Guild Wars 2

So I haven’t got this yet but from what I read this removes toxic pollen, torment, poison and confusion. Toxic pollen is considered a condition right? If so consume conditions takes care of all of these and makes it worthless. However if toxic pollen is some other type of debuff not considered a condition it may be somewhat useful? Anyone know if it’s considered a standard condition?

Toxic pollen is a debuff, but CC is still better since TP barely does any damage (i think its like 64 or so) and its not even on a pre second tick timer.
The cool thing about the new heal is if you are a norn warrior in mostly SE armor colored blue yellow you can channel the spirit of SPHAZE MAREEENS and Garen the spin2win king in their full glory.

Andele.1306:

The cool thing about the new heal is if you are a norn warrior in mostly SE armor colored blue yellow you can channel the spirit of SPHAZE MAREEENS and Garen the spin2win king in their full glory.

That is a very specific scenario right there. Guess I will keep CC for now .____.

If the healing was on par with Consume condition it would be okay. But it isn’t. And removing bleeding, crippling, immobilize, all come up while fighting in the new content and considering this skill doesn’t remove those, even if you get a tone conditions on you with the new debuff consume condition will still be far better because its recharge is lower, it removes all conditions rather then a few and has higher base healing for both the conditions removes and its base healing.

Its like most other racial skills, bad versions of other skills. In this case, its a bad AoE version of CC. Its probably nice for some classes, but obviously isn’t for us.

Is it not a group heal? Been only wvw solo roaming today, so I didn’t try it out, but iirc that’s what it said.

//edit: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Antitoxin_Spray

I’m guessing it will have more relevance later when they do more with the tower thing… i.e. if we go in it, you may have to have that heal skill in order to combat pollen effects, or else you’ll just die.

I haven’t seen much out of it for general use, although it is a group based heal and condition cleanse which could possibly be somewhat potent if used in a coordinated fashion.

It doesn’t heal as much, it doesn’t heal as much per condition, it has a longer CD and it removes less conditions. It’s a direct downgrade unless you need to cure people next to you, but even then, they can just carry it themselves if they have trouble with these conditions.

Not really worth it.

About the only beneficial use I could see would be MM, but even then, well of blood might be better if you can get some finishers to condi cleanse in it.

i think it is more useful in pve than in wvw. the cooldown is too long and the heal is kinda meh. but thats ok, because otherwise it could become too op.