Q:
Mesmer Support Healer Build?
Assuming WvW…
Spam Mantra of Pain with Restorative Mantras and healing gear. Grab Bountiful Disillusionment to cover your cast times. Run double SoI if you are mechanically able to do so, otherwise go with Temporal Enchanter and glamours.
Do you have HoT? If so, Chronomancer can go very support-heavy in PvE. With some boon duration gear you can supply your party with Quickness. Though not strictly meta, you could even build for Healing Power in addition to the boon duration. Mesmer doesn’t have a ton of skills which heal, but the nice thing is that the ones that do can be used as an integral part of the Quickness rotation. Healing Prism, WoE, Sigil of Water, and Illusionary Inspiration all help you sustain the party. It’s fun to take on a dedicated support role.
I wouldn’t recommend healing, just focus on concentration like commander if you want full support. Some PvE raid people may spend huge money for minstrel but ultimately mesmer can get very little out of its healing power.
In WvW you have very little burst heal ability and mantra heal/healing well have clumsy 2+ seconds delay. That time alone is enough for your teammate to die before you do anything. If your WvW guild decides to pile too much responsibility on you, your zerg is going to suffer a lot.
As for PvE raid, there’s just no way you trump druid’s healing potential. And druid is pretty much a must with all the buff they provide. Not to mention spamming MoP in raid is a terrible waste of potential in any scenario…
If we’re talking PvE open world, healing support can work given how forgive-able the game gets. But again I wouldn’t spend huge money on minstrel for that, each freshwater pearl is like 9g due to how rare it gets.
I wouldn’t recommend healing, just focus on concentration like commander if you want full support. Some PvE raid people may spend huge money for minstrel but ultimately mesmer can get very little out of its healing power.
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As for PvE raid, there’s just no way you trump druid’s healing potential. And druid is pretty much a must with all the buff they provide. Not to mention spamming MoP in raid is a terrible waste of potential in any scenario…
Commander gear? o.รด
As of the current patch – do NOT spend any money on commander’s gear. It’s plain and simple inferior to a full berserk Chrono. You can’t have more than perma Quickness and Alacrity and full berserk already maxes that out.
About the heal Chrono
The healing output very well matches the one of a Druid, in some cases it’s even better since the Chrono is able to heal in a wide area (wich the Druid is not) and more successfully keeps up the Scholar bonus due to high regeneration tics. You can go either full Minstrel or a Minstrel + Exotic Cleric trinkets with Platinum Doubloons mix.
Full heal Druids and full heal Chronos deal both around 2-4k dps. A full berserk Chrono is limited at around 12k DpS, equally to a full berserk Druid. A condi Druid will be at around 16k. So either way you are just shifting around damage between professions. Since tanking as Chrono already lowers your dps, you can easily tank and heal at the same time. Channeling Mantras also grants you 600 toughness, wich supports this idea even further.
As a heal Chrono you don’t have to worry about your phantasm dps, thus, keep up 3 iAvengers. That way you can also go for Mantra of Pain (tool tip healing value is wrong, it calculates with a 0.2 healing power ratio, altough it got buffed to 0.8 shortly after HoT release) while still keeping up 100% Quickness and 100% Alacrity for your subgroup. If you don’t think you need Mantra of Pain as a heal, your party probably doesn’t need a healer at all -> both, Druid and Chrono, can focus on damage. This is quite common in exp groups.
Builds
Here are the two heal builds I use. One is a bit more offensive than the other at the cost of a little healing power, but unfortunately you can’t really use it in fractals unless you buy expensive high agony resistance infusions:
Slightly more heal / agony resistance: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAs+dncfClohFoBmfCMrhllj68ACgIDdDOhLr+Qj0JF-TBiXABxq+TK6FCW5nuPAAA2fALlgGOBJ0TCApA8bqF-e
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Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
(edited by Xyonon.3987)