You'll likely be spending a lot more time actively healing with those stats than if you'd go for more magicka and spell damage. Ideally, a healer should be contributing plenty of buffs and / or damage between heals.

I run about 1400 recovery and have no trouble. An occasional pot, Channeled Focus, and a rare heavy attack are more than enough to keep me healing. That said, I use a Maelstrom resto staff, more CPs, and I have 2 1/2 years of experience healing. You may want to start with more, but I think the amount you have is excessive.

As for health, 17k is fine if you're using your Channeled Focus. I'd also suggest running at least one piece of heavy, preferably the chest for the most resistance. I personally run two heavy, five light. Staying alive is as important as healing others and a piece or two of heavy goes a long way to making that easier.

My magicka pool is also sitting just under 40k, which is going to provide an effective 1000+ spell power over having 29k. That's a lot. I also have around 2.4k spell damage on top of that.

In summary, you could probably stand to drop recovery for more spell damage and magicka. Health is at a good point but only if your mitigation is solid. Otherwise, more health would be nice.

Personally, I'd rather run 5 Kagrenac's and 3 Magnus or a monster set in your shoes.

Currently, I run 5 SPC, 5 Kagrenac's, and a nirnhoned Maelstrom resto staff + Sharpened Maelstrom Lightning staff.

5 Julianos/Kagrenac is a better base than Seducer imho. Add Kena, Torug Pact or Seducer on the top of it with 3 Willpower jewelry. Purple pieces with purple magicka glyphs are more than fine - except the weapons. 5 light + 1-1 others is highly recommended.

If you want more health you can use TBS or 1h+shield. Or slot entropy for the extra hp, magicka and regen.

2500 regen is incredibly high, you should be fine even with half of it. You can start with all jewellery glyphed for cost reduction and/or regen and slowly change them to spell damage. Higher damage means higher heals means less casting. Also you will be able to help with dps when healing is not crucial... which is mostly the case. Higher dps means less sustain for the group since things are dying sooner. Use less BoL and more combat prayer, healing springs, orb and elemental drain. Use repentance regularly for free heals and stamina! (It also gives you regen passively)

P3ZZL3 wrote: »

^^ Nice "NCC" build there Kidly

Wait, other healers run Pariah and Vampire together? I don't see anyone talking about tank sets on a healer at all. I understand people running Rattlecage potentially being "cookie cutter" but wouldn't 90% of other players run something like Torug's Pact or Kagrenac's Hope?

P3ZZL3 wrote: »

How good/bad is this? Just wondering more than anything. Took a group through several dungeons with no real issues bar one (Wayrest II Vet) but as a newbie Healer, we still made it eventually.

Cheers for your thoughts in advance

Not a bad setup. Depends on if you would like to be wrecking havoc in dps while healing dungeons. I'll give you my stats, bar, and gear setup and you can compare. Boss fights I pull around 13k while keeping everyone alive, and of course trash is around 35-40k

Be aware that my weapons are legendary since it is a huge bonus to spell power (when dual wielding only the primary sword has to be legendary, the off hand can be Purple/Epic as it is only like a 40 point difference in spell power)

5pc Mother's Sorrow
5pc Julianos
2pc Torg's Pact (which loses its 2 set bonus when swapping to bar 2/resto staff)

Food: Witchmother's Potent Brew

Stats:
Max Magicka: 35k
Max Health: 16k (know the fights, avoid big red circles and invest some champion points into Hardy and Elemental Defender and you will be fine)
Max Stamina: 9k

Magicka Recovery: 1978
Spell Damage: 2368
Spell Crit: 68.4%

Bar 1: Dual Wield Swords

Blazing Shards | Puncturing Sweeps | Dark Flare | Structured Entropy | Inner Light | Ultimate Shooting Star

Bar 2: Resto Staff

Radiant Aura | Ritual of Retribution | Breath of Life | Quick Siphon | radiant Oppression | Ultimate: Life Giver (amazing for dungeons, swap to Rite of Passage for trials)

Keep Structured entropy up for the bonus to spell power and just go to town. I tend to cast a lot of Dark Flares and and with the high crit, they hit for over 25k each.

Just giving you my setup, use it if you would like, try different things out, and never be afraid to experiment.

Protip, download the PTS and try different builds out on it before you invest time and gold into respeccing/gearing your live server toon.

I'm running 5 Kagrenacs Hope, 3 Transmutation, 2 Torugs Pact, and 1 Molag Kena. I'm sitting at 20k health, 37.5k magicka, 10k stamina, 1700 magicka recovery, and 2400 spell damage. Crit is a little lower at 30-40%, and with health/magicka food and undaunted passives. I think it's a solid 4-person dungeon build for PVPers like myself who want to run dungeons for monster sets and other gear.

Full build is detailed here

Relevant thread is relevant to me.

I've recently been looking at some of the stats being bandied about, and wondering how folk get them that high.

Around 30-40k magicka? What am I missing?

I'll be playing with a stat calculator at some point to figure it out, but any advice (around appropriate numbers and gear*) would be greatly appreciated.

Given my racial choice (Bosmer), I'm most definitely not a min/maxer. I just want to have fun, and be able to keep folk alive in the even I somehow find myself in an instanced dungeon.


* I prefer crafted so I have control over the look.

bareheiny wrote: »

Relevant thread is relevant to me.

I've recently been looking at some of the stats being bandied about, and wondering how folk get them that high.

Around 30-40k magicka? What am I missing?

I'll be playing with a stat calculator at some point to figure it out, but any advice (around appropriate numbers and gear*) would be greatly appreciated.

Given my racial choice (Bosmer), I'm most definitely not a min/maxer. I just want to have fun, and be able to keep folk alive in the even I somehow find myself in an instanced dungeon.


* I prefer crafted so I have control over the look.

30K magicka should be fairly easily attainable regardless of your racial choice. My Redguard templar runs with about 32K magicka when healing or DPSing (and about 25K when tanking). 40K is a lot harder to get to depending on your race/class, and is probably out of reach for races that don't get boosts to magicka. I've got an Altmer sorc who sits at 46K, and I could easily get it much higher if I wanted to (I could switch the mundus to the Mage, I could slot some Mages Guild skills, etc).

Thanks for all the feedback folks.

So for now, I'm gathering up the Sanctuary gear from Banished Cells as it's easy to Solo or with a mate.

Does anyone know whether drop wise, when you do veteran it's ONLY the increase in color of gear? Is there a better chance of a drop more relevant (i.e. divines) or does RNG stay the same?

I assume the same, but always good to check

The posted set up should be good for almost every vet pledge.

As some people mentioned, I would even use statfood instead of regfood.

Healing is important, but even more important nowadays is support and buffs (and of course surviving).

Elemental Drain, Siphon Soul, Repentance, Bubbles from the Undaunted skill line and Warhorn are your friends.

Awesome thread

If you're going to do Scroll challenges in pledges or otherwise, I'd think about increasing your health to 19,000 or so, at least in the beginning. Boss challenge attacks hit hard these days, and just one mistake (missed block/dodge roll) and you'll be knocked down in one go. It doesn't matter how good the heals and support are on paper, they are worthless when your character's lying on the ground.

Tbh healers have a lot of combinations with armor, races, etc. Having high magicka recovery does counter the lower magicka.

Also try to have repentence on one of your bars, because everyone needs that stam back.