Healing

This article is about the game mechanic. For other uses, see Healing (disambiguation).

Healing is a gameplay mechanic for replenishing the health of a character or NPC. Every player is equipped with a dedicated healing skill slot. (Default 6) Skills, Traits, Upgrade components and Consumables may alter the effectiveness of incoming or outgoing healing. The Healing Power attribute directly increases effectiveness of all healing done by a player.

Healing scales linearly with healing power depending on the source. For example, each point of Healing Power adds 0.125 healing towards  Regeneration.

Total healing done = [(mechanic-specific base healing) + (Healing Power) * (mechanic-specific coefficient)] * (sum of healing multipliers)

The healed amount appears as a green number aligned with the healed character on the screen. No numbers are shown for characters already at full health.

Healing skill

The dedicated healing skill occupies the sixth slot on the skill bar. All professions have four unique healing skills to choose from, while some races provide a fifth choice as a racial skill. All elite specializations provide an additional healing skill. These profession skills generally only heal the caster, with a few exceptions such as Healing Spring, "Receive the Light!", or Signet of Vampirism.

In addition to the dedicated healing skill slot, all professions have some means to provide minor, supportive healing. For example, a warrior may use shouts to heal allies while  Vigorous Shouts is traited. Engineers may grant regeneration to allies near them with their tool belt skills.

In order for players to be able to effectively sustain other characters in prolonged or intense combat situations such as World versus World or raids, the "healer" is often required to invest in healing centered gear, consumables, trait lines, and other Healing Power effects. As an example, all elementalists can provide healing through their Water Attunement skills, but with a higher Healing Power attribute, or with the selection of the Water specialization, those skills become far more effective.

Various traits and upgrade components which proc their effects "when healing" refer to use of the dedicated healing skill instead of any other source of active or passive healing.

Sub-mechanics

• The regeneration boon replenishes health over time and is affected by increases of outgoing healing such as Sigil of Benevolence.
• Life steal is a more offensive manner of healing which occurs when successfully hitting a foe.
• Healing modifiers stack additively, which includes Poisoned and Agony. However, when affected by both Poison and Agony, their effects are not added individually but instead treated as a single negative 80% modifier.

Related skills

Healing skills

Refer to the Healing skills page for a full list of dedicated healing skills.

Other skills that heal

Profession mechanics that heal

•   Virtue of Resolve
•   Wings of Resolve
•   Tome of Resolve
•   Overload Water
•   Bandage Self (with Med Kit)
•   Med Pack Drop (with Supply Crate)
•   Blessing of Dwayna (Human only; with Prayer to Dwayna)
•   Leafy Bandage (Sylvari only; with Healing Seed)
•   Chomp (Drake pet skill; heals Drake only)
•   Chomp (Armorfish pet skill; heals Armorfish only)
•   Harmonic Cry (Moa pet skill)
•   Regenerate (Fern Hound pet skill)
•   Spiritual Reprieve (while merged with a Supportive pet)
•   Eat Egg (stolen)

Weapon skills that heal

• Greatsword
  •   Leap of Faith
• Mace
  •   Faithful Strike
• Shield
  •   Shield of Absorption (after Shield of Absorption)
• Staff
  •   Empower
  •   Holy Strike
• Trident
  •   Light Ball
•   Tome of Resolve
  •   Chapter 1: Desert Bloom
  •   Chapter 2: Radiant Recovery (additional healing per condition removed)
  •   Chapter 4: Shining River
• Dagger
  •   Cone of Cold
  •   Cleansing Wave
  •   Transmute Frost
  •   Steam Surge (Dual Attack with Fire and Water Attunement)
• Scepter
  •   Water Trident
• Staff
  •   Water Blast
  •   Geyser
  •   Pressure Blast (Dual Attack with Fire and Water Attunement)
• Sword
  •   Breaking Wave
  •   Riptide
  •   Aqua Siphon
• Warhorn
  •   Tidal Surge
  •   Water Globe
• Trident
  •   Tidal Wave
• Conjure
  •   Conjure Frost Bow
    •   Water Arrow
• Engineering Kit
  •   Med Kit
    •   Med Blaster (Med Kit skill)
    •   Bandage Blast (Med Kit skill)
    •   Vital Burst (Med Kit skill)
  •   Elixir Gun
    •   Super Elixir (with Elixir Gun)
  •   Elite Mortar Kit
    •   Elixir Shell (with Elite Mortar Kit)
• Staff
  •   Solar Beam
  •   Astral Wisp
  •   Ancestral Grace
  •   Sublime Conversion
•   Celestial Avatar
  •   Cosmic Ray
  •   Seed of Life
  •   Lunar Impact
  •   Rejuvenating Tides
• Staff
  •   Rejuvenating Assault (when picking up Healing Orbs)
  •   Mender's Rebuke
  •   Renewing Wave
• Shield
  •   Envoy of Exuberance
  •   Crystal Hibernation
•   Avatar of Melandru
  •   Summon Healing Spring

