Tyvm for ur insights Tas
I will try some things especially concerning the shield aspect. Great information. Ty mate

I'm more a fan of Energy Orb coz healing but both specs are great overall. I now swapped out Obdisidian Shard of Igneous Shield. Since it only heals one it'll be kinda useless in trials. Magicka cost seems to be the same. I always thought I had to spam shields to get the major mending 24/7 but its not true. Warden dont have major mending as well whole time, when peeps wont drop below 40 % Hp. Casting Shields every 6 seconds for ultimate gains and having half of the time mending is great overall.

I guess I found my overall Skills so far. I'll be most of the time on Resto Staff. Destro is for DoT DMG and Buffs.

Resto:
- Cauterize (Fire and forget HoT + Spell crit since my main bar)
- Igneous Shield (need it on front bar so I can "spam" it more frequently)
- Healing Ward (just the live saver. I still use it kinda rarely but its good to have)
- Combat Prayer (buffs 2 gud to pass)
- Healing Springs (my most fav healing skill in the game and a solid choice for trials as well)
- Ult: Light's Champion (I shud be able 2 have a good uptime on that, therefore its a very strong utility + healing tool in generel)

Destro (Fire, I am a Dark Elf. And a DK. I do a good amount DoT DPS. In a trial scenario I guess that there'll be anybody else using Lighting Destro anyways so it's not needed for me):
- Igneous Weapons (nice party DPS Buff)
- Energy Orb (heals + resource management. I shoot some balls within my rotation or in longer fights and then swap back to main bar)
- Elemental Drain (just a solid Debuff overall)
- Engulfing Flames (nice DoT + DPS buff for everyone who uses fire DMG)
- Elemental Blockade (another great DoT)
- Ult: Magma Armor (Though I still dont use this very often since I kinda "spam" Light's Champion)

Gear:

SPC seems BiS overall.
I'd love to combine that with either Healer Set or Inventor's. Both seem sexy. Since I see more people using Healer Set I guess Inventor's might be a better bet. I just dislike Inventor's bonusses besides the Major Aegis. They seem overall weak. On gear I still need some thoughts.

Hey mate.
Thx again for the advice.
There are plenty of good gear ideas I could use.

Still not sure about all the skills I'd use. So many utility and dmg tools I can chose from.

a little help here?

All I got to say good job. Don't let trail groups say it's bad cause you can use engulfing flames to increase DPS on magic builds or other dks. All you probably need is more crit since dks lack having crit than say a NB. And a nb will use nirnhoned or powered for their staff since they get enough crits in them.

SoLooney wrote: »

lol dk healers

Again....... you really do have a lot to learn.

Tasear wrote: »

Falkreath Hold

Draugr’s Rest (Light)

(2) Max Magicka
(3) Magicka Recovery
(4) Healing Done
(5) When you deal damage with a fully-charged Heavy Attack, you create a circle of consecrated ground that heals you and your allies within 5 meters for 11,000 health over 10 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

Damn Tasear this set is a sexy bombshell!

I just hit cp 160 and now I will start farming gear sets. I know that a LOT of u guys will disagree on what I will tell u know but believe it or not - it works. And it's kinda fancy.

Will all these changes I knowt that oldskool DK healer is still viable but since I love to create perfect cycled synergies I wanted to go for another route. I'm not using Igneous Shields and not Healing Ward. I know this sounds like I'm a madman but I will explain it in detail:

Resto: Deep Breath / Energy Orb / Cauterize / Combat Prayer / Illustrious Healing / Ult: Light's Champion

Destro (Lightning): Molten Armaments / Elemental Drain / Cauterize / Wall of Elements / Unrelenting Grip / Ult: Standard of Might / Aggressive Warhorn

Okay. Why am I doing this route? 1st of all I think that as a DK healer right now I'm wasting too many points / slots for Igneous Shields + Bastion. 2-3k shields are sooooo low it wont change anything. I rather cast another Illustrious Heal or Combat Prayer for less Magicka costs and more healing. I also prefer doing a resto heavy for Major Mending coz I deal DMG, regen Magicka and have a good single target burst heal this way. Both Major Mending have the same duration. For AoE heals I'm going to spam Illustrious Heal anyways. I wasnt using Healing Ward much and I'm able to cast 2 Cauterize for 1 Healing Ward cost-wise. I also prefer an instant heal over a Shield. Igneous Shields forces me to spam it which is typically bad because out of the shielding / healing aspect its non-efficient overall. I leave DMG mitgation to the tanks. My job is to keep the team alive, to buff the overall DPS, to help sustaining resources and to cc stuff around. This build can achieve all of these things.

