In swtor what is the best healer companions?

[Darkmaster]

so I can be carried like a care bear!

[Spall]

Nobody is the best healer. The companion with the higher influence will be better at healing you.

[Berserkr]

Originally posted by Lex:

Nobody is the best healer. The companion with the higher influence will be better at healing you.

Some of them have different healing skills vs other ones like Treek has an aoe heal it looks like shes tossing a watermelon but if you're in a group setting you wouldn't have companions anyway, but yes their rank lv is the best thing

[Xautos]

the only significant difference is that some companions are ranged and some are melee, that can affect the potential of healing, for example a melee companion might just leave the 30 meter range and can no longer heal while you are getting attacked by enemies, so you need to move back in range to get the healing, the same works the other way, if you are melee and your companion is ranged, you can push a target around, force them to step back a little in the fight and your companion is outside healing range.

there is also the case of some parts of a map, particular in doorways where sometimes your healer could be within 5 meters but in another room with full view but can't target you or the enemy.

so as for what is best? try to pair your preferred melee with a melee companion and the same for ranged, this way you and your compnaion will always be next to each other in a fight, at least typically.

[Taiga]

The ablsolute BEST healer I have as a companion is Z0-0M - a droid you unlock by completing the HK-55 mission that you buy from the Cartel Market. Z0-0M's healing skills are truly broken, and fairly consistently agreed upon in game by other players I've spoken with.

[Xautos]

I never use zo-om/the shroud because of the annoyingly cheerful and patronising demeanour it has.

[NavFamG]

because of the annoyingly cheerful and patronising demeanour it has.

That's something you'll need to look at too. Can you stand whatever the companion you pick keeps saying over and over and over again?

[Xautos]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

because of the annoyingly cheerful and patronising demeanour it has.

That's something you'll need to look at too. Can you stand whatever the companion you pick keeps saying over and over and over again?

Exactly, some are more annoying than others on what they say.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Lex:

Nobody is the best healer. The companion with the higher influence will be better at healing you.

Wrong.

Z0-0M is _by far and large_ THE best heal comp in the game.

[Spall]

Z0-0M costs money too. Depends what you want to do and when. I've never really needed a meta healer in my time playing.