kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »

Use the Armory system and make a healer run to the front lines and heal away no need to fight.

Well, I suppose you could do that but I suspect many wont.

Problem is a good number of PVEers know from their experience when facing the dangerous NPC mobs, its good strategy to take out the healer(s) first

I started out PVPing as a zerg-surfing healer. It can be a lot of fun. You don't even have to be a "healer" class - I did it on my MagDK with Mutagen and Healing Springs spam.

My biggest tip for zerg- surfing healers: Pay attention to your surroundings, and especially your alliance mates. You want to stick close to the biggest/best group in the fight, but stay a little behind them. Let them charge into the breach or choke point first, while you heal from a safer place. If an enemy player targets you, again, know where your allies are. If you get lucky, you can run back to them and peel the enemy off like dragging an NPC mob to the tank in a dungeon.

If you are in an LFG group, stick close to your crown and they'll handle most of the battlefield positioning and defending you so you can concentrate on healing your group.


If your experience is anything like mine, it'll take time and a lot of deaths to learn that battlefield awareness. I tried to learn from every death, even if it was just "Okay, I pushed too fast" or "Ooops, the better PVPers knew that was a losing fight and retreated before I did."

Even though I died a lot, I made a lot of AP, and eventually found a great PVP guild that valued that sort of battlefield awareness and having good healers in their group.

So if you want to give healing in PVP a try, I think it's a lot of fun. Zerg-surfing is a great way to get your feet wet!

WabanakiWarrior wrote: »

If you want to try this tactic, I'd suggest building a tanky character that predominantly heals yourself. In the process of standing in the front, spamming heals to keep yourself alive, you'll be amazed how helpful you are being to those around you.
As a veteran pvper, all it takes is a single surprisingly tanky/healy boy to ruin a carefully planned burst combo.

Yeah, I think I had around 40k health with impenetrable Plague Doctor when I started as a zerg-surfing healer. Still died lots, but the extra tankiness kept me alive long enough to start figuring out why I was dying.

If you are just looking to get to Tier 1 so you can get the end of campaign reward crystals, the easiest and safest way I know is to repair keeps. With the double AP bonus it takes about 15 minutes. No need to change your build or even set foot outside the keeps.