Guild Wars 2

As the title, anyone tryed the healer role? Any good build?

I think the Elementalist is in an interesting position when it comes to raid healing (Tempest is probably better equipped for the role adding Water Overload and heal on shouts + WtPA). It’s not really equipped to be the sole healer of a raid (that may not be true eventually when/if it goes on farm), but they are able to be a really good hybrid. For example, I use all Berserker gear except my trinkets, which are Cleric’s (and may well end up Zealot’s, especially if the boss is looking for toughness to follow around!), and with that stat set I am able to dish out some solid damage and also heal.

That said, I think maybe some solid Raid teams will be about 2 subgroups with a hybrid build character in each, like Tempest or (not hybrid, but) Druid depending on how crazy they get. It may just be that one Druid or even a Tempest is enough for the raid, but the Tempest isn’t quite as good at targeted heals. Plus, the Auras may actually have some solid use in the new content (Frost is good anyway).

Anyway, here’s what I tried and would like to improve on when Raids are released:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJBIhdSfJ05AWgJYhJwhJWKBM3zaaduSkAqABgiUwGYEA-TBSBABxqEMr9HCT5Hlq/0gJI80DoxJAAgHAgoA8L-e

WoodenPotatoes tried it for 12 hours, ended up never finished the boss. All the groups that finished the boss, none of them have a Tempest. Other classes are better at healing than we are. If you really want to do Raid, best to just bring your classic staff for dps, or D/D for healing (surprisingly heals/protection better than Tempest)

Except druid i think staff ele is a ver good healer i m doing a try and with water attunement just the autoattack heal for 1k, 500/s withbshotng mist plus skill 3 and 5, with the tempest healing skill you will also have another aoe healng you can also blast your water field, when u attune to water or dodge you heal around 3k… Imho is a very good healer over time with some decent burst healing

I just hope anet will fix healing power for make it scale better

From what we could see healing wasn’t something that was primary needed in the sample of raid. The best healing that any profession could do was to enter the lightning area before the lightning kill everyone.

The elementalist as well as the tempest are, in this regard, in a good place since you can ponctually support (heal) your party whatever build you take. The real thing you gotta care is that you should not waste your time with healing gear so that your party don’t lose the necessary DPS to finish the encounter.