solo healers in pve

barbarian340

how do healers do solo questing and trials, etc in pve?

dem0n1k

For questing just slot some damage skills. For trials..... if you are going to solo trials and keep your sanity. .. respec for dps.

idk

healers put damage skills on their bar to do quests. There is nothing in a build that prevents a healer from doing damage other than a choice. Even on my tanks I have dps gear and skills I slot to go quest.

For trials you need to be more specific what you are looking for. Pretty much healers are working to keep high up time of buffs from skills like combat prayer, keeping orbs/shards going out, magicka steal uptime, and sometimes more buffs/debuffs. In between they do some healing. Vet trials is really the only place a healer needs to go full heal build.

There are some good trial heal builds out there. I have linked VanEvr's page of videos which includes her templar and warden healer builds so you might get some ideas. She is a very experienced trial healer.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnGdvr3VXhkK8ujvzjEZbg/videos

AcadianPaladin

I play a templar healer who solos pretty well. Healers have a few things going for them that translate fine to solo play:

Spell damage is your friend - it boosts both your damage and your heals.

Healers can heal themselves superbly - that makes for great defense when solo.

My templar uses several skills even when healing that provide significant 'incidental damage'. Though she slots them mostly for support, they actually deliver respectable damage. These skills can include Shards (sustain support), Blockade (off balance support), Reflective Light/Purifying Light (group minor sorcery). Elemental Drain's debuff, of course, boosts her own damage as well as that of her group. In fact, the only purely offensive skill my healer slots is puncturing sweeps.

Now, my healer is what I would call a 'pug healer', meaning that her skill slotting reflects the ability to adapt to whatever talents a pug may have or lack, ranging from a fake tank to low dps players. End result is that she solos just fine using her normal 'pug healing' skill slotting.

SydneyGrey

I have several healers, but they're all trained for DPS as well, and own armor sets for both DPS and healing. I just switch them to their DPS armor and skills to do solo questing. If I don't, the damage they'd do while in their healer garb would be pitiful.

linlilia

I heal for my main (Templar-Nord [really hoping for some class passive changes ]) but do average dps when I am really trying (~19k) when I slot different gear (Mother's Sorrow) and skills.

Totally up to you what you do, but rarely should you ever be pure anything. DPS have to have a heal of some sort, tanks need heals and damage skills for later stage stuff (vet dungeons, pvp, and trials)

Trials are not soloable, unless you are an extreme dps and even then good luck/don't trust it without video proof, not worth even trying.

I pug a lot of dungeons and I end up doing a ton of DPS in some because there are many DPS that are not skilled right for that dungeon or setup or they are newer toons. So I usually have Shards, Puncturing Sweep, Vampires Bane, and never leave home without it Jesus Beam (Radiant Oppression-the other morph is just too weak to be worth it). A lot of times it is faster in the last 5% to heal kill the boss than try to keep everyone alive.

Tanking is a lot harder to solo than Healing (I have done both and I prefer Healing solo work)

RogueShark

I just swap out different skills. I don't even bother carrying DPS gear; IA and Olo are both adequate enough.
Instead of Healing Springs, Orbs and Combat Prayer I'll slot my volatile familiar and daedric prey. Then I still have ele blockade and liquid lightning and it's more than enough to plow through any overland/quest/etc content.

zaria

RogueShark wrote: »

I just swap out different skills. I don't even bother carrying DPS gear; IA and Olo are both adequate enough.
Instead of Healing Springs, Orbs and Combat Prayer I'll slot my volatile familiar and daedric prey. Then I still have ele blockade and liquid lightning and it's more than enough to plow through any overland/quest/etc content.

yes, on my templar I did not bothered swaping gear for overland, has DD gear on sorc so she can DD
Healers and magic DD is pretty close in builds, you get some hits because of some skills and CP but its not significant.

In dungeons an healer should also do damage if not healing and having resources.
Templar has 3 levels from DD with off heal up to maximum healing and survival, also has overland, trial and pvp layout.
Just one set of gear outside might slot worm in trials.
She is pure healer as unlike sorc so will not use her as DD.

Tanks has more of an problem, health tanks has issues overland.

Linaleah

for trials - depends on a trial, what sets you have, what sets your co-healer has, your strengths and weaknesses.

for soloing, pretty much all healers have destro staff on backbar. so I just slot a few extra damage skills both from staff and from class, depending on which class, and it works out pretty well for me.

don't even have to change my gear or anything.

as mentioned above, with tank, its much more annoying. you can slot some damage skills and all, but you are still going to slog so much more then a healer running some damage abilities.

Mr_Walker

Maybe need an overland set for tanks to make things a bit easier. Bump up wep skills based on how much health you have? I've been playing with a tank recently, and unless you regear and swap skills around it's a very loooooooong process.

Tasear

Simple answer put cp in light and heavy attack with skills. Then spam in skulls that do damage as you like

FrancisCrawford

barbarian340 wrote: »

how do healers do solo questing and trials, etc in pve?

There is no such thing as a "solo trial". If you mean "solo arena", there's one, caled Maelstrom Arena, and you can find extensive information about builds and so on by searching on "VMA" (the V is for Veteran). If you only look at two, look at the ones by Joy_Division and Alcast.

As for solo questing -- stats and equipment that are perfect for healing are also pretty good for questing, and vice-versa. For example, my basic healing build features:

• A templar.
• A Breton. An Altmer or Dunmer would be slightly better for damage, but not by much.
• One Destruction staff and one Restoration staff. A pair of Destruction staffs would be a little better for damage, but probably by less than 5% or no, and the Restoration staff adds value when soloing.
• A lightning staff. Conventional wisdom says an inferno staff is better for damaging, but I don't agree that that's true when soloing.
• A destruction staff bar that includes Elemental Blockade, Reflective Light, Blazing Spear, Purifying Light, and Elemental Drain. Purifying Light is questionably useful when soloing, and may therefore be replaced by Puncturing Sweeps (or that may go on the Restoration Staff bar instead, with Radiant Oppression on the front bar). The other morph of Blazing Spear would be a little better in difficult healing situations.
• Channeled Focus on the Restoration Staff bar. Magicka templars should never leave home without that, no matter what role they're trying to perform.

Etc.

zaria

Mr_Walker wrote: »

Maybe need an overland set for tanks to make things a bit easier. Bump up wep skills based on how much health you have? I've been playing with a tank recently, and unless you regear and swap skills around it's a very loooooooong process.

On PC use alphagear or dressing room, it let you change gear and bar layout very fast.
Even on an DD you want other skills on bar than in an dungeon.

xpixelatedtkox

I'm working on my first healer.
What set would you suggest for DDing in overland, if that's it's sole purpose? Julianos?

Kadoin

Simple: I solo...

Oberstein

Use your 2nd bar to deal some damage.