Is it possible to create a stamina healer...

CaptainVenom

Using Ring of Preservation, Echoing Vigor and Power Surge? Stamsorc, of course.

MerguezMan

You can create a stamina healer.

Will it perform as good as magicka healer ? No.

ATreeGnome

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Using Ring of Preservation, Echoing Vigor and Power Surge? Stamsorc, of course.

I've not healed on a stam sorc before but I've healed some of the easier vet trials on a stamden and I would think the HPS potential would be roughly comparable. You can definitely keep people alive but it takes noticeably more effort than it would on a magicka healer.

The biggest issues are, first of all, that most magicka support sets help the group a lot more than most stamina support sets. The only real exception being Alkosh, but your tank(s) will typically run that. Sets like powerful assault and Morag tong can't match Olorime, Zen's, or Martial knowledge. Second, you can't provide your group minor berserk as a stamina healer without running resto staff anyway and at that point are you really even a stamina healer or just a hybrid?

I'm not saying you shouldn't play a stamina healer, but you should have realistic expectations about the limitations that currently exist for such builds. It can be fun to play but it has many inherent handicaps. Just don't expect it to be welcome in groups that are trying to do serious progression.

Iskiab

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Using Ring of Preservation, Echoing Vigor and Power Surge? Stamsorc, of course.

Ring of preservation gets dropped at your feet and is a pretty small area. I didn’t like it much when I tried it.

Power surge IDK. I’ve done it and it works well as a stamwarden. Stamplar works too but you’ll be using a lot of mag abilities.

Best abilities when it comes to pvp are echoing vigor, spores, bone surge.

For sets powerful assault, x and blood spawn. DW daggers on your healing bar with MH Nirn and OH powered.

zvavi

Will it be able to heal and keep allies alive? Yes. Will it be able to provide all the buffs debuffs healers should and support the group to the fullest? No.

Starlock

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Using Ring of Preservation, Echoing Vigor and Power Surge? Stamsorc, of course.

I imagine it'd work well enough unless you're trying to run with the elitists, in which case they won't so much as give you the time of day with a more creative setup like this.

One of my characters I run as a stamina healer for group content, but she's a warden, not a sorcerer. Wardens presently have more in their toolkit that works for stamina healing than Sorcerers do. I think what I like best about it is that it turns the whole mockery of "light attack spamming bow user" on its head. Because that's exactly how it works - activate Green Lotus at all times and do a lot of light attack arrow spam along with other healing and damaging as needed. Pretty sure I could run vet dungeons with the setup with a bit more tweaking, but I'm not really that interested in doing that on the character. It's fun to make more challenging, theme-based characters and figuring out how to make them work for various content.

thadjarvis

In what contexts are you thinking?

For Dungeon/Arena various gradients along the pure DD to pure healer would work just fine. Eg I've found that simply popping on troll king as a Stamplar and putting down an already slotted RoP in addition to Ritual gets pretty far, which is similar to your idea. Great thing is you can still do 80-95% of damage you would do as pure damage.

What all but Warden lack is a nice burst heal. A preemptive Bone Shield is a nice tool.

They work fine in trials. I've been in non-hm vet DLC's with them and there's no issues healing. But pure stamina lacks arguably the 3 most important skills (Grand Heal, Combat Pray, Orbs); in fact those are the only skills some hybrid mag/healers use.

Personally, I've found the best way to run as a support stam in trials is offering to wear Alkosh or MT if my damage is on the lower end, or be the off-tank.

Iskiab

thadjarvis wrote: »

In what contexts are you thinking?

For Dungeon/Arena various gradients along the pure DD to pure healer would work just fine. Eg I've found that simply popping on troll king as a Stamplar and putting down an already slotted RoP in addition to Ritual gets pretty far, which is similar to your idea. Great thing is you can still do 80-95% of damage you would do as pure damage.

What all but Warden lack is a nice burst heal. A preemptive Bone Shield is a nice tool.

They work fine in trials. I've been in non-hm vet DLC's with them and there's no issues healing. But pure stamina lacks arguably the 3 most important skills (Grand Heal, Combat Pray, Orbs); in fact those are the only skills some hybrid mag/healers use.

Personally, I've found the best way to run as a support stam in trials is offering to wear Alkosh or MT if my damage is on the lower end, or be the off-tank.

Orbs is doable as a stam healer. Combat prayer and grand healing no, but it’s worth throwing orbs.

x48rph

Haven't really heard of it being done on a stam sorc before . I know it can be very successful on a warden but then they have stamina healing skills to go with it.

You can probably steal some ideas from here though
https://dottzgaming.com/build/vigorspam-warden-healer-pve-build/

mague

Stamden Master Healer achievement here .

Vigor, Mushroom, Seeds (synergy scales from bigger pool), 8% damage debuff from flies, off-balance from bird, Sleet Storm for major protection, Grove for cheap ulti heal. Actic Blast for stuns. Blood altar and Bone Surge (Major Vitality) can be helpful. Even siege shield works. Purge works quite good, just not spam.

It works very well. But you have to invest more into sustain because melee ranged heavy doesnt happen very often in Cyrodiil. It is impossible to kill *beep* with this. To clean resources it is usefull to slot WW for that. And you dont have enough magicka for Revealing Flare to hunt NB's.

I use 5 TBS wepaons and jewels. Jewels with infused trait. Two reduce stam skill cost and one reduce mag skill cost. Together with 5 medium Battlefield acrobat this is plenty sustain.