I would reccomend destruction staff, that way you can avoid doing crap damage and weakening your healing by putting points into stamina.

This is how I plan to play my Healer Dragonknight: All character points into Health, heavy armor, all armor with magicka bonus, destruction flame staff with restoration staff. This will mostly be for AvA, but should do great in dungeons, but I can't really comment on veteran level dungeons until I get there.

I also use the bow. Even with no points in stamina, I can swap to snare or knock a few mobs away from me before switching back.

Says momentum only increases weapon damage. I don't think it'll buff heals would've been a great idea had it work tho

Well since the momentum will only work on you. Youde have to get the final hit off the staff. Which is unlikly since damage for healers is the weakest. And 15% heal off a final hit is only 1 heal. It's free.. But I think having 2 crowd control moves from bow wih range can go a long way. Especially for pvp

Interesting. Thanks for that info. I'm most likely gonna stick to the bow but sounds like the 2h sword can work also. Thanks guys

sirjohndeluxeb16_ESO wrote: »

nice idea, sirpupping. i thought about a build like that after i read your comment. but then a guildmember of mine checked if the effect of momentum disappears after a weapon swap or not - and it sadly does the visual effect as well as the buffed stats in the character overview.

unfortunately this doesn't work.

Thanks for that info. Should b helpful. Here's a link from someone else that has his templar builds. I think some of them might have healing swaps. http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/65704/templar-guide-from-the-priest-to-the-paladin/p1

Yeah that's not a bad move at all . Prolly one of the most useful guild skills for healers. Definetly one to think about. My build will focus on healing and only healing. Only Time i feel safe doing damage is on one to two targets at a time. 8 healing skills + 2 crowd control moves is what going for. No damage skills involved in my build and that's mostly becuz heAlers do *** damage and I like leftover stam for rolls and run. Rolls is op

I have been rolling as Resto staff, light armor for quite some time. Only offensive ability is Biting Jabs. It works out pretty good in PVP, but if I get caught I obviously get kinda hosed. Having a nightblade buddy to "slip Away" or a DK friend to take one for the team helps.

In a group PVE setting, it's pretty fun and not too stressful at all to keep the group up. A big Magika return from Grand Healing, Hots, and some emergency heals like Honor the Dead are pretty much in constant rotation. When I am grouped and dont need to be DPSing I just throw in cleansing ritual instead of Biting Jabs.

I am hoping a veteran player will speak up if making the side of the bars (stamina) Werewolf and stamina skills would be worth it. That poison debuff and Fighters Guild scare me away.

sirjohndeluxeb16_ESO wrote: »

nice idea, sirpupping. i thought about a build like that after i read your comment. but then a guildmember of mine checked if the effect of momentum disappears after a weapon swap or not - and it sadly does the visual effect as well as the buffed stats in the character overview.

unfortunately this doesn't work.

Really? I know for a fact that it used to stay on weapon swap, and that a lot of archers would use it for a nice boost to their sneak-attack damage. I want to see for myself whether or not this doesn't work anymore; an easy way to do so for anyone else interested would be to use Momentum, switch weapon bars, and then go into the character screen and watch your weapon damage score.

For anyone that had some confusion regarding the suggestion: restoration staff abilities are scaled off of magicka and weapon damage, so increasing your weapon damage will improve your heals. This is why so many sorcerer healers use powerful surge, and momentum would give the same benefit.

They changed the way weapon swaps work towards the end of beta.

i.e. toggle abilities have to be on both bars or you lose the effect when you switch weapons.

Anyone else know if the momentum skill will still work on switch? Please let us know if possible. It'll be really helpful.

I use Resto staff on both swaps (PvP and PvE, although in PvE I pretty much stick to one bar). The rationale is magicka restore is too good to ignore for a caster DPS, and as a Templar I can't do weapon DPS well as we lack weapon damage boosting skills.

As a templar you can make anything work. I tank with a sword+shield and resto staff, and use resto staff + bow or resto staff + 2H quite frequenty. 1magic/1/health/2stamina stat distribution with capped magicka regen enchants/accessories.

As a Templar, I currently go sword and board for the passives but I'll be switching to destro staff eventually, most likely. A good healer should be capping magicka & magicka regen first. So, as long as you're using magicka based attacks, it doesn't matter what weap you go for.

I use the Templar's class skills for this reason.

Any stam based attacks are gonna be weak compared to a real DPS'er

It looks like they've patched the momentum-persists-on-swap, so it no longer buffs a different weapon type. Oh well, sorry for giving you guys bad/outdated information. >.<