New player, whose the best healer and is there any character who can always rest at bosses?

[Zanerus]

As the title says, new player, so far only been able to clear act 1, ive done five runs i think so far.

For me so far, bleed, poison and thorns are the three status effects that are shredding my HP, so is there any character, DLC or not, who increasing eventvhealing opportunities?

Also whose is the best healer?

[el Darkness]

It mostly depends on your team.
Reginald is the most generic healer but not the best (in my eyes).
Ottis (pigman pope) is very fun defense oriented healer, but in the beginning he is struggling to heal your team unless you pair him with Golem.
Probably Malukah have best heals?
You can always go for secondary healer, even if you want to have all classess, Gustav the bard is adept at healing.

Bleed you will have to dispel to control how much dmg it will deal to you, same goes with poison. Thorns can be mitigated with high block, resistance or with launching fewer number of stronger attacks.

[Black Hammer]

So, in my experience, generally block beats healing for efficiency, as does barrier.

As far as the status effects, yes those are deadly. You will usually want your healer to grab some combination of the Dispel and Mass Dispel cards, as removing negative conditions early and often is always good.

[el Darkness]

Negative statuses are best dealt with dispell, sometimes they have counter like Burn and Wet, but dispell is universal answer. It is also better to prevent damage than heal it, you can either prevent dmg with Block, Evades or Stealth (Scouts mostly) and Resistances. If you can get Reinforce, Insulate and Courage on your whole team, your survival goes up by a ton and makes your healer job a lot easier.

[esplin]

the synergies of the team matter more than the specific character, I typically use Nezglect with the insane->dark ring if I can get it,save gold specifically to roll for it, and back him with Malukah, and have her spec into the dispell talent at the end. It goes great for dark based teams, but Otis does great with sanctify and burn teams, bless is fun with Reginald too

[Drauka]

Reggie's the best overall healer imo. He can easily spec to heal, dps, and tank all in the same run, all feeding into each other with bless stacks.

If you want to eke out more healing without using the healer, i'd suggest doing things with vitality. Each stack adds to both max AND current hp, so its technically a heal.

As for bleed, poison and thorns. Take all the targeted and self dispels you can (general, like shake it off for warrior, not the specific stuff). Thorns either get reinforce for huge pierce resist or grab the anti-thorns stuff from scouts, or general Purge effects for healers. Also might consider leaning into DPS harder, if the enemies can't stack those curses up before you win, they mean little to nothing.