Guild Wars 2

When using Altruistic Healing in an offensive spec, should I invest in healing power? If I should, how much is enough?

I have also been wondering this for a while cuz my Healing Power, even though mediocre, it’s saved my kitten when in a tough situation, I roll back and POP Empower :P

(And it heals quite well even though ALL of my Gear is Berserker)

I consider myself an offensive guardian, and i find the 200 I have from traits more than enough.

I agree with Feandro,

I normally run full beserker gear, traited 0/5/30/30/5. I have more than enough to keep me up.

Xystus.3241:

I agree with Feandro,

I normally run full beserker gear, traited 0/5/30/30/5. I have more than enough to keep me up.

Exactly what I run and survivability is fine. As a quick example, I can just stay in front of the boss of CoF and never die, or even get below 50% HP.

It’s pretty fun and can hit for some 6-7k with might stacking in some hits while being durable.

Only thing I use for Healing is a Cleric Staff

I use AH in an all offensive build. 20/0/30/5/15. Works wonders. Plus I get extra healing from having rock dog and two spirit weapons out. Those count as 3 allies. I have no healing power in my gear either.

Healing power doesn’t boost AH that much. 69 base heal and +0.01 * healing power.
So if I’m not mistaken, +10 heal from AH with 1k healing power.

Yeah, Altruistic Healing is probably the worst heal if you’re focusing a build around Healing Power. That isn’t to say Altruistic Healing fails; it’s quite powerful. My PvE build is 1,300 Healing Power. Yes, I do have Altuistic Healing, but I also use Hold The Line, Writ of the Merciful, Selfless Daring, and Empower for additional healing. I can facetank with Hammer easily as Writ of Persistance allows Symbol of Protection to last as long as the Hammer chain, and I get five ticks of healing from Altruistic Healing as well as the heal from the symbol. Paired with Virtue of Justice, I heal for around 425 health or so each second as a minimum. I will say this: I am a tank. I can hold the attention of enemies easily, but my damage is horrible. I don’t necessarily rely on allies to survive, but the enemy does go down faster. If you focus on Healing Power and want to deal considerable damage, make sure you split your gear among stats.

You have no worry in DPS builds as long as you have a decent critical hit rate. Make sure you are activating boons. Shouts alone will not suffice if your survivability is low. Take Empowering Might if you need an additional source of boons. Pair Omnomberry Pies and Sigils of Blood for additional chances to heal on critical hits. You’ll manage to sustain high damage and still constantly generate health. Use a symbol if available as well as each tick it causes has a chance to critically hit as well raising your chance to heal from all sources. You should have no problem keeping your DPS high.