So why am I choosing these skills?

- Deep Breath (since Cauterize cant target me having Breath's heal is nice to have. Utility is very good and I get 12% increased healing received due to Burning Heart passive. To me a nobrainer. On my Resto bar since its my main bar and I can perma cast Breath for heal and DPS purposes)
- Energy Orb (Heals + resource management. Nuff said)
- Cauterize (Wow. This thing is real bonkers. The drawback is that it wont target me but hey. The good parts just outweight here big time. the 15m radius is also not a problem since I'm an active player and I have to be kinda close coz of Deep Breath anyways. This thing is king of efficiency. VERY low magicka cost. I get 4 big single target heals with one cast. I can do other things while its active. I can still spam it if I need the heal instant. If everybody is at full life it will still be active and trigger random SPC here and there. Major Prophecy for free is also great.)
- Combat Prayer (Standard. Burst heal + 8% DMG buff. Gud stuff)
- Illustrious Healing. (I have good sustain overall. Ilustrious is overall a 25% heal increase. With high ticks I can cast 2 of them into a resto channel and it will still keep healing. It gives me time to do other things while it's still ticking)
- Light's Champion (I can cast this beast every pack. I'm at 100 ult very fast and this with Cauterize is such a great single target heal method. Due to Battle Roar it compensates that Cauterize cant target me and it gives me more magicka sustain. I hate waiting long to use ultimates. With this I can literally spam ults vs packs and bosses.)

- Molten Armaments (Major Sorcery + Heavy DMG Boost. Does Boost resto heavy heal and Lightning Staff AoE Heavy Attack. Very good since I weav in many heavy attacks. Also procs Mountains Blessing for Ultimate gain)
- Ele Drain (Just a great utility spell overall)
- Cauterize (double bar for Crit + having the emergency heal on destro bar as well)
- Wall of Elements (Concussion + off balance for team dps increase reasons)
- Grip (great skill. pulling packs together into AoE and I can spam it on bosses if I need to dps a bit.)
- Standard / Warhorn (Since it's not mandatory to cast Champion vs every pack I sometimes gain 250 ult over the course and for harder fight I can pop on of these and then use champion later on during the fight.)

Gear:
SPC will be mandatory. It's simply the best healer gear overall. For the second set I want to get Master Architect someday since it's working big time with Light's Champion. But with my heavy attacking setup Draugr’s Rest might also be a good thing to consider. The healing circle comes in handy with Cauterizing not targeting me.

Misc: A good thing about this build is that I can use Tri-Pots. I have both Major Prophecy and Sorcery 24/7 on all bars. Tri-Pots are working same like Battle Roar. I can sustain all resources I have stamina to block some heavy attacks I have to block and pots also heal ME when needed.
I can swap in Purge for Grip or Deep Breath if needed.

Overall I thing this build is more cost efficient that other build. It's more difficult to play coz u have to consider skill ranges and radius and healing urself can be kinda tricky. But I like having a build where I have to play carefully.

Shadrir wrote: »

What is Bastion?

Champion point passive which increases the size of shields.

I really hope someday igneous shield is tweaked to scale on max magicka instead of health, or at least the base value for allies is slightly increased.

It's part of the class identity for DK healer, something no other class can provide in a spammable ability. I keep igneous shield up on everybody and use Barrier ultimate for boss fights. This procs Trinimac's Valor set to provide some additional healing, but unfortunately I think this set also needs a buff.

Would like to try Combat Physician set if I can ever get all the pieces.

Did some trials for the first time yesterday and changed Obsidian shard to the healing morph. It can be a very large heal, was critting up to 18k, but this seems completely useless in a raid situation because there is no way to control who gets the heal.

With Breath of Life or Healing Ward for example at least there is some logic to who gets the heal. With this one it is random and during the entire combat period it seems to keep healing only that one person, regardless of who is closer to the enemy target.

Could be viable if it was changed to target allies the same way Healing Ward prioritizes heal targets (lowest health).