Designing a scripting spell, damage for a healer

Petoften · July 24

I'm thinking of designing my first scripting spell. Lots of ideas of some interest, but I'm thinking of my healer I've had for years, who has always killed terribly slowly - essentially, light attacks to kill, one slightly damaging spell - which got a little better with a companion. I liked her being a 'pure healer', but there's a practical issue.

I'm thinking of making one damage spell to help. It's for a Templar. I haven't looked closely yet at which components can be used for Templar and together, but thought I'd see if people have suggestions. I'm thinking max damage, not really thinking of other effects, and being good against both multiple and single targets is good.

While I'm at it, I could ask if there are any heal scripts especially worth considering.

BasP · July 24

If you're a Templar, you could just Puncturing Sweep? I reckon it's better than any spammable you could scribe.

For easy content I suppose you could go with Elemental Explosion with the Shock (or Flame) Damage, Assassin's Misery and Brittle scripts though.

Petoften · July 25

Thanks, I'll look at those. I had never looked at her damage spells as I wanted her to be a 'pure healer', but scribing got me considering it.

tsaescishoeshiner · July 25

Elemental Explosion is super fun and effective enough (you can oneshot typical adds), but it's not the highest sustained DPS. Puncturing Strikes with or without Solar Barrage is probably better for that than what Scribing offers.

Most of Templar's DPS comes from Radiant Destruction when the enemy's at low health, so pairing that with Puncturing Strikes should be fairly effective.

Ulfsild's Contingency also gives you Empower from the Mages Guild passive, which will make your resto staff (or ideally lightning staff for AoE and more damage) heavy attacks hit really hard. There are a few Scribed abilities that have Empower as an option, too.

Sidenote, for healing, I highly recommend Wield Soul scribed into a damage shield with the Major Vitality affix script. That makes it a huge damage shield with +16% healing received (including self-heals), which is just really nice to have and keeps someone healthy for a while. There are also a few skills to explore that give buffs like Minor Courage, AoE damage shields, and resources for the group.

Petoften · July 25

My healer has no unlocks at all from the Puncturing strikes tree, since I wanted that 'pure healer'.

Appreciate the suggestions to look at. I'll have to check on the 'with or without solar barrage' to see what that is.

AcadianPaladin · August 8

Consider slotting either morph of the Templar Aedric skill Spear Shards. It not only does damage but provides a synergy to allies to help manage their resources. Resource management assistance is generally considered pretty core to a healer. Spear Shards is an on the ground lingering AoE but since much of its damage is delivered on the first tick it can actually be used as frequently as the rest of your healing rotation allows. If you have no other damage skills, you can actually weave it as a spammable for better damage than simply light/heavy attacks.

Petoften · August 10

Thanks Acadian.