Restoration Staff Self-Healing

ADarklore · September 2015

I've never used a Resto staff before, but going to be creating a Magicka Nightblade and I want to know which skills are best for self-healing. Reading tooltips on Wiki, and most of them mention healing allies, but only a few skills mention 'self' heals. So if someone would be kind enough to let me know which Restoration staff skills work best for self-healing, the information would be much appreciated.

leepalmer95 · September 2015

ADarklore wrote: »

I've never used a Resto staff before, but going to be creating a Magicka Nightblade and I want to know which skills are best for self-healing. Reading tooltips on Wiki, and most of them mention healing allies, but only a few skills mention 'self' heals. So if someone would be kind enough to let me know which Restoration staff skills work best for self-healing, the information would be much appreciated.

Your go to heal for a magicka nb is healing ward.

QuebraRegra · September 2015

leepalmer95 wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

I've never used a Resto staff before, but going to be creating a Magicka Nightblade and I want to know which skills are best for self-healing. Reading tooltips on Wiki, and most of them mention healing allies, but only a few skills mention 'self' heals. So if someone would be kind enough to let me know which Restoration staff skills work best for self-healing, the information would be much appreciated.

Your go to heal for a magicka nb is healing ward.

I'd like to respectfully disagree....

I heard legends of the power of HEALING WARD, but it's far to unpredictable who will get the effect... unless I'm solo. Often times, I'll be supporting my group sieging, then someone will take a hit, and I'll mash HEALING WARD, and somebody, not even in my group in the back row, entirely unaffected will suddenly get the "bubble". Frankly, about 70% of the time in a group it affects the "wrong" person... Particularly annoying when I need it desperately myself!

The reported "trick" to HEALING WARD has been to spam it, and apply the heal repeatedly each time the bubble renews (full heal of remaining shield value applied). IMHO, with no way to actually designate the target, this is far too RNG for my tastes... It's on my resto skill bar, but very situational due to the RNG involved in targeting. If HEALING WARD could be made targetable, itd be a win instead of a meh IMHO.

In the last patch HEALING SPRINGS has been my primary heal when playing in groups. The low cost and spammability, coupled with the area-of-effect, and targetability make it the go-to. Based on server lag, and player stupidity, it is not a panacea, and will not outheal serious damage. The ability to heal from afar has been extremely useful for me, and the AP gains I have received speak volumes.

That;s my xp tho...

leepalmer95 · September 2015

QuebraRegra wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

I've never used a Resto staff before, but going to be creating a Magicka Nightblade and I want to know which skills are best for self-healing. Reading tooltips on Wiki, and most of them mention healing allies, but only a few skills mention 'self' heals. So if someone would be kind enough to let me know which Restoration staff skills work best for self-healing, the information would be much appreciated.

Your go to heal for a magicka nb is healing ward.

I'd like to respectfully disagree....

I heard legends of the power of HEALING WARD, but it's far to unpredictable who will get the effect... unless I'm solo. Often times, I'll be supporting my group sieging, then someone will take a hit, and I'll mash HEALING WARD, and somebody, not even in my group in the back row, entirely unaffected will suddenly get the "bubble". Frankly, about 70% of the time in a group it affects the "wrong" person... Particularly annoying when I need it desperately myself!

The reported "trick" to HEALING WARD has been to spam it, and apply the heal repeatedly each time the bubble renews (full heal of remaining shield value applied). IMHO, with no way to actually designate the target, this is far too RNG for my tastes... It's on my resto skill bar, but very situational due to the RNG involved in targeting. If HEALING WARD could be made targetable, itd be a win instead of a meh IMHO.

In the last patch HEALING SPRINGS has been my primary heal when playing in groups. The low cost and spammability, coupled with the area-of-effect, and targetability make it the go-to. Based on server lag, and player stupidity, it is not a panacea, and will not outheal serious damage. The ability to heal from afar has been extremely useful for me, and the AP gains I have received speak volumes.

That;s my xp tho...

For group play yes, if you use healing ward right it's by far the best heal, makes it so when your low health you gain a 15k shield which if you cloak 2-3 times after you'll be back to full hp.

Suntzu1414 · September 2015

for solo play and nb/vamps
healing ward is tops.

for group play and support
healing springs is boss (combat pray gets honorable mention - instaheal, weapon buff)

Kill Well
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ADarklore · September 2015

Thought I'd clarify... I'm asking in reference to only PvE solo content; I always forget to add those specifics.

QuebraRegra · September 2015

HEALING WARD for solo play... agreed.

Can we turn this into a make HEALING WARD targetable thread? Seriously, imagine the xtra server load of trying to identify the lowest health nearby player (which really looks more like RNG in actual testing!). If HEALING WARD was made targetable they could do away with this unnecessary/no-working server loading.

SUGGESTION: Make HEALING WARD targetable to a range of "x"... If no no one is targeted, then apply to self. Could also be a "shoot yer shoes" to self apply. Either way it's a better solution and should help with server performance.

All in favour?