Guild Wars 2

Prayer to Dwayna doesn’t give off a bright blue-white aura while casting it unlike most other healing slot spells. So in a PvP setting where your opponents are watching you very closely, it’s a lot harder for them to interrupt your healing cast. Your cast ends and you receive your heal before Dwayna pops out.

are there any other benefits to this spell? I thought the casting time was pretty long so thought it wasn’t worth it.

Casting time on Prayer to Dwayna’s pretty short. I think it’s on par to the other heals other than Ether Renewal on ele (that I know of).

The benefit is that the heal is generally larger than the other ones (at least for an ele), but it offers no benefits other than just a straight heal.

Haley.2390:

PSo in a PvP setting where your opponents are watching you very closely, it’s a lot harder for them to interrupt your healing cast.

You can’t use racial skills in pvp.

P.S. Don’t even get started with how wvw is true pvp. (Anet has made things clear once and for all, by putting wvw into pve montly achievement category)

The only real benefit of this heal is that it’s fairly short and doesn’t have healing aura like other healing slot skills making it more of a good pvp skill. Also if your a mesmer with 0 clones out it’ll be your best healing skill as it’s more reliable than the one that scales with the number of clones you have out which could be zero as you just shattered them e.t.c.