Guild Wars 2

I’m running PvE/WvW with such build, wearing Mhenlo’s/Dwayna set
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAndWjEa16taKb07JApHRTd1TK4GcIF5KNA-TIAA1CtA

And while I’m surprisingly (since so many says how weak minions are, I had to try them) satisfied in general, however when it comes to minions survivability it bothers me. Is it even worth trying? While farming this set is just enough to roam without any problem, but in dungeons some sort of minion healing would be nice. I’m trying to mix staff #2 and focus #4, backed up with staff #4, but it’s not enough. Bringing untraited WoB is a bad idea due to cooldown, and giving decreased cooldowns strip me from the Vampiric synergy. I thought about using Life Transfer with healing allies trait, but it’s hard to say for me how effective that trait actually is (does it even scale with healing?)

Yes, it scales with healing. I heal for 297 per pulse, so if I remember it’s 9*297 healing.
IX Blood Magic heals for like 700hp. The great thing about it is that you can enter DS just for a moment and immediately leave it and it’ll heal minions.
2# staff heals for something like 300hp per second.
I also use Dwayna runes, the more regeneration, the better.
All of this with Cleric’s set.

I would also suggest switching XII Death Magic to XI (I never use it but people say it’s good) or take last 10 traits from Death Magic and get more Blood Magic.
http://i.imgur.com/UNTXhCz.jpg

Mathog.3157:

Yes, it scales with healing. I heal for 297 per pulse, so if I remember it’s 9*297 healing.
IX Blood Magic heals for like 700hp. The great thing about it is that you can enter DS just for a moment and immediately leave it and it’ll heal minions.
2# staff heals for something like 300hp per second.
I also use Dwayna runes, the more regeneration, the better.
All of this with Cleric’s set.

I would also suggest switching XII Death Magic to XI (I never use it but people say it’s good) or take last 10 traits from Death Magic and get more Blood Magic.
http://i.imgur.com/UNTXhCz.jpg

I use almost the same build /w clerics set with a minor but important difference, I threw my 5 on deathly strenght instead of deathly invigoration because in practice it’s heal is not as helpful as throwing 5% on all that toughness on power as for runes are concerned I honestly rather go with 6 sapphire as with Sapphire orbs you get more Healing(120) +toughness(84) + power(84), now what makes it a better option is that the build includes 2 bonuses where toughness feeds power and power feeds healing but for the rest I completely agree, it’s a great build to go with as far as it goes.

Here’s my version:
http://i.imgur.com/mnQtGNa.jpg

Life transfer healing is a very powerful minion heal and it does in fact scale with healing power. You can’t really sustain them for very long off of staff 2 and the focus 4 sometimes misses them completely for no reason at all. Just remember they are designed to die so if you treat them as expendable rather than maintainable pets, it makes it a lot easier to plan out your fights.

If you’re wearing all cleric’s or apothecary’s gear, you should be using well of blood 90% of the time. It is our only #6 heal skill that scales well with healing power, and it is one of the or the best scaling #6 heal skills in the game (assuming you are in it for most of the ticks). If you’re not taking well of blood you and your minions are missing out on about half of the healing available from healing power gear.

Personally for solo PvE with minions I use Bloodthirst (50% stronger life siphoning)/Vampiric Master (minions siphon health)/Ritual Mastery (lower wells cooldown) in Death Magic.

Deathly Invigoration (heal when leaving death shroud) isn’t a very good trait in general. It might be ok if you have the 5 second cooldown on deathshroud trait, but you don’t want that trait with minions anyways.

It can also be worth taking greater marks instead of minion master to get the larger radius with which to put regeneration on your minions, depending on the situation.

Also, as Nay said, it’s not usually worth keeping all of your minions up all the time. You can let some of them die once in a while. It’s also not possible to keep them up during some AoE-heavy situations.