Guild Wars 2

Hi,

In WvW I noticed people are taking the Healing Seed consumables into the battlegrounds an dropping them for an infinite amount of water combo fields in WvW. For certain classes this is gamebreaking.

As an example, I just fought a thief who was virtually unkillable because he would drop the seed and constantly heartseeker through it for an infinite number of heals. Combined with signet of malice, an thief can run variably low survival gear and outlast people in fights simply because HS procs a massive heal through the field each time they use it. If you move the thief from the field, he will just drop another one.

Same example works for hammer guardians, who can drop 2x blast finishers and AoE heal zergs over and over an infinite amount of times. When you have 3-4 guardians in a zerg using this, a team becomes extremely hard to kill. Water combo fields are extremely power, no one in WvW should be able to have an infinite amount with no CD.

This item needs to be removed from WvW, like next patch.

I’ll have to check, but the Healing Seed from Sylvari doesn’t give a combo field, but I could be wrong.

If a Thief steals from a Ranger, they get a Healing Seed that does allow them to produce a water combo field, which makes it insanely hard for a Ranger to kill a smart Thief.

If the consumable version is locked from WvW, then this is a non issue. He might have been running a fast CD steal build.

I just recognize that animation from the consumable, I didn’t know that was a stealable item from a specific class. I rarely play my ranger.

Now water field combos are OP?! Oh lordy don’t let the Engineers hear about this…

The healing seed consumable is blocked from WvW.