Guild Wars 2

240 radius? really? so how many people are going to be in a 240 radius of you while ur fighting them.

That’s not how you use that heal -__-, you use it with staff ele, use “geyser” when in water form then use arcane brilliance for a blast finisher which will heal you about 7k :P

so then theres only one way to use it so then the enemy thing is jst for looks they put it there so it compares to the others?makes sense the only reason id use this is to stack might.

I use staff in melee range more often then not, unless there’s an ally near my enemy so that I don’t waste my blasts.
I generally have enough active defenses to last through a fight even with berserker gems, and using it to its full potential by being near people when I heal ensures that I get ungodly amounts of healing, especially with arcane wave, and stacking might becomes almost accidental.

In sPvP, you kinda have to be in a capture point to be useful - maybe zerker staff players who die when someone looks at them aren’t near their foes when using skills, but if you want to contest a point you’ve gotta be preeetty close to enemies.

Against MM Necroes, spirit Rangers and most Mesmers, Brilliance can heal for huge amounts while not in a water field.

The blast finisher is certainly much better utility on the staff (which only has one blast of its own anyway), and I don’t know if folks are running it with S/ or D/ sets - I expect most folks are sticking to ER, with the odd glyph heal.

IchigoHatake.5098:

That’s not how you use that heal -__-, you use it with staff ele, use “geyser” when in water form then use arcane brilliance for a blast finisher which will heal you about 7k :P

Thats the problem. A heal that is meant to be used a bit offensively in Melee range is actually better used at Range, not hitting any targets and just used on a Water Field. This is why i think D/D needs to be given access to a Water Field so that they can use it to full effect.

With Elemental Serge it is a pretty decent heal but it is rather wasted on D/D thanks to the fact they have no access to Water Fields. I have used Geyser and Arcane Brilliance combo on staff just to see what its like and I got a rather big heal from it, i think it was like 8-9,000 that was with NO one being hit by it or anything either.

Not all heal are best in all situation. For the meta PvE Elementalist, Arcane Brilliance is super effective. Its also effective in range for blasting water field. But other than that, there is better healing skill. Each healing skill is good for some situation, that’s ok.

PvE/Dungeon: I’m running a support build (0/10/10/30/20) and usually don’t need the #6 heal. I use Arcane Brilliance primary as a blast finisher that doesn’t take away a precious utility slot and also procs Altruism runes. So yes, I really like Arcane Brilliance, but no, not as heal skill.