Guild Wars 2

I am just leveling a Banner Warrior, and had a question about the Regen grandmaster trait in tactics.

Is this Regen affected by the 5-man Heal Limit?

For example, if 5 people are clumped around the banner getting the Regen, and a sixth person runs in, will he be S.O.L.?

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Thrumdi.9216:

I am just leveling a Banner Warrior, and had a question about the Regen grandmaster trait in tactics.

Is this Regen affected by the 5-man Heal Limit?

For example, if 5 people are clumped around the banner getting the Regen, and a sixth person runs in, will he be S.O.L.?

I think you’re right.

But some other pluses that might help you out:
-The regen refreshes and stacks for longer duration. You can easily get 30+ seconds of regen after you leave the banner.
-It targets the closest players first so just have the ones that need the regen stand ontop of the banner.
-You can always just have 2 banners and give regen to 10 people at once.

If you switch out the people in range of the banner, considering how high the duration can stack, you can give regen to more than 5 players.

Thank you for the advice. I’m actually moving over from Guardian because the 5-man limit took a lot of the enjoyment out of playing that character.

I guess my other question would be this.

When the banner regen refreshes, does it always refresh on the same person? Or could it “hopscotch” around from person to person potentially spreading the benefits around to more than 5 people?

It can potentially spread the benefits to other people, but realistically speaking, that doesn’t happen much. It seems to be running through the player list and checking if checking if that player is in range, so once you’ve got it applied, it doesn’t randomly jump to another person because of the list.

I wouldn’t give up your Guardian for a Warrior because all support fun has been destroyed, no matter what class, due to that AOE limitation (both offensive and defence, actually).

I hope to see the patch introduce reduced damage for the amount of people hit, and reduced amount of healing for the amount of people hit, as to avoid the STUPID tactic to have 20+ players stand on top of one another just to avoid AOE damage. It’s a ridiculous state of affairs.