Guild Wars 2

I have been trying to figure out which heal provides more bang for the buck. I am a Sylvari necro and I am trying to decide if my racial healing seed is better or worse than well of blood? The numbers on the tool tip look like healing seed would be better, but in practice I feel like I am getting a bigger heal from the well. Also, well has a larger AoE so it helps my allies more. I am currently spec’d into wells so the cooldown is lower on the well. I am not terribly concerned with the cooldown though since most of my mitigation comes from siphoning and ds. Does anyone know the math on this?

With the reduced traits for Well’s then between the two you mentioned WoB is better overall. If you have focused rituals then the range is better on WoB than on Healing Seed so again WoB is better. If the party is static and not moving the overall healing done is slightly better as the ticks aren’t a regen.

But if you’re finding that WoB is interfering with your party’s water fields then it might be something to consider. But to be honest if WoB isn’t doing it for team heals your better going back to Consume Conditions as compared to the cooldown on the Healing Seed for an extra 5 second wait you will get 2 heals off instead of 1 and its better you being alive for your team than dead.

Consume Conditions…

Yes, I know many people prefer the condition eater, but my question is regarding the two skills I have previously mentioned. I am sure there will be a time when I use the condition consumer, but for now I like the AoE heal.

WoB then, Seed is plain regen which you can apply with staff 2.

Consume Condition is a good heal if you have a condition build or hybrid (half condition half burst) build.

Profession heals are normally better than racial heals. And for necros cc is the only allround heal we have. Well of blood is for support builds and blood fiend dies to fast outside a mm builds. Ahh and never use SoV, it sucks kitten .

Something you need to understand about healing seed: It has almost zero range (230) , meaning if you’re not standing on top of it, you’re not getting regen, the seed can be destroyed by a stiff breeze, and since you’re most likely getting focus fired by everything around you, and you are forced to stand on top of the seed and it dies soon as you summon it. If you would like the same kind of effect as healing seed, yet a stronger heal, more uptime, and a a combo field….Use well of blood

If Fetid Consumption 1; use Blood Bag, else Consume Conditions.

Thanks all. Well of blood it is. Until I switch to consume conditions….

Well of Blood scales significantly well with any Healing Power.
In fact, I believe it’s strongest AoE heal from one skill (without water blasting etc) in game. Can be traited to siphon health, provide protection, have cd reduced and long ground target range
I really like this heal

Consume Condition is awesome. It’s the only thing we got left that actually hasn’t been nerfed to ‘a few conditions’. You can also use one of our spells that throws conditions on you before using it for extra heals.

As Rym said, if your going support, and building around it. Well of Blood can be ‘da bomb’.

Even the heals minion, dose some pretty nifty sustain. Tho, it’s pretty double edge as the going get’s tuf, he’ll die to splash dam and your left with nothing. He also doesn’t regen out of combat. Tho the dev’s say there’s no grinding in GW2, he can be a awesome choice in the many many hours of grinding trivial content for things like a legendary weap/crafting mats for ascended gear.

In pve, I only use CC or when in fight that condition isn’t present, I use WoB. Corrupt skills are great with CC but I often just transfer it to enemy.

wvw I only use CC.

And if you spend skill points on signet of vampirism I’m going to reach through your screen and choke you out
…. Seriously though…Don’t do it O_O

Druss.6917:

And if you spend skill points on signet of vampirism I’m going to reach through your screen and choke you out
…. Seriously though…Don’t do it O_O

Already did since it used to be useful for tequatl and wurm…

Andele.1306:

Already did since it used to be useful for tequatl and wurm…

It’s not anymore?

Thiggs, if you are going to use Well of Blood and trait for cool-down reduction, you may also consider Well of Power as another support AoE. WoC only partially works in WvW or PvP and WoD is more of a defensive PvP skill. WoS, WoB, and WoP are my three favorites.

PS: In case I was not clear, WoP provides a stun-break and will also clear conditions from you – something you are giving up when not running Consume Conditions – so your allies are not the only benefactors of the AoE.

Plexxing.2978:

Andele.1306:

Already did since it used to be useful for tequatl and wurm…

It’s not anymore?

Not anymore. When they made it so you can’t use it against WvW gates and objects, those bosses became immune as well.

That’s too bad. I was thinking a team of necros working in tandem with SoV could be a new teq team. That’s a lot of extra dmg.

Andele.1306:

Consume Conditions…