Guild Wars 2

Grouch just said this on the ESL stream:

Currently
Passive healing (per cast) is reduced in sPvP to: Healing per cast: 168

full effectiveness
Healing per cast: 202

So 120,23% its current state

rofl, don’t believe everything grouch says

Marcos.3690:

Currently
Passive healing (per cast) is reduced in sPvP to: Healing per cast: 168

full effectiveness
Healing per cast: 202

So 120,23% its current state

Healing power scaling is also reduced in pvp right now, from 0.1 to 0.08

That’s already more than I was expecting. Happy face

Too bad you’ll still get melted by conditions.

Hooray for passives!

This passive is part of what allows eles to be so great. I love it.

When they un-nerf it, I predict they’ll un-nerf our grandmaster water trait. That’s what really makes this heal shine.

If you say it isn’t good, you haven’t tried it out.

Confusion will still wreck Ele the most because of how many skills it can cast at the same time even with SoR even though Ele has pretty good condi cleanse

Not that this is a bad change, but I really hope it’s not the only buff we get. Ele’s are so, so far from being viable it’s going to take a lot more than this to fix us.

Are we even sure this signet will be a better option than what we have now? You have to be casting for it to work, and sometimes you either can’t (CC) or don’t want to (Confusion).

Not to mention, what’s the point of a 400-800 HPS signet when we take four or five times that in DPS? This seems like it might fall into the trap Diamond Skin did: great on paper, but negligible in practice.

edit – If this is one buff alongside others, I do think this is a solid change. I am only skeptical of this change if it’s the only one being made. I like it much more if it is complemented by other major buffs to our survivability.

Does this mean they finally realized how wrong they were about all the nerfs ele has received over the past year? I hope we’ll also be seeing a revert on RTL and mistform as well.

5 sec base cooldown between attunements pls

Nikkinella.8254:

Does this mean they finally realized how wrong they were about all the nerfs ele has received over the past year? I hope we’ll also be seeing a revert on RTL and mistform as well.

Well, if I had to choose I would definitely take the old RTL back – not for PvP but for PvE/WvW reasons. Rayti going into travel mode g

I don’t think they will revert everything, especially not mistform. People even complain about the downed state version of that skill now, just imagine the QQ about the normal version…

Celtus.8456:

Hooray for passives!

You no attack you no heal. Passive is healing signet you equip it and regen voila.

oZii.2864:

Celtus.8456:

Hooray for passives!

You no attack you no heal. Passive is healing signet you equip it and regen voila.

Agreed @Celtus go equip SoR(equip full clerics) and do nothing else(just stand there) and let me kill you with only weapons equipped no armor or trinkets and tell me how passive it is.

It won’t matter with the current meta.1vs1 maybe but i would never take out Ether renewal from my bar.Saved me thousands of times.Conditions will reck you without it.

Graendall.4765:

It won’t matter with the current meta.1vs1 maybe but i would never take out Ether renewal from my bar.Saved me thousands of times.Conditions will reck you without it.

I think so too. Even before the nerf of the signet I was already using ER because I had a hard time against condi-engis and trap-rangers.

In terms of giving signet builds a tiny boost, I approve.

They will need to do a lot more to help the eles however.

I hope this is just one of the changes to spvp for us.
Cross your fingers on being able to get past the “%” category in tpvp win/loss ratio.