Wow Epic Heals from DPS

Veinblood1965 · January 2019

I posted on how to improve my DPS post a while back and at the time was MagSorc with one Pet. My DPS was pitiful by the way after that post I learned rotations and ended up running dual pets which allows me to heal myself and others and DPS and my DPS is quite high also. I've played healer on most other Morphs I've played so am attuned to my groups health by habit. What's funny is that after a lot of the tougher Vet dungeons I hear all the time AWESOME HEALS by the way which are directed towards the healer when in fact i was spamming heals during tough mobs when things went bad.

No reason for the post except that for other Pet runners it's something to look in to. It's caused a LOT less wipes. I've seen little posts on this subject, probably because you loose a little DPS but not much. It's not end game stuff but it's an interesting build.

Donnasnowheart_ESO · January 2019

In all honesty you most likely see little posts because its a super known fact already, the tormentor morph barely does enough extra damage to justify taking over matriarch for anything even pvp where the tormentor would potentially have the best uptime because of bouncing hp bars. Pet sorcs along with Nightblades in vet runs were and still are typically the "Fake Healer"or "Hybrid Healer" when you see people mention running vet dungeons with 4 dps or 1 tank and 3 dps. Then you have some groups that are all stam just sharing vigor. Grats on learning about it though matriarch saves lives.

Veinblood1965 · January 2019

Donnasnowheart_ESO wrote: »

In all honesty you most likely see little posts because its a super known fact already, the tormentor morph barely does enough extra damage to justify taking over matriarch for anything even pvp where the tormentor would potentially have the best uptime because of bouncing hp bars. Pet sorcs along with Nightblades in vet runs were and still are typically the "Fake Healer"or "Hybrid Healer" when you see people mention running vet dungeons with 4 dps or 1 tank and 3 dps. Then you have some groups that are all stam just sharing vigor. Grats on learning about it though matriarch saves lives.

Thanks I don't think I'd like to queue up with healer with dual pets though I'm pretty sure I could heal some Vets but not all. I've pretty much had to do it when the healer leaves or dies and it does work but it's a poor substitute for an entire run. I should have just made a healer character this time around but ESO does have hybrids like this which is nice.

zaria · January 2019

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Donnasnowheart_ESO wrote: »

In all honesty you most likely see little posts because its a super known fact already, the tormentor morph barely does enough extra damage to justify taking over matriarch for anything even pvp where the tormentor would potentially have the best uptime because of bouncing hp bars. Pet sorcs along with Nightblades in vet runs were and still are typically the "Fake Healer"or "Hybrid Healer" when you see people mention running vet dungeons with 4 dps or 1 tank and 3 dps. Then you have some groups that are all stam just sharing vigor. Grats on learning about it though matriarch saves lives.

Thanks I don't think I'd like to queue up with healer with dual pets though I'm pretty sure I could heal some Vets but not all. I've pretty much had to do it when the healer leaves or dies and it does work but it's a poor substitute for an entire run. I should have just made a healer character this time around but ESO does have hybrids like this which is nice.

healer works well as dungeon healer because the matriarch and can still do decent damage.
Still as an real healer you want an resto staff, its an nice thing to have in inventory even if not grouping as healer.
And healers are suposed to help with damage in dungeons. How much depend on content and group.

Veinblood1965 · January 2019

zaria wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Donnasnowheart_ESO wrote: »

In all honesty you most likely see little posts because its a super known fact already, the tormentor morph barely does enough extra damage to justify taking over matriarch for anything even pvp where the tormentor would potentially have the best uptime because of bouncing hp bars. Pet sorcs along with Nightblades in vet runs were and still are typically the "Fake Healer"or "Hybrid Healer" when you see people mention running vet dungeons with 4 dps or 1 tank and 3 dps. Then you have some groups that are all stam just sharing vigor. Grats on learning about it though matriarch saves lives.

Thanks I don't think I'd like to queue up with healer with dual pets though I'm pretty sure I could heal some Vets but not all. I've pretty much had to do it when the healer leaves or dies and it does work but it's a poor substitute for an entire run. I should have just made a healer character this time around but ESO does have hybrids like this which is nice.

healer works well as dungeon healer because the matriarch and can still do decent damage.
Still as an real healer you want an resto staff, its an nice thing to have in inventory even if not grouping as healer.
And healers are suposed to help with damage in dungeons. How much depend on content and group.

I hadn't thought about having a resto staff with me, so the resto stats etc also apply to the pet heals? I just assumed they applied to spells directly cast by the healer to the receiver.

FrancisCrawford · January 2019

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Donnasnowheart_ESO wrote: »

In all honesty you most likely see little posts because its a super known fact already, the tormentor morph barely does enough extra damage to justify taking over matriarch for anything even pvp where the tormentor would potentially have the best uptime because of bouncing hp bars. Pet sorcs along with Nightblades in vet runs were and still are typically the "Fake Healer"or "Hybrid Healer" when you see people mention running vet dungeons with 4 dps or 1 tank and 3 dps. Then you have some groups that are all stam just sharing vigor. Grats on learning about it though matriarch saves lives.

Thanks I don't think I'd like to queue up with healer with dual pets though I'm pretty sure I could heal some Vets but not all. I've pretty much had to do it when the healer leaves or dies and it does work but it's a poor substitute for an entire run. I should have just made a healer character this time around but ESO does have hybrids like this which is nice.

healer works well as dungeon healer because the matriarch and can still do decent damage.
Still as an real healer you want an resto staff, its an nice thing to have in inventory even if not grouping as healer.
And healers are suposed to help with damage in dungeons. How much depend on content and group.

I hadn't thought about having a resto staff with me, so the resto stats etc also apply to the pet heals? I just assumed they applied to spells directly cast by the healer to the receiver.

Dual pet sorcerers are almost always running Matriarch and Familiar.

When I queue as a healer I always equip a resto staff, no matter which of the five classes I'm on.

The toughest healing I've done on non-templars has been on a Breton sorcerer, e.g. normal-mode DLCs, one of which I did in the recent event, after the various nerfs.

I've duoed ~20 dungeons (normal mode) with a dual pet sorcerer, although most of that was before recent nerfs.