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Recommending Whispers of the Wind as healing solution was sure a great response to what other people said...

I fear that horse is out the barn...

Being tanky and grind stuff and buffing/debuffig is not mutually exclusive. You have to hit with some attacks at some point in order to win. And if you can hit more reliably then you win more easily. A single class Monk is also very powerful because he can stack high amounts of Accuracy through Dance of Death (+12), scaling Transcendent Suffering (+14 mythic ACC bonus) and Razor's Edge (+10) while he can weaken the enemy, interrupt them or stun them. Stunned enemies can't fight back an weakened enemies can't heal well. Which means they die faster as if you would only pummle them with auto-attacks.

Yeah I think using a Monk with high CON and Iron Wheel is a good way. Also monks get good health bonuses per level while pure Wizards don't. So a Sage does better than a Wizard when it comes to health. Just remember that 35 CON is the cap. So no need to max CON plus use a CON inspiration plus use items with CON bonus. You can skip one of those and still reach 35.

If you can't land a debuff then you also can't land a normal hit, right? It's always the same: Buff your ACC in order to land a debuff which lowers the defenses in order to deal more damage. The road to victory. Everything else is just fooling around (just my opinion). That's the reason why modals like Body Blows, Bewildering Blows and such are so powerful. -25 to a defense is great. One example: Geomancer with a club or Willbreaker, Stalker's Link and all the other ACC stuff, Miasma, Eldritch Aim, Concelhaut's Draining Touch and Essential Phantom can reliably buff his ACC so he can reliably debuff enemies' Will by 65+ and then let the Phantom crit the enemy to death with endless draining touches which target will. You can overcome every defense in the game with this because it has a) ACC buff, b) defense debuff and c) means to deal damage. If you can achieve the same with other combos you win. There are other ways to win - but in my opinion those three steps are the quintessence of PoE combat. Who doesn't buff + debuff makes combat more difficult. Which might be intended...

You can't cast PL 8 and 9 spells from Grimoires if you are a multiclass wizard.

Another way how you can do good single target damage with a dumped MIG/CC focused Bloodmage is to use Concelhaut's Draining Touch and to summon Essential Phantom. It will also get the Draining Touch weapon and can attack repeatedly with it (won't go away after hit). It targets Will, it drains health for the Phantom, it does very high base damage (corrode). While the phantom hits enemies with respectable damage (for a summon) you can place your CC spells. Like Miasma (lowers Will for the Phantom like crazy). I did this with a Geomancer but it might also work well with any other low MIG Bloodmage variant.

You don't get the point. It's ok to recommend stuff, even multiple times - when it fits a topic or a question. Putting it everywhere (and even open multiple fake help threads which are only there to boast about how awesome your build is) - that's when you start to look like a pretentious phoney begging for attention. If you think this is necessary then please go ahead.

Summons don't scale with power level but only char level. So bonus PLs don't do anything for your summons' stats. Power Level bonuses are very good with Eld Nary's + Upgrade though.

Yes, unfortunately. Hence the Flames of Devotion "circumvention"

You should report that. Nick Carver (designer of he new subclasses) said in the beta forum that the Imbue Spells are supposed to scale with Power Level like other spells do.

Hm... I tend to recommend Sage (Bloodmage/Nalpasca). Because the self damage from Blood Sacrifice and Alacrity will give you lots of wounds and Citzal's Spirit Lance + Stunning Surge and Swift Flurry + Heartbeat Drumming + Enduring Dance is bonkers. Citzal's with Force of Anguish, too. Bonus fun with Instruments of Pain. I'm not sure it's the optimal combo, but it's fun as heck if you have a good healer in the party. Solo it's just suicide.

Yes. Double Arcana-ACC boost with Imbue shots so to speak. But with non-imbue attacks of Archer and Devoted you will suffer the Arcane Archer's ACC penalty. A way around this would be to not use a Devoted/Arcane Archer but a Paladin/Arcane Archer. Because Flames of Devotion does not get the ACC Malus because it's an elemental attack. It only costs 1 Zeal and in most encounters you will not run out of Bond and Zeal altogether. In addition to that Flames of Devotion has +10 ACC anyway. AND it works with the Ring of Focused Flames, giving you additional +10 ACC on top of ACC bonus from Spearcaster/Arcana. Add Zealous Focus, too. Another plus is that (Greater) Lay on Hands is perfect to keep your animal companion alive.

Funny. With Whispers of the Wind (makes you invisible) it still works.

ROFL. To be fair: Tekehu is indeed great at both preventing DMG with his Chillfog and stuff and also good at healing with Moon's Light and Moonwell etc.

Reminding people about good stuff is ok. If you'd make a (honest) dedicated thread about something you like or recommend stuff where it's fitting then nobody would have asked how the ignore list works - or would have begged you to not express your excitement about X or Y in every thread. And that wasn't me. Instead: Thread about healing --> Use Whispers of the Wind! 2 (!) "Help" threads about how to kill a tanky herald are an excuse for bragging about same herald. Thread that's for theorycrafting about the new subclasses --> single class vanilla monk rules (aka Whispers of the Wind is awesome)! You see the pattern. You're assuming that the people here like to read about your new found stuff in every thread. And that is a bad assumption.

Sure. If you have Grave Calling go Beckoner.

Yeah - also very constructive.

More afraid to read the same stuff in every new thread I guess...

If you were to make a custom Herald built for this passive tanky healing setup of yours, how would you assign their attributes? Maxed MIG and INT. If supposed tank also highish RES. If own damage potential doesn't matter then you can dump PER and DEX and put everything into MIG, INT, RES rest CON. You can still send in summons to deal damage which will work independently from your stats but profit a lot from healing and/or lashes support.

What is your goal? I mean how do you want to support? You can makes herald a fantastic passive offensive support (stack Shared Flames + Mith Fyr + Zealous Focus) or passive healing support (stack Ancient Memory + Exalted Endurance). Or you just switch between that as you like. If you have more than one gun or crossbow user (like Maia) in the party you might also want to give Sure Handed Ila a shot (pun intended). Besides that you can't go wrong with a tanky, high AR setup + shield since your passive supports won't suffer at all. Pick up Sasha's Singing Scimitar for the per-encounter-empowered I and you are set. But even a second row guy with pike or quarterstaff or a mid-ranged missile weapon user can be good. So what exactly do you want to play your Herald?

Yes, they are fun. I like to clump enemies up with Arkemyr's Dazzling Lights, then cast Pull of Eora and then jump right into the pack and throw HoF around an retaliate like crazy. Another - often overlooked - superb ability is the PL 9 shouts of the Barb. Especially the circular one. It does good base damage and has an enormous range. The dmasge per Rage point (only 1) is great. And you can apply one (or two with Spirjt Frenzy) afflictions right away. And you can spam it very nicely until everything's dead. Great alternative to HoF if enemies won't gather tightly.

Maybe - where it fits. Not in every thread that has no hook to come up with that stuff. It's spamming. Besides that, discovering Heralds and Whispers of the Wind now is like discovering the dessert on a table a year after the meal's over and everybody's at home watching Matlock. You wouldn't run through town, waving the old dessert around, ring everybody's doorbell and scream "I just discovered dessert and man it's sooo good! Did you know? Did you? Did you?". Well I hope you wouldn't...

I think that got patched, but don't pin me down.

You can go to your profile pagename-->My Settings-->Ignore Preferences. But it's a pretty drastic move. I didn't use it on anybody yet. Most people come around at some point.