Guild Wars 2

I’ve had this problem for a long time and been persuading myself that I’ve been misreading the numbers but today I was absolutely certain this bug happened.

Rarely, when I heal my character does the animation the skill goes on full cooldown but I don’t get healed. Up to now I’d been suspicious that I’d taken some unseen damage as I’d healed up, at the same time, since I’m always in combat. However today I definitely did not take that damage. I’m not getting interrupted with fears, dazes, pushes, or anything else. I think that I do always have conditions when this happens, and it can happen when I have agony (with high AR though). It happens on more than one character. I typically use the left mouse button to click on the heal skill rather than use keys.

I’ll raise this again as I’m certain of this now. I was in the dredge fractal recently, last boss, running along the platforms tipping the molten buckets. Twice I had agony, saw my health falling, used a heal, and the skill went on cool down without healing. Once I could mistake this once but not twice. Nothing else attacking me. No interrupts. No poison. Agony damage was minimal. Heal goes on full cooldown with no effect.

This is a high priority bug for me. Failed heals = death. I am not imagining this. I am 100% certain now. Fix please.

Agony reduces your healing by 50% PER STACK. So if you have 2+ stacks Agony on you, you simply receive 0 healing. Working as intended.

Fair enough, where does it say that in game?

The description of agony tells you that iirc.
If not, they may want to add it though.

Here’s what the wiki says:

Agony is an effect unique to Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player’s health every second and reduces received healing by ~50%. It is not affected by condition removal, but it can be mitigated using infusions that grant agony resistance.