I wouldn't do it. You have about two healing skills plus an ultimate. It's hard to give Major Courage (the two sets that give it are light armor). If you use Combat Prayer it will heal for less than on a magicka build. Ditto Orb (which you'll use since Shards is templar-specific). In sufficiently easy content you can do anything, of course, but it would be much weaker than magicka healing builds.

You can probably do vFG1 with it

thearchivist95 wrote: »

Yeah it's a little different and the RP fantasy of it is very appealing to me. I just hope I don't get laughed out of groups. I mean like I said, I'm not gonna be pushing the hardest content. But still.

Maybe something you could try is, Sanctuary Jewelry (transmute to Robust or Infused) and Weapons, with maybe Bone Pirate or Powerful Assault and use Earthgore or the Sentinel set that returns stamina. Maybe even Shacklebreaker or Innate Axiom idk just some ideas.

And use Bone Shield and maybe Blood alter to provide synergies to allies.

thearchivist95 wrote: »

So if I were to do vet dungeons and normal trials at the most, this build would be too weak?

You'd probably have the weakest build on your team, by a large margin. So it would work mainly under one of two conditions:

• You're an elite player who can be better with an awful build than many people are with good ones.
• You play with friends who don't mind carrying your dead weight.

If neither of those applies to you, you probably shouldn't do it.

I have experimented a bit with a stamden healer over the past few patches. It was sufficient for most normal trials and vet dungeons. The hardest thing I took it in to was vHRC. Most of it was fairly easy, I healed for bottom group, but execute phase on the Warrior was rough. You simply can't output as much healing in a big enough area to compete with a healing spring spam. You can still get through it but it is very rough.

The thing that hurts it the most though is the fact that you can't go pure stam. Your group needs orbs and there's no stam alternative. And if your group isn't all nightblades, you need combat prayer because minor berserk is just too good to pass up. So this means that, first of all, you usually want a resto staff bar. Second, you need to have high enough max magicka to be able to cast combat prayer and send out 2-3 orbs plus enough magicka regen regen to fill it backup before minor berserk wears off. You also have other magicka cost skills available that add a lot of utility value to your character. But you have to sacrifice a lot of max stam/stan regen/ weapon damage to use those skills.

That said, I did find the challenge of the character quite enjoyable. The best build I tried out was 5 piece Powerful Assault for the body gear, 5 piece olorime on DW bar( I used daggers for more crit) plus jewelry with 3x stam regen enchants. For my resto bar I found that an Asylum resto staff helped a lot with with getting out more orbs. There are a lot of other thing I still want to try with it, but it's not worth my transmute crystals...

My main take away, it's fun, it can be pulled off, but you'll have to work 10x as hard to hit half the HPS of a magicka healer.