Guild Wars 2

Several times today i have felt i have died when i shouldn’t have, like i was healing but it wasn’t actually healing me.

I got proof of this when i was in a fight and pressed 6, saw it charge, fire and then go on cooldown but i got absolutely no health back.

I then fired it again a few minutes later and it worked perfectly.

After experimenting more i found it only happens when taking lots of small damage over time, such as agony, poisoned or even just aoes stacked.

When fighting the dragon in the story “battle for claw island” I had 1 stack of poisoned on me and my heals worked perfectly, but when i had 3-4 stacks, popping every heal i had, whether it was 6, or virtue of resolve or just altruistic healing simply failed to do anything.

I was not lagging any more than normal, and i did not have any debuff that said anything about stopping me from healing.

Odd, it could just be you were dealt damage at the time on par with your heal, I know there’s many a time I’ve been downed with no idea what hit me. But your example does make some sense.

I don’t remember what Tequatl and his dumb cousin actually do. But if you’re saying what I think you are, then, well, poison (a condition which only stacks duration) stacked intensity. Since it reduces healing by 33%, taking 3 stacks of poison could reduce healing by 99% or if that 33% is merely a rounding of 1/3, then you get nothing.

Of course, that’s just speculation. I don’t know Arenanet’s coding myself. 3 poison stacks could result in a third of a third of a third or, reducing healing to 8/27 effectiveness for all I know.

poison stacks duration, not effect. IE: 3 poisons do not = 99% heal reduction, just means if each was 3 seconds long the effect would be exactly the same but last for 9 seconds.