Guild Wars 2

Hi folks had something weird happen to me today so I thought I might report it to you and let you guys know about it. Apparently the medkit “on equip” ability is considered a heal. So Whatever you have in your sixth rune slot if it’s an on heal ability and if you have all of the same type is what spell effect is going to go off when you equip it now that runes and sigils work with kits.

I am using the Superior Rune of Grenth set, it gives me some escape options and I use the Sigil of Ice usually on my weapon or of Hydromancy, whichever I feel like using that day. Anyway. To keep from being redundant I’m usually using Ice so that my freezes last longer making it longer to get to me. This runeset helps with that.

It freezes enemies that come up to you and hit you. And the #6 has an on heal AOE freeze. I’ve discovered it goes off just by switching to the medkit in or out of battle should be handy for an escape or two. But you have to have kit refinement slotted for it to work that way.

Just an FYI for those who didn’t know.

That is known already, but I suggest you check kit-refinement (trait) options too if you’re theorycrafting, you might find smtg pretty useful… However I must warn you the rune of grenth set grants just a 2s chill duration (not 3s) thus is VERY hard to stack some duration, I already reported that in the bug section of the forum, I suggest you check the rune of balthazar set, it provides long burning and better damage.

As you’ll be swapping a bit you may also find useful the Sigils of leeching and Doom (now that they’r fixed).

One last thing… those AoE-triggered effects mostly work for pvp, don’t build around that for pve you can’t stay so close as an engi even if you use the toolkit.

Yeah, people have been been using are uniqueness of the heal kit to use “on heal” function such as centaur runes giving AoE swiftness on heal.

As many times as you have participated in engineer discussions, or debated what the engineer is or is not capable of, I am shocked you didn’t already know this . It has been mentioned in a good many discussions you participated in, and it has been like this since release.

It is very helpful, and there is a food ( I forget it off hand) that gives a 100% chance to remove a condition on heal, that I use consistently in WvW to add to my condition removal capability.

coglin.1496:

I like med kit because it removes a condition when I swap to it with “Bowl of Saffron-scented Poultry”

Been crafting it ever since. Great advice, no more conditions

Rfreak.6591:

That is known already, but I suggest you check kit-refinement (trait) options too if you’re theorycrafting, you might find smtg pretty useful… However I must warn you the rune of grenth set grants just a 2s chill duration (not 3s) thus is VERY hard to stack some duration, I already reported that in the bug section of the forum, I suggest you check the rune of balthazar set, it provides long burning and better damage.

As you’ll be swapping a bit you may also find useful the Sigils of leeching and Doom (now that they’r fixed).

One last thing… those AoE-triggered effects mostly work for pvp, don’t build around that for pve you can’t stay so close as an engi even if you use the toolkit.

I mostly use it in Orr right now, especially with so many enemies chasing me or when we have those wonderful respawn bugged mobs just show up all of a sudden. Yeah it works wonders as a quick escape option now. I can freeze everything around me and run off screaming like a mad scientist.

JohnDied.3476:

coglin.1496:

I like med kit because it removes a condition when I swap to it with “Bowl of Saffron-scented Poultry”

Been crafting it ever since. Great advice, no more conditions

That is a nice addition thanks!