PvE Formation -- need help

[Vhess]

Hi. I am PvE only, except when I have to do PvP to get points to enter specific dungeons. In those cases I will be using Auto Battle. Right now my cannon main is level 77 and I am partway through the Oracle quest. But I'm wondering if a PvE formation with no dedicated healer would work. I'm looking at working towards this for level 96 (and in theory Spartan beyond that but I'm not going to list him since I don't think I can get him any time soon):

:bst::lak::swm:
:jan::pro::inv:
:femalehero::prn::gun:

I'm not quite sure about the formation -- I haven't yet used either Princess or Prophet so I'm not sure just where to put them -- but I'm wondering if the passive heals from the Princess and Prophet will be high enough to keep the team alive without an Oracle or Shaman to pop bigger, targeted heals.

Would this setup work PvE? I'm particularly concerned about survivability against bosses. Let me know if this has potential or if it is just bad. Thanks.

[Zpirit]

It's best to have a healer and monk to make your life easier in pve. Otherwise you'll end up spending a lot of blessing of life scrolls each time u face a higher level boss.

[Vhess]

Hmm. I've been doing a little more reading and from the looks of it, I take it that the passive healing from Princess is really bad? I had assumed it would be a decent size heal, comparable to Prophet or Monk, but if that isn't the case then I guess this formation wouldn't work very well.

Darn it. I feel like if I'm forced to use Monk and Oracle my hands are tied in terms of doing interesting stuff with the rest of my formation.

Would it be possible to get by with:

:bst::lak::swm:
:gun::jan::inv:
:pro::ora::femalehero:

In this I am dropping Monk for Prophet with the idea that her passive heals on the front line would allow the Oracle to heal my main more if necessary. I'm not sure if her buffs plus targeted attacks would make up for the loss of the Monk stuff. I'd really like to be able to get 3 gunners in as well as a Prophet or Archer for the ability to target any mob.

Thanks for the feedback.

[burdagool]

you really want to keep the gunner? if you want, you could switch main to gunner and replace gunner for monk. >.>