Guild Wars 2

When I started playing Warhammer, for the first time I ever I discovered I love healing. Playing as a Zealot in Warhammer’s RvR battles was fun as hell, and made me feel useful to the group.

So after having played most of the game’s classes for the past few weeks, I think I want to settle down and play a good ol’ fashioned healer. However, as ANet has made clear in numerous posts and videos, this game does not have a, quote unquote, “dedicated healer”.

What I’m looking for, then, is the next best thing. I’m looking for a class that’ll let me AOE (or single target) heal people in WvW to help out the team.

The two options I’ve been hearing up to now is the Warrior and the Elementalist (don’t say the Engineer, I’ve played one; the medkits take too long to recharge and the one AOE skill on the Alchemy pack takes too long as well), with the Elementalist having more heal-ability but A) Little to no armor and Mostly dealing with AOE static heals, which can be somewhat troublesome in the fast-paced WvW action.

The Warrior, on the other hand, seems to have (I haven’t found the spec yet) some specs that add healing to their shouts, and another that also reduces their recharge time, allowing them to pop a 2k or so heal ever few seconds.

So anyways that’s all I’ve been hearing up till now, but I’m hoping to get more suggestions from you folks. I appreciate any help in this endeavor!

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There isn’t one.

If you’re trying to heal, you’re doing it horribly wrong.

Healing skills (aside from number 6) are, at best, something you do in addition to actually effective support skills. If you’re wanting to just support by healing then you’re going to just be a wasted slot. Making bars go up is by far the most inefficient way to help keep people alive.

Player-to-player healing in this game, no matter how hard you try to set up for it, will always take a backseat to the self-heal. You you try to focus only on healing, you’re focusing on only one aspect of the control role, and completely forsaking the other two. That will lead to failure.

It’s nice that you want to give your character a bit of healing flair, but don’t forget the rest of functions of the support role, and don’t stop doing damage and controlling completely. Otherwise, you’ll just be dead weight in a group.

There is no healing class. There are some classes that can potentially do heal support better than others. This game, however, you need to have a character that is more of a jack of all trades rather than attempting to fill specific roles.

Well GW2 wasn’t really designed to have a dedicated healer. While there are some heals available, you would want to focus on skills that remove friendly player conditions and send them to enemies. Or skills that convert friendly player conditions into boons. The old mmo healer class is just a byproduct of the trinity centered games. Here everyone is DPS, support or a combo of both. Everyone is responsible for their own healing as well. Some skills allow for ressurecting multiple friendlies in the target area. Everyone can DPS, heal them selves and provide support mechanics depending on their build. More importantly, everone can rez downed friendlies. There is no need for a dedicated healer.

im kinda tempted to try a grenade engineer with the trait that makes explosions heal allies as a healer.

if each grenade does 200 healing it might be worth it. while you wont be able to completely heal all of the damage you will make it so that running away is used far less.

@Darkdawns that spec only goes for Bombs and Mines I think.

@Everyone else, Yeah I get that I won’t ONLY be able to do healing- what I’d like is to be that guy who can drop an AOE heal at the last second and possibly save the entire zerg from destruction, or maybe that guy who tosses somebody a heal right before they fall.