Guild Wars 2

So far the only nerf I am disappointed in is the Healing Prism nerf. I uderstand it sync’d very well with other class skills and it gave a mesmer more of a support role, instead of a Veil or Portal bot. And tbh with sigil of blood and food with the old healing Prism proc you heal 5 ppl 300ish with no healing power ever second. That is not a game changer what so ever to nerf the skill to 500 healing every 10s. Honestly Anet you should have let the dust settle before not even a week into the patch to nerf it. I for one hope they change it back to what it was or lower to cd to 2s at the original healing of 300.

I loved this trait but it was unfortunately way overpowered for any trait, much less a minor.

Vampiric Aura from a Necromancer allowed you to trigger this trait ever time you attacked. This resulted in an unimaginable amount of Heal/Sec even with absolute 0 Healing Power. It needed to be nerfed.

HOWEVER. Putting a 10s ICD was way overboard even if the heal was marginally increased. There was much better answeres and I’m disappointed ANet was too rushed to consider them.

Um i beg to differ. Minr its a GM and there are much more powerful Aoe healing going on then the mesmer. Nerf or alter Vampiric Aura instead of Healing Prism. Or ake it Vamp Aura doesnt work on it, not that hard to do. I wouldnt mind if it was set at 150 healing with no cd but tbh its not nearly a game changer like ALOT of other traits, but it definately didn’t warrant that kind of nerf.

I agree. This nerf seemed very back handed and not very well thought out. The range on it is already very small and the 10s ICD makes it something we can’t even reliably position ourselves to utilize. I’d prefer something like:

“When you heal yourself you heal a nearby ally for x% of the amount healed.”

Make it single target and bump the healing up a bit, making it a rather unique method of healing in the game and the % makes things like Vampiric Aura produce pitiful healing, if any.

All I know is IF Anet does anything to it as in a buff it will probably take 2-3 months, but what really gets me is the nerf’s come faster than the buff’s.

Grumpy.6027:

Um i beg to differ. Minr its a GM and there are much more powerful Aoe healing going on then the mesmer. Nerf or alter Vampiric Aura instead of Healing Prism. Or ake it Vamp Aura doesnt work on it, not that hard to do. I wouldnt mind if it was set at 150 healing with no cd but tbh its not nearly a game changer like ALOT of other traits, but it definately didn’t warrant that kind of nerf.

Blurred frenzy on 3 targets with vampiric aura was 24 (blurred frenzy is 8 × 3 targets) x 5 (allies) x 300 healing. It was broken. The problem is that instead of fixing it, they broke it the other way, rendering it useless and it will probably take years to fix.