Guild Wars 2

The Mesmer trait Mender’s Purity (Vitality IV: Remove a condition when you heal.) does not work when using the Human Racial Healing skill Prayer to Dwayna.

I have tested and it works fine with Ether Feast, Mirror and Mantra of Healing, but not Prayer to Dwayna.

Seems out of place especially since Prayer to Dwayna is the best heal for a Human Mesmer.

This is a bit off-topic, but Prayer to Dwayna is not the best healing skill for a human mesmer:

Prayer to Dwayna:
heals: 6520hp (on lvl 80)
cooldown: 30s
channel: 1s
6520/21 = 210hp/s

Mirror:
heals: 3915hp (on lvl 80)
cooldown: 15s
channel: 1,25s
3915/(15+1,25) = 241hp/s (and 2s reflection as secondary effect)

Ether Feast:
heals: 5560hp + 640hp per illusion (on lvl 80)
cooldown: 20s
channel: 1s
0 illusions: 5560/21 = 265hp/s
3 illusions: 7480/21 = 356hp/s

Mantra of Recoverry (untraited)
heals: 2620 per charge (on lvl80)
cooldown: 10s after channeling, 1s after using a charge (12s in total)
channel: 2,75s
5240/14,75 = 355hp/s (and there are traits, that allow you to boost it’s effectiveness)

conclusion: everything is better, than Prayer to Dwayna.

Also Prayer to Dwayna has the highest cooldown, which means even if Menders Purity wasn’t bugged, it would only allow you to loose a condition every 30s, while for example the mantra allows you to loose 2 conditions every 14,75s (trait activates when you use up a charge), so this allows you to cure ~4x as much conditions.

I do agree, that this bug should be fixed, I just wanted to show you, that there are better alternatives.

Restorative Strength trait from the warrior doesn’t work with Prayer to Dwayna neither. I guess it works in a different way than other healing skills, and traits don’t recognize as such.
This has been pointed out for months and ignored. It’s not getting fixed, so rethink your strategy. Or think a way to exploit it, or suggest some monetary profit for Arenanet. That always gets things done.

Do any traits work with any racials?

As far as I know they don’t, which is an intended design.

Halcyon.7352:

Do any traits work with any racials?

As far as I know they don’t, which is an intended design.

Can you back that up with any official statement? That would set things for good.

Racial skills have no skill type, so of cource traits that rely to a certain type do not work with racial skills
So traits like e.g. reduced cooldown on glamour skills (mesmer) or healing when using shouts (warrior) do not trigger on using racial skills, because they are not glamour, shout or anything else.

However most healing skills also don’t have a certain type assigned. For example mesmers healing skills: Ether Feast and Mirror don’t have a type, olny Mantra of Recovery has a type (Mantra), so this is affected by traits, that affect mantras, while the other two aren’t.

Traits that trigger on using a “Healing Skill” however trigger on all healing skills, also on the typeless ones, so they should work on racial ones as well, imho.

edit: Mender’s Purity does NOT work with Healing Seed (Sylvari racial) either.

Shadow.5694:

Racial skills have no skill type

Then I want to equip Prayer to Dwayna on my 7, since it is not a HEAL type skill.

If you’re going to talk nonsense, just don’t talk.

AeroJavi.1687:

Shadow.5694:

Racial skills have no skill type

Then I want to equip Prayer to Dwayna on my 7, since it is not a HEAL type skill.

If you’re going to talk nonsense, just don’t talk.

Bugs aside, skills are defined by a skill ‘type’. Scroll over any non racial skill and you’ll see what type that is, which is what defines how traits modify that skill.

Things like Glamour, Illusions for Mesmer, Shouts and Consecrations for Guardian.

So there’s a definite degree of truth in what he said – Racial skills have no skill type OR have their own copied skill type. (ie Norn transformations)

That being said, there are traits that should affect global stats and variables that in theory would work with racials. Things such as on crit traits, flat damage boosts, etc.

A quick forum search says that for example, Healing Seed’s regeneration is increased by Ranger’s regen increasing trait.

So we have some that count as they should towards traits, and others that not. So either they are intended to work, or not. In any case, there is a bug involved. It’s not working as intended by Arenanet.