Reliable source of healing for a mag sorc

Tammany

Atm i have - resto staff hot + shield + pet in my arsenal.
Any of this abilities may fail and heal someone around me right at the moment when i need to heal myself.

Is there and reliable souce of healing outside of pots, that works fine in a crowd of people ?

Rahar

No. Better to switch to shields in almost every case if you have people around you.

You could try crit surge, but shields are just better. EDIT: for PvP.

Jaimeh

Crit surge is an amazing healing skill, it is very reliable, but it's conditional, i.e. you need to be doing crit damage for it to tick. If you get used to having it always active, you'll won't need another heal, though you could still keep the matriarch for emergencies. Using a dark magic skill will also heal you via passives. If you want a non-conditional, reliable, 'on-demand' heal, then the only realistic option I can think of (save the resto staff or non-class skills) is dark conversion, It's a channelled skill so it can be risky to use, but the heal will always land on you.

Rahar

Jaimeh wrote: »

Crit surge is an amazing healing skill, it is very reliable, but it's conditional, i.e. you need to be doing crit damage for it to tick. If you get used to having it always active, you'll won't need another heal, though you could still keep the matriarch for emergencies. Using a dark magic skill will also heal you via passives. If you want a non-conditional, reliable, 'on-demand' heal, then the only realistic option I can think of (save the resto staff or non-class skills) is dark conversion, It's a channelled skill so it can be risky to use, but the heal will always land on you.

Depends on what situation you're in. Surge won't heal you for enough health when you're in any solo situation in BGs or Cyrodiil, even if you have a group a few seconds away. It also need a DoT to keep it going reliably. It works for PvE regardless, though. If you're focused in PvP and relying only on surge, even with a DoT, you're going to lose to any build that has any kind of damage. That's all there is. That being said, surge with hardened ward will work for most solo cases, so long as you have a bit of mitigation and a DoT like entropy. Surge with 2 shields will work for almost everything solo, even if you don't. Dark deal as a heal is not reliable or efficient. You'll get punked if you use it for more than resource return outside of line of sight.

The bottom line is, though, you need shields.

Jaimeh

Rahar wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

Crit surge is an amazing healing skill, it is very reliable, but it's conditional, i.e. you need to be doing crit damage for it to tick. If you get used to having it always active, you'll won't need another heal, though you could still keep the matriarch for emergencies. Using a dark magic skill will also heal you via passives. If you want a non-conditional, reliable, 'on-demand' heal, then the only realistic option I can think of (save the resto staff or non-class skills) is dark conversion, It's a channelled skill so it can be risky to use, but the heal will always land on you.

Depends on what situation you're in. Surge won't heal you for enough health when you're in any solo situation in BGs or Cyrodiil, even if you have a group a few seconds away. It also need a DoT to keep it going reliably. It works for PvE regardless, though. If you're focused in PvP and relying only on surge, even with a DoT, you're going to lose to any build that has any kind of damage. That's all there is. That being said, surge with hardened ward will work for most solo cases, so long as you have a bit of mitigation and a DoT like entropy. Surge with 2 shields will work for almost everything solo, even if you don't. Dark deal as a heal is not reliable or efficient. You'll get punked if you use it for more than resource return outside of line of sight.

The bottom line is, though, you need shields.

Yes, it was from a PvE perspective, forgot to add that.

EtTuBrutus

The fact that healingv was massacred essentially made shields a crit heal every cast.

katorga

Doesn't the clanfear pet always heal the sorc?

Emma_Overload

EtTuBrutus wrote: »

The fact that healingv was massacred essentially made shields a crit heal every cast.

Shields don't pull you out of execute. That's a huge difference.

kyle.wilson

Dark Deal has a 100% chance to heal you