How viable is a melee healer?
I was thinking of a spec of 22Mend/49 AUg/4 Pac.

This gives a top buffed healer, with full damage shield and damage add, with instant heal.

i dont know what you plan to do with your healer?
solo pve: maybe
solo pvp: dunno

i played tri-spec healer on live servers after SI came out.
Spec was something like: 34Pac 28Aug 31 Mend

with fully sced gear on lvl 50 i could solo orange to red mobs in DF and fight the occassional assassin.
You need to use every tool you spec gives you.
So imho the tools like insta mezz + stun are more useful then some slighly better buffs from the aug line.
And anyway if you encounter anything with a shield, and or high rr = you lose^^

Biggest problem with melee healer is the low weapon skill which means you miss alot.
I remember losing several fights with the enemy having 10% hp and i missed like 20 times in a row lol.

Maudin wrote:How viable is a melee healer?
I was thinking of a spec of 22Mend/49 AUg/4 Pac.

This gives a top buffed healer, with full damage shield and damage add, with instant heal.

kinda gimp without that OP lifetap proc...btw what patch was that added?

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