Part 8 – Hybrid Healer Builds:
Warning:
Please bare in mind that this builds are either theory craft or experimental. All are in development and thus are not perfect. Please do not take this as a finished product but a concept that you yourself can take some ideas from and tune to perfection.
Melee Healer with Burst:
So this is a full DPS Melee Healer build that also accommodates the Caster Healers Frenzy burst. It has everything that a Melee Healer has in terms of DPS but allows for the Celestial Judgement Frenzy burst, which also facilitates the Heavenly Smite AoE burst.
I could envisage this spec having an AoE rotation like this:
1 - Have aspect of
Aspect of Light active
2 - Cast
Heavenly Smite
3 - Cast
Frenzy
4 - Spam cast
Celestial Judgement until Frenzy buff end
5 - Caster
Heavenly Smite
6 - Activate
Aspect of Rage
7 - Spam
Chain of Light
The reason we start in Aspect of Light is so we can get the Fanatacism stacks from casting Celestial Judgement. The reason we then change to Aspect of Rage is so we can go back into our usual Melee Healer rotation.
Again, experimental but I believe worth testing as the potential upsides when perfected could be huge.
Caster/Full Healer:
The idea behind this build is to make a full hybrid caster/full healer. It has a great deal of things from both specs, being able to fill the roll of either DPS or Full healing while not being perfect at both.
This is more for those easier Astral allods, or as an off healer/dps in hard allods.
It should be able to sustain relatively good DPS figures and perform a solid healing role.
I suspect this build needs some adjustment as there are a few bits missing that I don’t like, such as the Inquisitor rubies. It may be that this isn't even feasible at all but I will keep working on the idea.
Full Healer with Burst:

This build is my favourite build to use by far. At heart, I am a raider - PvE, PvP, casual, hardcore, whatever - I love raiding. As someone who has healed raids in PvE for over 4 years I have noticed a lot of things. 1 of these was that raids often have "quiet" moments for healers. This could be when a boss is performing a special attack or switching a phase, at the start of a fight when the Paladin won't break barriers for about 8-10 seconds or when the Paladins switch who is tanking, etc. These moments aren't frequent but they are certainly something that can be capitalised on.
With this in mind, I wanted to create a build that was not only optimal for Healing but also gave me some utility when there were quiet moments in raids. Hopefully, you will agree that this has been successful.
The first thing that was important about this build was that it had the essential Full Healer talent and ruby shell. Excluding Purification and Faith Boundaries, neither of which are essential for raiding at this time, this has every heal at the maximum rank. After this I thought about the best approach to DPS and concluded that DPS revolving around Frenzy would give me the highest return so I took Holy Blast, Celestial Judgement and Heavenly Smite. I then reviewed the rubies to see where I could cut to make room for extra DPS rubies. I decided to take all of the Frenzy rubies, Heavenly Smite cooldown/cast time/damage rubies and the Holy Blast/Celestial Judgement cast time rubies, along with Executioner for the DPS increase when bosses are at low HP.
So far, I have only gotten to try this in Eclipse once but here were the results.
Clockwork Knight - Eclipse Raid Boss HPS (Heals Per Second)
Clockwork Knight - Eclipse Raid Boss DPS (Damage Per Second)
I was very happy to achieve near 100k DPS while retaining the top position in heals and this demonstrated to me that the concept of the build works. I don't think it's optimal currently and needs some tweaking to be perfect, which could be dropping Heavenly Smite completely in favour of Particle of Light, but this will come in time.
If you want to try this while raiding just pop Frenzy the instant a boss fight starts and go nuts. Once Frenzy is over, go back to Full Healing, as per normal. When Frenzy comes off cooldown, just judge the situation - are the tanks stable? can the other healers cover the slack for 10 seconds while I dps? is anything likely to go wrong that will need my attention in the next 10 seconds? These questions are answered by experience and knowledge so will come in time
If you try this build, I would be very interested to see how you do with it and if you changed anything.