Guild Wars 2

The suggestion is, change IP 5% heal from crit dmg to 5% lifesteal from crit dmg.

Why not just increase the % IP heals instead of making it lifesteal?

I tried IP in pve and wvw. My build is full zerk with 6/6/x/x/x for both pve and wvw, I can deal quite a lot of dps yet I find IP heals small. But I realise that in certain builds, the potential total healing can add up to quite a lot (SoM/IP/AR/omno pie).

I think increasing the % would push some of these builds into the OP category. With lifesteal, the heals remain as they are now but the dmg loss from not using executioner would be reduced.

OP? Still kitten?

Jayden Ennok.3687:

The suggestion is, change IP 5% heal from crit dmg to 5% lifesteal from crit dmg.

+1

This can’t be suggested often enough.

The heal is insufficient when it has to compete with Executioner and Hidden Killer, make it lifesteal and it’s getting closer to being a choice.

Why not just increase the % IP heals instead of making it lifesteal?

Ok …

I tried IP in pve and wvw. My build is full zerk with 6/6/x/x/x for both pve and wvw, I can deal quite a lot of dps yet I find IP heals small.

Not surprising, if about 70% of your damage is on critical hot, you will heal for about 3.5% of a health bar, or about 3.5% of 20k … is … like … 700 HP? Executioner would have added 20% on the last 10k, or about 1k6 on the outgoing damage. Make it lifesteal and the 700 heal + 700 damage can make it compete.

Right now, that trait is absolutely useless. Especially when Signet of Malice can heal for more, and when you don’t crit. I don’t see how this would even slightly be able to go in place of other traits like Executioner.

yeah right now there is no contest for executioner for deep crit tree builds
i had high hopes for this with my unload/ricochet/signet of malice build,
but the heal is far too unnoticeable to sacrifice Executioner for