Guild Wars 2

When you trigger combo fields that grant area boons (i.e. mighty blow on light field -> area retaliation), does this proc altruistic healing?

Yes it does for every boon on every person effected by the blast finisher

Basically once you give other player boon(including yourself) no matter what type of method ( can be rune, active, passive ,etc) the heal will trigger. Why you nerf it Anet, Why?

Senzox.2850:

Basically once you give other player boon(including yourself) no matter what type of method ( can be rune, active, passive ,etc) the heal will trigger. Why you nerf it Anet, Why?

They didn’t nerf that, they just nerfed the vigorous trait. Fire fields are the best with your blast finishers. Instead of 1 boon per person around you (thus a heal) its 5 per person since its 5 stacks of might.

Why are people QQing about this “nerf”? It’s better for non crit heavy builds making them able to dodge more, and since VP did NOT grant boons to anyone but yourself it’s a very very very very minor affect to AH over all.

Vanguardian.4921:

Why are people QQing about this “nerf”? It’s better for non crit heavy builds making them able to dodge more, and since VP did NOT grant boons to anyone but yourself it’s a very very very very minor affect to AH over all.

Exactly, VP only gives YOU vigor. Thus, before the ‘nerf’ you only gained 70×5=350hp (just using 70 as an easy number, its like 71 or 72) in 5 seconds from VP. However, with the empowering might trait, you get (and still do) 70×5=350hp, then 350×5=1750hp if all your dungeon mates are in range. This is assuming a single target (but it doesnt matter, since empowering might trait would scale at the same rate with more mobs as VP would).

TL:DR-
1) Before ‘nerf’ you had approximately 350+1750= 2100 heal in 5s.
2) After ‘nerf’ you get approximatley 70+1750=1820 heal in 5s.
3) This isn’t even considering all the other ways you can dish out boons to heal that weren’t nerfed
4) Worse case scenario, its a 13.3% decrease in healing, but its really less once you consider the other boon giving options.

Right. It didn’t affect any of the AH builds except those that relied heavily on critting over and over for the vigor procs, which doesn’t seem like the intent of the AH trait at all.

You’ve got to be altruistic to get the healing.