exeeter702 wrote: »Even with the recent malevolent offering nerf, magblade healers are still not as gimped as dragon knight healers.
I'm speaking purely from a pvp perspective.
I've been playing a Nightblade healer over my Magplar, and have been very satisfied with it in pvp. In one sense, it uses skills widely available to all classes. But refreshing path is very nifty for speed. Having fear is very helpful. Being able to aoe dmg and heal is nice. But the best is the healing ulti. It's up quick and extremely powerful.
ESO_Nightingale wrote: »if we're talking about a pure healer then i'd say dragonknight. if we're talking about a class in pvp that needs to be able to heal itself but currently can't without crippling it's other stats i'd say specifically magicka warden.
From an endgame PvE perspective it's a close one between DK and NB for me. DK has the worst healing power and mechanics, but actually pretty good support. It's primarily held back by the fact that trial groups only need one support DK and tank is simply the better choice and for dungeons groups Warden, Necro and Templar just provide more overall power with more streamlined healing and support and more damage potential. NB also has some suboptimal healing mechanics, but the main issue is that NB is the only class that really can not provide relevant class exclusive support. By building a group composition around a NB healer you are basically giving up a support class for no benefit, as there is nothing NB can do that other healing classes can't do better, while also providing class exclusive support on top of it. This makes NB the worst PvE healing class in my opinion.
It's a big issue with nb in general. The class bring nothing to the table save minor hemorrhage and that only helps stam.
Nightblades might not buff others but they are the most buffable class loaded with unique individual buffs. You can’t have it all.
And yet lag behind in dps in a pve setting.
I'm not going to get into a pvp debate because I think they are wonderful there.
But the class needs some ability to diversify and help the group. They shouldn't just be the defacto selfish class. Especially if they are not even going to be the top performers in that category.
They don't have it "all" by the way. One dead ult a at least three completely useless skils and several morphs that almost never get used.
By most buffable class your basically saying class most reliant on group support.
They are definitely a good class, but that doesn't mean they don't need some love and some tweaking. Some of their abilities just need to be completely relooked.
Group support should be the biggest target of that.
I think Sorcs need a little help.
DKs can levey more healing power for cheaper as well as have a built in healing ability that gives a higher critical chance. Only issue they face is the fact they have no healer specific buffs meaning if there's another DK in the group they're going to suffer some overlap in buffs/effects.