E/Mo healer or N/Rt healer?

SoS rit with PwK + SoGM communing rit + AoTL MM with some basic prots > all IMO. :3

You don't need to dedicate a hero explusively to healing. Henchies are enough.

Just for discussion's sake though I say N/Rt is more versatile and better healer than E/Mo. Heroes have a very hard time using E/Mo because they often forget to stack up a few enchants and will spam Infuse when ER is down. ER also lacks strong party heals that N/Rt has. I like Vekk; I use him alot. But he does RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO up alot because I'm too lazy to micro... The only time I expect to have to micro a build is maintaining SoH and pre-casting PS before aggroing a mob.

Doesn't stack enchants, doesn't always cast ER, doesn't spam enough... So many problems with the AI.

The offensive henchmen are pretty pisspoor in comparison to the defensive ones so there's little point in not brining 2 of them. With this in mind, then spending a hero slot on purely defensive option does not really make sense. You only need a PS somewhere that you can invoke manually and a couple of copies of SoA and you're set. The problem is the hench healer still sucks in certain areas of the game. The quality of the healer hench varies across campaigns and areas. In some areas the healer hench is really piss poor, without even a hex removal or party heal. Mhenlo doesn't even have condition removal, so if your warrior is blinded then too bad for you if you can't gain enough adrenaline for SY or other skills. Condition removal is less necessary for a caster because daze is not as common, but still good to have especially when you are fighting condition stacking creatures like mandragors. And some of the monk skills they bring are so spammable that their AI just allows them to spam their energy dry. You can tell because they stop casting spells, but they dont show you their energy bar so people still think everything is fine and good, and it feels better to the player to just assume that henchies have infinite energy. Reality is, they don't have infinite energy and they have no runes either.

I also agree that having a way to invoke PS manually is better. This is why I usually don't bring Lina or whoever the protection hench happens to be. If you include PS, Aegis (or another blocking skill), condtion removal, party heals, hex removal, SoH, Infuse, ER, Aura of Restoration, that takes about 1 solid skill bar already for an ER to support a melee character, if you want to create a generic 3 heroes, area-independent build.

Whenever you talk about henchies (offensive or defensive), you have to consider the area because in EOTN, I still prefer to take Herta over Lina. Because Lina is so junk, even the piss poor offensive henchies shine over her.

Whenever you talk about henchies (offensive or defensive), you have to consider the area because in EOTN, I still prefer to take Herta over Lina. Because Lina is so junk, even the piss poor offensive henchies shine over her. You must be playing a different game than me then (or play the same game very differently ). I find that Lina great, she has a whole suite of skills specifically designed to protect the body blocker and whereas Herta is a scatter monkey thanks to sandstorm which means that your back line is going to be taking damage.

N/Me MoP curses with SV/AV
N/Mo Minion nuker with PS/SoA
N/Rt Splinter Weapon Healer/condition remover

You must be playing a different game than me then (or play the same game very differently ). I find that Lina great, she has a whole suite of skills specifically designed to protect the body blocker and whereas Herta is a scatter monkey thanks to sandstorm which means that your back line is going to be taking damage.

N/Me MoP curses with SV/AV
N/Mo Minion nuker with PS/SoA
N/Rt Splinter Weapon Healer/condition remover Actually when I just tried her, she wasnt as bad as I remembered so there must have been AI update. The problem areas I have, with the dual hench monks, are areas with lots of burning and undead. I think the ER is more clearly superior to Lina in those cases.

An MoP hero still sucks, unless you micro it, because heroes dont make the best choices on who to cast it on. Also, fiends work better with MoP than a minion bomber would with his melee minions.