Healing skill

A healing skill is a skill that occupies the sixth skill slot on the skill bar. All healing skills restore health via healing; some grant additional benefits. Each character has a core profession healing skill initially and other healing skills are unlocked with hero points through the hero panel.

Healing skills should not be confused with skills in other skill slots that can heal — only the skills listed below qualify. This is especially true for traits and upgrade components which trigger "on healing," referring to the use of dedicated healing skill. When used, healing skills interrupt any other skill cast.

Profession healing skills

Skill				Description
Guardian
"Receive the Light!"		20.25¼	30	Shout. Heal yourself and allies in a cone in front of you.
Shelter		10.25¼	30	Block attacks while healing.
Signet of Resolve		1	30	Signet Passive: Cures a condition from yourself every few seconds. Signet Active: Heal yourself.
Litany of Wrath		0.25¼	25	Meditation. Heal yourself. For a brief time, heal yourself based on a percentage of damage dealt to enemies.
Dragonhunter
Purification		0.75¾	30	Trap. Heal yourself and imbue your light into a trap. Enemies that trigger this trap are damaged and blinded as the light returns to you for a second heal.
Firebrand
Mantra of Solace		20.75¾	30	Mantra. Prepare to heal yourself and grant allies aegis. The final charge of this ability is more powerful.
Restoring Reprieve			1	Gain health. Grant aegis to you and allies in front of and around you.
Rejuvenating Respite			1	Final Charge. Gain significant health. Grant aegis to you and allies before and beside you.
Revenant
Enchanted Daggers		0.5½	30	Legendary Assassin. Summon enchanted daggers that will attack as you attack, siphoning life from targets hit.
Empowering Misery		0.75¾	30	Legendary Demon. Heal yourself. Heal more for each condition currently applied to you.
Soothing Stone		1	30	Legendary Dwarf. Remove conditions and heal yourself. Gain retaliation.
Project Tranquility			2	Legendary Centaur. Project Ventari's tablet into the world. The tablet will heal allies near it every few seconds. (The tablet will disappear if you move outside the tether distance.)
Ventari's Will			3	Legendary Centaur. Will the tablet toward the target location. As the tablet moves, it will heal allies it passes through.
Herald
Facet of Light		0.25¼		Legendary Dragon. Facet. Place the Facet of Light on yourself to grant nearby allies regeneration every few seconds.
Infuse Light			30	Legendary Dragon. Consume. Consume Facet of Light to heal yourself and convert all incoming strikes to heals for a short duration.
Renegade
Breakrazor's Bastion		0.75¾	30	Legendary Renegade. Summon Era Breakrazor to heal your allies while shielding them from condition damage.
Warrior
Healing Signet		10.25¼	20	Signet Passive: Regenerate health. Signet Active: Heal yourself, and grant yourself resistance.
"To the Limit!"		1	30	Shout. Heal yourself and regain all adrenaline. Nearby allies gain endurance.
Mending		1	15	Physical. Remove conditions and heal yourself.
Defiant Stance		0.25¼	30	Stance. Heal yourself. Absorb all incoming strikes for a period of time.
Berserker
Blood Reckoning		0.25¼	20	Rage. Heal yourself, gain adrenaline, and recharge all primal burst skills. Heal for a percentage of your outgoing damage. This skill extends the duration of berserk mode.
Spellbreaker
Natural Healing		10.25¼	25	Meditation. Lose boons and conditions, then heal yourself.
Engineer
Elixir H		0.75¾	25	Elixir. Drink Elixir H to heal yourself and gain protection, regeneration, and swiftness.
Toss Elixir H		0.5½	25	Elixir. Toss Elixir H to grant protection, regeneration, and vigor to allies.
Healing Turret		0.75¾	20	Turret. Deploy a turret that heals you briefly, then regenerates you and your allies. This turret overcharges when it is first placed.
Cleansing Burst				Overcharge your healing turret to cure conditions and grant a burst of healing.
