Do you use elemental blockade on your healer?

Tasear

Just curious

Illurian

Lightning Blockade, to be specific. Other elements just aren't worth it.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

If I had to choose, I would slot this over eledrain.

Turelus

Yes on my Templar, no on my Warden.

They are both still babies though so not fully established yet.

brandonv516

Yes on my magSorc healer.

AcadianPaladin

I find Blockade and Combat Prayer a bit posistionally restrictive. But like Orbs, I have these and several other skills fully morphed up but not normally slotted on my healing templar.

Normal slotting:
Resto: Ext Rit, Rapid Regen, Healing Springs, Purif Light, BoL
Destr: EleDrain, Blazing Spear, Reflective Light, Channel Focus, Sweeps

Apache_Kid

Who is voting no here? Why? How? What? Mind-blown.

paulsimonps

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Joy_Division

paulsimonps wrote: »

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Elemental Blockade is the best magicka DPS skill in the game. Why not use it if you're trying to provide DPS?

paulsimonps

Joy_Division wrote: »

paulsimonps wrote: »

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Elemental Blockade is the best magicka DPS skill in the game. Why not use it if you're trying to provide DPS?

Cause in 4 man when I heal, I am also really really lazy Really can't be bothered when I heal, cause I almost never do, so when I do its usually cause I am forced to.

Luthid

Lightning Blockade and ele drain.

Asardes

I slot it on the back bar (charged lightning staff) in the same place where I keep Combat Prayer on my front bar (powered resto staff) since the skills have the same area and duration and fit nicely in a rotation right before and after bar swap respectively.

MissBizz

Illurian wrote: »

Lightning Blockade, to be specific. Other elements just aren't worth it.

^ This.

UnversedNumber3

It is usually a healers job to provide ele drain and the lightning blockade.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

If you dont run LIGHTNING blockade, you are an absolutely terrible healer.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Joy_Division wrote: »

paulsimonps wrote: »

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Elemental Blockade is the best magicka DPS skill in the game. Why not use it if you're trying to provide DPS?

@paulsimonps

Got to side with @Joy_Division on this one. I am all for going mostly DPS when healing 4 man stuff, but why on earth would you DPS without blockade?!? I think the real answer is that we all know Paul doesnt really heal unless his wife makes him.

paulsimonps

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

paulsimonps wrote: »

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Elemental Blockade is the best magicka DPS skill in the game. Why not use it if you're trying to provide DPS?

@paulsimonps

Got to side with @Joy_Division on this one. I am all for going mostly DPS when healing 4 man stuff, but why on earth would you DPS without blockade?!? I think the real answer is that we all know Paul doesnt really heal unless his wife makes him.

@Oreyn_Bearclaw

paulsimonps wrote: »

Joy_Division wrote: »

paulsimonps wrote: »

Not in 4 man but in Trials I do. So little to heal in 4 man I usually just spam puncturing sweeps most of the time between HoTs.

Elemental Blockade is the best magicka DPS skill in the game. Why not use it if you're trying to provide DPS?

Cause in 4 man when I heal, I am also really really lazy Really can't be bothered when I heal, cause I almost never do, so when I do its usually cause I am forced to.

XxBradeyxX

Trials yes but in dungeons I use beam

Runefang

XxBradeyxX wrote: »

Trials yes but in dungeons I use beam

But its less useful in trials where there are 20 magsorcs?

Illurian

XxBradeyxX wrote: »

Trials yes but in dungeons I use beam

I still don't get why people think Lightning Blockade and another dps skill are mutually exclusive. Use both.

Runefang

Illurian wrote: »

XxBradeyxX wrote: »

Trials yes but in dungeons I use beam

I still don't get why people think Lightning Blockade and another dps skill are mutually exclusive. Use both.

Especially as Lightning blockade is to the help the dps who have 75 into Thaum, its not for your own dps.

Personally I run Sweeps, J-Beam, Blockade, Ele Drain and Inner Light on my destro bar. I swap out Sweeps and J-Beam only for the harder content/trials.

