Help Picking a Healer

[GengezK]

Hey everyone, I'm sorry to bother you about this but my friends and I are just picking up eq2 and going to be playing together.......So far we have a Pally, Ranger, Conjurer, and ? ... I have read about all the healers but which is going to be best to finish out our group (more so in the later stages of the game).Thanks a lot for your time!

[Arielle Nightshade]

<p>Warden is a nice choice for the group you have mentioned, so would a Mystic or Defiler be.    The only trouble with picking a Shaman (Mystic or Defiler) is that it's very very tough to level one solo (if you had some time on your hands and just wanted to go out and kill things).   If you are pretty sure you are going to always have a group - you might consider that.</p><p>Most of the posters on this forum really like Warden.  Heals are good, so is utility (portals, evac (at level 49), Spirit of the Wolf (runspeed buff)) and the class is overall a really good group healer.   </p><p>There is some discussion here, though, that those Wardens in end-game raiding guilds feel that the class doesn't min/max well with regard to the things we can bring to a group on a raid.  Many raiding Wardens...don't.  They have other characters that they raid since the optimum group set up (in their guilds) doesn't include this class.  Many raids feel the same way.   Our buffs (compared to other raid healers) are weak, and the good ones we have really don't do anything for an end-game raid team.  Our one decent one, an offensive buff, is single target and can really help out, but doesn't always warrant our spot in a raid.</p><p>I am fortunate to be in a guild that values Warden - and in the MT group.   That's not a sentiment shared by others.  If you feel that you and your friends are aiming to level with intent to raid, you might want to pick a Templar or Defiler.</p><p>If you just want to play and do some damage on good group content - Warden is a very good choice.</p>

[Tallo]

I'd go with a defiler or a mystic if I were starting over. Hardly ever see them later on in groups, whereas you can't throw a rock without hitting a warden. There is a reason for that, and it's because wardens are a very fun, very viable class in standard grouping. Raiding though....what's that? But, go mystic or defiler, thank me later.

[Skivley101]

<p>^^^ LOL ...STOP trying to thin out the Warden population .... </p><p>Warden is the best class to play , Period ..... youll thank me later</p>

[Eugam]

Playing warden and mystic. And i love the warden.  But i think the mystics debuff is supporting the conjy's DPS very well and i would choose the mystic for this static group.