Overall class usefulness rating: 75/100. 9 109. The Guardian class is one of the best healers in the game, specifically when choosing the Firebrand specialization. So easy answer is firebrand or druid if you want a healer. But if you're looking for pure healing effectiveness. Also, what type of armor should I go for?Guardian. Healing in general is based on the coefficient and the base healing. In my opinion, for core classes, best healer is engineer and best tank is minion necromancer. For the specialisation you'll find hp train because HoT isn't easy as PoF. This sucks on so many levels. It seems like the second you run into a big fight you will pop your. To get started, you’ll need. Two players in celestial could probably compensate for a lack of a healer or three players throwing on a few pieces of +healing power gear and switching a round a few talents. Druid is an elite specilization of Ranger and it come with Heart of Thorns expansion, Druid atm are the best healer/support you can get but you need the expansion. Firebrand needs to be in melee range for most of their support skills. That said, you don't need healer in dungeons. But it's not applicable to every situation. Good candidates are: Virtuoso: The addition of the Inspiration traitline they can provide 5k HPS. For example, in WvW you’ll want to have a lot of condi cleanse, but in raids, there usually aren’t any condis to worry about. Makes it obvious who needs/wants healing. To begin, start at the Temple of Kormir waypoint. Healing is usually done passively and quite rarely is a burst of healing needed. With these builds you have +70% boon duration which makes you not only a healer but also a strong support. With reworked combat mechanics, a focus on Dynamic Events, voiced quest dialog, several new professions, fan-favorite races, and the massive open world of Tyria, Guild Wars 2 is far more epic in scope than the. Once you hit 80 and have access to Healing Power stat gear (available earlier but not really worth it IMO) and all the traits/skills you need then healing becomes a dedicated role. On top of just the Ventari kit situation, there's a lack of synergy with the provided weapons. Just hit the boss few times and it's OK. Amnytas Mastery. There's 3-4 main healers right now. There are more healing builds than there are healing classes. While your staff skills and your heal upkeep in Glint are decent, Ventari is a must when burst of heals are required, so losing it to give stability can be a big hit to your performance as healer. Healers are Elite Specializations, which is a skill tree that doesn't unlock till you're level 80 and have fully unlocked the core class. That's the most healing you can get with just the core professions. Also, discussed changes that Anet could make to help the build move towards the meta. It's a pretty popular selection for most players due to the great buffs, healing skills, and ability to deal a good bit of damage too. Every class can respect to do more heals over time or more healing effect. The most popular PvE healers are: 1- Firebrand: Objectively not the most impressive number wise but he got aegis and stab. High single target CC output. As HFB, your means of healing can come from tome 2, any symbol (my favorite method), regeneration mantra, sanctuary (rather than healing, this is used as heavy CC), or perhaps arrows of light. The other healers are more limited to 10-man content usually. An influx of murderous undead relentlessly hunt innocent worshipers of Grenth. It's fine if you need some burst healing but picking it up after the water field for reduced cooldown is more healing over time. 2- Mechanist: The mech do the job and there is alacrity. Not saying it's impossible, just talking. I'm pretty average in dps but it's fun to follow someone or a party and keep them alive while they wreck havoc lol. A siege weapon in World vs World . Dropping that will again nerf heal chrono. Yes! Tempest heal is a thing too. You can't be healing 100% of the time to not be able to hit few thrash mobs in. A druid can keep their minions alive and the more minions they have, the more damage they do. But some groups may welcome a heal scourge. block. I love playing a Ranger. Song of the Mist is particularly strong as well on Ventari. Sort of yes. Renegade (or herald) could work as a mostly ranged healer with ventari tablet & hammer. Scourge has fallen out of favor as a healer. Barrier is just another form of healing. 7364 said:To be honest it never happened to me that I'd not get maximum Event reward/ chest, not even with Magi Druid and healing 90% of the time. But this isn't really the same type of change. [Build] Power Healer Soulbeast. Druid, ele, rev can outheal that. Superior Sigil of Force (+5% damage)Guild Wars 2 Discussion ; Healing and support skills Healing and support skills. A healer isn’t responsible for only healing, you don’t need much heal and even Druid is enough for soloheal. Some fights will be light on healing needs, and a simple MeK3 ️5 at your feet followed by mace AAs, 2 off-cooldown, and shield 4 in water fields will suffice. Firebrand is great for bosses where you want blocks and aegis while getting continuous heals. There a give and take for each type of healer. On my never-ending search of ways to uproot the mechanist's monopoly on heal support, I experimented with Heal Specter for a week. Heals that usually make good use of the stat,. ** Ley Line gliding (a must on Xera, Escort only requires one mesmer with it, but its better if everyone can) Raid masterys: unlock them all, just do it. Exotic gear is the second best tier. Healer rev is fine for fractals and raids, open world not so much. In story/season/laurel you can get ascended jewel and back easily (search "gw2 ascended" on YouTube), and you can start fractal with an exotic gear