Minstrel Healing Guide
In this post I will discuss the elements needed to make our minstrel heals potent. We will discuss legacies on your legendary weapons, point allocation into trait trees ,skills and possible rotations.
I. Legendary Weapon and Book Legacies:
Most of us have been playing minstrels for a while so we know what legacies to get but will explain the important legacies and legacies that optional with healing benefits.
Legendary Weapon:
Major legacies :
1. Healing skills induction time:
As the name suggests it reduces induction time for healing skills and is one of the primary legacies to have on weapon.
2. Rally cooldown:
Another primary legacy it reduces the cooldown of your in combat revive.
3. Soliloquy of spirit healing:
Soliloquy of spirit is major HoT (Heal over Time) skill minstrels have. This legacy increases the healing from the pulses. This legacy is optional but I prefer to have it as u can stack soliloquy 3 times on tank and the heals from pulses add up.
4. Triumphant spirit cooldown:
Triumphant spirit is the major heal skill to use in emergency. This legacy reduces it cooldown and is very important to have.
5. Anthem Duration:
This legacy is optional as the anthem duration of 35 s can be obtained from trait tree.
Minor legacies:
1. Still as Death Cooldown:
Reduction of cooldown on skill that lets you get away from mobs is always good to have.
2. Call to Ioreth cooldown:
Optional legacy as the Call to Ioreth is not used very often.
Legendary Book :
Major legacies:
1. Healing and Motivation skills morale healing:
Must have legacy for healing, increases your overall heals.
2. Bolster courage healing:
Primary skill for aoe heals. Another must have legacy
3. Healing skills power cost:
This is optional but i recommend considering im having power issues these days in drawn out fights.
4. Inspire fellows healing:
Optional legacy , choose it if you use this as primary aoe heal skill
5. Raise the spirit healing:
optional legacy, not really worth it considering low morale single target heal
Minor legacies :
1. Cry of the chorus cooldown:
Must have legacy, reduces the cooldown of the skill that provides some nice buffs.
2. Chord of salvation cooldown:
Must have legacy, reduces the cooldown of one of your immediate heal skills.
3. Hammerhand skills bubble magnitude:
Optional and not recommended, the bubble magnitude is very small to begin just not worth a slot.
Note: Stat legacies of Will and Vitality make a good choice to fill in the open slots.
Above are my weapons at present for example.
II. Trait Tree Setup
There is no one trait tree setup one should follow as there are many ways to setup considering the choice of anthem duration legacy or not. The ideal setup in my opinion is to have blue as primary line with points spent in red and yellow for optimization.
1. The blue line points explain themselves. I dont use the bubbles on minstrel so i skipped them.
2. 5 points in red line for increased tactical critical chance and multiplier.
3. Points in yellow for anthem duration and inspire fellows.
III. Skills Rotations:
Each individual has his own rotation of skills to get their optimal healing output. I will discuss few pointers to have maximum possible output.
1. Always have 3 major ballads on as it gives you increased outgoing healing and access to coda of resonance for emergencies.
2. Always have anthem going.
Chose a anthem:
Anthem of Third age:
My recommended anthem for the reduction in healing skill induction by 25% and 10% increase in outgoing healing
Anthem of Composure:
Optional for increase in Tactical mitigation and resistance. Since everyone is expected to have max mits this anthem is not recommended.
3. Always keep soliloquy on tank it stacks to 3.
4. Rotate Inspire fellows to provide the -4% dmg buff to your fellowship every 30s.
5. Notify your tank on your status of disability and emergency skill availability.
In case of emergency: Skill rotation I follow/recommend
1. Use the coda of resonance to give instant heal to tank and provide increased incoming healing buff.
2. If you had anthem of third age on, the induction on bolster courage was removed so use it.
3. Use cry of chorus to get your 3 ballads back and you can repeat steps 1 and 2. If the heals were not sufficient use triumphant spirit.
All the above mentioned points are to my view and need not be right :D. Everyone of us has a different way of playing and our opinions differ.
Hafwen has a really good guide out on healing minstrels. This may have couple points to it and my views in general.
Looking forward to feedback.
Cheers,
Avi