practice dummy for healing?

yurimodin

working on my skills and just curious if there is a good way to test the effectiveness of your heals like DPS's do on a dummy?

main problem is I am short on bar space because I keep innerlight on both bars for the crit and max magica.....I am NB btw.

JimmyJuJu

yurimodin wrote: »

working on my skills and just curious if there is a good way to test the effectiveness of your heals like DPS's do on a dummy?

main problem is I am short on bar space because I keep innerlight on both bars for the crit and max magica.....I am NB btw.

I've never seen a heal dummy - great idea though! Dungeons and Cyrodiil are how I cut my healer teeth. Do lots of pugs - plenty of dummies there. Seriously, groups with terrible tanks and squishy DD's are a great way to train. Makes healing good groups an absolute breeze.

zaria

Healing is less about raw healing output and more about prediction buff and adding some damage.
Zergs in Cyrodil is an very nice place to train, fake tank in normal dlc or easy vet is another.
Most use banks to get muscle memory of healer keybar, this one recommend dancing with trolls.

DBZVelena

dungeons are great for that too, lots of dummies in there as well.

andreasv

JimmyJuJu wrote: »

yurimodin wrote: »

working on my skills and just curious if there is a good way to test the effectiveness of your heals like DPS's do on a dummy?

main problem is I am short on bar space because I keep innerlight on both bars for the crit and max magica.....I am NB btw.

I've never seen a heal dummy - great idea though! Dungeons and Cyrodiil are how I cut my healer teeth. Do lots of pugs - plenty of dummies there. Seriously, groups with terrible tanks and squishy DD's are a great way to train. Makes healing good groups an absolute breeze.

WoW has different dummies for different roles. I was surprised when a Tank dummy suddenly hit my character for 50% health. I'd love to see that in ESO as well.

Shewolf075

DBZVelena wrote: »

dungeons are great for that too, lots of dummies in there as well.

Best practicing ever. Random dungeons.

AlnilamE

Ask a friend to stand in lava.

kargen27

AlnilamE wrote: »

Ask a friend to stand in lava.

That is what I was going to suggest just for pure healing.

You can also group with a DPS and have him/her hit the dummy. See if you can keep the DPS buffed for the entire fight and work in what seems to be a reasonable amount of heals.

Probably best to just jump right in as others have suggested and do random dungeons. There will be some where all you have to do is chase the group and loot the dead as you pass by but you will also get the groups that will really give your healing skills a workout.
The best test is when you have a tank that doesn't block well a dps that can't/won't get out of the red and another DPS on the other side of the room running away from the trash that he aggro'd with his arrow barrage.

DanteYoda

I said this the other day a healing dummy and a taunting dummy for tanking would teach players the basics of healing and tanking..

The secret world had a gate type thing where you couldn't do hardcore dungeons until you passed one of three different scenarios, dps, healing and tanking.. (they were hard, took me two weeks to pass, took my friend a month.) But it trained you to get ready for veteran content..

At least here in ESO training dummies would be a good start and free ones in towns would be better.

Tasear

This idea is always interesting when it comes up. Maybe it comes down to what are actually imporant skills for healers and how to trian them? Maybe a good topic for healers Discord. I invite you healer's Discord to share more thoughts and concerns https://discord.gg/TfjSbu9
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Azuramoonstar

could do what I did. Go to a place with lava stand in it and self heal. this way you see the numbs and compare.

tbh training dummies would be nice, think only reason they don't exist in eso is due to the "use = skill up" people would just pad out their skills by spamming dummies.

f047ys3v3n

Raw heal output basically does not matter at all. Healing is about adjusting to circumstances, predicting and being ready when a dps is going to take a big hit, keeping buffs up. and most importantly, not dying yourself. If your speced to heal, you will do enough magnitude of heals without an issue.

Azuramoonstar

f047ys3v3n wrote: »

Raw heal output basically does not matter at all. Healing is about adjusting to circumstances, predicting and being ready when a dps is going to take a big hit, keeping buffs up. and most importantly, not dying yourself. If your speced to heal, you will do enough magnitude of heals without an issue.

but is good to know the amount each heal you have access to is, to properly know which cure is best when to prevent over healing. It is how you learn everything else you just said, The more you know, better you are.

yurimodin

ok guys....I just healed for normal mode Sanctum Ophidia. The tank was suuuuper squishy and we had several sub 50 ppl and 1/2 the group was their first trial. Here are my metrics from the final boss(what do you think). It basically ended up as a Healing Springs & Healthy Offering spamfest and I did not have time to swap bars at all

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vbQbi_-v7vsGq5Eu8fgJv2scSM-cW6GP/view

zaria

yurimodin wrote: »

ok guys....I just healed for normal mode Sanctum Ophidia. The tank was suuuuper squishy and we had several sub 50 ppl and 1/2 the group was their first trial. Here are my metrics from the final boss(what do you think). It basically ended up as a Healing Springs & Healthy Offering spamfest and I did not have time to swap bars at all

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vbQbi_-v7vsGq5Eu8fgJv2scSM-cW6GP/view

I assume unknown is combat prayer?

yurimodin

zaria wrote: »

I assume unknown is combat prayer?

...yeah, did some reading after the trial was over and found out I needed to be using that ALOT more

zaria

yurimodin wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

I assume unknown is combat prayer?

...yeah, did some reading after the trial was over and found out I needed to be using that ALOT more

Keep it up all the time in combat, its an 8 second duration, you should also keep elemental drain up on boss.
Combat prayer is also an nice burst heal.