Thank you for the thorough responses. Very helpful.

The only characters I have ever healed on are a Magblade and a Mag Sorc, both of which were ran as off heals, so yes, I definitely run blockade on my healers.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

@RobbieRocket a "few specific settings" meaning anytime you have a Stam dps in your group or mag dps that understands the game. You would given up almost a 20% dps boost for what, so you can wear a monster set? This thread is about pve healering as far as I can see too, PvP healing is different.


What is this talking about, "10/20 second easy-proc"?

And do you still "exclusively use tri-stat regen drinks"?

Hi!

You seem angry, as in before you read my post you seem to have an agenda.

I posted here to offer my scenario. As I understand the thread to be as it is titled, "Do you use elemental blockade on your healer?" meaning "as a healer, do you use Elemental Blockade?" or the slightly more bizarre, "do you use Elemental Blockade on the player in your group who is a healer?".

So, right there your comments about PvE or PvP are off, never mind the fact that in my post I explained the build background. Then your comment about "Stam dps or mag dps that understand the game" is a little odd. I'm guessing you mean that I don't (understand the game) or literally that the people in my group don't (understand the game). Now, you're beyond presumptuous at this point and somewhere towards trying to appear clairvoyant - otherwise known as wrong.

Missing 20% DPS boost, is completely off the mark. First off, the additional Magicka Glyph on the shield increases the power of magicka skills (both dps and heals), secondly the "monster set" as you discard so easily, that I use for PvE vet dungeons is Morihaus which adds a further 1000 mag, 1000 stam and 200 spell power. So, you're way off again. Not that your guessing would be viable versus actual testing anyway - like I said I played Lightning Staff for a year in vet dungeons.

Further to that comes PvE Trials (as you seem to conclude that this thread is only about PvE), if you go for DPS as trial healer you will (on most bosses) not be helping the group as much as someone who can heal or buff the 11 others better.

What I mean by 10/20 second easy proc is that sets like Robes of Transmutaion (20 seconds duration, a PvP set) or Spell Power Cure (10 seconds duration, a set for many scenarios) can both be made to proc easily with having only 4 pieces on the back bar (Resto). Casting either a heal over time from the back bar for example will proc both when you move to the front bar. Any heal over time will proc both on the front bar and any heal will proc SPC on the front bar. So in effect you have 2 5-piece sets and a Monster set all of the time (when you place those kind of sets as 5-piece frontbar and 4-piece backkbar).

Obviously having an alternative point of view based on experience and an open mind being inexperienced unlike you I have made these "crimes of ignorance".

As for the tri-stat jibe, I don't know which level of presumption this is. I think I used tri-stat for a while before I realised Magicka skills and therefore heals scaled off og Magicka.

I manage 41k Magicka, 2500 Mag regen, 20k Health, 13.5k Stamina and resistances that vary from 22k/20k front bar to 19/17k back bar, I enjoy my set-up, my friends get through their dungeons quicker, it not only works, it works really well. That is my experience. I would hardly set myself up to be weaker or use something that does not work. My race is Imperial and my class is Templar, my satisfaction is real.

Now, are you going to come back with some more pre-post frustration or better still explain what is bothering you, because trolling my post looks ignorant from my point of view.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

@RobbieRocket


I truly hope I don't ever get you as a healer.

I hope you do, you might learn something.

You may think you are being smart but your mind is shut to the information I have shared. The feedback I get from tanks and DDs is that I help a lot, some say I carry the group - which is not true, I often have very good teammates.

I'm not gonna waste my time with your responses anymore.That would be a poor strategy. I've shared my experience. Respect that.

RobbieRocket wrote: »

One regular I play with (a DD) uses it a lot, with the 75CP passive of course and that's good for the trash. Bosses are immune to these effects and are usually 1 target (by definition, Flame Destro would be better) so I don't really get Your point here.

I'm not going to comment on your build because that's subjective, but this is factually inaccurate.

Unless I'm sorely mistaken, bosses do get set off balance (I've seen the "off-balance" combat text floating up from bosses) during which your dps do benefit from the Exploiter cp.

Illurian wrote: »

RobbieRocket wrote: »

One regular I play with (a DD) uses it a lot, with the 75CP passive of course and that's good for the trash. Bosses are immune to these effects and are usually 1 target (by definition, Flame Destro would be better) so I don't really get Your point here.

I'm not going to comment on your build because that's subjective, but this is factually inaccurate.

Unless I'm sorely mistaken, bosses do get set off balance (I've seen the "off-balance" combat text floating up from bosses) during which your dps do benefit from the Exploiter cp.

Pretty sure nobody would make such a big deal about achieving the exploiter passive if bosses couldn't be set off balance.

I dont have a healer. but huge respect for the haelers that apply lightning blockade with a charged lightning staff.

I have seen a trend lately where less and less healers are using it so I want to start a movement for all magicka DPS sorcs to use inferno staff on their back bars for protest.

My templar healers have a pretty full DPS bar: Lightning Blockade, Luminous Shards, Reflective Light, Purifying Light, and Elemental Drain. I'm also switching to Thunderous Rage from Warhorn for the ultimate.

This is for 4-man PUGs.

My sorcerers, warden and nightblade also run Blockade when they heal.

My healer has about 42K magicka and 2.7K spell damage (self buffed by SPC) with 40-50% spell critical (depending on what other 5p set I equip) so it's almost like a DD when it comes to "spell power" while still having about 1.8K recovery, which may seem low compared to people boasting about 3K+. For some reason I never run out of magicka even when spamming everything because I weave a heavy resto or lightning attack in every rotation and top up on magicka right before phases where I need to block cast and try to stay on my channel focus by picking the right spot. In fact Channeled Focus is one of the few Templar skills still left in my kit, along with Blazing Spear which I sometimes throw at the tank - the other morph seemed attractive at some point but they've taken out the CC and later the own resource recovery out of it so it's not really worth taking anymore. Having Elemental Drain applied on the target and doing magic/elemental damage to them restores magicka as well, which is another benefit of running Blockade of Lightning, weaving light and heavy attacks even as healer.

My HoTs like Ritual of Retribution and Energy Orb tick high, and I rarely have to burst. Since Morowind changes I've stopped using Breath of Life as burst heal for all content on my Templar, and changed the morph to Honor the Dead which I only use in PvP. I only burst heal with Healing Springs spam and Combat Prayer - if I see someone in the group dipping under 50% I just refresh Combat Prayer before it expires and they are back at 100% instantly since it hits for 7K+ and 11K+ crits. On top of that BoL can only hit 2 other people, it's more expensive, and has no added benefit. With Combat Prayer I can hit everybody if they are stacked. So what's left of the Templar healer is in fact a recovery skills and some passives. At this point every class can heal since most skills used in hard content are from:
Restoration Staff: Healing Springs, Combat Prayer, Mutagen/Rapid Regeneration (mostly for 4 man content)
Destruction Staff: Elemental Blockade, Elemental Drain, Crushing Shock (comes in handy in fights where you need interrupts like vHRC upstairs boss)
Undaunted: Energy Orb, Blood Altar (although it's mostly the tank who runs it since it stacks with the melee DDs)
AvA Support: Aggressive Warhorn, Reviving Barrier (mostly slot it for the passive on front bar but cast it when there's a bad moment), Cleanse/Efficient Purge (really necessary in some fights, since the Ritual synergy is sometimes hard to hit, also comes in handy when you need to dump your magicka in vSO boss fight)