Guild Wars 2

Not only does it not work as it says in the patch notes.

But the healing on it has been severely reduced.
Has a .9 -1 Ratio with healing power.

Used to heal for 5k, which really wasnt OP considering its long cooldown. But now. it heals for a maximum of 1.7k, and thats with full healing power gear.

Yeah, I saw that’s its healing was nerfed. It’s just plain useless now.

Until they can come up with something that can replace Save Yourselves, Hold the Line and Stand Your Ground from the utility bar …no Meditation skill will appear on my bar.

redknight.8036:

Until they can come up with something that can replace Save Yourselves, Hold the Line and Stand Your Ground from the utility bar …no Meditation skill will appear on my bar.

I run a defensive meditation build. I can tell you from personal experience that meditations can be very useful if you are geared and traited correctly. I’m a non-AH Guardian, so I rely on my meditations for healing.

That being said, I agree that this change to Merciful Intervention makes it even more useless than it was before. It is the only meditation that never saw the light of day on my skill bar.

so the real question is why do we have a kittening trait that makes ONE!!! meditation instant that only has a castime of a 3/4 second…

i am not saying that anyone ever traited for focused mind. it was a rediculous trait before but now its just plain dumb. Pretty much proofs that this fix is lazy and not thought through…

redknight.8036:

Until they can come up with something that can replace Save Yourselves, Hold the Line and Stand Your Ground from the utility bar …no Meditation skill will appear on my bar.

No shouts shall be traded on my bar! the rest is crap to apply in field.

This massive nerf in healing just pisses me off

They can at least lower the cd. A 80sec cd un-traited for a kitten heal isn’t worth it. Empower heals more, does more and has a 20sec cd.

Asmodal.6489:

so the real question is why do we have a kittening trait that makes ONE!!! meditation instant that only has a castime of a 3/4 second…

i am not saying that anyone ever traited for focused mind. it was a rediculous trait before but now its just plain dumb. Pretty much proofs that this fix is lazy and not thought through…

Contemplation of Purity and Smite Condition aren’t instant, either.

Making a spell instant isn’t very clear in this game. What it does is it allows you to cast it at ANY TIME. (Stunned, knocked down, while casting other spells)

For example, lets look at our Teleports:
Judge’s Intervention: Is instant, can be cast when casting other spells (in the middle of Hammer 4 and 5 is most popular for good times) can break stuns and be used when knocked down.

Flashing Blade: Can only be used if your character is not impaired from attacking, and if you have no other abilities casting.

Both cast instantly, but only JI is actually instant.

I stand corrected and in shame… still mad that though… maybe it goes away

So it’s have nerf selfless daring and also merciful intervation…and it dont touch altruistic heal meccanism of heal?? really? Roft.

Btw the build bunker with meditation with heal when use meditation it really nice for spvp….it’s have nerf totaly this bunker build ..but also others class have take this nerf about bunker build…but now merciful intervation and selfless daring become useless….but for my lucky i had swic my build in full dps without nothing on healing power and vitality…i will wait maybe also a nerf to dps build with hammer+ gs…for chance class

It should just have the targeted teleport mechanic like judges intervention, except that you can only target allies. It would be a brilliant skill, and would combine very well with judges internvention. At the moment it’s still useless.

Kami.7369:

Asmodal.6489:

so the real question is why do we have a kittening trait that makes ONE!!! meditation instant that only has a castime of a 3/4 second…

i am not saying that anyone ever traited for focused mind. it was a rediculous trait before but now its just plain dumb. Pretty much proofs that this fix is lazy and not thought through…

Contemplation of Purity and Smite Condition aren’t instant, either.

Making a spell instant isn’t very clear in this game. What it does is it allows you to cast it at ANY TIME. (Stunned, knocked down, while casting other spells)

For example, lets look at our Teleports:
Judge’s Intervention: Is instant, can be cast when casting other spells (in the middle of Hammer 4 and 5 is most popular for good times) can break stuns and be used when knocked down.

Flashing Blade: Can only be used if your character is not impaired from attacking, and if you have no other abilities casting.

Both cast instantly, but only JI is actually instant.

Actually Contemplation of Purity is instant, and a stun breaker at that. So Smite Condition still stands as being the only good mediation left to be traited to be instant. Although I agree that being able to cast Smite Condition at any time is still useful.

ref.8196:

It should just have the targeted teleport mechanic like judges intervention, except that you can only target allies. It would be a brilliant skill, and would combine very well with judges internvention. At the moment it’s still useless.

I agree, but it seems Anet doesn’t want guardians to have targeted heals or ground targeted teleportation skills. I would just change the skill mechanics to be an escape skill with a catch, kind of like the engineer’s Rocket Boots.

Merciful Intervention

• 1s cast, 45s cooldown, 900 range
• Teleport backward, and heal nearby allies, except self. You are set on fire for 4 secs. Now works with Monk’s Focus.

The longer cast time and self burning are there to deter people from just using it as another gap closer. However, with the proper traits it would gain much more versatility. Focused Mind, Inner Fire, and Monk’s Focus would make the skill really useful and we have plenty of condition removal.

They could always just do what they’ve done with JI and make MI break stun effects. Have it work the same but for allies rather than foes. At that point the healing wouldn’t matter so much as you could use it to break out of control effects. It’d be your “oh kitten” button with a small bonus heal.

Edit: upon further reading of the topic, disregard my post.