I voted no. My main healer is a nord templar and I've healed a crap-ton of difficult content on him, including solo trials. Race doesn't matter as much for healers and even a non-meta race like the nord has a lot to offer for the healer role. Extra defense and health makes him more survivable right out of the box, and extra ultimate generation means more warhorns. There's no build in magika sustain, but that can be compensated for with smart play.

Yes, there are races that have racial passives that add ZERO benefit to the healer role (Woodelf and orc, unless you are a stam-healer), but for most other races, the racials can add at least a little something to the healer toolkit that can be beneficial.

No "I'm not racist, but..." option?

Disappointing.

Even in high end pve support role races don't really matter as long as you can do your job. Stay alive, keep everyone else alive and provide good buff/debuff uptimes.

The only exception might be an off healer in Zen's who is contributing to dps, and even then only the very top score pushing guilds would likely care imo.

Race isn't as important for healers as it is for DPS. The DPS role is always hungry for more damage and every bit matters.
In an organized trial group there are 7-8 damage dealers and if all of them have 258 spell/weapon damage less, then that adds up. A healer's main job is to buff the group and there are no racial passives that influence your buff uptimes.

Aside from that, Khajiit is actually a pretty good healing race because in addition to a small sustain buff they also have increased critical heals which can be helpful in certain situations. The worst healing races are probably Bosmer and Orc, because even Redguards get cheaper Restoration staff abilities and Nords generate more ultimate (less than on a tank but still better than none).

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

I voted no. My main healer is a nord templar and I've healed a crap-ton of difficult content on him, including solo trials. Race doesn't matter as much for healers and even a non-meta race like the nord has a lot to offer for the healer role. Extra defense and health makes him more survivable right out of the box, and extra ultimate generation means more warhorns. There's no build in magika sustain, but that can be compensated for with smart play.

Yes, there are races that have racial passives that add ZERO benefit to the healer role (Woodelf and orc, unless you are a stam-healer), but for most other races, the racials can add at least a little something to the healer toolkit that can be beneficial.

Nice, I'm a Nord Templar as well. Why did I do you ask? Cause people said I wouldn't be able to lol. Character use to be a Breton and I honestly don't see any difference between the two.

Unless Khajiit can pickpocket other players, I refuse no one

There's a comic for this situation: "Respect your healers" by Isriana
https://www.deviantart.com/isriana/art/TESO-Respect-Your-Healers-696152788

Literally anyone can be a healer; it isn't difficult enough to be picky about race. What's important is what kind of buffs are you providing me.

As long as they're built properly the racial passives are more like sprinkles on the cake. You can take the sprinkles off and its still a cake.

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfftVsyk_c&ab_channel=hcmarcus

*** elves. All my homies hate elves

I'd refuse the group first if they even brought it up.

Ain't nobody got time for that level of petty elitism.

VaranisArano wrote: »

There's a comic for this situation: "Respect your healers" by Isriana
https://www.deviantart.com/isriana/art/TESO-Respect-Your-Healers-696152788

Khajiit actually make pretty decent healers when build right (Critical Healing + Maximum Magicka bonus). I would even say that they can be better than Argonians for that role. Definitely not best, but viable.

In fact all races can be viable for all roles, and with a right build you can push that even further. Racial passives only have a meaning when you try to push it to absolute limits (like hardest Trial runs, score runs, PvP competitiveness etc).

For normal (and veteran content to some degree), racial passives are not that important.

Hard no.

My Khajiit necro healer is best healer.