Guild Wars 2

The base heal is $#%#$$BS, no question about that. If you are below 50% and a bunch of degen, and the mobs are scattered, you are done for.

Now, the conditional heal: 20% of damage output in the next 6 seconds.

Now, assume that you want the skill to heal an extra 5k, in that next 6 seconds, you need to deal 25k damage; if 4k, that’s 20k damage in the next 6 second; if 3k that’s 15k damage in the next 6 seconds.

unless you WW a bunch of mobs, with 30 recharge, 1 sec activation, this heal is BS. This skill is as situational as mesmer’s portal. Not suitable for a healing slot.
Even for this skill be functional in that ideal world (lots of mobs around you), GS is mandatory for the most part. Mace, Hammer, scepter = you’re done.

I hope this embarrassing excuse for a skill is an inadvertent design mistake. If not, a checkup appointment should be in order. Anet need to know a difference between a ULTILITY skill and a HEALING skill. One can be situational, the other one has to be adequately effective regardless of what situation one is in.

Been experimenting with it myself, unless you are traited for Meditations, I wouldn’t bother. The heal on Meditation Trait heals for more then the base heal of this skill.

Its primary use seems to be giving an extra source of Fury.

It is a terrible heal but you know what. Anet has had something against Guardian’s since day one. They do not read our forums, they dont know the skill icons and so far as listening to the guard community, all they did was post a start and then never respond.

Frankly im only happy they have not made it mandatory for Guards to insert random object in the rear faster than a V8 engine, cause that would not even suprise me if that was next “buff” we got.

I would like to recive a redeem token so i can pick a new class and freely transmute my gear cause i am not seing a end to this slippery slope they have sent guardians on.

Yeah for this skill to be adequate on just a normal basis, you have to trait all the way to 30 for valor. This is rather inexcusable – one has to be boxed in in a single built set just to get the heal slot to work.