What is best for healing minions?

What is best for healing minions?

Blood of the Master- Sacrifice 5% maximum Health. All of your undead allies are healed for 30...99. You sacrifice an additional 2% maximum Health per minion healed in this way
5 Energy
1 Second Cast
2 Second Recharge

Verata's Sacrifice- Sacrifice 15% maximum Health. For 5...9 seconds, all of your undead allies gain +10 Health regeneration. All Conditions are removed from those allies and transfered to you. If this Spell is successful and you have control of 3 or fewer minions, Verata's Sacrifice instantly recharges
10 Energy
2 Second Cast
60 Second Recharge

Heal Area/Karei's Healing Circle- Heal yourself and all adjacent creatures for 30...150 points
10 Energy
1 Second Cast
5 Second Recharge

Healing Ring- Heal adjacent creatures for 30...150 Health
5 Energy
1 Second Cast
10 Second Recharge

Which is best?

Blood of the Master by a longshot.

Not only is it cheap and spammable, but unlike Healing Circle/Ring, it also heals minions regardless of where they are.

Most MMs take some form of survival skills to offset the pricey sac - Healing Prayers are the most common.

I like Aura of the Lich and a couple of Vamp Horrors, Blood Renewal works also with AotL.

BotM. no contest.

add a self heal to counter the sac, and your all set.

I usually take Circle and BotM. I use BotM durring combat and Circle for self heals and when we are not fighting.

I bring botm without a self heal, and if I did it'd be taste of death, less attribute spread.

But on topic, Botm is by far the best.

I always take BotM and Heal Area.

Botm. No need for self heals - thats what monks are for.

Most common are both BotM and Heal Area

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BoTM + blood renewal

[skill=card]Deathly Swarm[/skill][skill=card]Taste of Death[/skill][skill=card]Animate Shambling Horror[/skill][skill=card]Animate Bone Fiend[/skill][skill=card]Animate Flesh Golem[/skill][skill=card]Blood of The Master[/skill][skill=card]Heal Area[/skill][skill=card]Resurrection Chant[/skill]

This is my current MM build being used on Olias/Whispers, depending on who is needed. Max Death(16) and Soul Reaping(10+2),and healing prayers of 6. This is just one of many builds that can be used to achieve the MM goal.

Botm.
use Aotl and Mystic regen for healing yourself. add in conviction and Dark Bond if you are still dieing.

is AotL all that good? i mean half health can be dangerous when up against top-tier foes no?

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BotM by far. As for self heals, I prefer to put spare points into curses. Parasitic bond is more than enough to heal you in pve, even with minimal points. And there's much more uses for it then heal area. Cover hexes, drawing out hex removals, hexes for well of darkness, discord. It also allows you to take some extra curses skills if you need, all at +1 for the cost of a minor curses rune.

BotM.
Curses for Mark of Pain. Doesn't need to be much.. 8 or so.
I despise healing prayers in general.
The only time I'll run healing prayers is on my warrior for a LoD sword build. It keeps PuGs alive, sadly.

PS: Gift of Health is actually protection prayers. Just don't tell anyone.

Blood Of The Master by far is the best minion healing.

Taste Of Pain, Taste of Death, Signet Of Lost Souls, any of these work as a self-heal. Taste Of Death + Death Nova. Taste Of Pain (because you know the target will die quickly). Signet Of Lost Souls (e-management + healing with 0 energy cost; linked to Soul Reaping, what's not to love about it?)

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