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Will there be a lack of healers?
-Zeno-
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Knowing how the old Elder Scrolls games are all solo I have a feeling there will be a serious lack of healers. Especially since 50% of the playerbase may be new to the MMO scene. This spells disaster for any PUG groups and will make even the worst organized guilds shine. Please prove me wrong.
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you can be a healer and a dps/solo build.
that what i will be doing in fact.
how good of a healer can those people be? a melee with heavy or medium armor and the passives with no points in magicka will not be as good of a healer as a spell caster with points in magicka and at least some light armor passives.
at least not IMO. maybe they can still heal good enough for most the content? that i don't know.
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All class skills use magicka, so you can put a lot of points in magicka and use both DPS class skills and healing skills with the staff or Templar skill line.
I plan on using 5 heavy and 2 light with my Templar. I should be able to get plenty of magicka with the passives from the staff if I use it as well as some from the light passives. I just have to decide if I want to go full healer or a mix. Will have to see how it goes.
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From what I've seen, there's plenty of healers because the combat model doesn't penalize players too harshly for taking on roles/responsibilities.
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All class skills use magicka, so you can put a lot of points in magicka and use both DPS class skills and healing skills with the staff or Templar skill line.
I plan on using 5 heavy and 2 light with my Templar. I should be able to get plenty of magicka with the passives from the staff if I use it as well as some from the light passives. I just have to decide if I want to go full healer or a mix. Will have to see how it goes.
yeah if you put points into magicka but stamina is still your priority stat as a melee, at least IMO.
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I think there will be a lack of Support Healers.... meaning Tank/healers, and Dps/healers. Main healers will be hard to find, but having that second support healer will be harder to find due to the new system of grouping. Most people will not understand the importance of a support healer for group success when they first make their characters.
I plan on being a dps / healer just for this reason. Every healer in game will want me on their friend list.
I found healing to be pretty bland in this game with only 5 active hotkeys. I normally only play full support healer, but will probably end up hybridizing with DPS in order to prevent becoming 100% bored healing, especially in pvp.
In the past, I have counted, on average, at least 25 active ability hotkeys for my healers in other mmos.
On the plus side, you do not become totally entranced staring at health bars for hours on end. You have more time to actually look at your screen and react to what is going on around you, graphically.
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This game was, imo designed so you can heal yourself. People will be more than happy to put a point or two or three into a heal for PvE or PvP.
Dedicated tank with points in the necessary spots will be hard to find. Why would I bring a sword and board to PvP?
People feel tank is the most responsible function in MMo´s...... most people dont like feeling responsible for others...
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Hopefully you aren't in charge of leading PvP raids for your guild..
Having a few good tanks to soak up damage and push the front line can be the difference between winning and losing. The same can be be said for holding a choke point in a keep. They will be even more valuable if collision makes it into PvP.
Just because people can, doesn't mean they will. In RIFT, for instance, all a mage had to do to be a healer was switch their spec (literally didn't even need to switch gear for the most part), yet there were plenty of mages who I would see sit in dungeon queues for an hour because they weren't willing to heal, which would have got them into a group in five minutes or less most of the time.
There are no melee in ESO...
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