Guild Wars 2

I am just noticing if I trigger signet of restoration with written in stone trait I will get less heal per cast. Like normally I get around 215 heal per cast but when I trigger signet of restoration the heal goes down to 160ish per cast. So in a sense we get a less potent passive effect if we use the signet even with the written in stone trait. Is that intended? Or is it a new thing from the recent patch.

It looks like a bug to me, passive effect not counting with +healing from traits/equip?
But a devs confirmation is needed to know for sure.

Well, Signet of Restoration has a passive effect that heals per cast. With written in stone it should maintain the passive effect even when Signet of Restoration on cooldown. But what I found out is that when it is on cooldown it heals less per cast spells. This is not counting +healing from traits/equip.

Perhaps it is a stealth nerf for the heals from signet of restoration with written in stone trait? Or is it just bugged? I don’t know where to ask so a dev can confirm this.

Edit: at 80 the passive effect should give you 202 heal per cast spells without +healing. The passive effect drops to 150 heal per cast spells when Signet of Restoration on cooldown.

This was supposed to be fixed in yesterdays patch. It heals for 150 with WiS passive because thats the old value when it was 40 sec CD.

mine goes from 300 to 250.

I haven’t tested this, but do you guys have the same amount of points in Water attunement when you try with/without Written in Stone? Because that could throw off you’re healing and they wouldn’t be the same between the two builds.

This happened even before the latest patch. If you look at your buff bar you’ll notice that when you actively use the signet, you’ll lose its passive buff for a split second, gaining a new one just afterwards. When the cooldown of the signet is over you’ll lose this new passive buff and regain the original one. This thing is confirmed by the fact that it happened to me more than once when casting the signet to find myself with both the passive buffs, healing me on every cast for ~220 (normal passive buff) plus ~160 (new passive buff). It’s not a matter of +healing counting because i have only +100healing and i don’t think it would change a HoT tick that much. It’s just weaker and it shouldn’t be, as we are talking about a 30-points major trait here.