Guild Wars 2

When did they remove the healer from the daily quests? When healer was an option, people actually would take the time to rez, in fact, they would fight over who rezzed first. Now I find myself lying on the ground, people going past and not even bothering to rez anymore. Please add this back to the daily quests again, that actually gave people the incentive to rez, now they have none.

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Also, how about adding further healer achievements beyond the current 1,000 cap (Combat Healer).

Daily healer is still available. Dailies are randomly chosen from a pool, so instead of having daily healer every day, it’s more like once a week. It was recently available as one of the dailies a few days ago.

Daily healer is still in the rotation. It came up last week and seems to with about the same frequency as daily dodger. At least on my server, people still revive others, but I do see a tendency not to if:

1. Reviving would mean the reviver is likely to go down (the body is in a Champion’s cleave zone or in AoE)
2. The character is defeated rather than just downed. Given that revive speed is much slower in combat, it means spending a long time doing so. In that case, it is usually better for the defeated to waypoint and run back.
3. The down/defeat happens in a meta-event where people are trying to get credit in the all-too-brief window of the boss’s health bar.

1 and 2, above, have always been issues. 3 is relatively new.

If your experience is happening in other circumstances than the above … well it isn’t on my server, at least not while I’m around.

Sad that people need a quest to rez people, i used to knock this off on deer round the owl temple or dead refugees to get the “tick” daily done.

I rez people because it helps some one else and i appreciate it when some one does the same for me.

If the game where we work together has reached the stage where people cant spend 10 seconds rezing some one with out getting some sort of beifit for it there are bigger problems than whats in the daily.

Where are you playing that this is happening? O_o
The only time I see this happening is on a very low population map and the dead person is out in the middle of nowhere. I generally avoid ressing people like that because there is a very high chance the person is dead because they are AFK and I don’t plan on staying around to keep them alive. In that situation ressing them will just result in more damaged armor.

I revive people/npcs whenever I can do so safely. You get a couple xp for doing it and it’s not like it’s difficult to click on someone and wait five seconds. If someone went afk next to an enemy spawn point and keeps getting downed, not my fault, I’ll rez no matter what and continue on my way.

Daily Healer’s been renamed.

It’s “Daily Reviver” now. Still works exactly the same.

Thanks for the replies, I am on the Jade Quarry server, it must have been out of rotation awhile. It has been about 5 days since I last saw it. I agree with one of the replies above, it is sad that people need an incentive to rez someone, I always stop when it’s safe to help someone. I died in Caer Shadowfain, by falling from the vista above. I watched people come and go right past me, without even a second look, finally I asked in chat and some kind soul came to my rescue.

Not to start server wars here, but it seems to me that servers that are heavily into PvP seem less likely to rez people than servers that tend to center on PVe. It’s just too care bear for some people.

I always ress people lying around (even if they are a bit off my path) but I will first clear the mobs around them if they are already defeated. ressing without clearing first takes forever and is dangerous if you play without any vitality/toughness on your char.
if they are down, I look at the health and decide whether to heal them or just kill the mob they are attacking.

funnily enough, I often see a downed symbol on the map, rush towards it and the player just dies when I arrive. I start clearing the mobs and the player ports instead of waiting a few more seconds for the ress. makes me hesitant to even go after downed symbols if they are not right next to me, considering the danger it brings (running towards them tends to train a few mobs behind me, in addition to the ones fighting the other player, so it’s possible they overwhelm me when I arrive).

and for me it doesn’t matter if the reviver daily is active or not, I’d say it usually is a question of general player behaviour, the daily doesn’t make people more or less helpful (they get easier resses from npc’s)