Na it don’t Trivialsze anything , healing power is somthing that helps you relax and notice thing you never noticed before, because your glued to your keyboard trying to avoid every bullet aimed at your head just so you can get a Rare.
if everyone in this game just got 150-400 healing power , yes sure events would be a little but slower but people would have a higher uptime of damage , i’ve seen events like the World bosses dead with 9mins remaining ect because everyone is damage,damage,damage , so taking some healing power doesn’t change a thing but adding in a extra 3mins.
you caqn play good or bad how ever much you like , thats why there is these players that go WvW with full tank gear and 800 in healing power they do easly wreak 3-5 players at a time and the build set up allows them to fight forever untill they make mistakes , thats one thing i;ve learned from this take dps stats meta jive is that you’ll only survive so long as you can avoid the attacks and HoT is going to bring more of that so you can dodge as much as you’d like and call it I play good healing power will become a more important stat in the future.
you’ll just have to wait that little longer.
there’s nothing wrong with playing relaxed, with buffed vit or hp, however relaxed playstyle should be slower (less rewarding) than hardcore playstyle.
If you want a hardcore play style ask Anet for a Hardcore Mode for dungeons just as they did in gw1 for the More experianced crowd looking for more challenging content but i’d think fractals was ment to cover that , though they could take that idea and make hardcore dungeons.
the open world should not be subject to Hardcore playing its a open world not a Game mode that requires Stat min/maxing , getting healing power to a point where it is useful , but not needed would be the perfect balance but as of right now the Enviroment in game does not require any form of healing power you can even get away without even using your 6 heal, where dodges and evades are enough to keep you alive because guess what PvE creatures don’t deal enough conditions.
now people have pretty much abbandoned the Toxic alliance events they have gone back to running 0 healing power , where in those events you needed some form of Reliable healing sources be it you or other player .
you could say running 0 healing power does not extend your core Life duration so you’ll have x amount of time before you’ll go down , increasing the requirement for some healing power will only benifit the game and allows more windows for contructive content that needs Healing power , Or ( extended life ) to survive a situation .
bit like the Wyvern in the HoT beta you get cornered by burning ground and you must pass through the flames quickly (while you only have 20% hp left) yes you could double dodge over it only to be downed by the next flaming breath attack as he swoops , or you could have healing power rather than 0 have 150-400 or 800 – or 1500 it gives you the chance to tacticly use the correct ability to gain regen? , or heal a chunck of hp to deal with the brunt of the on comming attack to Prevent death rather than take the hit and heal after .
with healing power with this 0 stat whats the point going on , means you can’t recover with one heal from 20% vs that newer content and then you’d have to risk death to survive a bit counter intuitive of healing is it not , all because no one took healing power as a stat .
at the stats core 0 healing power is enough for you and one charater alone , but fighting the new content in HoT , it was much more effective to have some healing stat rather than 0 to buy you time against those unpredictable unprecedented events or creatures.
all i can think of is this is new content in its entireity with much more depth that that of silverwastes and complexitiy that you’ll need to think of more than just your own survival because at times Anet did say you’ll need skills to beat certain creatures or events by learning the lanuages of other races in the jungle to gain said skills.
You’ll need or “MAKE THE CHOICE” To have some healing power to survive while running between waypoints , i’ll tell you this by god there are waypoints but there are lots of obstacles blocking your route and gliders you’ll have to plan your landing , you’ll never know where to land and or if you can land safely then escape.
please read the " make the choice"
again anet did say if you’ve got swiftness you can only just escape the dinos in the boarderlands (if your built for mobility you can outrun them) so i’d expect the same type of creatures in the PvE of HoT.
so yes the healing stat will become more important , just not right now.
