Which Healer Build Should I Play?

Choosing the right healer build in Throne and Liberty makes all the difference. Whether you're focused on maximizing heals, providing Crowd Control, or supplying essential Attribute Buffs to your party, the healer class has versatile options that cater to different playstyles. This article provides a healer over of the most effective meta and off-meta healer builds, highlighting their strengths, gear recommendations, and tips for getting the most out of each build.

Meta Healer Builds are the most optimized and widely-used builds for keeping your team alive and dominating in in combat. These builds uniquely excel in various areas such as healing, Crowd Control, and providing Attribute Buffs and party-wide damage mitigation, making them the go-to choices for many players. Let’s dive into the healer overview of the top meta healer builds and explore what makes each one stand out.

Wand / Longbow - The Seeker

Difficulty Level - Moderate

Overview

• This is a meta healer build.
• Provides the best healing throughput by being able to spam heals.
• Can use Overtaker and Longbow offensive abilities while Silenced.
• Devoted Shield provides a strong shield when at low health.
• Capable of building the highest amounts of all Endurances with Distorted Sanctuary.
• Nature's Blessing provides party-wide Mana sustain and Health Regen.
  • When combined with Healing Touch, you have one of the strongest healing combos in the game.
• Blitz resets previously used abilities allowing you to use healing skills back-to-back.
• Can cleanse Stuns with Purifying Touch.
• The skill Deadly Marker lets you greatly reduce the cooldowns of all party members' abilities, including its own, as long as the debuff is active on your target.

Suggested Gearing Paths

• Synergize your gear with the Distorted Sanctuary Passive by building either high Melee, Magic and Ranged Endurances.

Wand / Staff - The Invocator

Difficulty Level - Hard

Overview

• Can be played as either a DPS or support healer.
• Excels in large-scale PvP with Icebound Tomb's and Ice Spear's wide-area Crowd Control and instant cast AoE burst damage with Judgment Lightning, Serial Fire Bombs, Inferno Wave, and Chain Thunder.
• Amazing Mana sustain from Inner Peace, which keeps you active in longer fights.
• Max Health and Mana boost with Mana Amp Passive.
• The Skill Damage Boost passive Forbidden Sanctuary enhances both your healing and damage abilities.
• Reduces Silence duration with Echoic Barrier.
• Infernal Meteor is an AoE skill which weakens all targets hit reducing their healing done.
• Salvation Chain saves allies from danger or grants you additional mobility if you take the Jumping Chain specialization.

Suggested Gearing Paths

• Synergize your gear with your Victorious Energy ability to exceed Evasion breakpoints in T2 gear.

Wand / Greatsword - The Paladin

Difficulty Level - Hard

Overview

• This is an off-meta healer build.
• This build provides strong AoE Stuns and Slows with skills like Devastating Smash and Ice Tornado, perfect for large-scale PvP.
• This build has high mobility and CC because of abilities like Devastating Smash, Precision Dash, and Charging Slash, as well as high mobility with Barbarian's Dash.
• Robust Constitution increases your Max Health, improving your survivability and Hit.
• Vital Force further increases your Hit, while also improving your Skill Damage Boost and Stun Chance. Skill Damage Boost increases your healing output.
• Indomitable Armor increases your Defenses, which improves your overall damage sustain.
• Devoted Sanctuary is the highlight of the build, which allows you to take majority of the damage your party receives during a set duration. This is ability allows your party to feel just as tanky as an SnS user and the duration is increased with Buff Duration.

Suggested Gearing Paths

• A full Endurance build is highly effective because of abilities and passives like DaVinci's Courage, Robust Constitution, and Indomitable Armor that increase your base Defenses and overall ability to sustain high amounts of damage.

Credits

Written by Eli
Reviewed by Tenkiei