Guild Wars 2

Most classes have “sustained healing”, e.g. Warrior’s shout-healing, Ele and Thief’s heal-on-AA-sigils etc, but the only profession that can’t use Healing Power to boost this sustained healing (vampire skills/traits) are Necromancers – why is this?

How is it that other classes can spec into Healing Power and make use of it, but Necromancers can’t?

Thief’s heal-on-attack sigil scales with power, there was a recent patch note about it (not the patch two days ago, the one before that).

Necromancers can make good use of healing power with our perma-regeneration from staff. Additionally, Well of Blood scales by over 4x your healing stat, if you stand in it for the whole thing. To my knowledge it’s the strongest heal in the game in terms of numbers, and AoE to boot.

And the siphoning traits scale with something, I just don’t know what. Right after the WvWvW reset my regular hit siphons were leeching for 38 and the crit siphons for 51 (that’s with Bloodthirst). Now the regular hit siphons are 41 and the crits are 55. I haven’t changed my gear or anything, the only thing that’s changed is the WvWvW bonuses, but the only ones that directly affect your character is the extra HP and healing power. So maybe it does scale with healing power in certain situations? Not sure at this point.

Siphoning traits scale with the WvW healing increase percentage. The siphoning traits do not scale with anything.

The theory is that because siphon is a heal component tied to a damage component, that healing power doesn’t work because then it would also boost the damage component, resulting in a double-dip stat.

So siphon does not get anything from healing power currently, and I doubt it ever will.

Read somewhere it did, but the result was very very slight.

Reasons stands it should since if you increase your damage output it doesnt raise your healing, so it should have some means of raising it and thats what the healing stat is for. Maybe a balance thing, necros can get so many life siphons going it might get overpowered at the high end?

I think that most people have been confused with the life stealing mechanic of Necro’s for some time, so here are some clarifications:

Those that scale with the WvW healing bonus:

• Traits: Vampiric, Vampiric Precision, Vampiric Wells, Vampiric Master(*)
• Skills: Deadly Feast, Life Leech, Life Siphon, Signet of Locust

(*)This is the reason why people get confused with the traits, that even though the wiki states that they do not scale with any stat, they’ve experienced an increase nonetheless. The WvW healing bonus considers life stealing as healing, thus the increase in healing when the traits trigger.

Those that scale with Healing Power:
*Life Syphon (1 per 25)
*Life Leech (1 per 25)
*Signet of Locust (ratio of 0.125 when hitting 5 targets[?])

The funny thing is, all our healing traits are found in the +healing tree, but not even 3/4 of them are effected by healing power.

Daecollo.9578:

The funny thing is, all our healing traits are found in the +healing tree, but not even 3/4 of them are effected by healing power.

There are lots of traits in each line of every profession that aren’t affected by the stats that line gives. What’s your point?

lettucemode.3789:

Daecollo.9578:

The funny thing is, all our healing traits are found in the +healing tree, but not even 3/4 of them are effected by healing power.

There are lots of traits in each line of every profession that aren’t affected by the stats that line gives. What’s your point?

His point is pretty clear. It doesn’t make a ton of sense that a group of traits isn’t affected by the stat they are grouped with. That fact that this reflected in the other professions doesn’t make it any less confusing or odd.