Guild Wars 2

Having played for a month after release, and not played since due to personal stuff, I am now ready to return!

I have mainly a couple questions:

Any new melee-based healer?

Do now the healers get xp if healing players who are currently killing? I remember those active events, where all the AoE spammers get the xp and healers get none.

Is this now different?

Thanks!

Guardians can be powerful healers, even with melee weapons.

About Healing XP, I never noticed such thing, since they don’t want dedicated healers in this game surely I win no exp only for heal the ones killing.

While I also took a few months off and just starting up again this past weekend, here’s my understanding of things.

Question #1 - No, there is nothing new. If you didn’t like a Warrior healing through Shout skills or a Guardian healer, then you’re still going to be unhappy.

Question #2 - Healing xp? Nope. Since the game puts a low emphasis on healing (whether or not that matches the healing needs of the current content), there are no +xp perks for actually healing. (Otherwise I’d be getting some nice bonuses through the AoE life draining procs that my Thief grants people.) Though if it makes you feel any better, Condition damage dot casters still have a hard time finishing large dynamic events at a gold medal rank since they only get credit for the dot stacks that they contributed before the mob hit their dot stack caps.