Newbie wants to be a healer
I would imagine something like this but maybe earth instead of Tempest since you don’t have HoTs.
https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Tempest_-_Staff_Raid_Healer
But someone else could probably help you far more than I am, i just accidentally wandered into the ele forum and saw this post.
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Its pretty hard to be a healer without HoT since the only good healing build is with tempest.
Metabattle.com is a good source for new players
Bad Elementalist
Spam Water Blast basically.
Its pretty hard to be a healer without HoT since the only good healing build is with tempest.
Metabattle.com is a good source for new players
This is actually not true… It is 100% possible to make not only a viable, but an efficient Elementalist healer without Tempest. You’ll want to spec Water, Air, and choice of either Earth or Arcane. Earth for Protection, or Arcane for some extra healing in water attunement.
Scepter/Dagger is a decent combination for a Core Ele Healer… Staff is also very effective… Personally I find Scepter/Dagger more effective, though trickier to use properly.
You can slot Glyph of Greater Elementals as your elite to get some additional healing via the Ice Elemental… but it’s only going to be a minor aid… Earth Elemental with it’s AoE protection ability may prove more beneficial in the long run…
Please stop assuming I’m a guy… I am female.
Its pretty hard to be a healer without HoT since the only good healing build is with tempest.
Metabattle.com is a good source for new players
This is actually not true… It is 100% possible to make not only a viable, but an efficient Elementalist healer without Tempest. You’ll want to spec Water, Air, and choice of either Earth or Arcane. Earth for Protection, or Arcane for some extra healing in water attunement.
Scepter/Dagger is a decent combination for a Core Ele Healer… Staff is also very effective… Personally I find Scepter/Dagger more effective, though trickier to use properly.
You can slot Glyph of Greater Elementals as your elite to get some additional healing via the Ice Elemental… but it’s only going to be a minor aid… Earth Elemental with it’s AoE protection ability may prove more beneficial in the long run…
Alright have fun with your 200 radius heals that are dependent on water attunement while I spam my 400 radius ones just by using a shout and a heal.
Bad Elementalist
Its pretty hard to be a healer without HoT since the only good healing build is with tempest.
Metabattle.com is a good source for new players
This is actually not true… It is 100% possible to make not only a viable, but an efficient Elementalist healer without Tempest. You’ll want to spec Water, Air, and choice of either Earth or Arcane. Earth for Protection, or Arcane for some extra healing in water attunement.
Scepter/Dagger is a decent combination for a Core Ele Healer… Staff is also very effective… Personally I find Scepter/Dagger more effective, though trickier to use properly.
You can slot Glyph of Greater Elementals as your elite to get some additional healing via the Ice Elemental… but it’s only going to be a minor aid… Earth Elemental with it’s AoE protection ability may prove more beneficial in the long run…
Alright have fun with your 200 radius heals that are dependent on water attunement while I spam my 400 radius ones just by using a shout and a heal.
No need to be salty about it. He’s just providing advice on how to be an effective healer without tempest. Can tempest do it better? Sure. Is it absolutely essential? Only if you plan on doing raids, and if he doesn’t have tempest, guess what else he doesn’t have?
If you don’t have tempest, go staff with water and arcane, and it doesn’t really matter what your last trait line is
If you don’t have tempest, go staff with water and arcane, and it doesn’t really matter what your last trait line is
agreed, though if you can use earth as your 3rd to give protection to your allies, it means you can spread your healing around more, and have more time for things to come off cooldown.
you can’t give much protection via earth without tempest
You have to take powerful auras, and you only have two auras to share: one magnetic aura, and the auto proc frost aura if you take soothing ice. That’s not much. Especially since I can already give people protection anyway via arcane. I’d rather take Soothing Power for better healing (or cleansing water if heavy condition clear is needed), and then take fire or air to do nonzero damage