Healing vs. Spirit Speak

[Black Sun]

I posted this in the mage forum this morning, but haven't gotten a single reply, then realized that I may have been asking the wrong group of people for advice.

I was wondering today, which would be a better solution for healing on a mage?

I've always given my mages healing & anatomy as a backup to healing with magery. But this morning as I was working on my necro, I began wondering if spirit speak would be a better solution? Am I getting any sort of damage bonus from having anatomy or should I dump healing/anat in favor of SS, and free up another 100 points? His current template is:

Magery 110
Meditation 110
Eval 110
Inscript 100
Healing 100
Anat 100
Resist 100

Int 125
Dex 30
Str 80

 

[Jhym]

Um, with that level of dex healing isn't helping you much there. The speed of the heal is dependent on that. so it is worth keeping 200 in a skill that heals you/cures in 10-12 seconds, or using magery/scrolls/potions?

Plus a mage has no use for either skills. You'd do better to raise your resist to 110 or higher, possible add necro/ss, though that's up to what your playstyle is.

You could add hiding and stealth, or some other combo. Or just add in alchemy and then use potion% jewels to use bombing as a technique.