Mesmer, the only reactive healer

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Posted by: Zarathustra.1458

Zarathustra.1458

Just curious how many people have noticed how effective the heal on cast mantra trait is. Been playing with my bunker build and found slotting even 2 mantras would allow me in a ten to fifteen second period restore close to 10,000 morale to every member of my party. granted this isnt comparable to healing in other games, but when combined with the pure amount of shutdown options availaible to a mesmer, it does seemingly become viable to run a manta based shutdown/interupt build with a secondary focus on restoring health to your group and keeping yourself alive and the enemy messed with. Just thought i would see if anyone else has noticed the sheer power availiable from a simple 20 point trait. (for the record using the empowered mantras trait i can restore close to 12k of my own health without crits, getting 4 mantra of healing casts in effect, with only the first having an induction)

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Posted by: alemfi.5107

alemfi.5107

you know, this seems pretty interesting actually. Granted… I’ll need to completely respec if I wanted to pursue this… what to do?!

Edit: Question, does mender’s purity stack with restorative mantra trait? ie. does restorative matra’s proc mender’s purity? I can imagine this would be very usekittenl condition removal than.

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Posted by: Zarathustra.1458

Zarathustra.1458

actually i dont know, if it does in theory you could have a total of 7 condition removals on your bar :P

wait i miscalculated make that ten :P with mantra of concentration giving a total of 4, could make for a serious kitten now you die necro build :P

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Posted by: Chaos Archangel.5071

Chaos Archangel.5071

I love my Mantra Healer build, nice damage and unparalleled survivability. Works BEAUTIFULLY with Staff as you can pop 2 and 4 in the middle of charging.

Unfortunately Menders Purity only KINDA works. When you use Mantra of Healing, each time you spend a charge you can remove a condition (& with Dwayna Runes, you’ll also give AOE regeneration, which’ll give you protection). But the preparing any Mantra doesn’t proc Menders Purity.

Still, since Mantra of Recovery can cure conditions and recharges every 10 seconds, its good to have Mantra of Concentration (stability to charge the other mantras OR revive without being interrupted)

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Posted by: Dastion.3106

Dastion.3106

Using Restorative Mantras the Mesmer easily the profession most capable of filling a traditional Healer role. However, I found that the build was incredibly boring, moreso than even a traditional MMO healer because you spend all your time juggling between MoR and MoP in order to do so.