david31741 wrote: »

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

I don't disagree, but if your goal is to heal in pvp, I don't really think 5-10% more damage or even heals are necessarily the most important things to be worrying about. A healer in pvp just needs to heal good enough to do the job, and survival/sustainability is actually better over and above that, because it means you can keep dishing out the heals (a Dead healer isn't healing).

That's basically what I said regarding the group pvp healer role.

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For non-ball pvp I don't see anyone playing "healer" in pvp. Exception being spammers looking to grind ranks.

Solo and small group pvp race can make a big dif especially these days where you need to burst to overcome everyone's defenses. Templar has the weakest burst potential and 5-10% dps makes a big difference. a 6% dam reduction in pvp is not noticeable especially on a templar which already has decent defensive options.

And yeah, I am a nord templar playing pvp since release - and I regret being Nord 100%. It wasn't a thought out choice. I just saved a name for a crafting mule - but who knew templar would be so much fun.

Nord may not stand out in any particular role, but I actually think far more than any other race it has the most universal in usefulness. A Nord can be anything and still benefit from all of its passives. Nord Mage? Fine you still have all your regeneration, mitigation, and health bonus. Nord warrior? Fine you still have all your regeneration, mitigation, and health bonus. Tank? Fine you still have all of your regeneration, mitigation, and health bonus. Healer? Fine you still have all your regeneration, mitigation and health bonus.

The problem I think that you and a lot of Nord players have isn't so much with the race, but with ZoS making damage output more favorable than mitigation in recent months. The game has increasingly become more and more about pushing damage numbers, and mitigation has become less and less something to build for. I think this is the core of the problem, and not the Nord race itself. In theory I think Nord is perhaps the coolest race in the game. In practice, the developers need to do something about mitigation. They need to either pump up the health multiplier significantly, or they need to start scaling mitigation abilities with respect to stat points in health. I've talked about this in other forum posts a million times. Even so, I still think in group pvp your Nord Templar is probably the single best build for a healer (in that function). One might think the Imperial is better, but with nerfs to rolling/blocking, I don't think the 10% greater stamina and red diamond is going to be as useful to a Templar healer as the Robust + Damage Reduction + Max health would be. This is all just my opinion obviously, but I like to make my healers tough enough that they are annoying to kill, but also good enough to heal to do their job. I find Nord is really good to that end.