Guild Wars 2

The wiki and tooltip states that Blood Fiend heals 926 health (every 3 seconds) but more often than not I see it heal for about 1k+ each time (see the attached photo). Sometimes I see it heal for 900+ instead. Blood Fiend apparently doesnt scale with healing power, and I don’t run healing power anyway.

What’s up with this discrepancy? If it’s supposed to heal 1075 every 3 seconds it’s actually one of the strongest heals in the game (358 hp/s).

Are you in blood magic? That gives a base 150 Healing power in the grandmaster-minor trait.

Yeah it’s strong but it’s also very vulnerable. The Blood Fiend can obviously be killed, blinded and CCed, and its attacks can fail to land.

MasterElements.5023:

Are you in blood magic? That gives a base 150 Healing power in the grandmaster-minor trait.

The Blood Fiend’s attacks do not scale with Healing Power.

However, the Vampiric trait will increase the amount of healing the Blood Fiend applies, though I am not sure whether Vampiric’s healing would be rolled into Fiend Leech.

Also, it’s possibly that while it doesn’t scale with Healing Power it does scale with attack damage- in which case, the Fiend would benefit from Necromantic Corruption and effects like Might. Pure Leech attacks are weird, though.

Most likely from WvW bonuses.

The annoying thing is, Blood Fiend’s healing scales incredibly well with healing power (66%!), but it’s the minion’s healing power, not yours. Right now, the only way to improve that is from a Warrior running the Tactics line giving it Might. For that to happen, though, it means there aren’t enough players in range of the Warrior for the Might to go to first.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Most likely from WvW bonuses.

The annoying thing is, Blood Fiend’s healing scales incredibly well with healing power (66%!), but it’s the minion’s healing power, not yours. Right now, the only way to improve that is from a Warrior running the Tactics line giving it Might. For that to happen, though, it means there aren’t enough players in range of the Warrior for the Might to go to first.

This might just explain it. It’s also not unheard of that minions and pets will sometimes leech buffs away from other players even if player is in range, and anet should frankly look into this issue.

However where are you getting your minion heal scaling factor of 0.66 from? The wiki has no mention of it. It only mentions that ‘consume blood fiend’ scales 100% with the necro’s own healing power.

SirPrizeBartSachs.4670:

However where are you getting your minion heal scaling factor of 0.66 from? The wiki has no mention of it. It only mentions that ‘consume blood fiend’ scales 100% with the necro’s own healing power.

I’m not sure where he’s getting it from but you could easily test it using a warrior’s banner of tactics.

Sarrs.4831:

SirPrizeBartSachs.4670:

However where are you getting your minion heal scaling factor of 0.66 from? The wiki has no mention of it. It only mentions that ‘consume blood fiend’ scales 100% with the necro’s own healing power.

I’m not sure where he’s getting it from but you could easily test it using a warrior’s banner of tactics.

You can’t, actually. Minions don’t benefit from banners, even if there aren’t any nearby players.

I’m getting the 66% scaling from my tests during a period where minions (and other pets) could pick up the cake from the birthday blaster item (this has since been changed and is no longer the case). That gives 40 to each stat, and the healing I received went up by 26.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

You can’t, actually. Minions don’t benefit from banners, even if there aren’t any nearby players.

Really? That’s no fun.