Purifier/Warden/Sentinel PURE group healing buildFollow

It looks like a fairly solid build to me, but I'd probably do things a little differently. First thing's first, though. To use World of Warcraft as an easy comparison, the Purifier is Rift's equivalent to a Holy Paladin and a Discipline Priest, focusing on strong, single-target heals as well as damage absorption shields. The Sentinel is Rift's equivalent to a Holy Priest, being a well rounded healer who has a decent selection of both single target and group heals. The Warden is Rift's equivalent to a Restoration Druid with a theme that feels similar to a Restoration Shaman. It focuses on heal over time effects and can keep a strong set of HoTs rolling on the tank OR dish out tons of group HoTs depending on the situation.

What they're seemingly trying to do is have all three be able to group or tank heal and not completely pigeon hole each of the souls into a single type of healer.

That being said, for what you intend to do, having Sentinel as your primary soul with a decent chunk of points dropped into Purifier seems logical. From a PvE viewpoint, and move some of your points around a little, but for the most part, it's a very similar build. Here's what I would probably run with:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00Gje.E00V0z.x0Exfstso.xx

It's not a perfect build, but it's a rough idea.

Here are my reasons for some of the changes:

- Dipped a little more into Sentinel, mostly to pick up the Marked by Light root ability. While active, It basically allows you to focus on tank healing while it's active but also turns your single target heals into multi target heals. Not to mention that a 17% stronger Healing Invocation's not bad either (Word of Hope passive root ability). Also worth noting, that 20% increased effectiveness on critical heals is probably worth NOT skipping.

- Dropped the points out of Fluidity. You probably won't be using too many Heal over Time effects as a Sentinel. The only Heal over Time effect a Sentinel has is from the 5/5 points put into Lasting Invocation. Additionally, you have Water Spray, but you'll probably not rely on it much at all, and dumping 5 points for one spell and a portion of another spell just doesn't feel worth it to me. It's a fantastic way to spend points if you were primarily a Warden, considering that's sort of a 10% boost on MOST of their spells, but for a Sentinel or Purifier, it's just not that strong of a place to put five points.

- Healing Blessing, to me, sounds much more like a PvP skill. Flame Ward probably also isn't too valuable for a PvE build either. Caregiver's Blessing sounds alright, but bear in mind that you don't up far enough down the Purifier tree to get all the benefits that deep Purifier's get that really makes their shielding shine. I decided to pass on it in favor of maxing out Inflamed Rejuvenation for whenever you really have to shift over to tank healing mode. Dropped the last point in Healing Flare just to give more options for emergency healing.

Just my two-cents.

Neuroticaine's build is a very good build and definitely one I would recommend for a Sentinel focused healer.

A very similar build is this one. You trade some general effectiveness for greater emergency abilities. Losing Surging Rapids hurts, sicne Enraptured breath is a very important heal for sentinel, but that and 10% mana is about all you lose.

You gain additional and improved emergency tools. A greatly improved protection of the ancestors can buy you much more time to setup your Healing Invocation. Latent Blaze is a very nice backup tool and will save you. You also gain two crit enhancing abilities. Flashover is like the Tidal surge you gave up, but far better because you get your bonus crit healing and you trigger Serendipity. This can combo very nicely because you can Flashover+Enraptured Breath to instantly bring up the the tank and 2 other a lot, and you can also follow up with a 1.5 second Healing Invocation. Fiery Blessing works in much the same fashion, receiving bonus crit healing and triggering Serendipity.

42 warden here, so easy to heal dungeons, works way better then any other cleric healer/

Hope so, only thing what kept me playing wow is the damage meter addon lol!

Warden is easy to play, you use the ripple spell, spam dot heals and then you cast your aoe heals while refreshing dot heals on the tank.

How can you judge people if you never played with them before? YES YOU LOOK AT THEIR GEAR/GEARSCORE!
Damage meter is just a personal tool, to see dps with different specs/gear.

The similarities to a Restoration Druid don't end at both being HoT-based healers. Warden's also get Soothing Stream, a stackable HoT that stacks up to 4 times. Sort of like a Druid's Lifebloom. They also get Deluge, which is an instant-cast direct heal that heals for more with the more of your HoT effects that are on the target, which makes it sort of feel like Swiftmend, in a way. Healing Flood is an instant, AoE hot, sort of like Wild Growth. And of course, the Warden also has the standard, instant HoT and the moderate, cast-time heal with an additional HoT mechanic attached to it. With all your HoTs and your Healing Stream stacks, as well as emergency instant heal (which only has a 4 second cool down when specced into it), as well as your AoE HoTs, you can effectively keep your tank up without much trouble and keep your group up with a little additional effort.