Illurian

Runefang wrote: »

Illurian wrote: »

XxBradeyxX wrote: »

Trials yes but in dungeons I use beam

I still don't get why people think Lightning Blockade and another dps skill are mutually exclusive. Use both.

Especially as Lightning blockade is to the help the dps who have 75 into Thaum, its not for your own dps.

Personally I run Sweeps, J-Beam, Blockade, Ele Drain and Inner Light on my destro bar. I swap out Sweeps and J-Beam only for the harder content/trials.

Yes, that's exactly it. Boosting the dps of your 2 dps through the Exploiter cp is the reason for running Lightning Blockade.

It's not mutually exclusive (and even aligns) with slotting dps skills.

newtinmpls

Only when we duel

Stannum

It happens that i heal with DK so my blockade is fire also with engulfing flames ))

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

Stannum wrote: »

It happens that i heal with DK so my blockade is fire also with engulfing flames ))

There is really no reason not to run lightning wall on a healer, even a dk healer, sure you will do 10% more flame damage with *your* fire wall but you will you will boost all Stam dps by 18%(minor vulnerably and off balance) and a good part of the mag dps with it. Slot a back lightning staff with a lightning enchant it, charged or infused, and watch your dpses dps sky rocket.

SmellyUnlimited

Any content Blockade is handy for a healer. Perhaps not as much in trials, but setting enemies off-balance increases your groups dps significantly. Plus, you should never have to heal non-stop in a dungeon, so help the group out.

For the “lazy guy.” Wow. Lazy in a VIDEO GAME. That’s a new one to me. If pushing buttons is such a chore, perhaps you’d be better off putting the controller down.

You heal, USE Lightning Blockade. End of story. No voting required.

TankHealz2015

Please explain, (?)

in 4 man dungeons,... the main purpose of the Lightening staff - Elemental Blockade skill is to provide concussion - which is off balance = which boosts groups DPS = correct?

Does having two/three/four people use that skill = more better? or does it = overkill and somebody wasted a skill slot?


Speaking mainly for PUG dungeon finder groups/ non-DLC content:


The tank has a staff on back bar: which would be preferred? Flame, Frost, Lightening?

Since the tank is not optimized for DPS- should this staff be "charged" trait to maximize the status effects?

or maybe it does not matter .... any DPS bump is good.



NOTE: this question is about how the different status effects work together or not... please not about about "meta build"

constructive response very appreciated.

Thanks

Asardes

Yes, you can stack multiple status effects if they are different, but same status effects don't stack with each other, just refresh themselves. But refreshing is good because it increases the total up time. For example off-balance is consumed constantly by people doing heavy attacks so it has to be refreshed. So the more people running elemental blockade and lighting glyphs, the better, since they apply concussed status, which is turned into off-balanced if the enemy gets attacked.

Tasear

If an tank was doing then best option would probably be charged frost staff. This would be aoe minor maim and slow debuff on enemies. Why I say likely tank is because tanks are usually in charge of debuffs. Also the frost staff "can" taunt.


Lighting is used by dps and healer. Simply because right concussion is concussed on heavy attack so there is a need for more to use it. Not to mention Sorc dps have an passive that increases shock damage. Now on that same token there's other ways to set enemies off balanced, including dragon knight and Templar class skills along with force shock.


Fire does more damage so it's for dps.

@TankHealz2015

idk

Illurian wrote: »

Lightning Blockade, to be specific. Other elements just aren't worth it.

and WoE morph since it covers a larger area and lasts longer.

TankHealz2015 wrote: »

Does having two/three/four people use that skill = more better? or does it = overkill and somebody wasted a skill slot?

Yes, higher up time of the debuffs on the targets.Ofc, this is before considering Asylum stave which I think are really only useful for mSorcs and maybe ranged mPlars.

VaranisArano

Lightning Blockade. I can usually drop it even in a group that needs a lot of healing, and its a great skill when I'm in a group that doesn't need heals but has slow DPS.