Best trait for Resto Staff in PvP? (In your opinion)

Valykc

Just trying to gather some data from what players prefer. Please don’t say “none, go sword and board”.. just try to say if you were going to use resto, what trait it would be.

Emma_Overload

Powered

Infused would be great if there was a way to proc weapon enchants like Wall of Elements does.

Brutusmax1mus

Nirnhoned

Unless you have a pure healing bar, i find nirn more versatile.

driosketch

Nirnhoned

Powered or precise for pure healing. I agree, nirn will give you some usable offense as well as healing so is the more versatile option.

Defending only if you are more concerned for your own survival. That's not necessarily selfish play, as enemies know to go after the healer first. With the right enchant, infused is situationally usable.

Valykc

driosketch wrote: »

Powered or precise for pure healing. I agree, nirn will give you some usable offense as well as healing so is the more versatile option.

Defending only if you are more concerned for your own survival. That's not necessarily selfish play, as enemies know to go after the healer first. With the right enchant, infused is situationally usable.

What about for back bar, non-healer, character?

driosketch

Nirnhoned

Valykc wrote: »

driosketch wrote: »

Powered or precise for pure healing. I agree, nirn will give you some usable offense as well as healing so is the more versatile option.

Defending only if you are more concerned for your own survival. That's not necessarily selfish play, as enemies know to go after the healer first. With the right enchant, infused is situationally usable.

What about for back bar, non-healer, character?

Second paragraph, defending or infused with a utility enchant.

IAVITNI

Bad question tbh.

Waaaay to many variables.

Are you a solo mag sorc stacking shields with minimal-0 heals outside Healing Ward?
Defending
In a group?
Infused

A straight healer?
Powered

A utility healer/your defences are strong enough already?
Decisive

You running Vigor on your resto bar for whatever reason?
Nirnhoned

Nirn is versatile.

Honestly, when in doubt, go defending as it is useful in all situations and all builds.

CatchMeTrolling

Powered, decisive and defending. I don’t know why powered is being associated with healers, at that point it’s overkill.

Matthros

Defending

I use a defending backbar resto on my DK with elusive mist so I have some more defense when escaping and when using mutagen to help the group.

IAVITNI

CatchMeTrolling wrote: »

Powered, decisive and defending. I don’t know why powered is being associated with healers, at that point it’s overkill.

Powered is used in PvP and vBRP. Depending on gear sets, it can help make up for low stats.

idk

It really depends on the purpose of the builds. Many DDs run rStaff on the back bar but they are not attempting to heal a group.

In that case powered would not be so great. If they still have damage on the back bar and could use it for a series of LAs as often happens in PvP then infused would still be most beneficial.

If the build is primarily a healer in a large or even a small group then powered would probably be best.

ccmedaddy

I always run Infused w/ berserker glyph so I can run poison or infused damage glyph on the front bar. I still need to practive having a higher uptime on berserker though as I tend to forget about it when under pressure. -_-

CatchMeTrolling

IAVITNI wrote: »

CatchMeTrolling wrote: »

Powered, decisive and defending. I don’t know why powered is being associated with healers, at that point it’s overkill.

Powered is used in PvP and vBRP. Depending on gear sets, it can help make up for low stats.

Not sure what you mean. I’m saying powered can be used on a dps build. Like if you use rally or any back bar heal powered is fine...And If you have enough mitigation on your back bar, powered would be fine.

If I was speccing as a pure healer my back bar probably wouldn’t be powered, it would be defending.

ezio45

Infused

depends on you build really

are you a healer or dps?

Valykc

ezio45 wrote: »

depends on you build really

are you a healer or dps?

Would be on a mag sorc dps for PvP. 5 Shackle, 5 Bright Throat, 2 Bloodspawn

Minno

Defending

IAVITNI wrote: »

Bad question tbh.

Waaaay to many variables.

Are you a solo mag sorc stacking shields with minimal-0 heals outside Healing Ward?
Defending
In a group?
Infused

A straight healer?
Powered

A utility healer/your defences are strong enough already?
Decisive

You running Vigor on your resto bar for whatever reason?
Nirnhoned

Nirn is versatile.

Honestly, when in doubt, go defending as it is useful in all situations and all builds.

This.

Undefwun

Defending

IAVITNI wrote: »

Bad question tbh.

Waaaay to many variables.

This is the problem with most of the 'what is the best' questions. ESO is way too complex...

Personally only my magblade uses a vMA resto staff in pvp back barred.
So Defending + Temporal Guard (for the %8 damage reduction) on back bar. Healing ward used to make this a pretty tanky setup before Nerfmire, but obviously too tanky because Magblade got a couple nerfs and Stamdens buffs.

UltimateBias

Defending

Defending all day long.

Especially since it double dips; it enhances your personal resists and makes your shields stronger.

Kartalin

Infused

I like infused because I typically use it to heavy attack for resources with an absorb magicka glyph. Also I run resto ult.

Edit: powered for ball healing

Kadoin

Powered

In general for me, powered.

If I have combat physician on or my char can get a large amount of crit healing, precise.

If wearing ultimate generation sets, decisive.

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HowlKimchi

Infused

Infused, spell damage enchant

light attack is timed for when im about to do my burst

fred4

Can't really answer this.

My NB uses Infused Prismatic enchant to do bosses in IC from range, whereas she PvPs with 2H at melee range.

If you have a vMA resto, then arguably Precise will give you slightly better mag regen.

I agree that Defending is probably the best choice, everything else being equal.

Waffennacht

Defending

Most efficient for me

MaxJrFTW

Infused

Infused with weapon dmg glyph

Vapirko

Defending

I vote defending because I’m primarily solo or if grouped we are grouped as solo players. Otherwise powered or nirn will be more useful to boost heals if that’s your role.