I heal them with rapid regens it works.

ADarklore wrote: »

If people are complaining about survivability early on, I would suggest slotting mostly self-healing/self-defense skills until you get higher level and much better gear. I think one problem I've seen is that many players are solely slotting damage abilities, or a single self-heal, and then wondering why they die. Well, if you don't actively heal them yourself, then you can't expect them to survive without their own healing abilities slotted.

My main complaint is when they die with nothing BUT healing/survival skills slotted.

Granted, I'm referencing PTS testing I did two days ago (though I'm skeptical that anything's changed since then vs what's on Live right now) but here's my experience:

Mirri, nothing but skills that heal us on her bar, full purple Quickened gear to make cooldowns pretty much a non-issue: Still dies to simple mechanics or if even mildly beefy enemies focus on her for anything more than like 5 seconds.

Bastian, again stacking heals/survival skills on the bar, full set of heavy Reinforced (or whatever the Comp equivalent is called) armor: Dies in pretty much no time if I'm not going out of my way to keep him alive by healing or pulling aggro off him.

So if I need to heal my healer, and I need to draw aggro away from my tank, then what good are they? They're great when they're actually alive to help out with whatever's going on, but they're not alive when things get tough and they're needed most!



Now, I fully acknowledge that I might just be doing something egregiously wrong in setting them up somehow; I can't claim to be any kind of expert here. But if they require specialized knowledge that isn't available in the game itself to get them up to snuff for anything harder than a Delve or the weaker World Bosses, than I gotta say that's a pretty big letdown for me. I didn't expect us to duo vetHM Trials (or even veteran base game Dungeons, honestly), but last I checked I can't even rely on them to live through things as simple as "THAT'S FIRE, YOU IDIOT!!! DON'T STAND THERE!!" or "You're about to be Stunned! Please actually Block this time! Please... aaaand he didn't Block... 🤦 Aaaand now he's dead. Again."
It's just comical and sad how poorly they perform in many such situations.

If other people simply aren't having these problems, either I seriously goofed in some way that I'm entirely unaware of (which, again, I'm willing to accept as a distinct possibility)... or they're just doing content that's so easy as to not really be all that relevant, imo. I don't mean to sound elitist or whatever here, but who cares how strong Companions are in a Public Dungeon where other players are also helping take down enemies? That's a terrible bar to judge by, I'd think... right?

Also, I didn't really spend time testing either of them as damage dealers where I was the tank/healer for them, because that just doesn't really interest me all that much (and I know people who are more into that will figure out better damage builds for them than I'd come up with anyway). Maybe that's the secret, and they work great when you are okay with putting more focus on babysitting them. But I was really hoping that wouldn't be necessary, personally. I don't want to be their sidekick, ya know what I mean?