Regarding the Radiant:-
The Radiant's based on the Seraphim passive. Seraphim provides three things - a large buff to healing powers, a tiny AoE heal-over-time around you, and it increases all paranormal damage.
(Paranormal meaning dimensional, ego and magic damage).
And it's a support passive, meaning you can slot it in the support (Sentinel) role. That role reduces your HP and damage somewhat, but gives you a further bonus to healing, plus higher innate energy equilibrium - you gain energy back faster.
The damage bonus from Seraphim offsets the damage hit you get from being in Sentinel. Seraphim is the only passive that can be used in Sentinel role that grants a damage bonus.
Combined with the fact you have crazy energy regen, this means a Seraphim-based character in Sentinel can sit there and pump out attacks for decent damage all day long, since energy is not a concern. Granted, the Radiant doesn't have any really top-tier facemelting attacks...the ones it does have are average to weak. But the damage will be decent within those perimeters.
With all the healing buffs, the Radiant will get good heal numbers on Rebuke and Arcane Vitality. You will be able to heal yourself as well. Do note that this will be your main self-survivability, since other than this you don't really have much in the way of self-protection.
That said, healers tend to draw a lot of aggro in groups, because healing does generate threat. The Radiant has really nothing to deal with incoming burst damage on yourself, and has no means of dropping threat if you are aggro'd.
-- Acyl
The Radiant's based on the Seraphim passive. Seraphim provides three things - a large buff to healing powers, a tiny AoE heal-over-time around you, and it increases all paranormal damage.
(Paranormal meaning dimensional, ego and magic damage).
And it's a support passive, meaning you can slot it in the support (Sentinel) role. That role reduces your HP and damage somewhat, but gives you a further bonus to healing, plus higher innate energy equilibrium - you gain energy back faster.
The damage bonus from Seraphim offsets the damage hit you get from being in Sentinel. Seraphim is the only passive that can be used in Sentinel role that grants a damage bonus.
Combined with the fact you have crazy energy regen, this means a Seraphim-based character in Sentinel can sit there and pump out attacks for decent damage all day long, since energy is not a concern. Granted, the Radiant doesn't have any really top-tier facemelting attacks...the ones it does have are average to weak. But the damage will be decent within those perimeters.
With all the healing buffs, the Radiant will get good heal numbers on Rebuke and Arcane Vitality. You will be able to heal yourself as well. Do note that this will be your main self-survivability, since other than this you don't really have much in the way of self-protection.
That said, healers tend to draw a lot of aggro in groups, because healing does generate threat. The Radiant has really nothing to deal with incoming burst damage on yourself, and has no means of dropping threat if you are aggro'd.
-- Acyl