for 1rst tier. It's only available to Druid, so no using it with other specs. What healers do you prefer in your party? I've been thinking about playing GW2 again now that I know there are healer builds available and I have a bit of free time. When it does become important it will be under heavy pressure when the run goes bad. Also you get literally 1 self heal skill. The system in team fortress 2 is pretty good. With the most recent changes to every skill being 5 target, you need a lot more support classes or hybrid classes in your 10 player group. This place was worth protecting—Tyria. Healing in Fractals. Heal Vindi in WvW. the better your group however, the less healing needed. Very good guide overall, I'm a newish player to the game so this is very helpful for someone that only played one class yet. Harrier for power, seraph/plaguedoctor's for condi, and giver/minstrel for tanking. Mantra for Block, Might & Reg (note: its a cone in front of you, so its a bit about positioning) F2 Tome for healing. Maybe the skills could apply Confusion or Torment, maybe even Burning. If you want to survive long enough to deal your damage then you need to know that the amount of agro you draw increases with your toughness, so in my experience you are better off stacking vitality. The Healer Role is very important and sought-after role in Guild Wars 2, especially in high-end PvE like Fractals, Raids or some Strike Missions. Now with two additional "classes" per profession, our options have been expanded greatly. Your message is from February, but since this thread has been reopened, in case you are still curious, the Jehovah's Witnesses are against competitive PvP games (I don't know if they are the only ones). • 3 yr. With pack rune, to get higher uptime on might, and get fury uptime. His Mechanist build and Scourge build are in similar tier but doesn't run celestial. Really good groups don't even need the healing, and just take the Druid for the reliable might stacking. Treesong at best can already heal for nearly 4k while removing 5 conditions and Urn the last threshold also heals for 3k while mitigating 50% of damage. The fourth expansion of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, is here. That said, let’s see the builds that can take a lot (or none) of hits before going down. Bladesworn increased this viability with Tactical Reload, allowing users to refresh their shouts to apply more benefits. New to PvP. Image: ArenaNet via HGG / Tyler Locke. Featured Guides. Glyph of Elemental Harmony while Air Attuned. Starting at 5:20 on the timer, a bombardier will spawn and attempt to set up a mortar. To make sure the party stays above 90% hp so that it procs runes of the scholar. Additionally, it removes conditions depending on the amount of energy you had left, between 1 and 10 conditions. The full chronological story order (including gw1, novels, short stories, side stories, and festival stuff) would be at best placement: Dungeon: Cliffside Fractal. A true healer class that the heals are not reliant on simply providing boons. Contents hide. 5. Your asking about being a tank, there is only a tank role in raids. 100% regen and good players wont die for entire rounds. 1. Even when we necromancer decide to sacrifice damage to gain sustain. Also you get literally 1 self heal skill. The specifics of the build depend on the game mode you’re playing. 6180 said: Then we agree tempest is nothing more then an generic dps now cool to know. Also for pvp you get ascended shards for ranked pvp. Access to 2 amazing blast finishers. You want to absorb the game, get a feel for its combat system. Also does a fair bit of DPS too. KekWhOmegalul • 10 mo. You can boil it down into one single value which is healing amplitude. Necro cant. It depends. A simple guide to a Guild Wars 2 Necromancer Solo Scourge Healer build, primarily for PvE such as Dungeons, all Stories, Exploration and low level Fractals [. ago. 5 ticks equals 3 seconds, so after 12 seconds the healing is at maximum. It can inflict good amounts of CC, high Vulnerability if needed, and tons of utility from various pets and utility skills. For the first two spawns, a single bombardier will move to a location near the jump pad east of the fort. The main thing I can see is the group heal on shadowstep perk. Sort of yes. In raid you will always find need for a healer in every raid, sometimes you take two. 75s cast time, we heal as one is strictly better from what I've seen. 4138 sry there is no room for healing staff support tempest. The highest potential of this Guardian Elite Specialization comes from their Tome skills. Necromancer - Minion Master NecroHowever you should also do fractals which gives you the currency to buy ascended armor, and weapons. Reasons for the setup: Spoiler Pack runes f. By omitting spamable heals, they make player health pools extremely vulnerable to persistent dps, the kind that might be experienced in a large pvp fight. So in this case you're healing for 1. 100% regen and good players wont die for entire rounds. 5. Hammer Dragonhunter is probably the easiest combo of survivability and damage in the game and great defensive support. Weapon Variants. ; At least one character will need to have completed Episode 4 A Star to Guide Us chapter 3: Legacy to be able to access. Tempest is capable of providing permanent uptime of Alacrity, Fury, Might, Protection, Regeneration, Swiftness and high Vigor on their subgroup, along with a lot of healing. It has limited healing windows due to the Celestial Avatar resources, but has very high healing during those windows of time and provides great support and CC. whatever you want to do really. It’s just straight up a better healer than herald is, unless you want to play a hybrid heal/dps build, I‘d give Herald an edge there, but then again: The number of groups you can play such a build in is very small, unless you have your own static that can run them. Skill Variants. Helaers are needed but only in end game content. 