man at arms follows close behind because he is the perfect class for many of the boss fights, DD2, and a lot of people like him in their parties regularly because of the guarding and riposte.ĮDIT: oh and forgot to mention the MaA has some of the best camping skills in the game so another reason people like one in their party. so makes sense why those 4 are top of the tier list.

You can stun all 4 ranks, have PROT reduction, DoT, can easily hit all 4 ranks regardless of corpses, a stress heal for stalling if need be, every character can heal themselves off of deaths door. Makes sense to me since i've found a lot of people on here saying (and i agree) that the optimal party for most situations is PD, vestal, houndmaster, and hellion. With bounty hunter coming close to man at arms. Vestal, houndmaster, PD, hellion, man at arms If you can't scrounge up a main healer, a couple secondaries or a few sustaining heroes can do the job just fine.According to the red hook tier list information they posted the best classes are: Once your heroes get more powerful in their tier group and you accumulate trinkets it becomes absolutely possible to get through a dungeon without a dedicated healer but its not something I would recommend for a newer player early on. Very strange, not always reliable, but undeniably powerful. If you have the Crimson Court, the Flagellant is a weird beast, somewhere between a primary and secondary healer although maybe also the best healer in the game and also the best at self-sustaining. Leper, Abomination, and Houndmaster are the best of these, but Hellion also has a way to give herself a couple points here and there (its mainly used for other reasons.) Other heroes are self-sustaining and have a self-heal of some sort. They can't sustain like a main healer since their heals are only for a few points each, but they can be used to support a main healer, keep an otherwise self-sustaining party alive, or take someone off Death's Door in an emergency.

'Secondary' healers include the Crusader, Plague Doctor, Arbalast, and Antiquarian.

The Vestal has reliable, consistent healing, and specializes in healing the entire party at once, whereas the Occultist Wyrd Reconstruction is an unreliable but, on average, very powerful single target heal.

The 'main' party healers are the Vestal and the Occultist.

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