“Did you kill it? Are you hurt?” “No and no. I was shielded. Barely.” – King Edward

Class: Sorcerer
Role: Healer

Most of the PvP healer builds are healer-tanks with heavy armor & some defensive gear, because once opponents notice you healing others, they try to focus you down.

But what if we abuse light armor shield instead?

Magica shields scale with Magica only, so naturally, we want to max that stat, which would leave us with low health pool.

Magica shields also cost a whole lot, so we need a lot of sustain to be able to spam em.

Shields are capped at percentages of max HP, but is it really an issue in PvP? Lowest HP is like ~20k, so at 50% cap would be 10k, at 60% cap will be 12k. Shields are halved by battle spirit before cast. Conclusions: maxHP cap is not an issue, you will not hit those numbers even maxing magica.

Skills

summon-twilight-matriarch bound-aegis inner-light empowered-ward dampen-magic        reviving-barrier

summon-twilight-matriarch radiating-regeneration energy-orb ward-ally streak        suppression-field

Put both shields that scale with max magica only under bars with max magica passive skills.

I use Empowered Ward because it has longer duration, which means you have no excuse of running without at least 1 ward. Magica regen bonus is very nice too, since I will have big magica regen base.

Matriarch is probably THE best burst heal skill in the game, as it heals 2 allies in a great range and does not require targeting. Our magica reserves and magica sustain allows us to cast this spell repeatedly almost unlimited amount of time - only limit is GCD, you need to recast shields.

Ward Ally is extra cheese. It is useful when you need to guarantee the heal for both yourself and ally - matriarch doesn’t guarantee that it will hit you. But overall it is the weakest skill on the bars, and can be replaced if you want.

Gear

Sets

  • Bright-Throat’s Boast 5x body – it has very big magica boost coupled with big magica recovery boost, but forces you to run Drinks. Fortunately, this build runs drinks anyway.
  • Death Dealer’s Fete – you are gonna drag the fights and survive for the long time, why not profit from it? Besides, it increases mana by whooping 30*88 = 2640 at max stacks.
  • Armor of the Trainee 2pc jewelry – HP and Max Magica ;)
  • Willpower 2pc frontbar, sword & shield – maximize magica. Shield can be enchanted for magica too.
  • Precise Regeneration backbar – improves your sustain even further.
  • Earthgore 2pc – since we have huge magica bar, lets abuse healing set scaling! This is the best healing set, since it only procs when someone is low, which is a big difference.

Armor types

5pc light, 1pc mid, 1pc heavy – Undaunted Mettle gives us the biggest possible recource pool bonuses. 5pc light needed for Dampen Magic.

Enchantments & Traits

  • Max magica enchants everywhere.
  • Divines / Invigorating on body - increase those regens by a bit.
  • Magica regen enchants on jewelry.
  • 3x Arcane trait on jewelry.
  • Powered both weapons.
  • Weapon damage rune on backbar.

Food & Drinks

  • Ghastly Eye Bowl – it is drink for Bright-Throat’s, and both stats are relevant.
  • Battleground Supply Shop magica pots - I don’t slot Major Sorcery skills, so this comes in handly.

Race

Breton. Extra magica, extra regen, reduced magica skills cost - everything we want.

Attributes

Magicka Health Stamina
64 0 0

So how big are the shields?

Around ~10.3k for Dampen, close to ~8k for Empowered, resulting in 18k+ shields in two skills, and 21k+ in 3 skills, noCP, no fete stacks.

Gameplay videos



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