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Please watch them and let me know how you feel about them. ^^
I added a part 9 for WvW examples. 
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Yup, I’ve tagged this to watch later (not such a good look at work)
Nice videos, quite some work to look over everything
i just now finished vid 3 and i absolutely must tell u that u are too harsh on our heal consume conditions.
For ur stats, i calculated that a consume heal 9400hp /25s with 3 conditions and minion heals 12600hp if 8×3=24s +1sec cast , it heals u 8 times every 3 sec, than at last second u use for the big heal. Ideal conditions for the minion, consume could be even better but ok.
The difference if 3000 hp. But we DID NOT consider yet the dmg consume PREVENTS by removing those nasty dots AND criples/immobilizes rekittening in example eviscare hits or getting from a zerg frontline. It realy bugs me cz u mostly talked about WvW useful skills and how REALIABLE they are. With consume my hp goes up-down-up-down-up…. with minion its stays upupupup-minion dies-down-dead. So it only mentaly makes u think u last longer.
I think all our heals are good, wel needs the CD trait and some extra healing power, minions is good but u can NEVER go wrong with consume conditions.
Nice videos, quite some work to look over everything
For ur stats, i calculated that a consume heal 9400hp /25s with 3 conditions and minion heals 12600hp if 8×3=24s +1sec cast , it heals u 8 times every 3 sec, than at last second u use for the big heal. Ideal conditions for the minion, consume could be even better but ok.
The difference if 3000 hp. But we DID NOT consider yet the dmg consume PREVENTS by removing those nasty dots AND criples/immobilizes rekittening in example eviscare hits or getting from a zerg frontline. It realy bugs me cz u mostly talked about WvW useful skills and how REALIABLE they are. With consume my hp goes up-down-up-down-up…. with minion its stays upupupup-minion dies-down-dead. So it only mentaly makes u think u last longer.
I think all our heals are good, wel needs the CD trait and some extra healing power, minions is good but u can NEVER go wrong with consume conditions.
I would like to thank you for pointing this out. I didn’t make my point clear in the video. I might make a follow up video in the future to more detailedly explain this. This will probably happen as more different questions come along. I can’t talk 15 mins on just healing skills alone. ^^
But I will briefly go over why in a wvw zerg vs zerg setting that Consume Condition is the least effective of the three skills.
Team healing: I think Well of Blood is the best healing skill in wvw, because it allows you to heal your allies too. None of the other 2 healing skills comes close to it.
Consume Condition only heals yourself
Team buffing: Blood Fiend can be traited to have a recharge of 16 seconds. It has very good synergy with Rune of Altruism, which buffs all allies with Might and Fury.
Consume Condition’s recharge of 25 seconds is not nearly as effective for team buffing.
1 vs 1: The 16 sec recharge on Blood Fiend and 25 sec recharge on Consume Condition is like a 50% difference. That is huge. That means Consume Condition need to heal 50% more to be effective. And from my experience, it doesn’t. If you face a heavy condition enemy yes it is good. But you cannot guarantee that the enemy is condition based in WvW.
Blood Fiend also synergize better with upgrades like Rune of Dwayna, purely because of Blood Fiend has a quicker cooldown. Consume Condition’s 25 sec cooldown means Rune of Dwayna (normally 15 sec cooldown) will be limited, and only like 50% as effective as it could have been.
You also have to remember that Blood Fiend does deal some damage, while Consume Condition does not hurt your foes at all. When you use Blood Fiend, your enemy takes more damage while you get healed.
So I hope you understand now. Due to:
-lack of team healing support
-lack of team buffing support
-conditions from enemies not guaranteed
-lack of synergy with runes
-lack of damage dealing
Consume Conditions is, overall, the least useful of the 3 healing skills in wvw.
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Hey chips!
Big fan. Encyclopedia deserves a sticky.
Your epic accent actually makes the videos more entertaining ^^Regarding topic suggestions, there’s one thing that I could think of: How do racial skills fit into necro builds, for people who aren’t sure which race to pick (if that’s ever a deciding factor..). Just heard a BoC podcast where they mentioned that warband support scales with your own power+precision and hounds of balthazar scales with your condition damage… those sort of things.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into that in the future.
Added part 12 to talk about how to win outmanned battle. Included here is one of my most epic wvw battles. It is a great video for commander trainees. Don’t miss it! ^^
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