Guild Wars 2

As far as I can tell, making healing spring a properly viable heal option takes a ton of investment—namely all dwayna armor runes and healing power anywhere else you can get it.

Is there some way to make it a competent heal without all that crap? I feel like when I want to get healing spring I have to sacrifice so much of my build just to make it work.

Leap finishers and +33% regen duration trait help.

The power of it isn’t in it’s regen. What is so great about is it’s an instant fire heal, not the best health packet but still okay. It’s other massive strength is it’s ability to strip conditions with every tick for everyone in it’s aoe. That’s invaluable for a team or zerg and it also doubles as a stun breaker if you get locked or if you are crippled with enemies on your kitten

I get 5k health off the initial activation and I only have 100 healing power.

I used to use Heal as One a lot, but as a zerker build condition removal became my biggest detriment and SoR wasn’t cutting it. I don’t usually even need to heal, I mainly use it for conditions. In PvE, take Heal as One or Troll Unguent unless you are in a party.

As said above, its about the condition removal and the water field setup. Rangers are one of only 3 classes that can put down a water field, so its in your best interest to use it when you’re doing group activities.

An example of just how good it can be: I was just running the Temple of Grenth tonight with a bit of short handed mob of players. I noticed things were going south so I focused on tanking the avatar using Greatsword. By making use of not only Healing Spring but also the leap finisher + Signet of the Wild + Mango Pies + Superior SIgil of Blood on my sword at ~400 healing power, I was able to survive against the mob almost indefinitely on a build that’s mostly a balanced crit proc setup. That’s how powerful chained leaps in a water field can be.

Use and abuse that water field.

I cant stand the recharge on it however, 30 cd in the middle of a fight? Nah, bro-seph.

It’s a super life saving skill in the WvWvW field. It not only heals you , it also remove conditions on other players far away,When my arrows pierce through them .

It’s major problem on the wvw field is that it is in a fixed position, so it’s great if your defending a keep or tower and are one of those servers that thinks standing on the walls watching the gate or wall disappear is a good tactic, but for open field play bunching up in a small area so you can heal and losing mobility isn’t so great.

Even in smaller fights, you can usually spot the ranger using spring and either move out of range or if his party stay in range of it they probably aren’t hitting you, run around a bit then murder them when the 15 seconds is up or aoe the ranger.

It is quite useful if you are attacking a keep and people are bunching up under the door- but then that isn’t the best of tactics from them as it leaves you wide open to a portal, rush, or any number of bad things that happen to bunches of people in wvw.

tbh i dont really understand how ANY ranger could use something different then spring. For just 1k less heal then unguent (and thats considering only one pulse) you get an AoE regen, a faster cast time, a 15 seconds big water field, instant condition removal and every 3 seconds.

5 seconds more on cd are a pain, but i find it worth it in most situations even if there are no allies, and a must pick with people around

Its the best healing skill of the whole game

Aegis, i don’t tend to use it for one simple reason- longer cool down and aoe that you need to stand in to be effective. I like kiting around/through/behind enemy zergs and during fights and throwing a spring down where I won’t even be for the first tick just doesn’t work for me in wvw. Three seconds later the whole battle could have moved out of range by then!

Most of my heals are on the run and unguent or spring just aren’t going to cut it for me- unguent I’ll be dead long before it finishes ticking and spring will be somewhere back in the distance or in the wrong place. Also the cooldown (ie the time between when you can actually heal up again) is too long for me.

Necros have some of the best healing type skills in the game if used well, eles can also throw around some decent heals, guardians can be great healers.

Spring can have it’s uses, but like almost everything about rangers you need to adapt to situations very fast to be good (well, in wvw, mediocre, as zergs and pets don’t mix).

The trick is to use it for the right things, not for everything. If you are roaming on your own, or playing a build in PvP where you’re moving around a lot, then obviously Heal as One is going to be a lot better for you. Healing Spring works in places where you have other players around you, so you not only use it to heal yourself, but also to support allies by healing them with regeneration and removing a condition. Healing Spring is also a combo field that, when triggered, will heal everyone around the one who triggers it. This means that you and your whole team can effectively use your Healing Spiring to get a good burst of extra healing, by using projectile and leap combo finishers on top of it.

When using Healing Spring on my own, I tend to mostly pick it because of the condition removal and the regeneration. Both of these effects are a perfect combination against damage over time effects, like burn or poison fields. But the condition removal on its own can also be priceless against those annoying cripples and immobilizes’.

Victory.2879:

It’s major problem on the wvw field is that it is in a fixed position, so it’s great if your defending a keep or tower and are one of those servers that thinks standing on the walls watching the gate or wall disappear is a good tactic, but for open field play bunching up in a small area so you can heal and losing mobility isn’t so great.

Even in smaller fights, you can usually spot the ranger using spring and either move out of range or if his party stay in range of it they probably aren’t hitting you, run around a bit then murder them when the 15 seconds is up or aoe the ranger.

It is quite useful if you are attacking a keep and people are bunching up under the door- but then that isn’t the best of tactics from them as it leaves you wide open to a portal, rush, or any number of bad things that happen to bunches of people in wvw.

Exactly.

In most of my fights I HAVE to move – Spring does no good to me when im being rushed by a thief (that 20 sec recharge on HaO, is looking real good right now.)

I also notice people seem to focus fire on people in springs, its like a hot spot for please kill me.

Edit: Troll Ungent SUCKS it does not even use all of your healing prowess and only last 10 seconds…………… :\

In WvW spring isn’t too great in the open field since you will likely be moving around a lot. It does pretty good when you are defending a structure though when you won’t be moving around as much.

The best use for it is in spvp when you are fighting over a control point since the aoe of the spring covers most of the point. Plus you can use your leap finishers for extra healing and your teammates can use blast/leap finishers as well for even more healing