Guild Wars 2

I have asked around (and tested somewhat) the medkit toolbelt, and it seems to offer very low heal, and have absolutely no scaling. It also take a long time to heal yourself, because you need to switch weapons over and over to reap the full benefit of the item.
It felt very underpowered.

Then I pondered it a bit more. And I realized…maybe THIS is the healing option with best throughput for Engies? Those of you with lots of experience, please feel free to drop some advice. I could use all the help I can get.

Firstly, the kitten thing doesn’t scale. It seems to heal about 1500HP at level 80 (from going randomly into PvP). So you can screw trying to get +heal item. You might as well focus elsewhere.
Secondly, it has really low cooldown, and you can drop a crap ton of them before they expire. Now don’t you think THAT is interesting?

So I tried it out for a bit, and lo and behold—as long as you’re a fidgety, micro-freak, the medkit has absolutely insane healing throughput. I tried dropping the medkits before a fight begins, then switch to it every few seconds to drop more and more. I can have piles of these babies lying around everywhere. It’s like I’m in a regen field—everywhere I kite, I’m getting healed. Everywhere my teammate goes, they get healed. It’s awesome! Sure, each heal is rather small. But with good positioning and timing, it can be used at the right time to save your life. I can even roll over 3 or 4 packs at once for a large burst of healing. Good times.

I’m going to play around with it a bit more.

It’s weird, 1-80 I used Elixir H. But once I got my hands on speedy kits, it’s all Med Kit from here. Switch to kit, #5, Elixir B = 30+ seconds of Swiftness. A must out in the WvW battle grounds.

Plus, I don’t think you worded your title right. The tool belt option for the Healing kit does not require you to switch to the kit. I think you have tool belt and kit confused.

When I am in a pinch, I switch to kit, turn around and book it backwards. Mashing 1,2,3,4,5 on the KB. Refresh myself and head back into the fray.

Same here,it is really useful for speedy kits (perma-swiftness),and it heals me for 4.920 from toolbelt skill,while also having a cooldown of 18s with my build (10 points in tools). med-kits are amazing for fight preparation,or escape route (3k heal and -1 condition).

Does anyone know if the medkit bandages take your healing bonus (if you have any) into effect?

yeas the healing stats does effect the of the medkit