Guild Wars 2

It seems to me that having a full set of dwayna runes is pretty important to making healing spring a proper heal. The core heal (~5k per 30 seconds) is much worse than your other two options (~8.5k per 25 seconds or ~6.5k per 20 seconds) so it relies heavily on monarch’s leap or swoop and regen in order to actually have solid health restoration in addition to the condition removal. To its credit, it is the strongest heal over time if you use the combo field and have round-the-clock regen boon with dwayna, but I’m curious if there are other ways to keep it competitive that might open up my runes for something else.

Edit: This is with concern for spvp/tpvp.

Personally there are too many prerequisites or requirements with healing spring for me, I much prefer trolls and when used actively rather and often with high toughness, rather than when the crap hits the fan, it’s pretty godly even without much healing power.

I say this because moving to TU freed up my runes, allowing me to increase my condition duration, which is often ignored but is a very effective way of upping damage.

Without Dwyana I just didn’t find it as good as TU. It’ still very powerful though, if you want the condition removal and the burst heal opening that you don’t get from TU, and if your build has high healing, again you’ll likely get more out of spring, TU works well in builds with low healing where as spring is very good with high healing power builds.

I use healing spring mostly for the remove condition, if I need a heal I use the standard Heal As One for it’s short cool down, or Troll Unguent for if I’m taking consistent damage.