Blue Protocol Lifebind Verdant Oracle build: Best Talent setup, stats, and gearing

If you want to be the best healer in Blue Protocol, the Lifebind Verdant Oracle is going to put you in position to do that. It’s easily in the top tier of healer options. It’s a more traditional MMO healer, with big heals, instant casts and shields. The only real drawback to it, other than resource management being kind of a chore, is that you don’t really do a lot of damage when soloing.

Soloing content won’t be as fun, but you can be assured that you are the right person to bring to group-based content. If you’re looking to be a reliable, dedicated healer with all the right tools in your kit, Lifebind Verdant Oracle is one of your best bets in Blue Protocol. Here’s how to play one at launch.

How the Lifebind Verdant Oracle build works in Blue Protocol

If you want a consistent, all-around great healing build, Blue Protocol’s Lifebind Verdant Oracle is definitely what you want to pick. You use Nourish and Life Bloom to keep allies safe, while also your Forest Energy to create Flower Stalks. Forest Energy charges naturally but you can increase its rate of growth, thankfully.

Lifebind Oracles are the best healers in the game, hands-down (Image via A-Plus/YouTube@Chishiya)

It’s used as a part of Life Bloom and Nourish, as a resource. When the Forest Energy bar depletes, you’ll generate a Flower Stalk, and these appear every 45 seconds. They come in a specific order, so you have a clear picture of what to do with them:

• Crimson Insight reduces the cooldown of your next Expertise Skill by 50%.
• Golden Devotion causes your next Expertise Skill to increase Healing Intensity by 20% for 10s.
• Moonlight Solace makes your next Life Bloom apply a shield to affected targets for 8s, absorbing damage equal to 200% of your Attack Power. Shielded targets also take 10% less damage.

Important Skills

• Nourish
• Life Bloom
• Blossom Charge
• Nature Ward (replace with Grove Wish if you need greater mitigation. Replace Feral Seed if you don’t need the Forest Energy regen rate increase)
• Regen Pulse

As a Verdant Lifebind Oracle in Blue Protocol, you really don’t have a concrete rotation. I’ve never felt healers ever needed a concrete rotation anyway; you use what’s necessary at the time to make sure your party is healthy and safe. That’s your job on the team, and you’ve got quite a few tools to make that happen.

Feral Seed is how you regenerate Forest Energy faster, so in many cases it’s going to be important. Blossom Charge grants you an instant heal, but also restores energy if you have Energy Expansion. This also makes your next Life Bloom free and instant, if you have Endless Blossom. Blossom Charge also interrupts enemy casts, but it does have diminishing returns.

You want to have Nourish active at all times, and if you know big damage is coming, drop Nature Ward ahead of it. Regen Pulse helps cleanse negative status effects, so if you use it at all, it’s good to have off cooldown.

You’re going to get tons of value out of Life Bloom with the right talents. For example, Nourish Essence will make Life Bloom trigger Nourish. Life Bloom is pretty much your best button. You can also use your Flower Stalks to aid party members, so pop those when necessary. You also want to have a nice assortment of utility Imagines to use. We’ve picked a few below.

Skill upgrade priority

• Nourish/Lifebloom (Get both of these to 6 as close together as possible)
• Nature Ward
• Grove Wish (if you use it)
• Ultimate
• Regen Pulse (if you use it)
• Feral Seed
• Basic Attack

Lifebind Verdant Oracle Best Talent Tree Picks

One of the downsides to Blue Protocol is that you get 40 points to invest in your talents, and there are so many great Lifebind talents for the Verdant Oracle. However, we have the primary talents you should be focusing on below, in order.

Lifebind Tree

• Lifebind Spec
• Lifeforce Extension
• Healing Infusion
• Life Bloom
• Full Bloom
• Transcendence
• Vitality
• Nourish Essence
• Verdant Nourishment
• Endless Blossom
• Flower Time Dance
• Energy Expansion
• Verdant Duet
• Inspire and Strengthen
• Ultimate Inspiration
• Verdant Root
• Bud to Blossom
• Flourishing Flower
• Tricolor Revelation
• Floral Whisper
• Wings of Revival

There are so many talents that enhance this build, turning you into the ultimate healer in short order (Image via A-Plus)

There are so many truly amazing healing skills/buffs for a Lifebind Verdant Oracle in this Blue Protocol build. You’ve got talents that enhance Life Bloom (Life Bloom, Full Bloom), Nourish (Transcendence, Vitality, Nourish Essence, Verdant Nourishment), and one that unlocks the Flower Stalk mechanic (Flower Time Dance).

Perhaps one of the most important talents is Energy Expansion, which increases your Forest Energy cap and when you cast Blossom Charge, it restores 30% of lost energy. I also love Verdant Duet because it gives Life Bloom a strong 20% chance to heal an extra time.

Ideal gear for a Lifebind Verdant Oracle in Blue Protocol

As a Lifebind Verdant Oracle in Blue Protocol, Mastery and Intellect are clearly your best stats. Mastery isn’t for damage, like it is as a Wildpack Beastmaster; here, it increases your Healing Intensity. Versatility helps for this as well, but not quite as much.

Crit is just because heals can crit, so why not have plenty of it? IDeally, you want 40% Mastery, 30% Crit, and 20% Versatility; then you can dump into Haste, once gearsets become available. We’ve covered the ideal stat order, and the gems you should consider below.

Ideal stats

• Intellect
• Mastery
• Crit
• Versatility
• Haste

Ideal gems

• Emerald - Abyss 5 (Mastery/Intellect)
• Ruby - Abyss 5 (Crit/Intellect)
• Sapphire - Abyss 5 (Haste/Intellect)

When looting gear, try to prioritize gear with the Healing Intensity, Shield Strength, and Intellect Legendary Affixes. These are some of your absolute best options in Blue Protocol. For Emblems, you’ll want Dark Corruption Backtrack, Void Engram Mystery, and Void Corruption Pulse. When considering Modules for your gearing growth, consider the following:

• Life Wave: Increases Max HP/Intellect. Changes in Health boost your highest Advanced Attribute by 10% for 5s.
• Healing Enhance: Increases Magic Attack, Intellect, and Expertise Skill Healing Intensity.
• Healing Boost: Increases Magic Attack, Intellect, and Special Attack Healing Intensity.
• Life Condense: Increases Magic Attack and Intellect. When HP is over 50%, Healing Intensity is also increased.
• Crit Focus: Increases Max HP, All Element Bonus, Crit Damage, and Crit Healing

Check out our other Blue Protocol guides and features

• Blue Protocol Star Resonance: Day 5 checklist guide
• Blue Protocol Star Resonance class tier list: All specs ranked
• How to get Arcane Seal for unlocking passives in Blue Protocol Star Resonance

Edited by Jason Parker