Guild Wars 2

I believe that AoE healing should be reduced when there are more than X friendly targets surrounding the healer. Why? 2 reasons.

1) PVP

There are some strategies in WvW that involve cordinated guilds clumping 30+ players in one spot spamming AoE healing. Even if 5 or 6 players die in the clump, thier friends can AoE ressurect and spam ressurect on each other very quickly. Even though there are effective counters to this strategy; those counters require supplies and very well placed seige equipment. Counter strategies becomes more convoluted when the clump in question is using mesmer portals for mobility.

2) PVE

Certain dynamic events may be trivilized or thier difficulty greatly reduced when using this strategy. I’m all for developers creating more difficult dynamic events but, it might restrict thier design decisions since they would have to take this strategy into consideration when designing content.