puffytheslayer wrote: »

addressing the OP's confusion over being in a vet instance

I have noticed that fungal 1 will randomly swap you from normal to vet, when i was grinding my netch & automoton gear solo on my stam sorc i would quite often reach the final boss & encounter my 1st death & then realise i was on vet for some reason!

• There are loads of mistakes your group members were making, but you can't fix those.
• Group shouldn't have pulled until you all were ready. That includes food and charges (not your fault).
• Use your heal buffs before the fight starts (Mutagen/rapid regen) and refresh during the fight as needed.
• Use other healing buffs/enemy debuffs when the fight starts (Ritual of Retribution).
• Stand in your channeled focus as much as possible, but don't be afraid to move out and back in. You get the mitigation bonus for 8 full seconds after you leave it. You get the regen bonus only when you're in it. Regen bonus is good. Staying alive is better. You can always recast it elsewhere or simply rely on your innate regen in the meantime.
• Use Springs as your default heal. Drop it dead center of the group/fight. Let it tick to (near) completion. It's the Tank's/DPS's job to stay out of the red, and within the range of your heals. It's your job to adjust your heal location as the fight requires. Only spam springs during high damage phases such as last boss FG II's channelled attack. You'll get reduced cost if everyone's standing in it (they should be stacked on you anyway). In normal trash pulls, drop Springs, and let it tick. It's good for three seconds, allow it to be. This will help with your magicka pool.
• I'd use Healing Ward vs Ward Ally - a healing shield on the person that needs it is worth more than two non-healing shields. Healing morphs are always going to be be the morph of choice. If you can't heal through the damage, the temporary shield Ward Ally will provide won't change that, but Healing Ward might, and it's a smart heal - no targeting required.
• Use Breath of Life only as your emergency heal. It's still expensive. If you're having to cast this frequently, your group probably needs to be more situationally aware - aka move.
• All of your group members need to not be afraid to block.
• All of your group members need to not be afraid to dodge.
• All of your group members need to not be afraid to kite.
• Your gear is sufficient. Make sure you have enchants on every piece. 26k Magicka seems a bit low, even for cp200.
• Switch your mundus to Atronach. If you're not running out of magicka, you're not running out of heals. Plain and simple. You can switch to Ritual later if you feel you need to. A heal of any kind is better than a 10% stronger not heal because you're out of resources.
• Circle of Protection can help you and your groupmates in tough fights, but cast with care, as it's also expensive. End boss FG II, Kwama boss's mini-rage in DC, etc.

1. All of your party members need to be able to survive temporarily on their own - it's going to happen. People die. People get stunned, knocked down, CC'd, out of range. You're there to provide support, not allow someone immortality regardless of the situation.
2. Heal first. That's your job, regardless of what anyone tells you. In a given fight, if that means you cast zero debuffs, provide zero group buffs (orbs, shards), and the only spells you cast provide or promote you healing the group so no one dies, then you did it right.
   • So don't worry about sets like SPC, adding your own DPS, throwing down things like Lightning Wall...until later. When you get comfortable with just healing, you can start to add the other.
   • Double restro is a perfectly acceptable combo when you're first starting out - no fear of being on a non-healing bar that way. Also good to double slot BoL so you are never without a heal on either bar.
   • Your goal is to keep reasonably playing group mates alive. Everything else is a bonus.

Zvorgin wrote: »

This thread is why I don't pug dungeons.

There are way too many players who have no clue what they are doing and Zos don't make it easy to find out.

• When you are in a dungeon, mainly with random people, do prefer Rapid Regeneration over Healing Springs. Rapid Regen can be cast on all the group with two clicks. It lasts a lot and does not need to be directed. It just works. On the other hand, each time you cast Springs you need to click twice and only those in the radius are affected. With PUGs this is usually a problem people don't use a mic to coordinate and spread out for no real reason.
• Always have food. Solitude Salmon. It's a blue and very easy to cook. If you invested point into Provisioning you can make 4 at the same time. Invest some gold into the recipe. It's worth it. You don't want to go to veteran dungeons with less than 19k health since you will often be one sot'd by any boss that targets a random player (Sewers boss anyone?).
• An easy set to get is Sanctuary. It's not bad as long as you can go into harder content to get better ones.
• If you, as a healer, must spend around 90% of your time actively healing, something is wrong. Very likely the tank is not a tank and there is no CC. Apart from some boss or some huge pull, you should never need doing anything than HoTs (maybe you could couple Rapid Regen with Aura). If you have high crit chance, your HoTs will do massive healing whenever it is needed.
• As a healer, your first duty is to keep everyone alive. Buffing is important, but buffing a dead body doesn't help. Only keep buffs (buffs, not HoTs) up if your healing over time is all you need to keep the guys alive.
• Make sure to have great mana regen. I do prefer the Atronach to the Thief stone. This, comined with the Devine trait, gives me more than 2000 magicka regen, which means I am practically always at full magicka. I can easily spam 6-7 BoL without running out of magicka. Ciriticals are important, but if you don't have magicka to cast a spell you won't have any critical. Make sure your blue pool doesn't dry up that quickly.
• BoL is a great burst heal you should always have on your bar, but rarely use. HoTs should be enough. Using BoL to heal 5K health is a waste of magicka. A 30k health BoL makes sense. Use it when needed. The more you play as a healer, the more you feel when it's time to use it. There are bosses that do huge damage. And while red is bad, many people, mainly in PUGs, do not understand they must move out of range. Fungal Grotto or Spindlecluths last bosses are an example... as a healer I know in a PUGs after those big AOEs I must cast a BoL. 95% of the times, this blind BoL saves lives.

jaschacasadiob16_ESO wrote: »

My two cents, having a healer as main and enjoying being a healer:

• When you are in a dungeon, mainly with random people, do prefer Rapid Regeneration over Healing Springs. Rapid Regen can be cast on all the group with two clicks. It lasts a lot and does not need to be directed. It just works. On the other hand, each time you cast Springs you need to click twice and only those in the radius are affected. With PUGs this is usually a problem people don't use a mic to coordinate and spread out for no real reason.

Eremith wrote: »

It was happen yesterday.
I did queue in normal dungeon. Something gone wrong with group finder and I wasn't teleported to dungeon automaticaly. So, I did it manually. Then the show goes on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTGtOecFY_8&persist_app=1&app=m

I know, I'm not an excellent healer. I was in vet gungeon only once and we didn't kill the last boss there because I was dying under boss special atack. (Fungal Grotto 2, boss had used some electrical spell that was damaging each player in group).

But this was a normal dungeon. Eh... It was a vet. I'm pretty shure I was queued for normal, but this dungeon became vet somehow.
My gear is 5 light Seducer, 4 of them are Divine trait, Ritual stone.
I was confused. Maybe it was a bug and my healing didn't work for group mates. Maybe that tank gear was broken. I really don't know.

Any idea?

driosketch wrote: »

Eremith wrote: »

I know, I'm not an excellent healer. I was in vet gungeon only once and we didn't kill the last boss there because I was dying under boss special atack. (Fungal Grotto 2, boss had used some electrical spell that was damaging each player in group).
...
Any idea?

Everyone has gone over the group's issues. If you want a tip for this boss, get under the bubble during the special attack. If for some reason you are attempting hard mode, the Temp heal ult, Remembrance, will heal through it if the group turtles up.

• Tank keeps taunt. Keeps others from eating the projectile.
• Healer drops Circle of Protection, Regen, Springs as necessary.
• Everyone stacks. If a black hole forms near, you shift a little as a group.
• When boss teleports, you simply trade her places.
• When boss channels, spam healing springs.
• Repeat from step 1.