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Resto Staff Trait

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kvlou79
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So, is sharpened still the ideal trait for Resto Staff, or is powered, charged, etc better?
Edited by kvlou79 on May 21, 2017 12:11PM

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  • DeHei
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    Every healer has another opinion, which trait is the best. For me presice is a good choose; Your heal is strong enough in PvE with a damagebuild and your damage increase with this trait too. So you are more flexible.

    Defending for PvP!
    DeHei - EP Magicka Templar Allrounder
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  • Araviel2
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    Infused whit spell power enchant.
    its in pair whit powered but also buffs all your other skills and not only healing.
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  • AcadianPaladin
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    I've no idea what is 'best'. My healer runs powered on her resto staff and sharpened on her lightning staff. Seems to work pretty well.
    PC NA(no Steam), PvE, mostly solo
  • DeHei
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    vMSA Healing staff trait :D
    DeHei - EP Magicka Templar Allrounder
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  • Silver_Strider
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    Precise is a beautiful trait for a Resto staff. Better heals and more damage overall makes it a nice balanced trait for a Healer.

    Sharpened is only really useful for perhaps NB healers as their heals are also damage skills and Funnel's Heal is more potent the more damage you do.

    Powered is sort of redundant as overhealing is far too easy to do, granted maybe the changes in Morrowind will remedy this. Still, I personally don't feel it's that great a trait but might be useful starting off as a Healer.

    Infused is only really useful on something like a Master Resto to get the most mileage out of the enchantment before recharging it.

    Charged is worthless.

    Defending is great for PvP.

    Nirnhoned is alright but Precise or Sharpened are better in general, not to mention less costly.

    Decisive is meh
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  • clocksstoppe
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    sharpened healing staff is awful, so is charged.

    Defending , precise, nirnhoned, decisive are best.
  • SquareSausage
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    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.
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  • paulsimonps
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    SquareSausage wrote: »
    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.

    Defending for PvE???? Really? Why?

    I would go Powered for PvE without a doubt, that or Precise.
    PC-NA-EPFull Explanation of Damage Mitigation
  • Lightspeedflashb14_ESO
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    paulsimonps wrote: »
    SquareSausage wrote: »
    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.

    Defending for PvE???? Really? Why?

    I would go Powered for PvE without a doubt, that or Precise.

    10% less damage, a dead healer can't heal.
  • SquareSausage
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    Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »
    paulsimonps wrote: »
    SquareSausage wrote: »
    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.

    Defending for PvE???? Really? Why?

    I would go Powered for PvE without a doubt, that or Precise.

    10% less damage, a dead healer can't heal.

    Pretty much, heals are so powerful as they are at end level, most heals will already be over healing, best to make yourself more robust than waste a trait on getting more overhealing.
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  • paulsimonps
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    Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »
    paulsimonps wrote: »
    SquareSausage wrote: »
    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.

    Defending for PvE???? Really? Why?

    I would go Powered for PvE without a doubt, that or Precise.

    10% less damage, a dead healer can't heal.

    Forget to heal themselves or something?
    PC-NA-EPFull Explanation of Damage Mitigation
  • Lightspeedflashb14_ESO
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    paulsimonps wrote: »
    Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »
    paulsimonps wrote: »
    SquareSausage wrote: »
    Defending. PvE, PvP.

    Needs no more saying.

    Defending for PvE???? Really? Why?

    I would go Powered for PvE without a doubt, that or Precise.

    10% less damage, a dead healer can't heal.

    Forget to heal themselves or something?

    No, come on, you know as well as I that sometimes stuff happens and it is better to have 10% less incoming damage then 7% more heals or crits.
  • rossk25
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    I personally use defending on my resto staff. The way I think of it is that the extra armor rating could be the difference between life/death during those "oh-sh|t" moments.
    Bosmer Magicka Templar - Dest/Resto Staff [ex Stamina Templar - Bow/DW]
    Dunmer Magicka DK - Dest/Resto staff
    Breton Magicka NB - [Dest/DW PvE] [Dest/Resto PvP]
    Bosmer Stamina Warden - Bow/2H
  • Qbiken
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    Tbh. any trait works on a healing staff :D
  • Sukenlihol
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    "Defending" in Highest tier of game (vMoL hm etc..)

    Otherwise, according to your character build, powered or precise.
  • c_star
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    Defending for sure :) thank gawd i just got my malestrom defending resto .. and yes I am a healer :p
  • kvlou79
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    Lot of good points here, glad I asked. Thanks everyone. Cuz I just assumed powered lol.
  • TheStealthDude
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    On my NB healer, I use dual resto staves (might change after Morrowind patch, though) with sharpened on my front bar (funnel health, sap essence, impale, combat prayer, inner light) and precise on my back bar. Works well for me so far.
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