WrathOfInnos wrote: »

Warden healers keep allies alive. Necro healers bring them back after getting them all killed. XD

p00tx wrote: »

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

Warden healers keep allies alive. Necro healers bring them back after getting them all killed. XD

I just healed an almost perfect vSS run that put my team first on the weekly and the overall leaderboards while on a Necro healer. I'd say they do okay.

p00tx wrote: »

OP didn't specify what they were healing. It's absolutely a dedicated healer, and like any good dedicated healer, it also provides buffs and debuffs, which just happen to be pretty unique on a Necro healer (which it already sounds like you know).

• To get your healing tether to work, either combat is already engaged or a minion expired prior to. You have to align your crosshair, activate skill, then you adjust your positioning. A bit awkward and in my opinion, weak.
• Resistant Flesh has a nice tooltip, however, in practical application you should note that NPCs generally only attack once every 2 seconds. This means you only get 1-tick or 1-second worth of your 3 seconds of resistance. Exceptions being ST-DoTs and DoT-AoEs.
• The other morph consumes a corpse to heal two allies. This also leaves situations where you only need to burst heal one ally, but then inadvertently consume a corpse, you don't get to choose. First skill, first serve. Also noting that both morphs apply a self-debuff, nice for getting minor mending to proc via passives. Part of me wishes there was more flavour to it than just raw healing though.
• Life Amid Death; AoE-BH, AoE-HoT, can purge multiple negative effects or last longer. Lovely visuals too. Nice application.
• Spirit Mender, minions for this class erks me quite a bit. They have nice models yet are very dull and plane on what they do. This ability makes for a nice HoT sorta turret that smart heals every 2 second intervals. One morph gives 10% mitigation while the other heals for more at the expense of an even shorter duration.
• I find managing all the timers of skills on Necro a bit awkward and annoying. One skill lasts 20 seconds, two last 16 seconds, another lasts 12, a few 8s... It really discourages having a backbar used as a buff bar and having a consistent rotation.
• They have access to an AoE major breach and fracture through an AoE-DoT skill which also deals frost damage, so it has a chance to apply maim also... and a synergy.
• They have access to AoE major and minor vulnerability via an ultimate while the minor buff comes from an AoE zone that inflicts fear every 2 seconds and provides minor protection to those within, synergy activation is required to proc minor vulnerability. Solid skill. Can be problematic as it takes away CC from tank (it's similar to Sorc's familiar pulse).
• The resurrection spell is awesome. The blast bones summoning morph is absolutely useless (I've seen it useful in PVP but only to burst down one target at the cost of a lot of ult. There are better options.)

• Multiple abilities that last 20-30+ seconds that fit nicely onto your backbar that assist with supporting allies and self management of resources. Netch, lotus, ice cloak.
• You get a nice remote AoE-HoT of flowers that can be triggered/timed-out to proc a BH-AoE. The skill also provides a HoT synergy.
• Vines that can be used to heal an ally for every second of which they receive damage, nice for negating DoTs. Can also apply life-steal to attacker which all else benefit from, or can be made to BH when expired or reapplied.
• Mushrooms that AoE-BH in a cone telegraph and apply minor recovery buffs. A bit finicky or simply feels ineffective sometimes...
• Low cost ult that AoE-HoTs, can refund ult when timed right on injured or can be made to persist the HoT to linger longer.
• You can swing from ally to ally like spider man with reaching vines that apply a HoT or optionally burst heal. The HoT can apply to self with one morph. All versions of this skill has a form of generating ult which with the HoT can stack and rack up per every ally used on, otherwise, get more ult when timed on injured allies. Basically proactive or reactive options.
• A lotus blossom which provides spell critical and makes every light and heavy attack smart heal an ally in proximity. This works well with Mend Spirit from psijic order as you can proc is every second when weaving and channeling heals at allies.
• A little blue netch which provides resource recovery, removes a negative effect, and increases spell power, increases regeneration when slotted, heals you when expires/refreshed, costs nothing, casting in combat generates a lil more ult.
• AoE major bonuses to physical and spell resistance.
• In class access to major mending via healing passives.
• Passive in which recovers resources every second of which you heal an ally.
• Minor toughness for healing allies (10% more health), also increases the damage shield caps/scaling of Sorcs, DKs, undaunted, and light armor.
• You can create multiple marked AoE locations that pulls enemies, deals frost damage, and immobilizes them. Allies can activate a synergy on these places to teleport themselves to you while also providing them a bonus to movement.