Since you can respec later on, focus on a hybrid build while leveling. Just enough healing to be useful to others, but enough soloing abilities while leveling to finish quests.

Throw on some heavy armor, if you are a Sorc grab more skills out of the other trees. This will be easier once you hit L15 and can have two setups. One for questing, one for group healing. Focus on the former until you are L15.

ok first off...if you are going the healer path you want to make sure you are using a restoration staff.

Also you will want at least one of the damage attacks, like that very first sun power.

The reason is so you can slot it into your skill bar.

Skill bar slotted skills all gain exp as you fight and gain exp.

If you need help to level as a Templar with Restoration Staff, then you're doing something wrong.

I started a new high-elf with just that combo yesterday and when I logged of in the evening I was level 10. I had no issues with any mobs I met, even taking on bears 1-2 levels higher.

Skill set at level 10:
Slot 1: Sun fire: Slows down the mobs, fork into Reflective light
Slot 2: Puncturing strikes. Your close fighting skill, fork into Puncturing Sweep
Slot 3: Healing Springs: Area heals.
Slot 4: Rushed Ceremony: Single target heals

Light armor passives for more Magicka and Restoration Staff passives for more heal and damage. Select the skills above in the order they're slotted and you should do fine.

I've been soloing very easily while focusing only on the resto staff skills and the crystal shard ability from the Sorcerer dark magic line, so people dont need a hybrid build to progress if they dont want to, full on healer is more than viable.

Also the passives in Restoration Staff is a must Forgot to mention that above

Left_Hand wrote: »

Playing as a traditional healer i think the light armor / resto staff combo is a must, due to all the mana management passives you get, and mana being at a premium, especially for templars, you cant go without that combo.

Why especially templars? Our healing skill tree is comparable to the mana requirements for the staff.

As a Light -and- Heavy armor wearing Orc Templar healer hybrid ( Can you say War Shaman? ) I found healing to be fairly easy and damage to be as good, if not greater, than my friend's 2-hander weilding, heavy-armor wearing Orc Templar. I've been switching out Resto and Destro staves and kind of straddling the line between pure healer and pure DPS for the level 15 weapon switch.

I am in the process of testing out healer aswell, and my choise fell on playing a sorcerer. I spent some points in Dark Magic (your first spell there upgraded is very useful and there are some nifty support/CC spells in Dark Magic aswell) and dumping the rest in Resto staff, racials and light armor. It has been painfree until now (she is 15 atm) and also more than capable to heal dungeons. If you want to look more in to races suitable, there are some races that can be more benefitial than others. Argonians with a racial in restoration staff is one. Or Bretons (as I play atm) is not bad either. Using light armor and spending points in these perks is very benefitial to your mana and manaregen aswell

Subana wrote: »

Left_Hand wrote: »

Playing as a traditional healer i think the light armor / resto staff combo is a must, due to all the mana management passives you get, and mana being at a premium, especially for templars, you cant go without that combo.

Why especially templars? Our healing skill tree is comparable to the mana requirements for the staff.

Sorcerers can always resort to Dark Exchange as a mana battery, trading stamina for mana is an acceptable tradeoff and helps somewhat with the limited mana issues.

Templars on the other hand, the next best tool they have is probably Equilibrium, from the Mage Guild skills, which exchange health for mana, this might work well as your cast heals also heal you.

I only use the HoT from the resto staff line and i never run into mana problems in dungeons using my big Templar heals. i think people are seeing their stats getting overcharged and abandoning mana armor and skills. I keep stacking mana and mana regen way overcharged and i almost never run out of mana.