Guild Wars 2

Do Signet of Malice and trait X (Assassin’s Reward) in the Acrobatic line benefit from +heal gear or are they just a fixed amount?

How well does healing scale with Shadow Refuge?

Just made 80 on my thief and I’m just looking into some things.

I’m back after a taking a break for four months, so the memory is a bit rusty. Here’s what I can remember.

Yes, the Signet and Trait scale up with your +Healing score. It’s been a long time, but people made spread sheets that showed the results at +0 Healing / +100 Healing / +200 Healing / +300 Healing. From what I can remember, the increases were small. If you’re already getting +Healing from Shadow Arts, then it’s just a bonus perk. However I wouldn’t ever take +Healing on actual gear pieces. (The Acrobatics trait increase was small and the Signet proc was so tiny that it was almost nothing.)

Yes, Shadow Refuge does technically scale up with +Healing. However the increase was so slight that it wasn’t really worth mentioning.

The trait from Shadow Arts called Leeching Venoms has a base amount, then adds +20% of your Healing score to that amount. This is the only healing ability that I’ve seen which has a noticeable increase when you boost up your +Healing score. Yet like I said above, I’d never take +Healing on my gear pieces.

That should cover the various Thief heals. Let us know if you have any other questions.

Signet of Malice – 100 + (0.05 * Healing Power)
Assassin’s Reward – 69 + (0.035 * Healing Power)
Shadow Refuge – 355 + (0.18 * Healing Power)

So, SoM gains 5% of your healing power per tick, AR gets 3.5% per initiative and SR gets 18% per tick.