Guild Wars 2

Healing Power probably has to be the least important trait. You already have Toughness and Vitality for defensiveness.

Why not change Healing Power to something more useful like Boon Augment? Increases the power of boons. Healing Power only affects one Boon and it’s primary use is to boost the self heal, not something to be proud to have high of.

With Boon Augment it really strengthens the ability of supportiveness more than healing power ever could, of coarse some boons power must be reduced to adjust to this new ability (ex. Protection reduces damage by 20% but with high Boon Augment that can be increased to ~40%)

I think Boon Augment will appeal to those wanting to be supportive or for people that want to strengthen their own damage output without the need for high Precision and Critical damage.

I agree, healing power is probably the most useless stat in the game, They should really do something about it. The only thing that i could think of, is to remove the cooldown from sigil of water, this should make healing power a viable stat.

The only problem is having Boon Augment would make bunker builds nearly impossible to defeat, however like confusion, boons should have a PvE/WvW/sPvP split.
Which quite possibly fix the overpoweredness of bunker builds in WvW/sPvP.

When it comes to supporting builds the best way to support others and yourself is with boons, not healing power.

I wouldn’t mind if they made equipment that boosts Boons, but I don’t think it should replace healing entirely.

Sounds like it would just support boons in addition to aiding heals.

no no no no
my build is around healing power, and I like it very much.

I just had a thought for healing power…

What if healing power scaled your conditions and cleanses up? Namely, their stickiness and ability to remove them?

Might require a tad bit of rework but, with no healing power, you could apply your conditions and remove them like currently. WITH healing power, there’s a chance conditions you apply will not be cleansed (they’re passed over and remove other conditions on the list or only partially remove the condition) as well as having a better chance of removing ‘sticky’ conditions (applied by others with healing power) or removing an additional condition with your cleansing abilities.

For instance, if you’re a necro with lots of healing power, those cleansing elementalist/warriors with no healing power might remove 1 or even none of your conditions depending on the difference between your healing powers and the magnitude of the cleansing skill.

Another example, if you’re a guardian with high healing power and a thief with no healing power starts stacking blind, cripple, bleed and poison on you, your Signet of Resolve might have a chance of removing 2 of those conditions instead of just 1 (because it’s a low magnitude cleanse) while Purging Flames may remove 3 conditions on the first pulse.

TL;DR: magnitude of cleanse (and corruption/steal/transfer/convert) is how many conditions the skill affects and healing power basically gives a %chance of +1mag and healing power improves that chance on cleanses while also introducing a %chance of -1mag for your conditions.

That would make Healing Power still kind of useless Leo G. Investing in Healing Power just for a chance to remove an extra condition is completely useless. Not to mention it will make bunker builds all the more viable in sPvP if they naturally remove extra conditions being stacked on them.

Thane you have a build based around healing power?! No offense but I cannot see that to being as useful as other builds.

Well it’d be a build around conditions. Like I said, healing power would also make whatever conditions you apply that much harder to remove. In a PvP environment, it’s effectively pressuring foes to use their cooldowns more. And the builds with no good source of healing power (so practically non-bunker) will be kittened.