Revi_Nightfire wrote: »
Roles of healer are to keep team alive of course, also buffs the team, debuff the boss, give ressources (magicka and stamina), and to do also a little dps if you can.
Concerning the sets to wear when you will be CP160 (if you are not already), in PvE the healer must bring buffs to the team with his sets. So you can choose among Spell power cure or Olorime, Worm cult, Jorvulds guidance, Mending, Sanctuary, and others... They are set you can find in dungeons and trials.
I play two other MMOS (I'm sure those can be guessed..) and in both of them I heal, I've been healing in one of them since 04. I want to try healing here but I'm sort of afraid to. I'm not sure which class would be best, and the only races I personally like are High Elves, Dark Elves and Wood Elves (Elves..I need more Elves..)I'm also still learning how things work in this game. I've had it since launch, but due to the other two games I never got time to play it much =/
Any tips for a hopefully new healer?
Hi! I will try to answer you the best as I am a healer myself, but I’m not a perfect one lol so if I’m wrong somewhere please someone correct me. And I’m only talking avout PvE.
The best class to play heal is templar, they have a dedicated skill line for healing with a strong emergency skill. Warden are nice also. You can heal with other classes, but it will be more difficult at high level (I never try it, but some good players do).
Concerning the races, you need one with magicka passives. So if you are an elf lover, I advice you high elf.
Roles of healer are to keep team alive of course, also buffs the team, debuff the boss, give ressources (magicka and stamina), and to do also a little dps if you can.
Concerning the sets to wear when you will be CP160 (if you are not already), in PvE the healer must bring buffs to the team with his sets. So you can choose among Spell power cure or Olorime, Worm cult, Jorvulds guidance, Mending, Sanctuary, and others... They are set you can find in dungeons and trials.
And I highly recommend you to go PvP a little, because in PvP skill line you can have an Ultimate skill very very useful, aggressiv corn.
I hope it helps you
Anotherone773 wrote: »I play two other MMOS (I'm sure those can be guessed..) and in both of them I heal, I've been healing in one of them since 04. I want to try healing here but I'm sort of afraid to. I'm not sure which class would be best, and the only races I personally like are High Elves, Dark Elves and Wood Elves (Elves..I need more Elves..)I'm also still learning how things work in this game. I've had it since launch, but due to the other two games I never got time to play it much =/
Any tips for a hopefully new healer?
Yes...dont take advice off the forums. Seriously though...
Healing in this game is both easier and harder than other games. It is easier because heals are pretty much either auto target or AOE. You can heal all normal dungeons with resto staff abilities and blue dungeon drop gear. Vet dungeons require bit more effort.
Healing is also harder in this game because of player ignorance to the role and this is pretty much people who only ever have played DPS. So what makes it more difficult is:
1) Players dont stand together. I want all players to stand by the tank, i dont care if you can hit the target from 5 miles away. you are not catching most of my "top off" heals if you are standing in the back 40. You also are missing out on an 8% damage buff which honestly....most of you need.
2)Players run out of range in some weird kiting dance, kiting an add that barely hurts them and that regen is more than capable of healing.
3) players stand in stupid. So i actually dont care if you stand in one off stupid like a boss that has an AOE centered on them does one time damage that take only a couple thousand HP. Or if your standing in an arrow spray. Its when you stand in that AOE DoT that annoys me.
4)Players who run ahead of me and start fighting,including the tank but i expect the tank to hold their own for a bit. If you run way ahead of me and start killing stuff...im not rushing to save you, imma let you die of stupidity.
5) Min/maxers. I really hate these players for two reasons( they follow builds like alcasts). One is they are squishy as hell. It takes a lot of effort to keep these players alive with their 13k hp. Two they always either seem to find themselves bathing in stupid or manage to pull every mob in the room to them. You will burn some resources trying to keep these people alive.
6) Fake tanks. A dps queuing as a tank makes healing the hardest job in the group. You are going to have your work cut out for you but you will no doubt get to practice tanking as well. because the tank isnt doing anything but dps, everyone takes significantly more damage. Also the tank isnt blocking any boss abilities so you get the full effect of the boss which can also be taxing. Normally i focus on healing the tank and then me and then dps a distant third( if they are with the tank they should be catching as many heals as the tank). With fake tanks, i heal the dps as a priority and the tank is distant third and sometimes i let them die on purpose...repeatedly for not properly tanking.
7)DPSler - I never understood this, but some dps expect you to dps while also healing. I dont expect them to heal, why should i do my job and their job too. I usually slot a dps ability or two in normal dungeons. And at times, sadly, i will do a third of the dps and all of the healing. In vet dungeons, no room for dps abilities on my bars.
If you are able to deal with those issues healing is pretty easy. I often heal fights including bosses and loot the room at the same time. Find a lot of treasures that way.
Templar is probably what you are going to want if you want to do end game raid healing. Maybe a warden and possibly a nightblade. But templar is heavily favored for healing end game content. Race wise i usually go with high elf for mag based or sometimes ill go breton just because im sick of playing high elves.
Gear wise, you can heal normal dungeons just with blue drop sets. I normally go with sanctuary and then what ever other magicka gear i pick up while leveling and have no problems even when it backbarred on a sorc healing any of the pre summerset dungeons including fang lair and scalecaller.
Anotherone773 wrote: »6) Fake tanks. A dps queuing as a tank makes healing the hardest job in the group.