Guild Wars 2

Hi … recently i browsed around prof. forums and found and interesting
topic : Best healer in game II

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Best-healer-in-game-II/first

basicly its full healer warr which says:
“As we know, GW2 has no “real” healer.Well, I can’t accept that.
So I went to the mysts and made EVERY class, I used EVERY possible build,EVERY rune set,EVERY sigil.
Sadly 12+ hours later, and 44 charts and graphs , I came to this conclusion:
Warrior is by far the best pvp/wvw combat healer.”

“see if a guard can take 20-50+ people + pets and clones beating on him for 18-25 seconds..and NOT die.
I can.”

“As you see, no other class can do even 1% what we can.”

“So much talk from the kiddies, STILL NO VIDEOS.”

as u can see in last sentence he would like to see some vids. from other classes how u can heal or outheal warr … personaly i think its wrong to ask for proofs about other classes than warr healing in warr forum only so im gonna post this on every class forum ( xcept warrs ofc ) and hope that reasoning there will be far better when other skilled supports add their thoughs

thx vm

Well as you probably know, thief does not have any party healing skills, actually scratch that shadow refuge heals a little bit but nothing truly noteworthy.

So how does a thief heal then? Place a ranger or 2 with a thief who has shortbow and you have a amazing source of heals. Ranger puts down their regen field (not sure what it’s called I never played ranger) and a thief spamming cluster bombs on it can heal 8-12k hp(about 1.5k hp per cluster bomb as a area heal, so anyone close to the field gets healed) in about 5-7 seconds. Tack on some initiative regen traits and utilities and he can heal even more. Those numbers were observed by me as a thief who doesn’t use any healing attributes, either a zerk or a cond build doing this.

So in short a thief alone is a bad healer, but a thief who knows how to capitalize shortbows potential with a ranger is a awesome healer.

i have fresh 80 thief … played only as cond. dmg since i lvled that way and its rly fresh … but i heared something about venom sharing/leeching + pt regen on stealth

Shadow Refuge also allows for life steal on top of the small healing it does so it can help in the odd occasion.

but yeah thieves, specially by themselves, are not great at healing, all their support for teams come from other things such as debilitating, distracting or plain old killing rather than healing.

i will point here few AOE regenerations from thief
Shadow refuge – 4 seconds `~ 1700 heal
Shadow protector (Trait) 5 seconds regeneration for ally’s every times you stealth them
you can stealth them every 48 seconds with shadow refuge and every 32 seconds with blinding powder
ShortboW – cluster bomb – initiative cost -3 – blast finisher
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Water_field – you can AOE heal your ally’s for 1400 5- 6 times in row, without any cooldown
with combo field smoke (black powder -thief pistol ) and Shadow protector (Trait) +blast finisher (thief shortbow) you can stealth your ally’s few times , they get regeneration each time.