I'd say if you really liked your Resto Druid in World of Warcraft, you'll love playing a Warden. Plus, I just like the water theme. One of my favorite changes they made to Cataclysm was making the standard casting animation of Shaman heals stop looking all green, leafy, and druid-like. Instead, they now look like water is gushing from your hands. Minor aesthetic change in the grand scheme of things, but it's the little things that add up.

It's the little things all over the place that's got me really liking Rift to begin with.

I'm not sure that true as much as you want it to be true. A lot of people who try their best to gear up are actually fairly decent people if you take the time to know them.]
Maybe I miss spoke on this. Don't get me wrong, I gear chase. I work hard to improve mine and it is a primary focus for doing dungs / taking risks. Winning is fun. When I embark on a dung run, I want the best possible chance to win.

All that being said. "XXXXX GS Tank LFG" is stupid. I have played with PLENTY of players who out perform their gear score, and PLENTY who under perform.

I guess what I am hoping is that the atmosphere surrounding this community is one more of a helpful community, like it was back in the day of early MMO's, like Everquest..and not that of current WoW.

There are already going to be people that will not group with others because of the gear they have equipped. No reason to give them something to spam about in trade chat.

How are you going to judge people that are filling the "Support Role" with Recount? Maybe a DPS will have a lower score because he is giving a tank a second to build aggro before he starts blasting away trying to top the charts. Perhaps a DPS does a good job of kiting and unaccounted for mob that saves the group from whiping. So many other facets to playing a game like this, that to have an add-on be the measuring stick by which how DPS is judged would be an error imo.


Edited, Feb 23rd 2011 10:12am by ljpjjmk7

Edited, Feb 23rd 2011 10:13am by ljpjjmk7

I was curious on these pure healing builds, how the mana management/regen was. I know in ROF at level the healer was having trouble with mana but that seemed to improve significantly by DD and Cascade (can't remember full name). But I assume by raid level events, some events will be long and drawn out putting and emphasis on mana management as well as healing.

Needless to say, I'll probably play a deep Warden build if I ever choose to play a healing cleric, and this will probably be the build I'll go with:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=00jeG.x0xxb.xEztqtRqz.V

Tools are tools with specific intended uses but always have other uses that have nothing to do with their original design....Do you really think the guy that invented the Screwdriver intended it to be used as a stabbing implement? Or a telephone (the big blocky kind) to be used as a blunt weapon? Or a magnifying glass to be used as an ant immolater? I could go on....

Anyway, DPS meters are something that I really like to have because it does show how well you are doing as well as how other people are performing. Usually in WoW, if I found someone that was doing sub-par DPS I would ask them what their rotation/ priority was and see if I could help them...I'd also just watch and see if they were being lazy, like the BM Hunter who just sent their pet in and did nothing but Cobra Shot....

I asked about add-ons because I do find them helpful. DPS meters, healing add-ons ala Healbot and Clique (among others) and threat meters like Omen helped in higher end situations where lost seconds selecting the correct raid member meant precious time they didn't have and a dead person, and depending on who that person was, could lead to a wipe. The little helpful tools add up, and ass hats will use the good tools in bad or wrong ways.

I will however say that as someone who really does play the game to have fun and do the best I am able to, it's really difficult for me to tolerate someone in good gear doing bad DPS, especially after I try and help them or point them in the right direction.

I didn't read the post above me before i posted so I do have to agree with the idea of a personal meter that you can't share/ link with everyone else.

Edited, Feb 28th 2011 7:41pm by Katchii

Unfortunately, some people are jerks.

I remember the first time I tanked a dungeon, I was in there as a dps but our tank d/c'd right away. This was before the LFD system so we didn't have a lot of recourse for finishing the dungeon, I told the group I had a tank spec and technically had a tanking set (since I'm a warrior... it'd be weird not to have ONE role for tanking at least). I'd never tanked anything before and mostly used the build for soloing un-kitable elites (kitable elites got Riftbladed to death).

After a couple of dicey pulls I figured out what to do and we were able to finish the dungeon. It definitely helped that the group was supportive though, I'm not sure I'd have bothered to keep trying if they had decided to treat me like crap for trying to help them.