Utility skills that heal

•   Bow of Truth
•   Merciful Intervention
•   Sanctuary
•   Signet of Water
•   Crashing Waves (with Glyph of Elementals (water))
•   Signet of Renewal
•   Glyph of Alignment (while in Celestial Avatar)
•   Shadow Refuge
•   Vengeful Hammers
•   Natural Harmony
•   Purifying Essence

Elite skills that heal

•   Signet of Courage
•   Spirit of Nature
•   Glyph of the Stars
•   Crashing Waves (when commanding an Ice Elemental from Glyph of Elementals)
•   Energy Expulsion

Elite skills that increase outgoing healing effectiveness

•   Weave Self (when attuning to Water)

Downed skills that heal

•   Life Leech
•   Symbol of Judgment
•   Lick Wounds
•   Bandage
•   Signet of Agony

Combos that heal

•  Combo Field: Water ×  Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Water ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Related traits

See also: Healing skill#Related traits

Traits that heal

•  Valor
  •  Altruistic Healing — Heal yourself when you grant a boon to an ally.
  •  Monk's Focus — Meditation skills heal you, grant fury to nearby allies, and gain reduced recharge.
•  Honor
  •  Pure of Heart — Aegis heals when it blocks an attack.
  •  Selfless Daring — The end of your dodge roll heals nearby allies.
  •  Writ of Persistence — Symbols gain increased duration and radius, and heal allies.
•  Tactics
  •  Vigorous Shouts — Shouts gain reduced recharge and heal allies. Gain healing power based on your power.
•  Berserker
  •  Dead or Alive — Receiving fatal damage while in berserk mode ends berserk and heals you. Incoming healing is increased.
•  Spellbreaker
  •  Sun and Moon Style — Gain bonuses for each dagger you equip: Main hand—Interrupts grant quickness. (Only occurs once per interval.) Off Hand—Heal for a percent of your outgoing critical damage.
•  Nature Magic
  •  Invigorating Bond - Beast abilities heal allies around the caster.
•  Druid
  •  Live Vicariously - When you heal an ally, you are also healed.
  •  Cultivated Synergy — Using a healing skill heals allies around you and your pet.
  •  Verdant Etching — Glyphs gain reduced recharge and cast Lesser Seed of Life.
  •  Lingering Light — When you enter celestial avatar form, your next strike will blind your foe and heal you. While in celestial avatar form, your healing of others is significantly increased.
•  Inventions
  •  Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.
  •  Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine and med kit at your location when you critically hit with an attack.
  •  Medical Dispersion Field — A percentage of healing you apply to yourself is shared with nearby allies.
•  Acrobatics
  •  Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.
•  Critical Strikes
  •  Invigorating Precision — You are healed for a percentage of outgoing critical hit damage. This healing is increased while you are under the effects of fury.
•  Shadow Arts
  •  Merciful Ambush — When you apply stealth to an ally, they heal and revive over a short duration. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally.
  •  Shadow Savior — After completing a shadowstep, you are healed. Nearby allies are also healed for a larger amount. Only affects thief shadowsteps.
•  Daredevil
  •  Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.
•  Water
  •  Healing Ripple — Heal nearby allies when attuning to water. This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element, but will be triggered by overload skills.
•  Arcane
  •  Arcane Restoration — Swapping attunements restores health.
  •  Evasive Arcana — Cast a skill when you dodge based on your attunement.
•  Tempest
  •  Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.
•  Inspiration
  •  Restorative Mantras — Heal allies around you when you finish preparing a mantra.
  •  Restorative Illusions — Heal yourself and lose conditions when you use a shatter skill.
  •  Illusionary Inspiration — Summoning an illusion heals all allies around you.
•  Curses
  •  Parasitic Contagion — A percentage of your condition damage heals you. (Healing will not occur while lifeforce replaces health.)
•  Blood Magic
  •  Life from Death — Heal and partially revive allies in an area when you exit shroud.
  •  Transfusion — Shroud skill 4 heals and partially revives nearby allies. Up to five downed allies near you teleport to your location while you're channeling shroud skill 4.
•  Death Magic
  •  Unholy Sanctuary — Regenerate health while in shroud. If your life force is above the threshold, your shroud will activate if you would take a lethal blow.
•  Reaper
  •  Blighter's Boon — Gain life force when you apply a boon to yourself. If you are in reaper's shroud, gain health instead.
  •  Soul Eater — Striking foes within the range threshold deals increased damage and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt.
•  Retribution
  •  Steadfast Rejuvenation — Heal every second for each point of upkeep currently in use.
•  Corruption
  •  Replenishing Despair — While maintaining an upkeep skill, your energy pips are increased, but you apply torment to yourself every interval.
•  Invocation
  •  Song of the Mists — Invoking a legend casts a skill based on the legend that was invoked.
  •  Rapid Flow — Heal yourself and gain swiftness when you use a skill which has an energy cost.

