Guild Wars 2

Hey all!
Forum Search function is poo. Sorry if this has been asked before. I’ve been lurking the forums since BWE2 and haven’t seen this to my knowledge, and just looked through the first 7-8 pages or so.

Main question: Ventari’s heal skill is to summon the tablet and then move the tablet. Does it count as a “Heal Skill” everytime you move the tablet or just on summon (i.e. for purposes of rune/food procs)?

Follow up question if that answer is yes:
I’m messing around with builds and such. I love supporty type builds, and I love Revenant so far and am thinking about maining it. (Shout out to Roy, too. As a Thf main, I gotta give ya props for the forum love!) I just noticed there was a food “Bowl of Saffron Scented Poultry Soup” which gives:
- 100% to remove a condition upon using heal skill
- 70 healing power
- 10% exp gain

If the tablet-movement was considered a heal skill, would that food-buff condi removal only affect me, or would it affect anyone that was healed by the tablets movement? I’m guessing the former, but I thought it worth asking because if the latter might be true, that is some insane condi removal and would be crazy useful.

I agree with just about all of this.
Staff#3 I don’t have too much issue with as is.
Staff#5 I think should have a little more range or something. It’s not an instant teleport like SB5, and is quite telling. It could use something to help but out a bit though. The dmg isnt bad at all though.

The rest, I basically agree with. It felt like the least survivable weaponset to me. Whether I was one on one, +1’ing or even attempting to contribute to a team fight (only real place where staff5 shines), I basically got to the point where I decided I had no need for the staff. Basically, everything it could do, I had access to on another weapon set. The vuln and weakness is kinda nice, but also a little bit token. Its not enough to save the skillset.

Additionally, the animations, and really in particular, the way one holds the staff just didnt feel tight. As many others have commented, it feels more like a hammer than a staff.

I want so badly to like it. I love the ideas behind it all, but it felt pretty much useless to me.

Edit:bah.. Still getting used to posting. Numbers turned int o a list!

IGN: Sayr Shadowblade
Thief Type: Possibly Scholar or Artisan. I like to tinker around to find new things, but I am still very much learning the details of even some basics, I suppose.
Server: Dragonbrand
Experience with thief: I almost always end up making a thief/rogue class in mmo’s. I started a guardian first. Messed around a little with thief but had trouble adjusting to the stealth mechanic in gw2 a little (I liked being able to toggle on and off stealth {I.e. WoW rogue}, but didn’t get too into it. I got guardian up and then Mesmer to 80. Very quickly, I picked thf back up and have been raining it ever since, for probably about 6 months or so. I plan to continue to main it thru HoT.

Would love to join and learn more and interact with others learning and experimenting.

I main a condo thf, with a venom share build. I love dungeoning with it. You may get some rough going with the zerk-only meta, but I have really enjoyed it.

To answer your main question: Venoms that you share to the other 4 people are applied using YOUR stats (condi dmg and duration). In fact, when the condo’s tick, like poison for example, you will see an additive number from all the poison applications of your shared venom. Poison itself is not crazy strong like burning is right now, but it is quite nice to see a poison tick for 6k.

Honestly, the only issues I have really had with it are areas where you HAVE to stack, or where you can not effectively use Death Blossom (I.e. it will throw you off a ledge or a stacking point to avoid mechanics like final boss of CM p1). Even then, though, that’s pretty rare. I haven’t seen any complaints or issues from others.