Guild Wars 2

The addition of the new heal provided people use it could be considered an indirect nerf to condition builds?

It heals for under 4K with a 30 sec cd. I’d be glad if people use it against me

Yeah its not very good. Even if lots of people use it in groups healing each other I wouldnt worry about it, it doesn’t remove bleeds.

Its like a lot of racial skills are: crappy versions of profession specific skills. This one, in particular, is a crappy AoE consume conditions. I don’t see a reason a Necro would ever pick this up except super niche areas.

New heal is absolutely terrible and didn’t clean all conditions.

I would only use it in my own group to help with the healing. I’m traited to Blood Magic so this helps a bit. Most of the times, I don’t worry about my own HP since I’m already a bit tanky. I can remove conditions with Dagger 4 and Staff 4 anyway. Conditions are the last thing I need to think since it’s very easy to remove. I always find myself transferring conditions rather than using it for Consume Conditions.

I only find this good because Consume Conditions is already somewhat “overkill” for my group. Very situational though.

If anything the nerf to condition builds is the new runes and sigils.

Condition Warriors are a thing now. They are extremely tanky, can remove 3 conditions at a time, stun, eat condition damage with healsig tics, and now they can apply torment when you try to kite them. They can get a lot of condition duration for their stuns and immobilizes just from oil now.