Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!
I am sort of new to GW2, I played for a while and stopped. Then I came back, made a thief and now have a free lvl 80 boost. My question here is:

What are the healing classes in GW2? Which is the best/worst? What are the perks of each healing class?

Thank you for everyone’s future information, I will be looking forward to your help!

I wrote this in another thread on the front page and I think it’s very applicable here. If you plan on pubbing a lot, Druids are the way to go because they’re ubiquitously useful, good enough at healing, and offer lots of team damage. If you have a group of friends willing to experiment, however, then other options open up as totally usable (and a lot of fun).

I would also add healing guard to the table as a healer that provides good aegis and protection uptime on top of great healing for melee classes but weaker burst healing.

Also, OP, did your parents agree with you running around with that acount name? xD

There are currently 3 classes capable of sustained PvE healing:

Druid > Elementalist > Revenant

Druid offers best support (other buffs) even though ele can offer higher healing. Ele is used in less organized groups (e.g. PUGs, first clears) to make certain bosses more faceroll-y.

Revenant is not in the current raid meta, but has builds from previous meta. Usable in T4 Fractals.

voidvector.2780:

There are currently 3 classes capable of sustained PvE healing:

Druid > Elementalist > Revenant

Druid offers best support (other buffs) even though ele can offer higher healing. Ele is used in less organized groups (e.g. PUGs, first clears) to make certain bosses more faceroll-y.

Revenant is not in the current raid meta, but has builds from previous meta. Usable in T4 Fractals.

cough cough healing guard cough cough

Is guardian capable of sustained healing? I am not aware of any builds.

I don’t really consider protection/aegis as healing. If those are considered, then we would need to include mesmer which can spit out a lot of boons and distortion.

voidvector.2780:

Is guardian capable of sustained healing? I am not aware of any builds.

I don’t really consider protection/aegis as healing. If those are considered, then we would need to include mesmer which can spit out a lot of boons and distortion.

Yes, guardian can dish out quite abit of healing.

voidvector.2780:

Is guardian capable of sustained healing? I am not aware of any builds.

I don’t really consider protection/aegis as healing. If those are considered, then we would need to include mesmer which can spit out a lot of boons and distortion.

remember this happened though

Poutanaki.6215:

Hello everyone!
What are the healing classes in GW2? Which is the best/worst? What are the perks of each healing class?

As many people have said: Pick ranger and get the Druid Elite Specialization. Especially for raiding.

Elementalist can off heal and do decent damage.

Revenant is useful for precisely one fight in Wing 4 for the most part.

It’s the druid’s Grace of the Land. Literally the only reason aside from its decent burst healing that makes it so that no other healing spec could be considered/experimented on.

I still think GotL needs to be nerfed into just stacking more might, akin to the engineer’s HGH trait, or like Phalanx Strength. Or else there will be 0 other healing builds considered.

Correct me if I’m wrong (haven’t played in a while) but don’t Chronos provide a lot of healing as well? Although I’m pretty sure they’re tanks too

Durzlla.6295:

Correct me if I’m wrong (haven’t played in a while) but don’t Chronos provide a lot of healing as well? Although I’m pretty sure they’re tanks too

Only if Minstrel’s, but yes that is correct. They can provide a lot of sustained healing over the course of an encounter through Mantra heal and the regeneration boon.