Do you use frost or lighting on your Healer

Starlight_Whisper

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Wolfpaw

PvE casual for stones lightning
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Vermintide

Frost. Prevention is cheaper than the cure, and most groups hardly need my help with the DPS these days.

Vevvev

My healer is an off-meta Dragonknight so I go flame actually. With the fire status effects rolling in I don't have as much of a sustain issue and can afford to invest in more spell damage. Means more damage and higher heals coming from me, but at the cost of no minor vulnerability/brittle. Why I use Spell Power Cure so I'm not a complete waste when it comes to boosting group DPS, but I do sometimes run Molten Armaments or Fragmented Shield to proc the minor brutality buff if the tank is not a DK and I have some stamina DPS in my group.

Starlight_Whisper

Vevvev wrote: »

My healer is an off-meta Dragonknight so I go flame actually. With the fire status effects rolling in I don't have as much of a sustain issue and can afford to invest in more spell damage. Means more damage and higher heals coming from me, but at the cost of no minor vulnerability/brittle. Why I use Spell Power Cure so I'm not a complete waste when it comes to boosting group DPS, but I do sometimes run Molten Armaments or Fragmented Shield to proc the minor brutality buff if the tank is not a DK and I have some stamina DPS in my group.

Can't you run combustion and stagger on healer still though?

the1andonlyskwex

Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

Vevvev wrote: »

My healer is an off-meta Dragonknight so I go flame actually. With the fire status effects rolling in I don't have as much of a sustain issue and can afford to invest in more spell damage. Means more damage and higher heals coming from me, but at the cost of no minor vulnerability/brittle. Why I use Spell Power Cure so I'm not a complete waste when it comes to boosting group DPS, but I do sometimes run Molten Armaments or Fragmented Shield to proc the minor brutality buff if the tank is not a DK and I have some stamina DPS in my group.

Can't you run combustion and stagger on healer still though?

The whole point of the flame staff is to proc combustion more often, and stagger comes from the alternate morph of DK's burst heal, so a healer probably isn't running it.

Narvuntien

I was using lightning but I got a Maelstrom resto and then I didn't have a set for which I had a lightning staff other than spell power cure which I have to have active on my resto staff side.

I swapped my worms to Naaviitas Ice staff (activate it on back bar).

Then I was playing around with CP 2.0 and I realised that for Nerco Healer I am not sure there is any need to run a destro staff at all particularly when I don't have the cp to fill out the damage stars.

So I am currently double resto but I am yet to use my healer for anything because I am busy getting more CP and that's faster on dps. and I put on Twilight remedy because I have always liked that set but obviously most dps have their own source of minor force.

AcadianPaladin

My pug healplar has to do dps. And she wants to solo WBs and easy dungeons. And lightning boosts AoE damage, which is 90% of her damage.

CaptainVenom

Even tho' sometimes I'd love to equip a destro staff, losing resto passives for more resources and healing sucks

tmbrinks

Depends on the content. But lightning dead. D. E. A. D. dead.

So, either Flame or Ice backbar w/ resto front bar.

Or double destro if we don't need a ton of healing.

Vevvev

the1andonlyskwex wrote: »

Starlight_Whisper wrote: »

Vevvev wrote: »

My healer is an off-meta Dragonknight so I go flame actually. With the fire status effects rolling in I don't have as much of a sustain issue and can afford to invest in more spell damage. Means more damage and higher heals coming from me, but at the cost of no minor vulnerability/brittle. Why I use Spell Power Cure so I'm not a complete waste when it comes to boosting group DPS, but I do sometimes run Molten Armaments or Fragmented Shield to proc the minor brutality buff if the tank is not a DK and I have some stamina DPS in my group.

Can't you run combustion and stagger on healer still though?

The whole point of the flame staff is to proc combustion more often, and stagger comes from the alternate morph of DK's burst heal, so a healer probably isn't running it.

