The healing bear

[Rimenuir]

Whats a good way to build a healing bear. Should I have mastery over morale of vice versa? I have a good idea of legacies and traits, but not sure on gear.
Thanks!
Rim

[Joedangod]

Mastery has such a little effect on healing output that you are generally always better stacking morale, a living healer does a lot more than a dead one.

For gear you will want to grab the head/shoulders of the Osgiliath yellow line set for +20% critical healing magnitude, the rest might as well be the flower medium armour with vitality on it. Cap critical rating, cap mitigations then stack morale (feel free to throw some incoming healing in as well).

I would also recommend considering a minstrel or RK healer before playing the Beorning, there is currently no sign that anything is changing to make the class competitive in group content.

[FastPablo]

From what I have seen, there are two ways to actually play a healing bear.

1. Play it like a Captain. Go to the front of the battle, and use all your man-form wrath generation skills. This allows you to deal mediocre damage, get wrath, and if needed, go into bear form to heal someone back up.

2. Heal like a minstrel or RK would by standing back to heal. This has the advantage of being able to focus on healing, but the disadvantage being slow wrath generation.

The first one is self explanatory, so I will go over a possible rotation for #2:


1. Natures mend. It is a quick induction that gets you wrath.
2. Biting edge. Though it won't do any damage if you are away from the action, it does get you a quick 15 wrath.
3. Keep using natures mend, and if biting edge is up, use that too. The goal is to get max wrath for potent heals.
4. Look at the moral of your fellowship members. If someone is low on health, go for Encouraging Roar. This is a super awesome heal in terms of raw healing power, and can bring someone back up if it crits.
5. When you don't have to heal anyone, make sure your wrath is at 100%: you never know when you might have start healing again.
6. If multiple fellowship members are low, do Rejuvenating Bellow, then run in and do Relentless Maul. These are your two AoE heals, and they are pretty strong too.

If the fellowship is about to wipe, but you have high health, do the following:

1. Sacrifice
2. Nature's Bond
3. Rejuvenating Bellow
4. Relentless Maul

If you do it quick enough, you might get lucky and manage to save your fellowship. Sacrifice redirects damage to you, nature's bond redirects any healing you get to your marked target, and the two AoE heals might just save the fellowship.


Again, I don't have much experience, but *bam*, one healing rotation to try out. Hope it helps

[Rimenuir]

From what I have seen, there are two ways to actually play a healing bear.

1. Play it like a Captain. Go to the front of the battle, and use all your man-form wrath generation skills. This allows you to deal mediocre damage, get wrath, and if needed, go into bear form to heal someone back up.

2. Heal like a minstrel or RK would by standing back to heal. This has the advantage of being able to focus on healing, but the disadvantage being slow wrath generation.

The first one is self explanatory, so I will go over a possible rotation for #2:


1. Natures mend. It is a quick induction that gets you wrath.
2. Biting edge. Though it won't do any damage if you are away from the action, it does get you a quick 15 wrath.
3. Keep using natures mend, and if biting edge is up, use that too. The goal is to get max wrath for potent heals.
4. Look at the moral of your fellowship members. If someone is low on health, go for Encouraging Roar. This is a super awesome heal in terms of raw healing power, and can bring someone back up if it crits.
5. When you don't have to heal anyone, make sure your wrath is at 100%: you never know when you might have start healing again.
6. If multiple fellowship members are low, do Rejuvenating Bellow, then run in and do Relentless Maul. These are your two AoE heals, and they are pretty strong too.

If the fellowship is about to wipe, but you have high health, do the following:

1. Sacrifice
2. Nature's Bond
3. Rejuvenating Bellow
4. Relentless Maul

If you do it quick enough, you might get lucky and manage to save your fellowship. Sacrifice redirects damage to you, nature's bond redirects any healing you get to your marked target, and the two AoE heals might just save the fellowship.


Again, I don't have much experience, but *bam*, one healing rotation to try out. Hope it helps

Thanks!