Best Healer Build Guide for The Toxic Tangle Update

Grounded 2: The Toxic Tangle Update brought a lot of new content to the game. Between the newest weapons and armor and the new and improved mutations, players can create some of the coolest builds yet. Like this broken Healer build that uses Bardic Inspiration Mutation as a catalyst for powerful team support.

Check out this guide on how to build the ultimate healer in Grounded 2. It includes the best armor set, weapons and trinkets, as well as recommended mutations to make it work even better. Heal your entire team and lead the fight to reclaim Brookhollow Park!

Best Healer Build in Grounded 2 The Toxic Tangle

For the best Healer Build in Grounded 2, players should get one of the armor sets added with the Toxic Tangle Update: The Cricket armour. It also makes use of two special trinkets: The Fantastic femur and that Nice needle.

Step 1: Get the Cricket Armor Set

To get the Cricket Armor Set, players must kill one of the hardest bugs to beat in the game: The Cricket. These bouncing menaces are highly mobile and super-aggressive and will take the slightest chance to make the teenagers their dinner, so tread carefully when you encounter them. Players need the following mats to craft the Cricket Armor Set:

Part	Recipe	Statistics
Cricket Cap (head)	1 x Cricket Head 3x Chrysalis Leather 1x Flower Petal
Cricket Vest (Body)	3x cricket part 5x Chrysalis Leather 2x ribbon rope	Defense 12 Resistance 9%
Cricket shin guards (legs)	2x cricket part 2x cricket drumsticks 3x ribbon rope

Step 2: Get the awesome femur and fancy pins

The Fabulous Femur is a trinket that can exclusively drop from any of the Cricket enemies in the game (even ORC Crickets), but getting it has a low chance: 5% or less, depending on the type of Cricket.

So, for now, and while hunting, players should equip the Nifty Needle, which increases damage on charged shots by 10%..

Fabulous Femur, has two different benefits: Lucky Flurrywhich makes all attacks have a 7% chance to increase players' critical hit chance by 25% for 3 seconds, and Fall Protection, which reduces fall damage by 50% (the latter will be especially useful given that ranged players are often prone to being thrown at and thrown from high positions.

Stage 3: Mutations and Best Weapons

Now, for mutations, players must go with Bardic Inspiration, which has the following effects:

Attacks with Bows and Greatbows have a 20% chance to buff the player's and nearby allies' damage by 15% for 10 seconds.
Perfect shots with Bows and Greatbows will buff the critical hit chance of the player and nearby allies by 5% for 10 seconds.
Dodges have a 20% chance to buff the player and nearby allies' stamina regeneration by 25% for 10 seconds.

Then equip Pheromone shotwhich have these effects when landing a perfect shot with a bow or longbow:

Nearby Buggies will deal 35% more damage for 15 seconds.
Nearby Buggies will be targeted 100% more often in battle for 15 seconds.

The other two mutations should be: Stairs PEEP.R (to maximize critical damage), and Trusted friendto increase the revive rate of allies and prams.

Finally there is two weapons that players should choose to complete this build: The Cricket Lute Bowand Disharmony.

Players can choose any melee weapon they want to complete the build, but it doesn't matter, as they should focus on landing Charged Shots with these two bows.

Cricket Lute Bow has a 35% chance when it hits a target to give nearby players and Buggies a healing buff. Meanwhile, Discord, which is a modified version of the same bow, has a chance to apply randomly debuffs to enemies hit with a critical hit.

Switch between these two weapons to maximize damage, heal and disrupt enemies (especially bosses, as they are super hard to hit).