Are Wiz expected to heal?

Yes, you are officially now a healing class! Forget all those DPS spells.

You're heals will hardly do anything. Let the healing be done by the professionals. If you really want to, you can throw them a bone now and then.

Like everyone else has said it's very useful as a backup heal when in boss fights/FBs. The only thing about it is the slow channeling time so you need to anticipate a little if you're required to jump in and help. I can remember a couple of times when its saved my party from a wipe when someones drawn a boss early, makes boss fights more exciting when something out of the ordinary happens.

Usually I just use it on myself, it doesnt need to be levelled that high unless you have quite high HP as its heal is partly based on your base magic attack which should increase at the same rate as your HP.

This gets really annoying when blademasters and barbarians are slow killers and I'm told to focus mostly on healing although I can kill the monsters in 3-4 hits.

I used to feel the same way about pairing up with a Barb/Blade often I could kill the mob before they'd even reached it, but think of having them around as mana saver. Let them choose the target and get a few hits in to hold the aggro, then attack using your cheapest/quickest spells. This way you may only need 2 hits to kill, and they'll only lose a small amount of HP which you can heal every 3rd or 4th mob. Check if their HP by mousing over their HP bar so you know when to heal them most effectively, and if they have a charm then be nice and heal before they go below 50%.

Of course if you are wearing charms yourself you might level quickest by yourself, or maybe not quickest but at least you won't have to get frustrated at seeing all the drops go to another player. Personnally i've taken a break from using MP charms, I find the system they have just a way of extracting money out of you, 75% mana then the charm kicks in, please. I cant remember the amount of times I've been resource gathering and had to clear a mine of surrounding mobs, 4-5 spells cast and my charm ticks >.<.

morning dew can be very useful in combination with sutra if its really an emergency.

Recently I decided mage heals aren't half bad. They take SO MUCH MANA at high lvls, but then demon heal at lv90 starts to work like a cleric heal. With enough -channeling it doesn't take much time at all to cast.

Longer spells are effected more by -channeling

It is very helpful is tough situations, but mages are NOT full time healers, we are counted as DD's, unless you're light armor, then you're counted as useless HAHAHA im kidding <:]

Oh, and that heal thing for fb's, thats a wizzie secret when you're low level, don't let those evil clerics get wind of it or you will miss out on the invites

Tank dies, distance shrink the heck out of there, someone else will take agrro, you keep running, they die too and you escape

Healing at 60 gets a bit better if you're doing some lower level FBs, the hh60 weapon gives a nice boost for healing too. Along with Sutra, it can be nice, but I generally don't even bother pointing out I can heal.

usually i use the heal on cleric or some fos archer that think he's a better tank than a barb. Or on low lvl FBs (19-39) to keep alive the ppl I'm running with since I solo easily those. For some reason lowbies feel an urge to grab aggro from mobs when they shouldn't so yeah, comes handy to restore the HP of a 30-50 char to full from 10%

nope, it's the same, but when u get about 20-30% channel with PvE ornaments/rings channel time goes down a lot.
if u use it with sutra, in those 6 seconds you can heal better than a cleric.

To be more precise, it's a double necro.

If it matters, I replaced a 2nd cleric with a lvl 92 wizzie to heal in a TT2-3 for wurlord and Ape. Worked well.

Just wondering.. If a Demon Wizard with lvl 11 Morning Dew, constant use of Wellspring Quaff and some decent -channeling EQ heals, will it be any good? Maybe you can get down to 2 sec channeling if geared really good.

For sure. I saved couple guys from death. Especially with sutra I can give in 6s more than 4000 hp. That is something. b:victory

Piliener - Lost City wrote: »

I healed a fb39 once. I did fine, but also was with people my level so it wasn't to much of a challenge to begin with. Overall though, other than the occasional ep's in trouble es heal the tank real quick, I don't heal to often.

I need to keep editing because really why is my avatar different now?

Your avatar changed, because you reached lv.80. I think.

I used to solo heal bh 59 at 6x and 7x but any higher bhs a cleric is needed lol. We aren't a powerful healing class at all lol. Basically just for personal use