What classes have healing abilities?

[Muted Kobold]

Right now, I'm on week 6, and I have only one Vestal. Like... literally my only healer right now. She's so easily stressed, and has visited the bar and brothel more than a religious lady really should.

Every time she borders the point of insanity. I create a squad without a healer, try to go as far as I can in a dungeon. And bail when someone's health is too low. And it's costing me :/

[Gin-chan]

Heals
Occultist,Arbalest,Antiquarian,Flagellant,Crusader, Plague Doctor

Self heals
Leper, Abomination, Hellion,Houndmaster

[La_Bataille]

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

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

Other heroes are self-sustaining and have a self-heal of some sort. 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.)

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. Very strange, not always reliable, but undeniably powerful.

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. If you can't scrounge up a main healer, a couple secondaries or a few sustaining heroes can do the job just fine.

[Bomber]

Yeah, id recommend getting another Vestal as soon as possible, and when you start feeling confortable, getting used to the occultist, who can be a very strong single target healer, but has also very strong debuffs, a mark and damage against Eldritch.

[Zunkin]

The Arbalest actually has some rather powerful healing if you gear her for it and the Flagellant has the strongest heals in the game, but can never be counted on having them available when you really need them. I've been experimenting with builds that don't require a Vestal or Occultist and so far outside of self sustaining characters the Flag and Arbalest are the two that have been really shining. If you get the candle, the Antiquarian can also do a decent job, but whenever you go without an Occultist or Vestal you have to have a party that is capable of preventing or mitigating the incoming damage in some manner.

[Manxome]

As La_Bataille said, the only classes I would trust as a primary healer are the Vestal and the Occultist. (Arbalest is the next-best, but is quite a bit worse at it. I don't have the DLC, and so can't comment on Flagellant.)

There are a total of 15 classes in the game (16 with DLC), so if you want a healer in every party of 4, you're going to need an average of about twice as many Vestal/Occultist as you have of the other classes.

Have you upgraded your stage coach to increase the number of heroes you get per week? If you followed the tutorial prompts, you should have upgraded it to have 3 heroes per week on your first visit to the hamlet.

[Muted Kobold]

Originally posted by Manxome:

As La_Bataille said, the only classes I would trust as a primary healer are the Vestal and the Occultist. (Arbalest is the next-best, but is quite a bit worse at it. I don't have the DLC, and so can't comment on Flagellant.)

There are a total of 15 classes in the game (16 with DLC), so if you want a healer in every party of 4, you're going to need an average of about twice as many Vestal/Occultist as you have of the other classes.

Have you upgraded your stage coach to increase the number of heroes you get per week? If you followed the tutorial prompts, you should have upgraded it to have 3 heroes per week on your first visit to the hamlet.

I have four coming in each week. I haven't been lucky to get an Occultist or a Vestal.

[Manxome]

Originally posted by Leo The Schrodinger's Cat:

I have four coming in each week. I haven't been lucky to get an Occultist or a Vestal.

Well, the good news is that the game option for a "deck-based" stage coach is turned on by default, which means your heroes will tend to balance out over the long run. So if you haven't gotten any Occultists or Vestals yet, you have higher-than-normal odds of getting them in the coming weeks.