Traits that grant health regeneration

•  Virtues
  •  Battle Presence Nearby allies gain Virtue of Resolve's passive.
•  Defense
  •  Adrenal Health — Gain health based on adrenaline spent.
•  Alchemy
  •  Backpack Regenerator — Recover health every second when using an Engineering Kit.
•  Holosmith
  •  Heat Therapy — Gain health per unit of heat lost.
•  Beastmastery
  •  Natural Healing — Your pet recovers health each interval.
•  Shadow Arts
  •  Shadow's Rejuvenation — Regenerate health and initiative while in stealth.
•  Water
  •  Soothing Mist — You and nearby allies recover health while you are attuned to water.

Traits that increase outgoing healing effectiveness

•  Honor
  •  Invigorated Bulwark — Increase your outgoing healing each time you block an attack. Mace skills gain reduced recharge and their boons gain increased duration.
  •  Force of Will — You have increased vitality. Healing effectiveness to other allies is increased based on a percentage of your vitality.
•  Water
  •  Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
•  Alchemy
  •  Health Insurance — Increase your healing effectiveness and gain increased healing to others while using a med kit.
•  Salvation
  •  Serene Rejuvenation — Increase healing to allies. Natural Harmony also applies alacrity in an area.
  •  Tranquil Balance — While above the health threshold, healing to other allies is increased.
  •  Invoking Harmony — Healing done to allies is increased for a short duration after invoking a legend.
  •  Selfless Amplification — Gain increased healing to other allies, based on a percentage of healing power.
•  Druid
  •  Natural Mender - Increase outgoing healing whenever you heal another ally.

Traits that increase incoming healing

•  Soul Reaping
  •  Vital Persistence - Gain Vitality. Your incoming healing is increased.
•  Berserker
  •  Dead or Alive - Receiving fatal damage while in berserk mode ends berserk and heals you. Incoming healing is increased.
•  Alchemy
  •  Health Insurance — Increase your healing effectiveness and gain increased healing to others while using a med kit.

Traits that benefit from healing

•  Salvation
  •  Unyielding Devotion — Take less damage for a duration after healing. Lasts longer if you heal an ally other than yourself.

Related effects

Effects that heal

•  Regeneration — Gain health every second; stacks duration.
•  Rejuvenation — You regenerate health.
•  Healing Signet — You regenerate health.
•  Soothing Mist — Regenerate health.
•  Signet of the Ether — You are healed every few seconds, based on the number of illusions you control.

Effects that increase healing

•  Supportive — Merging with a supportive pet has improved your health and increased your ability to heal others.
•  Eternal Oasis — Healing you receive is more powerful.
•  Water Arrow — Enhances Frost Bow abilities. Increases outgoing healing.

Effects that reduce healing

•  Poisoned — Deals damage every second; decreases healing effectiveness by 33%; damage stacks intensity.
•  Agony — Deals damage every 3 seconds; stacks intensity; reduces healing by 70%.

Related equipment

Upgrade components that heal

See also Life stealing

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Defender - 6) Heals on block
•   Superior Rune of the Dolyak - 6) Provides passive healing per second
•   Superior Rune of the Tempest - 6) Heals nearby allies when breaking a stun
•   Superior Rune of the Flock - 6) Heal nearby allies when activating a healing skill
•   Superior Rune of Tormenting - 6) Recover a small amount of health after inflicting a foe with  Torment

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Renewal - Heal nearby allies on Weapon Swap (360 Radius).
  •   Major Sigil of Renewal - Heal nearby allies on Weapon Swap (240 Radius).
  •   Minor Sigil of Renewal - Heal nearby allies on Weapon Swap (180 Radius).
•   Superior Sigil of Water - 30% Chance on Hit: Heal nearby allies around your target (360 radius).
  •   Major Sigil of Water - 20% Chance on Hit: Heal nearby allies around your target (240 radius).
  •   Minor Sigil of Water - 10% Chance on Hit: Heal nearby allies around your target (180 radius).
•   Superior Sigil of Restoration - Gain health on Killing a foe.
  •   Major Sigil of Restoration - Gain health on Killing a foe.