1: Make the auto proc some small consistent aoe heals. I consider these the most important roles in any type of endgame content. 1 10. So yeah changing scourge wouldn't be enough. Hi everyone. Healing Druid is a support build that provides its subgroup with Alacrity from , high Might uptime, healing, frequent condition cleanse, and permanent Fury and Regeneration. Basically most of my passive healing is done from doing damage, with some direct heals in emergencies. For raids you must bring at least one druid so there is that, for 2nd healer I always liked firebrand but scourge and others works too in certain situations. You have boon strip on the third skill of your AA chain . Life stealing is a small amount of extra damage you apply with attacks that have a small amount of healing attached, that does work with Shroud. Supportive with boons too. Absolutely needed: Gliding. Thief. That and the ability to stealth ppl is VERY nice for saving ppl as you can pop the effect and rez right after. 2 is a Safety net for PUG/novice groups, and many static groups might drop the second druid if they don't think they need the healing. Restorative Strength: Gain 5 stacks of might and resistance for 6s when you use a heal skill: Natural Healing: Heal for 500 hp/s for 8s and remove 1 boon and 1 condition from yourself each second. Each family has three basic skills that define that family. 3. But other classes can also do healing, like for example a Warrior using shouts and a trait that changes how shouts work to heal allies. I LOVE that it gets Alacrity, but do I love how it has been impleme. Disclaimer: This build is in no way optimal, it is however in my humble opinion fun as all hell to play and if you like novelty builds and fun gimmicks like I do you may get a kick out of it, now, on with the freakshow!: Gear: FULL MAGI, ERRYTHING. ago. I usually tie with the support DPS classes while going healmech. If they need healing, then you swap to medkit or mortar kit if it's up, and get the water field down and blast it, or use med kit 2 for 1 person. The closest to MOBA content we have is our PVP, which. At that point, you might need to switch to different games. 2 seconds, for a total of 5% per second. This build provides strong sustained DPS and bonus AoE cleave with. That is why people hate being a healer, because they have to do the boring job (healing) and the hard job (secondary objective - tanking,. 67% and 5% per second, 4. 2 each, plus the. It has been my go-to class/profession since Guild Wars 1. There has been alot of asks especially with Vindicator to let players play exclusively a healer in instanced content. Reviving a defeated target gives 1% of total health every 0. Skill Name – If you need this defined for you, you should stop eating glue. Rapid Swipe combo (1 skill); The orbs created do very pitiful amounts of healing. When you ask about melee weapons though, the only pure melee decent healers are scrapper and renegade. Or for some encounters where three healers are commonly used in pugs. You either go dps (Gorse, Sabetha, Sloth, Escort, Trio), or healing to help your teammates survive pulsing damage (Matthias and Xera). (1) Passive effect, e. so stacking two is abundant. The only build, which is more or less only focused on sustain is heal scourge. Going full shout healer warrior offers some nice semi-burst heals (unless you use a bunch of them all at once, leaving you on multiple cooldowns). In a 2healer pug comp, a support core of 1 chrono, 1 druid, 1 condi qb, 1 heal renegade, 1 banner warrior would be the most ideal. . High rate of force generation for frequent use of Consume Shadows (which also heals you btw). I'm coming from FFXIV where I played white mage (burst healer), scholar (shield healer) and sage (DPS healer). You might also want to check how to keep up 25 might and whether some bosses need you to save burst heals for specific moments. The top three healing/support classes in WvW are Firebrand, Scrapper and Tempest. This doesnt work in, say, Everquest TLP's (for a multitude of reasons, but lets go with this one) because every healer has a different toolkit, and every tank has a different toolkit and every dps has a different toolkit (mostly), and if you want to make sure you have Tank + Healer + slow + haste + res+ viable pulling + source of high burst. If you're okay tanking some encounters, mix in Giver's since it's the only gear with concentration and healing power that isn't overly expensive as exotics (the Candy Cane weapon set comes in this stat set and is pre-slotted. 25s if idle. So basically the way tanking works is you encourage a guy to attack you either by using a one-handed sword and shield or a fighter skill taunting ability. Keep in mind that tanks in GW2, while a great addition to any team, are not as necessary as in other MMOs and usually coincide with the support/healer build. Some fights will have damage spikes you need to "catch". The event begins at the Bastion of Balance Waypoint — [&BD0OAAA=], in a cave. For fractals I think you have to go, play a boonduration build. Probably one of the best choices for a second healer if you need one, as nothing else can bring Soulcleave's Summit and Assassin's Presence. If you have more Agony Resistance, feel free to swap out gear fore more Harrier, Minstrel, or Magi stats but make sure you are maintaining 100% boon duration on both weapon sets. I haven't sat down to grind a benchmark or anything but I'm floating around 10-15 while playing with heal rotations. ago. Most hard PVE encounters are long enough, that healing power will outperform vitality over time, even with its terrible scaling.