Haven't had the wonderful chance to heal with a mage blade but as far as I know:

- your main healing output comes from funnel health. This is the bread and butter for mage blade.
- healing springs is one of the most cost efficient heals but it needs the other players to stack to have it at its maximum potential.
- I am not too sure about mutagen, it's random, with the burst output not too reliable. I feel that as a mage blade, you need constant hots, just like how a druid heals in wow.
- shields works best imo, but I suggest healing ward rather than steadfast.
- structured entropy doesn't stack with SAP essence as far as I can tell yes? Both have major sorcery. Have you given thought for innerlight? Critical hots are not to be laughed at imo.

Hopefully this helps!
-RavenSworn

Personally, I use a double restoration staff. This works for me, I'm there to heal, so that's my focus. My passive DPS from refreshing path and Funnel health spam generally provides around 8.5k DPS on it's own in a single Target situation.

Nightblade Healer https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3925586/#Comment_3925586

These recommendations are for a fully-dedicated healer setup. There is little single-target dps involved in this setup, but will ultimately put you in a solid place to begin doing normal and veteran trials (once you have enough CP and the right gear).

I recommend trading Siphon Spirit for Ele Drain instead, as the cast time on Siphon makes it a lot less efficient for the same buff. Since you have a destro on one bar already, it's easy to accommodate. You can replace Entropy with Ele Drain, and then replace Siphon with Mystic Orb for sustain and for the synergy. Note that Sap Essence gives you Major Sorcery and will heal even if it hits no targets. I have some advice regarding this and can go into more detail if you'd like, but I'll leave it until you ask for it.

If you want to boost your group's dps (assuming their CP accommodates it), trade your inferno staff for a lightning staff, and then replace Destructive Clench with Lightning Blockade to set everything off-balance. This will also enable you to help clean up trash pulls more efficiently with your group, as a simple Path > Blockade > Heavy Lightning attacks will do some serious work without sacrificing any of your healing utility or potency, while simultaneously improving your sustain. I hinted at this above, but this is still a really strong AoE setup if you choose not to use Sap.

I would trade Elemental Rage for Aggressive Horn and use it as your primary ultimate. Also, though I personally love Soul Siphon, it's not providing any real utility besides the synergy option (which is decent and you would be right to use it in some cases), and you (generally) can do better by slotting Shooting Star here instead. This will boost your sustain and your healing potency, as well as bolster your AoE arsenal and can be used to empower your heals. It's important to note here that, while you should use Aggressive Horn primarily, it should stay on your back bar (rather than your primary/healing bar) because it doesn't do anything for your passively, unlike Shooting Star, whose passive benefits are spectacular.

Inner Light is too good to pass up (max magicka + empower) and should probably be on both bars. If you can't bring yourself to drop a skill on each bar for it, it should at least be on your healing bar. Finally, Healing Ward is a much better option for pve healing.

TL;DR: In summary, here are my recommendations:
You're definitely on the right track going for SPC. You have several solid endgame options to pair with it, such as Mending, Worm Cult, IA, and Sanctuary. Might as well start hoarding all of them, because down the line you're going to have to work together with your raid lead and your other trials healer to figure out which sets you're both going to wear, so having all them is going to save you a headache. Don't stress about that much for now; focus on SPC, then go for Worm Cult (both of these are from dungeons), then Mending (normal AA).

I'm more than happy to help you with CP allocations, traits, glyphs, etc. if you want. For now, I'm going to leave all of that out, so as not to make this longer than it needs to be, and since you're still working towards cp160. But keep it in mind if you want the help for later, and feel free to shoot me a message or tag me for questions.

@Joromarr I got your message, it's an addon called "Superstar - Character Builder".

If I really wanted a setup like this, check the spoiler for how I'd place my skills. You'll have to swap weapons a lot to keep reapplying Combat Prayer every 8 seconds, but as a Healer you don't follow a rotation. Just apply buffs or debuffs as needed.

Piercing mark is redundant as a healer Nightblade in groups. The tank should be using Pierce Armour, that's your debuff right there. Elemental drain also reduces spell resistance, but the reason it's being used is for the passive magicka recovery through doing damage each second. If you are using Elemental Drain, you don't also have to be using Siphon Spirit. It has a cast time a lot of people hate as it leaves you doing nothing, and makes it slow to apply to multiple enemies.

You don't -need- Inner light on both bars, Just the one you will be spending most of your time on, or the one that has Funnel Health on it. The more damage you do with it, the more healing you can get out of it. You don't have a siphoning skill on your back bar, so you are missing 8% magicka bonus there. I mean, this is why I have my abilities setup how I do. I want passives active, and a Balanced healing setup, though my backbar is still considered a buff bar and I don't stay on it long.

I also wanted the critical damage buff from my assassin passives active at all times, that's why I have Soul Harvest on my front bar, and Impale on my backbar. You never actually use Soul Harvest. It's for the ultimate generation if you happen to kill something while on your Damage bar. I can't make myself change my setup as for what I desire, everything fits where it is.

dmanlongb14_ESO wrote: »

@VaxtinTheWolf

I like your post above, but I have a few follow up questions.

1. You said up the page that you use double resto staffs? So what is the build you just linked?

2. Have you thought about using double sword for the passive 5% boost? Double Sword also provides you with an extra set item allowing you to run 5/5/2

3.almost 100% of the unique utility that Nightblade healer brings is DPS. How much dps seperation is there between a geared Nightblade healer and a geared Templar Healer?

@dmanlongb14_ESO

- The link goes to what I currently use on my own Healer. What I posted above was just imagingin a setup, thought up out of my head.

- I'm not into that kind of style. Maybe good for Templar or Sorcerer burst healing, or larger tooltip numbers but that's not my focus. I use Siphoning attacks for constant sustain, and weave ranged light attacks often, and keeping the ultimate proc running. Maybe it's fine on a back-bar for a true DPS Nightblade in an AOE situation, at least I believe that's how they use it in their setups? Still, I prefer the more balanced setup I'm using, Basically I want the Restoration Staff passives active at all times along with the nightblade ones for healing, and bonus critical damage/healing. My mindset is Healing First, and small sustained DPS second, so that's what I prepare myself to do.

- I don't consider myself geared, and I've never played a Templar healer either, so I cannot really comment on that. I'm just a veteran pledge dungeon delver. All the vocal majority seem to look at is trial setups and if you don't use this or that setup with this specific class you are invisible to them. "Like a if you aren't -this- for -that- then delete your character" kind of people.