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A basic healer build, commonly found and used in PvE. Using only five Energy cost healing spells, this build is able to heal
efficiently without having to manage Energy all the time, unlike Blessed Light
or Boon-Prot style builds. It is suitable and commonly found in 6
to 8 member pick-up groups. This build is extremely flexible, and
does not require any specific equipment or secondary class.
Attributes and Skills
Equipment
- Any armor is usable with this build, but you may wish to switch
to Ascetic's armor for maximum Energy if you're expecting to spam
your heals a lot.
- Any focus and offhand combination, or staff, can work with this
build. A 20/20 Focus and Offhand can prove to be valuable, but not
required.
Usage
- Orison of Healing, Word of
Healing, and Dwayna's Kiss are your main heals. Spam them if
necessary, but be aware that long periods of heavy healing without
pauses can drain you, although not immediately. Note each spell's
special effects.
- Orison of Healing is the most basic heal.
Use this one if the target is not affected by Hexes/Enchantments,
or if target is above 50% health.
- Dwayna's
Kiss is very efficient at healing targets with Hexes or
Enchantments on them. It is generally used on the main tank upon
aggroing the next group of enemies, providing Healing Seed has
expired or was removed.
- Word of
Healing is your main spike heal. A single cast of this can
easily bring a party member from below 50% health to near-full
health. Its 4 second recharge is comparitively longer than the
recharge of Orison of Healing, so don't waste casting
this on a party member above 50% health.
- Healing
Touch is an extremely useful self heal. Use it whenever you
think your health is low. If someone in your party has lost quite a
bit of health but is not in any particular danger, you may wish to
heal them with this skill as well.
- Use Remove
Hex to remove any Hexes that affect your party. But remember:
your main job is to keep your party alive. It is often better to
let the hex die off itself rather than taking the time and energy
to remove it. This should be used against serious hexes, rather
than easily spammable ones like Life Siphon
- Healing
Seed and Rebirth
are your only skills which cost more than 5 Energy to use, so use
them wisely.
- You should not be resurrecting in-battle with Rebirth. If you want to do so,
you may want to switch to Resurrect or Resurrection Chant, or even Restore Life.
- Healing
Seed should be placed on the main tank upon right before they
aggro the next group of monsters. It can also be used in-battle to
protect a party member under heavy attack/pressure.
Counters
- Energy Denial can pose a problem, but is not of immediate
threat to this build.
- Skills that increase recharge time such as Diversion and Distracting
Shot can be devastating if more than one primary healing skill
is struck by it.
- If facing large groups of enemies or high-damage dealing
enemies, the removal of Healing Seed can mean certain death for a
tank, if not covered. This is not a large problem in most areas,
though.
Variants
- Some skills to consider to place into the optional skill slot:
- Remove Hex
can be replaced by Holy
Veil, if you think you will need a cover Enchantment for Healing
Seed.
- Use Smite Hex
in place of Remove
Hex if you dislike the two-second cast time for Remove Hex, and
don't want the awkward double-click removal of Holy Veil.
- Ethereal
Light can be used in place of Orison of Healing if you don't think
you will be attacked.
- Replace Rebirth
with an alternate resurrection skill of your choice. You may even
want to eliminate Resurrection as a whole.
- Heal Party is
an excellent healing skill, and can be incorporated to this build.
However, spamming this can be dangerous to your energy pool. One or
two casts can heal your party effectively without putting too much
pressure on energy usage.
- Holy Haste
can be used to reduce the cast time of healing prayers if you don't
plan on using any enchantments like Healing Breeze.
- Vigorous Spirit is a good heal over time for
other party members, especially tanks. It also synergies well with
Dwayna's
Kiss.
- Replace Healing Touch with Signet of
Devotion so that you can continue to heal even if you are
getting low on energy.
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