Guild Wars 2

I remember all healing and elite skills are assigned to a skill type after a past patch. Why Shelter is left (it seems like a perfect Consecration Skill to me)? Because it is too strong?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/June-23-Specialization-Changes/first#post5149118

Josh Davis

Shelter will not be getting a skill category. It would probably need to be adjusted in someway if we did do it – and it’s fine where it is right now.

I’m ok with it, it’s a good skill that is used on almost all builds now and I would rather not getting it buffed and then be nerfed again or even worse, completely reworked

Because in next expansion we will get turrets so it will be turret heal.

/sarcasm

Vikkela.7261:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/June-23-Specialization-Changes/first#post5149118

Josh Davis

Shelter will not be getting a skill category. It would probably need to be adjusted in someway if we did do it – and it’s fine where it is right now.

I’m ok with it, it’s a good skill that is used on almost all builds now and I would rather not getting it buffed and then be nerfed again or even worse, completely reworked

I see, thank you. However I do hope it has a skill type even though it means it will be nerfed; it should not be an exception of the rule on all skills (oh maybe it is because I am a programmer).

Just putting it out there, the Warrior’s Mending and the Mesmer’s Ether Feast are also unclassified, so Shelter’s not the only heal skill in the game that’s not assigned to a type.

Soryuju.8164:

Just putting it out there, the Warrior’s Mending and the Mesmer’s Ether Feast are also unclassified, so Shelter’s not the only heal skill in the game that’s not assigned to a type.

Thank you for mentioning those, I do not play these two classes much. So it seems that some on-edge-of-OP healing skills will not get a skill type.

Laurence.6751:

I see, thank you. However I do hope it has a skill type even though it means it will be nerfed; it should be an exception of the rule on all skills (oh maybe it is because I am a programmer).

Assuming the other heal skills are left where they are, it could become a consecration or a spirit weapon. In light of all the skills that are unblockable ; I could see it morphed into a consecration, like a mini sanctuary that’s mobile , similar to the recent shield buff , or a spirit weapon similar to SotA that circles instead of bouncing around overhead. Either one would be pretty cool with some new animations