WAR (Warhammer Online)

I've played the preview weekend, and I've enjoyed playing it.  I have only played to level 5 or so, and I've played a shaman and a runepriest so far.  I've noticed in the character creation, there are several types of "healers" for each side, some are marked as "ranged healers" even.  I was wondering which type of class for order and chaos are the pure healers?  I've read discussions about "hybrids" and whatnot, and I just wanted to know from any experienced betas out there if there are any true-blue "healbot" classes, and if so, which for each side?

Thanks for your help.

all range healers can be healtbot.  ATM zealots are  the weakest rvr healer in game but they have ritual with AP regeneration.

Rune Priest and Zealot would be the closest to "pure" healer you're likely to find on either side.

So the zeal would be better than the shammy?  Is that due to insta heals.. or hot??  More info pls?

The Runepriest/Zealot heals, combined with their buffs, make them the strongest healers, but lowest dps. Disciples of Khaine/Warriors Priests would come in second in healing ability, but balance that out with a strong melee ability, so should have a balanced healing and damage output. Shaman/Archmage would be the worst at healing, but strongest in DPS.

Originally posted by Kasias81

So the zeal would be better than the shammy?  Is that due to insta heals.. or hot??  More info pls?

The thing with RP/Zealots is that they don't have any sort of trade-off mechanic with their heals...some of the other classes have "power meters" whereby they do damage to increase their healing effectiveness (or vice versa) or accomplish other tasks. This is a very rough description but the important thing to note is neither the Rune Priest nor the Zealot have it. They simply start at full bore and use buffs to augment their groups. By the same token, there's really no ramping up their DPS either. So in that regard they are usually considered the most traditional healer/buffer classes, the others are more hybrid in nature.

Order/Chaos

1) Purehealers: Runepriest > Zealot
2) Support healer: Archmage < Disciple of Khaine
3) DPS healers: Warriorpriest < Goblin Shaman

Originally posted by vernd

Rune Priest and Zealot would be the closest to "pure" healer you're likely to find on either side.

Right -- this is what I am hearing too.

I am playing an Archmage in the Preview Weekend, and he is definitely a healer, buffer, debuffer and nuker.  A fun hybrid who brings a lot to the table.

Originally posted by Gurtelrose

Order/Chaos

1) Purehealers: Runepriest > Zealot
2) Support healer: Archmage < Disciple of Khaine
3) DPS healers: Warriorpriest < Goblin Shaman

Please be aware that some of these classes have not received their final balancing passes yet.  Expect some changes.

I really cant make up my mind at the moment,I will either be a runepriest or a warrior priest.

The wp's multi tasking does interest me alot,not really sure how the targeting system will work(I havent played yet)I know when you are attcking something then you can cast buffs or heals on a friendly target but do we keep switching targets or can we just set our friendly target to 1 thi