Guild Wars 2

I’m interested in which reasons lead other engineers into choosing this or that healing skill as their preferred one.

For me, it’s Elixir H, because I never, EVER run any build without 409. I’m paranoid about conditions: nothing screws you up like having 15 bleeds on your behind. So basically Elixir H and B are always in my bar for quick and easy buffs and condition removal.

What about you?

H. for the same reasons. alch trait line is so good.
25s cd on H is ok.. but not amazing. but hgh, and 409. so good.

Super elixir. Because it removes conditions in an AoE, aand gives a nice combo field.

Medkits. I like being able to travel the map quickly and I’m too absentminded to ever switch it back to the elixit.

Medkit – with 20 points into Tools I get to use the Toolbelt heal on a 16s cooldown – fastest heal we have.

I like the healing turret myself – its a double heal with the toolbelt skill, it helps allies and it makes a good aggro sponge for ’nade spamming or escaping.

Medkit (every little bit of healing on the run counts, plus switness and a little condition removal ) & Elixir gun (Healing Mist and Super Elixir help recover between damage spikes).

I used to run the healing turret self combo, but i now run a full runes of the centaur with med kit.
Full party wide aoe near permanent swiftness (it’s bugged and has a 2 second longer cooldown) has helped greatly in wvwvw for running repairs and helping reinforcements get to a destination quicker (players and dolyaks).
It also has a 18 second cooldown + the bandages, antidote and stim.

Medkit.

Fast heal, high Fury uptime…and if you are being chewed up by conditions just drop 1-3 and heal through it.

The only thing to keep in mind that you have to break away from the fight to use medkit to its full potential – CC or run away from the enemy until you can drop 1-3, 4 if you need to remove condition, and 5 for fury, then turn around and continue the fight.

Medkit.

With 30 points in tools the cooldown is crazy low. Fast kits + stimulant give me not only perma swiftness while travelling but also a little buffer to start a combat with. While running away I switch to medkit and just throw everything I can at my feet, makes me very hard to catch in WvW.

I’m also completely not interested in the alchemy traitline.

If running an elixir build, then Elixir H of course.

If not, then Healing Turret. I know it is not popular, but I don’t really use it like a turret. I drop it, wait one tick, then explode it. That gives you the heal, the AoE heal, and a complete condition cleanse on a 20 sec cycle, which is better than an untraited Elixr H and can be done much more quickly in the thick of a fight than medkit.

Medkit when running solo

• Low cooldown
• Cooldown resets at 25% of your life
• Small condition removal
• Small extra heals
• You are able to throw down everything when you are stationary (capping a point, prepare yourself to solo a tougher enemy)

Healing turret when I am in dungeons or smaller groups

• AoE regeneration boon
• AoE heal (Water combo field + self detonate)
• AoE condition removal
• Blast finisher
• low cooldown when picked up again

Super Elixir in WvW zergs and sometimes dungeons

• AoE heal
• AoE Regeneration
• AoE condition removal on impact
• Light combo field for condition removing projectiles
• with Kit Refinement 100% Uptime

I never use Elixir H, because it is RNG and I rarely build deep into alchemy. Most of the time either Elixir C or Super Elixir with Kit refinement is enough condition removal.

I drop the turret and pick it up straight away for 15s c/d (and one set of regen). Then I can also use the toolbelt regen.

When traveling zones easier than Orr – Medkit (with elixir B I’m stacking almost permaswiftness without traits)
Underwater – Elixir H (burst heal I need, tossing without aiming)
Orr and party activities – Healing Turret (nice burst for me and 2 fields I need for the others)

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I drop it, wait one tick, then explode it. That gives you the heal, the AoE heal, and a complete condition cleanse on a 20 sec cycle, which is better than an untraited Elixr H and can be done much more quickly in the thick of a fight than medkit.

I sometimes go back to the turret because of this. One thing to note is that popping the healing turret (at least for me) generates some serious aggro.

Medkit :>

Low CD heal, resets at 25% hp. In coordinated play, putting lines of medkits and antidotes saves kitten in pvp. Really awesome skill. Also, infinite swiftness with speedy kits, and infinite AoE swiftness with 6/6 runes of centaur. Best heal hands down.

Healing Turret. It provides a lot of utility, including regen, burst heal, aoe group heal and most importantly it’s also a blast finisher, which is key to my might-sharing bomb healing build.