Guild Wars 2

Just kinda curious about this trait as far as the off hand healing is concerned. Is this a constant 10% heal or do you only get the heal once every 5 seconds on critical? Not sure if the off hand dagger is also on the CD or only the main hand

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sun_and_Moon_Style

I read it to mean that the 5s cd is only on the main hand dagger effect. The offhand healing is all the time, but based on crits.

7% of crit to heal has no cooldown, the amount is low anyway, 700 heal for a 10k crit.

I can see it work in PvE or WvW zerging, Quickness is the real deal but has 5s cooldown.

well frankly it looks to me as a spellbreaker was meant to be build as crit-spamming machine considering bonuses to crits within whole class.

if that cd was for both then they could just as well not bother with the offhand bonus – if the bonus was capepd to once every 5s it would be frankly useless – but if you can pull off alot of crits in a short time off span then, and only then the additional sustein from it would be noticeable

In PvE, Spellbreaker is going to hit like a truck (I think). With Strength, Arms, Spellbreaker, you will have over 300% Critical Damage fully buffed.

Just curious how do we know the 5s ICD doesn’t affect the offhand effect? I agree it shouldn’t, since a 7% crit to healing only every 5s is nearly worthless. It needs to be on every crit to be of value. But just looking at the wiki I would have assumed the 5s ICD affected both mainhand and offhand.

Orion Templar.4589:

Just curious how do we know the 5s ICD doesn’t affect the offhand effect? I agree it shouldn’t, since a 7% crit to healing only every 5s is nearly worthless. It needs to be on every crit to be of value. But just looking at the wiki I would have assumed the 5s ICD affected both mainhand and offhand.

Just based on how it’s listed. It’s a table with one row per entry, and they’ve only put a cd next to the first entry.

Choppy.4183:

Just based on how it’s listed. It’s a table with one row per entry, and they’ve only put a cd next to the first entry.

Gotcha – makes sense. Here’s hoping that is correct!
My eyes originally saw that 5 as being associated with the trait name to the left, rather than to the mainhand item on the right, thus I thought it was a global 5s ICD for the trait. Looks like my wiki reading skills need an upgrade.

It’s terrible even without ICD, with 5 sec ICD it will do absolutely nothing. Thief has a 15% crit to heal trait and it’s unusable in PvP and only really helps in solo PvE, since bosses 1-2 shot you anyway, you can’t outheal that.