So I took some time to decide what I was going to use on my healbot. Char doesn't do anything but heal. It's a 3rd alt with no useful pl and reaper points. I did not want to include any raid gear on this list, except for LGS that you can farm on alts. Hands of the Dawn Healer isn't that hard to get and people pass to you if you are a good healer, but I'm not even flagged for Strahd yet. If I ever get it, I'll update the list. Would love to know what are other people running on their healers.

From head to goggles, clockwise:

Pansophic: insight potency 65, quality potency 15, 10% spellpoint discount
LGS Necklace: pom hp set
Trinket CC: Wis 15, Insight PRR 18, Protection 12
Cloak LGS: aom HP set
Plateshard Belt: Con 19, Fortitude 16, Knight set
Gloves of Innate Arcanum: Cha 19, Quality Cha 4, Wizardry 412, Mists set
Deathwarden: Deathblock, Heal Lore 29%, Exceptional Dev 10, Empower Heal II, Mists set
Flightfoot Greaves: FoM, Speed 30, Natural Armor 19, Reflex 16, Mists set
Ring Slaver: Sheltering 45, Devotion 185, Heal 22, Quality Con 4
Fallen Hero Bracers: Strength 19, Insightful Con 9, Quality PRR 12, Mists set
Platemail of Barovian: Fort 202%, Parrying 9, PRR 50, Profane Stats 2, Knight set
Feargaze Goggles: Linguistics 10%, Intimidate 22, Insight Intimidate 11, Knight set
LGS Mace: Positive 150, Amp 50, Amp 70, Affirmation
Mirrorplate Tower Shield: Spell Saves 16 (was missing will only, wich mostly are spells), Quality MRR 12, Block Elements 15%, Blocking Insight MRR 50, Mists set

Missing ghostly, dodge, some positive amp, some wisdom, some cha. These lacks come from using the Knight set, because the belt and goggles suck, but I think it's worth for the PRR and AC. The dodge I hope they open maabar for the clickie, while that doesn't happen I'll try to get enough from the Barricade Tree. I could also dump the protection 12 to a augment with 8, and put dodge in the CC trinket, not sure if it's worth it.

I log this char only for high skulls and raids. Literally only heal  and maybe tank. Some dozen devotion points are not going to make it any better than the extra PRR and MRR. Not using a shield on a cleric I think is crazy, unless if you are a DC caster too. The knight set also gives 10% AC.

My build is similar. Every good cleric in my server also can tank up to R1 raids and can backup tank in quests high skulls. Those that don't, are the ones that focus on DC. My character doesn't have any past life for PRR, MRR and AC, but I think I can do something, as there are tank characters in my server that are working well in R10 who happen to be first lifers too. So I'll try to squeeze in tankiness.

About SP, I rarely see myself running out of SP even with the crap gear I am using now. I abuse rewal too much. Renewal and cocoon are my main healing choices, togheter with aura. These 3 combined usually can keep a tank up under the fire of a R10 boss, with occasional burst to help. Close to zero SP spent doing this. When more healing is needed, cures with only quicken on, also low sp cost. But I have a close to unlimited amount of potions and shrines anyways.

It's just that I don't like cheesing, makes me feel bad. When I see I'll probably run out of sp before shrine, I even start to scroll to not use pot.

Vaultaccount wrote on Mar 9^th, 2018 at 8:50pm:


Maybe I am doing it wrong, but I have found that aura+rejuv dont do a good enough job keeping people up on the bursts in mid-high reaper (R5-R8)


But maybe now that I have some additional gear I should try it out on some build to see how it works.

Good food for thought.

For me it is a simple equation. Am I running out of spellpoints more than I die? If so, then I need more SP. Otherwise I need more defense.


I think if I was running R-10 regularly or if I wanted to focus on being able to be a solid tank in mid -high reaper (instead of off tanking/emergency tanking) I would probably do exactly what you are doing, but for now, for me, the equation slides more towards healing ability. I am rarely dying in mid-high reaper so i think my defense is ok.

To be explicit, i think your setup is great. My commentary was just giving an alternate mindset to your list.

I disagree on healers being useless on mid reaper. I think that is where healers are most useful right now. Would a DC warlock or wizard be better? I suppose there is an argument for it, but I have seen even good groups wipe because of bad pulls or double pulls or other minor factors. Healers give you leeway on mistakes AND they let you push your DPS as high as possible without needing to worry about party healing.

Also, a good healer/tank combo build allows a group to run at least 1 and possibly up to 3 skulls higher in my experience. And run them faster, with fewer deaths (preferably none)

This is especially true of groups with pugs in them, or groups without a ton of CC.