Guild Wars 2

So I’m aware that the regen from Healing Turret is rubbish if I pick it back up immediately.

The bug thread doesn’t quite answer all my questions about it though.

Regeneration appears to use the boon-giver’s stats to calculate the healing value. (Hence why picking up the turret kicks your regen value down to 5 per tick, since something that doesn’t exist has a value of 0 for level and compassion.)

If while that’s applied, and I get regeneration from literally ANYWHERE else, would it override the lame 5 per tick regen because of superior healing numbers? Similar to how stacking burn duration from a 0 Malice player and a 1000 Malice player will use 1000 Malice for the damage calculation.

I’m just wondering because I’m working on a support build involving a full set of Dwayna runes. A set of 6 grants 5 seconds of regen upon using a heal skill, possibly circumventing the whole healing turret pick-up bug.

I’d test myself, but I’m not sure how to test regen in the Mists since anything safe and easy to observe doesn’t cause damage to players..

try sitting in the fire to the West side of the Lobby of the Mists.

It’ll burn you at a relatively controlled rate, so you can see the green numbered goodness that is your healing turret regen.

Last I tested, a month or two ago, you’ll continue to get ticks of 5. For example, put down the turret and get 30 seconds of regen. Then pick it up and it starts ticking 5. Then get regen any other way. It will tick 5 for the 30 seconds, then start ticking bigger again. It seems to work a little like a queue.

Also turrets don’t scale with stats so as I recall you’ll always get the base regen heal no matter what your “healing” stat is.

Turrets do scale with traits; if you’re traited for Healing, then you’ll heal more while it’s down. They do not, however, scale with gear-given bonuses.

Just another thing I hope they adjust.

Healing Turret scales with Traits only in PVE. Doesnt work in the mist. Fully traited gives only +9 per tick. All other turrets still don’t scale. So its best to change your statement to Healing turret scales.

Detonate the turret, will keep ticking at 130 or whatever your stats make it, plus if you do it while the water field is up you’ll trigger an aoe heal combo.
Right now there is extremely low benefit from picking up any turrets, every turret’s detonation sets off a blast finisher and does a little damage, traited it knocks back.
Picking it up the cooldown is knocked down by 25%, so 5 seconds off the heal turret, 15 from rocket.
I suppose you can try to weigh those few seconds against the explosion and see which comes out on top, plus trait if you can spare those points, plus the toolbelt lightning trait if you really want to max out, detonate turret counts as a toolbelt skill.

It’ll still tick 5 if it’s detonated, as far as I’ve seen. I pretty much always explode mine immediately, using them to clear myself some room, and never see more than 5.

Anymras.5729:

It’ll still tick 5 if it’s detonated, as far as I’ve seen. I pretty much always explode mine immediately, using them to clear myself some room, and never see more than 5.

Ah yes, I wasn’t watching the ticks longer than 3 seconds, makes the detonation during a water field more useful I think then.