Will a Normal Healer Work for 5 Man Oro Teams?

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LuoAi: This build was refering to Orozar farming party (FA works the same)

In a farming Party only the Tank gets the damage, maybe a hex or 2 on other team members if they don't know how to position themselvs. So most of the times WoH is not that good cause the tank will probably never go under 50%.

Aura of Faith last for 60 sec and has 15 sec recharge. I usually do not cast it when the team member gets the dmg, i cast it BEFORE. Every time the Skill recharges i cast it on someone. Usually i cast it on MM cause he sacrifices life. So when we enter combat (and here i am refering before we enter SF and tank doesn't have gear) at least 3 members have Aura of faith on them.

I don't say that other builds are not good (inlcuding urs), healer have the easiest job in a Oro farming party.
I just think my build is a little better - SV helps a lot when the tank position himself near casters and all those W and R start bashing him. Or when in footprint a party member gets hammered.

Regarding ur other skills:
Why do u take a skill that u really don't use? (Heal party)
Smite Hex - has a recharge of 15 sec, Remove hex is a better choice with only 7 sec recharge

Anyway, everyone uses the build that he likes. If urs works for u - BRAVO.
Try my build sometime and if u don't like it - let me know

Here is what I take:

Essence Bond
Healing Seed
Healing Hands {E}
Healing Breese
Orison
Dwayna's kiss
Heal Area
Rebirth

Healing Seed W/ Healing Hands +20% Enchantment Sword (or staff) will give u a nice buffer, since they work almost the same u can time them right to keep on up on the take always... then you don't have to spam heals over and over again.

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@mighty xxl
sorry if you thought I was flaming you. It was like 4am when I worte that and was kinda tired. I was referring to the Oro farming groups in my post, and I think your build is just fine. I especially like the addition of SV. That would really help out if the ss necro doesn't bring it and to fill in any gaps if the ss necro does bring it.

Regarding my build:
I usually use heal party in the footprint when everyone is taking damage. If they are all taking about the same amount it can really speed up healing. WoH also helps in the footprint for the cheap massive heal, but I never use it on the tank because, like you said, the tank is never below 50%. For the tank you can always use Kiss for a massive heal.

I have found that even when the tank is holding the gear, there are times when the whole party is taking damage (often when the baddies can't get to the tank because of terrain/minions blocking the path...grrr minions), and during those times WoH helps if a member comes under a spike.

As far as smite hex is concerned, I know that the advantages of remove hex are better. For some reason I can't seem to bring myself to use a removal spell that takes 2 seconds to get rid of time-based damage (I also never use anditdote sig for the same reason), but that is just me being stubborn.

I will try your setup and see which works better for me . I still have questions regarding your use of Aura of faith. Do you use it exclusively in the footprint or also after you get into SF? If you only, or mostly, use it in the footprint it seems like you use it similar to the way I use heal party. If you use it in SF, do you cast it on the tank or only other party members? That is the part I didn't understand. If you cast it on the tank, it would seem to be just as worthless as WoH on the tank - you would be getting a huge heal and wasting most of it.

/offtopic
I had a bonder last night (who seemed very experienced in the Oro run) who told our SS necro to "SV" a target. We started talking and the bonder said that SV meant Spinal Shivers. I was always under the impression that SV meant Sympathetic Visage, but my initial experience with the abbreviation was in dual UW runs where the ss/sv means Spiteful/Symp Visage.