BiS Gear
The Best in Slot (BiS) Legendary, Weapon and Relics for Aeona are shown below.
Legendaries
Time-Warped Drape Of The Lone Diety is the best Legendary right now because it directly buffs what Aeona already wants to do: press Oblivion as often as possible. Every Oblivion you cast speeds up your cooldown recovery by 1 second, which gets your Chrona builders back faster. More builders means more Chrona, and more Chrona means more Oblivion.
The other two options (Amulet Of The Chrono Trigger and Sandals Of The Withering Shores) can be playable, but with current tuning they aren't strong enough.
Weapons
Aeona’s healing profile is a bit “two-speed”. Oblivion is great for steady rot damage, and Restore Continuity is excellent once you’ve built enough Stagger to convert into healing. The awkward window is when there is heavy damage packed into a short heavy damage phase. Oblivion alone can't cover it, and your group is dying before you have built enough stagger to cleanse it with Restore Continuity.
That's where your weapon choice comes in and that is why you generally want a weapon that gives you fast, on-demand healing. You want that without being dragged out of your builder > spender loop. Long cast times are costly on Aeona, because every second you’re stuck casting is a second you’re not generating Chrona.
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The Devourer’s Hour isn’t a great fit for that reason, the cast time is too disruptive for Aeona’s tempo.
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Fragments Of Frozen Time is a decent option. It helps in those short heavy damage windows and can proc off Stagger ticks, but it comes with two downsides, no damage and a long cooldown.
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Elheryn's Guiding Sandglass can be nice because it’s off the global cooldown and can help with spot-healing.
- The Sand Of Seasons is however the best overall choice. The cast is short, the burst healing is strong, and it lines up perfectly with the exact moment Aeona tends to struggle, which is when Oblivion can’t keep up, but you also don’t have enough Stagger built to justify Restore Continuity.
Gear Sets
Set bonuses can be extremely powerful, but as a healer I generally don’t recommend them, because they are usually proc-based. Healing needs to be predictable, both for you and for your group. If your output depends on procs, you’ll inevitably have pulls where the procs don’t show up when you need them.
Because of that, I’m only listing two set bonuses here, specifically because they’re consistent and don’t rely on RNG:
Torment Of Bael'aurum: This gives a good flat amount of main stat with no rng to it. Nice and consistent, with a solid cheat death effect.
Death's Grasp: 3% Spirit and 15% damage dealt to low health enemies. This set surprisingly has the effect DPS players have. This is intended and unique to Aeona, making this set effectively increase your throughput by a large amount.
Relics
Relics are utility items that fill up 2 of your gear slots. They all have unique utility effects tied to them that enable you to do different things. From Shrouds and Portals that enable skips, to Damage reductions and Health potions. There are a lot of different Relics and each one serves a person to any given group, in any given dungeon.
S-Tier Relics
Sinbinding Stone - Grants 15% damage reduction to yourself and allies for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. This Relic is extremely powerful, particularly on some of the harder bosses in the game, and cruical to have as you progress Eternal.
Chalice Of Al'zerac's Essence - Returns 30% of your maximum mana, which directly helps to fix Aeona's mana problems.
A-Tier Relics
Ancient Wardstone - Instantly dispel all harmful magic effects from yourself and allies on a 2 minute cooldown. This can be extremely good in some dungeons.
Grimoire Of Resurrection - A simple combat rez. It has a small cast time with a 5 minute cooldown.
B-Tier Relics
Orb Of Shadows - Party wide invisibility for 15 seconds on a 6 minute cooldown. There aren’t too many notable uses of this but it can be strong if you plan around skipping packs with this.
Humming Portalstone - Opens an interactable portal. You can only have 1 of these active at any time and there is a short cooldown on how often you can take the portal. It has a 2 minute cooldown. With coordinated play it’s very useful.
Ancient Poultry Fetish - Turns your target into a chicken. Permanently. This cannot be used on Bosses but on adds or Totems summoned by bosses. There are pulls in dungeons where utilizing this Relic makes life so much easier. It has shared uses by the party on a 3 minute cooldown, so its value lessens with multiple users in the same party.
Bloodrite Drums - A 12 second, 50% movespeed increase for you and your allies.
Saltwash Elixir - Instantly heals you for 40% of your max hp on a 2 minute cooldown.