[Archmage] What are the best healing builds?

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Guild WBs? Absolutely still useful, the ability to spam EoV across the whole front-line of the WB when WW hits is still powerful.

But then you'd just go INT healing spec to max out EOV, since you'd have WW and a good group healer to cover your group

I'd back pretty much what PROsiak said, and I'll add that the AP changes (while ago) means that at least one source of AP gain is needed (not from AP/sec).

Which means either The Sight, Resto Burst, 5p Sov / 4p tri or +7p sov, have personally gone with the latter, since I'm not spending 10k on a ring that's slightly better than Sentinel (especially when Victorious Ring is way better alternative).

But if we are just talking wp healing BIS (no cost concerns); 5p sov/ 4p tri has to be it now.

Massive nerf to EoV + having to pick Wild healing, means 6p value is down.
7p bonus is slightly more AP than the 4p Tri, but then other bonus and gear mixing is better.
Initiative changes means you are no longer getting 100% critted when debuffed, so 8p sov value is down (even if it's still good).

So, sov/sent mix or sov/triumph would be the way to go moving forward?

[BluIzLucky]

So, sov/sent mix or sov/triumph would be the way to go moving forward?

Being that full sov is 8k cheaper than a mix and apparently the 8p bonus is now for entire group, I'd like to correct my previous post.

If they dropped Tri ring cost to 2k, maybe you could make the case that sometimes you'd want the overall slightly higher healing from mix set rather than full sov.