Alright so first guide so don't hate me please.
Note: if you plan to serious play this spec without a healer, you have to take the role of both a tank and heal, which means keeping everyone alive, keeping aggro, (not missing interrupts!) on top of regular arbiter things.
The spec:
51arbiter/25frostkeeper/0archon
masteries:
phantom stream (2)
sparking destruction (4)
eldtrich swiftness (1)
healing expertize (3)
bulwark of souls (2)
reasoning:
by giving up some tankiness, and dps in the arbiter tree you can grab a lot of the strong healing talents in frost keeper, combined with legendary earthen renewal, legendary rime, telluric burst and soothing waters allows for very strong heals in tank(have healed 200k+ with a single er since harmony). You still have all the core arbiter abilities to tank very well as well which makes this quite useful for experts ATM.
OBVIOUS GO 61 FOR WHEN RAIDS ACTUALLY COME OUT THO(with a little frost keeper for barriers).
Legendaries:
legendary earthen renewal (strong heals)
legendary rime (decent passive healing)
legendary galvanic strike (more dps can switch for something else)
legendary misdirection / legendary swirling winds (choose whatever you wont be doing that much dps in this spec anyways)
legendary biting wind (dmg reduction)
pros:
-very strong single target healing with earthen renewal and telluric burst
-decent aoe healing with spamming soothing waters (get people to stack on butt)
-has the frost keeper 6% damage reduction in situations where you don't have a frost keeper/puri (ex. hm herecius)
-unlimited mana if managed properly with crystallize during downtime of heavy hitters
-ALLOWS for 4th dps to completely destroy encounters fast
-no reliance on healer to keep you and your group alive
- when played properly can do 30-40k hps with 10-20k absorbps
- your own cleanse
cons:
-not crazy raid healing
-people need to be near you to benefit from soothing waters properly
- you have to keep not only yourself alive but everyone else and watch their hp bars too
-lose shield surge, ebb and flow
-low dps(10-20k)
- heavy mana drain if crystallize is not used properly
Buffs:
-arcane ward
-aqueous blessing
-energized vitality
-frostkeeper's armour
-crystal barrier ( must have on yourself, will explain later)
-earthen and frost barriers to put on other people preferably lowest hp or most important dps
important abilities:
-shield of the north (ultimate cd, 100% shield)
-mana aegis (30% dmg reduction for 8s)
-crystalline shield (saves people from death, use to save yourself or others)
-crystallize (use to get mana back when nothing major is happening)
-searing vitality gives u some hp so use it every 5 minutes
-all 4 taunts/pulls
-shared agony (intercept)
-arcane projection (aggro)
-misdirection (aggro)
-swirling winds (100 charge instantly, ~20% more dmg)
-all 3 barriers
-phantom stream (strong heal)
-expel harm
-avalanche (charge attack+4s stun+ refreshes armour and magic reduction)
play style:
-spam either the aoe no charge macro or the single target macro for charge and keep aggro
use the aoe range macro to grab adds up to 20m away.
-use legendary earthen renewal and telluric burst to keep people alive and
at the same time spam soothing waters to heal and shield yourself as well repeatedly.
-(using soothing waters and any heal refreshes the super important crystal barrier, that gives ~10k to 20k absorbps).
because soothing is a 0gcd u can have it activate up to twice in a second along side frost keeper's Armour).
-use cds to save yourself.
-use intercept, phantom stream, crystalline for emergencies to heal/save others.
-USE CRYSTALLIZE when your not taking much damage to regain your mana.
- cleanse yourself if necessary
-frozen ground can temporally cc adds so can be useful when adds are stacked up
macros:
#show Jolting Wave (aoe aggro no charge)
suppressmacrofailures
cast Shattered Reflection
cast Jolting Wave
cast Galvanic Strike
cast Counter Shock
#show Galvanic Strike (single target spam)
suppressmacrofailures
cast Glacial Spike
cast Galvanic Strike
cast Counter Shock
cast Searing Vitality
#show Icy Blast (aoe aggro uses charge, but 20m range )
suppressmacrofailures
cast Icy Blast
cast Shattered Reflection
cast Jolting Wave
cast Counter Shock
#show telluric burst (spam aoe healing and telluric burst for yourself)
cast @self Soothing Waters
cast telluric burst
#show earthen renewal (large st heals every 6s, 0gcd)
cast @mouseoverui earthen renewal
#show telluric burst (medium st heals every 6s)
cast @mouseoverui telluric burst
#show freezing gust (interrupt macro)
cast @focus Freezing Gust
cast Freezing Gust
#show expel harm (cleanse macro)
suppressmacrofailures
cast @group01 expel harm
cast @group02 expel harm
cast @group03 expel harm
cast @group04 expel harm
cast @group05 expel harm
cast @group06 expel harm
cast @group07 expel harm
cast @group08 expel harm
cast @group09 expel harm
cast @group10 expel harm
cast @group12 expel harm
cast @group13 expel harm
cast @group14 expel harm
cast @group15 expel harm
cast @group16 expel harm
cast @group17 expel harm
cast @group18 expel harm
cast @group19 expel harm
cast @group20 expel harm
Thanks for reading, feedback is always welcome.
edit: have solo tanked with 4 dps for all current expert fights in sfp
edit2: resized image
Edit 3: forgot avalanche in important buttons
edit 4: added frozen ground being useful
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