How important is Sespus?

[Hippocrates]

Hello,
I find myself focusing on other trainers like Respia and Eva, rather than Sespus. Is this a decent strategy, or is Sespus actually important for a healer? Looking over my ranks, I only have 24 from him. I believe almost all of those are from my training with Eva.

Thanks,
Hippocrates

[Delirium]

Sespus is important to healers who don't have enough respia, except possibly if you are 4th circle. I don't know how things work at 4th circle, but I've heard some say it's good to have when you can burst heal. As far as I am concerned, I'd take more respia over suspus. Since I gain spirit while I heal, my self-healing is limited by my respia, not my sespos.

[Mehan]

I only have the sespus from Eva. Course, I have 200 eva, so that's better pupils with Sespus, and when I finish Proxi I'll start back on Eva. So I suppose, when I pass fourth (In the very distant future) I'll be able to burst heal [;)]

[Hippocrates]

Delirium, I noticed that you said that you gain spirit while healing. What kind of Respia/Faustus ratio do you have? I have 1.6:1 and I lose only a small amount of spirit, and that is only every 10 seconds or so. I was just curious as to what ratio was required to not only not lose spirit, but gain it.

Thanks,
Hippocrates

[Delirium]

I don't know the exact ratio I have, but it is probably slightly less than 3:1 - I not only gain spirit, but also can self-heal and gain health while healing, *if* the person I am healing is sharing me and if that person hasn't trained much with spiritus and/or rodenus.

[Tater]

Hi Hippocrates,

I don't know exactly what ratio is required to regain spirit while healing, but I try to stay at 2:1 and it works fairly well for me. I gain spirit as I'm healing, provided the exile is sharing with me, but I can't heal indefinately. I fall slightly below that from time to time and still gain spirit, but I feel I become too high-maintenance for the other healers. Even with a 2:1 ratio the loss of health catches up to me eventually.

As far as Sespus goes, I just recently hit 150 which all came from studying with Eva and Spirtus. My burst heals are still pretty sad and I expect they will be for quite some time to come. They're really only useful with those who don't have much Higgy or Histia--I doubt most people even notice them.

Hope this helps. =)