Protect? Really important? Low level content

[KisaiTenshi]

I must agree, Blizzard II is an awful skill to have. Get your protect it help a lot.
Especially if you are a SCH, because it allow the fairy to solo heal the whole time.

The best is "Protect, swiftcast, stoneskin, cleric stance, aero"

Protect should be in the first slot, always. Cleric Stance should never be the first. Blizzard II is only useful for FATE's and is general worthless in all content.

A SCH should have Protect and CS from CNJ, Swiftcast from THM. Stoneskin and Aero are of dubious value. Remember that when you play SCH in sub-level 30 content, you have no SCH skills to use. Just the fairy. So if you need a shield, that's where Protect and Stoneskin are of value.

[Seryl199]

Protect should be in the first slot, always. Cleric Stance should never be the first. Blizzard II is only useful for FATE's and is general worthless in all content.

A SCH should have Protect and CS from CNJ, Swiftcast from THM. Stoneskin and Aero are of dubious value. Remember that when you play SCH in sub-level 30 content, you have no SCH skills to use. Just the fairy. So if you need a shield, that's where Protect and Stoneskin are of value.

There's honestly no need for Protect in Sastasha or Tam-Tara, if players are dying because of the amount that Protect would have mitigated then there is a much graver issue at hand. Cleric Stance is absolutely viable considering that a healer's best DPS at low levels is DoT's, which means you can easily switch back to healing at any time and still have damage ticking. Where you slot Protect after that comes down to your preference and the party's demands.

Lets be realistic here for a moment, protect will have a bigger effect on your ability to dps than stoneskin. In low level dungeons aero doesn't typically have time to fully tick. Even when it does, one 200 potency attack isn't making a run super fast. Other than cleric stance none of a healers cross class abilities make any significant difference in low level dungeons. Is it really worth everyone being so hostile because people like to have protect in dungeons?

Aero is actually pretty good at low level. You'll have a hard time fitting it in for it's full duration if you try applying it to the primary target, so you should reserve it for after you've applied Miasma and Bio to every target, then put Aero on any mobs that aren't the primary target. Once you've done that, nuke the primary target until DoT's need to be refreshed. It also bumps up your single target DPS for bosses.

[Yorumi]

Aero is actually pretty good at low level. You'll have a hard time fitting it in for it's full duration if you try applying it to the primary target, so you should reserve it for after you've applied Miasma and Bio to every target, then put Aero on any mobs that aren't the primary target.

That's what I mean by not fully ticking. By the time you've applied bio and misama to 3 to 4 mobs, you'll get aero on 1 mob? Compared to just casing ruin that's not doing a whole lot. Basically no skill you can cross class at low level makes a difference, but lacking protect causes unnecessary stress, so why knowingly doing that when nothing makes any real difference?

[Seryl199]

That's what I mean by not fully ticking. By the time you've applied bio and misama to 3 to 4 mobs, you'll get aero on 1 mob? Compared to just casing ruin that's not doing a whole lot. Basically no skill you can cross class at low level makes a difference, but lacking protect causes unnecessary stress, so why knowingly doing that when nothing makes any real difference?

In three mob packs, you should be fitting in two Aero's, with two mobs you'll get one. That's a 120-240 potency increase on every pull. It's almost as much as getting an extra Energy Drain every pull. What doesn't make a difference is how much Protect mitigates. Eos is capable of healing, and if you're forced to heal, having Protect or not won't change that you only need one Physick to bring the tank from 50% to topped, at which point you can go back to DPS'ing. I'm not sure what unecessary stress you're experiencing, you can be partied with a first time tank in Sastasha or Tam-Tara, mobs bouncing everywhere, and still heal and DPS because the damage is so trivial.

[Yorumi]

I'm not sure what unecessary stress you're experiencing, you can be partied with a first time tank in Sastasha or Tam-Tara, mobs bouncing everywhere, and still heal and DPS because the damage is so trivial.

Unnecessary stress is not on the healer it's on the general party expectations. You've got people quitting a group cause the healer doesn't have protect, and people in this topic with the tired old "you can't tell me what to do" garbage and all that. All that so a healer can cast aero and end a run 30 seconds faster. Well that was sure worth all the arguing.