Hi Guys, thanks to everyone that gave advice on my “what armour for full healer” thread. Ive changed to full armour as suggested.
Next question is my life staff and Focus.
Im lvl 48 and had put everything into focus. With item buffs it was sat at 220. I then had a hatchet secondary with Amber gem and jewellery buffs of strength bringing me to to 70 odd.
The problem i had was constitution. It was like 35 or something really low.
I play as healer with my group but also like to explore/ quest if alone so need a bit of dps.
Ive since respecced and got constitution up to 100, focus dropped to 150 (2nd node point) and rest in strength (sitting just below first node)
Well, the amber does not seem to work properly, yet, so hard to tell. I am mostly Int(100+)/Focus(250+) healer. Constitution is nice for more survivability, but I use Entombed on ice gauntlet, and it regens mana as a bonus. So Const is mostly useless for me. I am squishy in light armour, so I need to carefully time my rolls, rather challenging solo. Anyway the more focus the more damage with the staff, which can be nice, but there are other weapons and playstyles for that. In some scenarios every bit of extra damage counts, so the higher focus is better for that. Now with cheaper respecing I think it is best to try and experiment yourself, use as much focus you can without compromising your survivability, no point having high damage when you are dead.
I would aim for 300 foc / 150-200 con (depending on the con food you get). Respec is fairly cheap now though, so you can play around with different distributions.
Go full heavy armor, 250-300 Focus and 100+ Con (whatever you can get with your gear) plus Con food. Make sure your offhand weapons and Jewelry also have Focus or Con or both on them to get you the stats you need. I do use Amber gems in my offhand weapons usually the T3 versions of them because I think they do work a bit, they just don’t scale as much as they should. So it’s better damage than without them.
