabulous. I will say that she is wearing 7 light, a resto staff on one bar and a destro staff on the other, sets that are fairly good choices and we have studied/practiced the healer craft diligently for a long time.

I also run another Bosmer who is a magsorc with pets and she also does very well.

My belief is that your race is actually not as big a deal as some might caution. With care, a Bosmer makes a fine magicka character. That is, both my elves can easily solo public dungeons. Both can carefully solo dolmens. Both can very carefully solo a moderate number of world bosses. So it depends what your objectives are. Mine? I simply love the idea of being the shortest healer and wizard on the battlefield.

I really would abandon the bow idea though. If you want to be a healer, you really do want to tote a resto staff on at least one bar. Probably a destro staff on the other for at least Elemental Drain.