Correct! In fact I might use Obsidian Shard during really difficult veteran hard mode boss fights due to how much burst spam healing it provides. Kinda like how Nightblade healers can use Funnel Health and it has the same mechanic as Obsidian Shard as well. Thanks to the passives both of these abilities when used also generate ultimate, but DK also procs minor brutality for the whole group and restores 990 stamina to the caster. ((Useful if you find yourself dodge rolling, breaking free, or blocking but not much else.)) However Nightblade's version improves all healing on the bar by 3% for having Funnel Health slotted. Have to build to your class's passives in cases like this.

FantasticFreddie

WELL since I farmed, trait changed, golded out, and loaded all my lightning staves into presets, I am still using them, but slowly chipping away at farming frost staves.

the1andonlyskwex

Before u29, I was running a frost staff on my Sorc (I wanted to run lightning, but couldn't get one to drop, and frost was working out well anyway), and an Inferno staff on my DK (for Combustion procs).

With the u29 changes, I'll probably leave the Sorc as-is, but I'm seriously considering switching the DK to lightning (I had been using Overwhelming Surge for minor vulnerability procs, but its base proc chance got nerfed from 10% to 1%) or DW (swords and/or daggers). I'm kind-of liking the idea of running dual charged swords and having the ability to proc status effects from two different enchantments.

p00tx

Frost, for Brittle uptimes since I'm usually the RO healer. Flame if we have a brittle person already.

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tmbrinks wrote: »

Depends on the content. But lightning dead. D. E. A. D. dead.

So, either Flame or Ice backbar w/ resto front bar.

Or double destro if we don't need a ton of healing.

I really hate to agree with the 'dearly beloved we are gathered to remember the lighting staff' but, sadly and reluctantly, I finally must concede.

For overland/pugs because I have goldies I'll still use them; but wishing I never auto-deconned so many frost-staves prior to sticker-book as it means farming ahead.

At least it confirms to me that zos change stuff simply to make us change stuff and I guess their magic-spreadsheet showed ubiquitous lightning staff use. If I'm still a round in a year or so presumably frost staves will get the same treatment - but at least I'll have a fuller sticker-book.

Snow_White

I’m not deconning any lighting staves as I figure that neglecting Off Balance was probably an oversight and that Zos will restore it at some point.

I also keep seeing a Toy Buff vs Off Balance in the logs, so I’m curious what that actually means?

But, to answer the question, I use ice in trials (for brittle) and lightning in dungeons (for the AOE damage).

etchedpixels

Inferno on my DK healer for the fire buffs, playing with daggers on another (for the dual wield bonuses) with entirely class/guild/world skills on the dual wield bar

mocap

PUG vet healer for dungeons. Double resto only for raw healing power.

If group can't handle a boss in vet dlc dungeon, then off balance, combat prayer and other BS will not help them anyway.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

I use lightning on my mag Templar healer, and use frost on my mag Warden healer.

Arkew

still use lightning staff since it's offmeta because dd lost their precious opportunist cp but off-balanced target give extra ressource on heavy attacks but dd not know existance of heavy attacks because they lost damage.

Astrid

Entirely dependant on what group needs. Ice/Inferno this patch, but Lightning is still alright just not as sought after.

Jimbru

My healer is a Warden; Hiti's, Winter's Respite, Rkugamz sets. I run Resto frontbar and Lightning backbar. I'd probably run Ice more if I knew what the "shields" from my blockade actually did, because the tooltip is useless and I frankly can't tell if they do anything other than create more visual noise on my screen.

Vevvev

Jimbru wrote: »

My healer is a Warden; Hiti's, Winter's Respite, Rkugamz sets. I run Resto frontbar and Lightning backbar. I'd probably run Ice more if I knew what the "shields" from my blockade actually did, because the tooltip is useless and I frankly can't tell if they do anything other than create more visual noise on my screen.

They block projectile damage only, which is basically only ranged attacks.

BXR_Lonestar

I use lightning, but since my group's main tank uses a lightning as well, I'm trying to switch to frost. Damned Olo frost staff wont drop though