Upgrade components that improve healing

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Monk - 6) +10% outgoing healing effectiveness

Sigils

•   Superior Sigil of Transference - +10% outgoing healing effectiveness
  •   Major Sigil of Transference - +5% outgoing healing effectiveness
  •   Minor Sigil of Transference - +3% outgoing healing effectiveness
•   Superior Sigil of Benevolence - +0.5% increased outgoing healing effectiveness per stack
  •   Major Sigil of Benevolence - +0.4% increased outgoing healing effectiveness per stack
  •   Minor Sigil of Benevolence - +0.3% increased outgoing healing effectiveness per stack

Related consumables

Grants increased healing power/effectiveness

Consumable	Level	Duration	Primary effect	Secondary effect
Delicious Rice Ball	80	30m	+100 Healing Power	+10% Healing Effectiveness (Outgoing)
Bowl of Tapioca Pudding	80	30m	+200 Healing Power after using a heal skill	+10% Healing Effectiveness (Outgoing)
Canned Rice Ball with "Lucky" Filling	70	30m	+80 Healing Power	+8% Healing Effectiveness (Outgoing)
Furious Maintenance Oil	80	30m	Gain Concentration Equal to 3% of Your Precision	Gain Healing Power Equal to 3% of Your Precision
Bountiful Maintenance Oil	80	30m	Gain 0.6% Outgoing Healing increase for Every 100 Healing Power	Gain 0.8% Outgoing Healing Increase for Every 100 Concentration

Grants health regeneration

After consuming, you gain additional health every second. You will also gain +10% Experience from kills (except where noted). The additional Health gain is unaffected by Healing Power.

Consumable	Level	Duration	Gain/s	Additional Buff
Experimental Skritt Wafer	0	10m	21
Stick of Cotton Candy	0	10m	21
Apple Tart	5	15m	21
Bowl of Gelatinous Ooze Custard	5	60m	21
Apple Pie	10	30m	21
Bowl of Candy Corn Custard	10	45m	21	+15% Experience from kills
Heart-Shaped Cookie	15	10m	29
Kastaz Roasted Poultry	17	60m	21
Shiverpeak Ration	23	10m	29
Seraph Spicy Ration	23	10m	29
Banana Cream Pie	25	30m	29
Shiverpeak Popper	33	10m	37	+40 Vitality
Grape Pie	40	30m	37	+40 Vitality
Dredge Worker Ration	41	10m	37	+40 Vitality
Pirate Hard Tack	41	10m	37	+40 Vitality
Slice of Vigil Hard Tack	48	10m	53	+50 Vitality
Pumpkin Pie	55	30m	53	+50 Vitality
Standard Pact Ration	58	10m	69	+60 Vitality
Raspberry Pie	60	60m	37	+40 Vitality
Glazed Pumpkin Pie	60	45m	53	+50 Vitality +15% Experience from kills
Peach Pie	75	30m	69	+60 Vitality
Mango Pie	80	30m	85	+70 Vitality
Bowl of Cactus Soup	80	30m	85	+70 Toughness
Bowl of Black Pepper Cactus Salad	80	60m	85	+70 Toughness

Grants health on kill

You have a chance to heal for 970 Health when you kill a foe. The Health gain is unaffected by Healing Power.

•   Glass of Melon Juice - Double-click to gain a 20% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. Lasts 10 minutes.
•   Bowl of Blueberry Apple Compote - Double-click to gain a 20% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. Lasts 30 minutes.
•   Bowl of Strawberry Apple Compote - Double-click to gain a 30% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. Lasts 30 minutes.
•   Bowl of Cherry Vanilla Compote - Double-click to gain a 50% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. +40 Healing Power. Lasts 30 minutes.
•   Bowl of Blackberry Pear Compote - Double-click to gain a 60% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. +50 Healing Power. Lasts 30 minutes.
•   Mined Edible Root - Double-click to gain a 80% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. +60 Healing Power. Lasts 10 minutes.
•   Raspberry Peach Compote - Double-click to gain a 80% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. +60 Healing Power. Lasts 30 minutes.
•   Omnomberry Compote - Double-click to gain a 100% chance to gain health when you kill a foe. +70 Healing Power. Lasts 30 minutes.

See also

• Healing Power
• Life stealing