Guild Wars 2

Healing breeze needs something added to it, or needs the recharge/etc. modified. I do not recall ever seeing a serious player using healing breeze. Can anyone say otherwise? Or provide reason why healing breeze is as good as shelter and signet?

I used it for a little bit in spvp just fooling around to have easy perma-retaliation it procs like 26 seconds of retaliaition with minimum plus buff if you have the one trait of retal on heal skill but it is just too unwieldy. I think it would be fine if it wasn’t a channeled cone (say 3/4th of second cast time or something) and automatically healed allies within say 600-900 range and it had a little lower cooldown. As it is currently the channel takes too long and good luck lining up allies in the cone to heal.

You’re right about the retal stacking, but I think that is probably a bug/unintended. The trait says “3 seconds of retaliation” for using a heal, yet healing breeze gives ~20+ seconds. Besides that ‘exploit’ I still don’t see the value of the healing breeze skill

Lower self heal than signet, same cooldown (higher because no trait), and no secondary benefit. And we all know shelter is great to prevent damage and to synergize with blocking traits.

It’s just not usable in the way its meant to be used, the listed heal for other people in the group is not the return you get with fast paced WvW. In reality you get about 1/2 or less the listed value as ticks inevitable miss or you experience lag. it Should just be a channeled heal like Empower(btw this heals way more effectively than Healing Breeze no contest, not even in the same league really).

Only time I ever saw that is in a fractals 60s video fighting the dredge powersuit. No idea why the guardian uses it though….