Ground - healing abilities that leave lingering effect on the ground that applies to the allies who step into them.Įxamples: Illustrious Healing, Extended Ritual AOE HOTs can also dynamically change targets every tick to heal up group members that are in need of heals.Įxamples: Illustrious Healing, Combat Prayer, Renewing Undeath Ground vs Targeted Single Target (ST) - healing abilities that apply to 1 (and in some cases 2 or 3) team members and remain with them in case they are also a HOT.Įxamples: Bursting Vines, Radiating Regeneration, Breath of LifeĪrea of Effect (AOE) - healing abilities that apply to 6 members at the time. Hybrid - abilities that have both Direct and HOT components, such as Renewing Undeath. Commonly HOTs tick at 1s or 2s frequency, with some skills having 0.5s, 3s and 5s frequencies.Įxamples: Illustrious Healing, Echoing Vigor Healing over time (HOT) - abilities that leave a lingering effect that heals your team members over a period of time with a set frequency. In some cases those type of healing skills require you to face the target(s), in others any target within a certain distance around you can be healed.Įxamples: Combat Prayer, Hasty Prayer, Twilight Matriarch heal, Types of Healing Abilities Direct Healing vs Healing Over Timeĭirect healing - abilities that provide 1-time burst of healing. Wait, wait, wait, direct? AOE? HOTs? So many new words! Lets us describe what kind of healing skills we have access to first. Common approach to healing would be to lay down your AOE HOTs and alternate between utility Direct Healing abilities while HOTs are active. Luckily for us, the majority of ESO healing abilities have smart targeting that prioritizes team members that are in need of healing. Visual Guide How Does Healing Work?ĮSO has a Global Cooldown of 1 second, meaning you can only cast 1 skill ability per second, whereas incoming damage may come from multiple sources and within 1 second your team member may receive multiple hits of various damage ticking at different fractions of that 1s.īecause of it it is very important to have means of pre-emptive healing, since by the time you react to what is going on and your next GCD window opens - your team member might be already dead. In the Elder Scrolls Online, the healer is a hybrid between a healer, utility provider, and sometimes even damage dealer. Dealing Damage in a low threat scenarios.Īs you can see the list of responsibilities is quite longer than what you might have seen in other games.Performing mechanics that would result in a loss of damage, when performed by a Damage Dealer or a Tank.

Providing Offensive Buffs and De-buffs.Providing Defensive Buffs and De-buffs.

To start with let us define what Healer Role means in Elder Scrolls Online. Do you think that sharing is caring? Well then, healing is for you!

Introductionĭo you like to support your team members? Do you take pride in providing the best conditions possible for your team members to succeed. This guide was written by SeaUnicorn, an endgame healer and raider in The Elder Scrolls Online who creates content and provides answers for healers of all backgrounds on her YouTube, Twitch streams and Discord server.

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