Guild Wars 2

I know my math skills aren’t all that great, so that’s what a calcuator is for. According to wiki, with AH the formula is “At level 80, the amount healed per boon is 69 + 0.01 * Healing Power”. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Altruistic_Healing

I have a build that has a healing power of 200. So if my math is right and if I’m reading the text right, I should be healing for 13,802 PER boon applied? Anybody care to correct or confirm? And just an added note: the build I’m referring to is on a creator I did, not on actual gameplay…yet.

I think you made a mistake in the order of operations.
What you did is (69+0.01)Healing Power, while you should have done 69+(0.01Healing Power).
Multiplication comes before addition.

Oh yes the lovely PEMDAS….I knew I had to be making a mistake somewhere. Thanks for the clarification.

AH is more of a synergy trait then something to be counted on for big heals. As a guard your constantly applying boons to allies, works even better with EM, that applies might boon with crit. So constant healing.

AH scales pathetically with healing power. If you’re stacking healing power primarily for AH, then don’t.

I wasn’t stacking for healing power at all.

This shows how extremely bad Healing power is…

If you invest 1000(!) Stat points in Healing Power, you get 79 Heal instead of 69 for this Trait.
And for this you need to abdicate 1000 Stat points of Power/Toughness/Vitality/Condition/Precision…