Guild Wars 2

Yeah, PTD is pretty weak as it currently stands. I’d increase the amount of healing the skill gives and either:

a) reduce the cooldown to 25s, or
b) change the skill so that it also heals allies around you.

When I first saw Prayer to Dwayna, I scratched my head a bit because the numbers did not seem to justify using it over any other heal I had access to. It seems I am not alone, thank goodness. Frankly that skill is trash, along with every other human racial. Sylvari racials, at least, have cursory usefulness. Human racials are nearly completely inferior to any profession skill that could go in the corresponding slot, ESPECIALLY the elite skills.

I don’t see a problem with buffing them A LITTLE if their only use is going to be in PvE and WvW.

Silor: Some professions do use the F4 slot.

PtD does have the most healing/time of the heals available to the guardian if you don’t have the reduced signet cooldown trait. If you do, then the signet becomes the best option, but you’ve spent a trait to do that.

Ya, its the highest heal and elementalist can get so there ya go. Its slightly longer cooldown, but often its decided before that anyway. The best elementalist heal gives a bonus effect however like swiftness, so there is still reason not to take PtD.

I think it needs a slight buff to the healing done but more importantly it NEEDS AUDIO like the Prayers to Kormir and Lyssa have. It wouldn’t be that difficult to add a simple line of audio like “Dwayna, save me!” to the spell.

I think the problem with the Prayer to Dwyana isn’t that it needs a buff, but that it’s boring.

I like Prayer to Dwayna, especially when dealing with Skill Point Givers. I’m a thief, and when I use Hide in Shadows it’s easy to that Skill Point Giver to rest and goes friendly.
Also it’s my highest healing skill for my thief. Is that bad? O.o

Dwayna needs a small boost. Though I do wonder if it benefits more from healing power than certain other skills..

Sorry, in Dungeons where mobs do upwards 1k + damage, Shelter is way superior with 2 second block for Guardians.

Anyways, Prayer to Dwayna needs a AoE blinding effect to be even viable.

prayer to dwayna is the best spike heal for an ele that isn’t speced into glyphs I did math =)

(calculations done with 200 healing power)

Glyph of elemental power | Prayer to dwayna
5,044/25 | 6690/30
151320/750 | 167250/750

The gods won’t come back to the humans if they don’t use the prayers. It is also the reason why they are so weak right now.

The more people that use them, the stronger they will get. There is an internal counter in game that makes a tally for every time the prayers are used.

~continues to speak out of his kitten

Yeah they need a buff.

Tamuraki.3851:

I like Prayer to Dwayna, especially when dealing with Skill Point Givers. I’m a thief, and when I use Hide in Shadows it’s easy to that Skill Point Giver to rest and goes friendly.
Also it’s my highest healing skill for my thief. Is that bad? O.o

But that’s only from a soloing perspective. Anywhere else, the extra utility that Hide In Shadows gives you is far better. It may heal for less, but you also go invis which lets you drop aggro which means less damage taken.

Kilger.5490:

Ya, its the highest heal and elementalist can get so there ya go. Its slightly longer cooldown, but often its decided before that anyway. The best elementalist heal gives a bonus effect however like swiftness, so there is still reason not to take PtD.

Idk. I have healing set and just use Signet of Restoration (without Written in Stone). With Soothing Mist, heal on dodge in water, heal on attune to water, and water weapon skills, I have plenty of constant healing without needing any big burst like Dwayna, so the signet fits my style perfectly.

I would be fine with it if it simply gave Aegis. Heals and blocks 1 hit. Or becomes a PBAoE Heal with fall off. Heals you for the maximum then heals allies based on how far they are from you. The further away they are the less they are healed.

According to the wiki, it scales to 85% of your healing power so… maybe when you reach a certain level of healing power it actually grants greater benefits than others?

I know as, an elementalist asura, there are situations when ether renewal gets on my nerve while not scaling as highly as it would otherwise. Not to mention that unlike support necro whose well of blood is AoE healing and support guardian which can spit watery-life in the face of people, elementalist do not have a support-oriented healing and have lower healing-power-scaling heals. Engineer’s blessing to dwayna is also another potential candidat if you don’t want to geopardize your elixir throw and give everyone swiftness in a dire regen-needing situation.

Well actually for some classes the Dwayna heal is better than what they get, Mesmers for example if they have 0 clones out the dwayna Heal will heal for more making it a more reliable method of healing. Although I agree it does need to be buffed a bit.