Regenerating Mist		0.25¼	21	Release a mist of healing liquid to regenerate nearby allies.
Detonate Healing Turret				Detonate your healing turret.
Med Kit				Engineering Kit. Equip a kit that replaces your weapon with healing skills.
Bandage Self		1	17	Bandage your wounds and heal yourself.
A.E.D.		0.75¾	30	Gadget. Activate your A.E.D., enabling the system to heal you after a brief period of time. If you take lethal damage while A.E.D. is active, it ends and heals you for a large amount and removes conditions.
Static Shock		0.75¾	20	Use your A.E.D. to stun an enemy.
Scrapper
Medic Gyro		0.5½	20	Well. Deploy a medic gyro to heal yourself and nearby allies.
Reconstruction Field		0.5½	25	Establish a defensive field, granting protection to allies in its area.
Holosmith
Coolant Blast		0.75¾	20	Exceed. Heal yourself and chill nearby foes. If you are above the heat threshold when this skill is activated, gain Frost Aura and continue healing for a duration.
Cauterize		0.75¾	30	Use a laser to burn off conditions and set yourself on fire for each condition removed. Removes additional conditions if above the heat threshold.
Ranger
"We Heal As One!"		1	20	Command. Heal yourself and your pet. You each gain copies of the other's boons.
Healing Spring		0.5½	30	Trap. Heals you and your pet. Place a trap that grants regeneration and cures conditions on allies.
Troll Unguent		0.75¾	25	Survival. You and your pet regenerate health over time.
Water Spirit		1	20	Spirit. Summon a water spirit that causes nearby allies to heal when attacking. Spirits lose health when granting boons to allies and die if the summoner moves out of range.
Aqua Surge		0.25¼	20	The water spirit teleports to your location and then heals you and nearby allies.
Druid
Glyph of Rejuvenation		0.5½	24	Glyph. Greatly heal yourself and your pet, while healing nearby allies for a minor amount.
Glyph of Rejuvenation		1	24	Glyph. Greatly heal your allies while healing yourself and your pet for a minor amount.
Soulbeast
Bear Stance		0.75¾	25	Stance. Heal yourself and your pet. Lose conditions while in this stance, healing for each condition lost.
Thief
Hide in Shadows		1	30	Deception. Vanish in stealth and cure conditions. Then gain regeneration and heal yourself.
Signet of Malice		10.25¼	15	Signet Passive: Heals when you attack. Signet Active: Gain health.
Withdraw			18	Trick. Cure conditions, then roll backward while healing and evading attacks.
Skelk Venom		1	30	Venom. Heal yourself. Your next few attacks heal you.
Daredevil
Channeled Vigor		0.75¾	20	Physical. Channel your energy to gain endurance and health per pulse. Heal for more if your endurance is full.
Deadeye
Malicious Restoration		0.75¾	25	Cantrip. Transfer your conditions to your marked target and then heal yourself.
Elementalist
Ether Renewal		20.75¾	18	Cantrip. Cure a condition and heal yourself with every pulse.
Glyph of Elemental Harmony		1	20	Glyph. Heal yourself and gain a boon based on your attunement.
Signet of Restoration		1	25	Signet Passive: Grants health every time you cast a spell. Signet Active: Heal yourself.
Arcane Brilliance		0.75¾	25	Arcane. Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectiveness is increased per target hit.
Tempest
"Wash the Pain Away!"		10.5½	20	Shout. Mists billow from you, healing allies in range and cleansing conditions on the final pulse.
Weaver
Aquatic Stance		0.75¾	4	Stance. Striking a foe causes water to erupt from them, healing your nearby allies.
Mesmer
Ether Feast		1	20	Heal yourself. Gain additional health for each active clone.
Mirror		10.25¼	15	Manipulation. Reflect projectiles, and heal yourself.
Mantra of Recovery		20.25¼	10	Mantra. Meditate, charging a spell that will instantly heal you when activated. Heal yourself when this spell fully charges.
Power Return			1	Instantly heal yourself. Receive increased healing if you are below the health threshold.
Signet of the Ether		1	30	Signet Passive: Heal yourself whenever you summon an illusion. Signet Active: Heal yourself and reduce the recharge of phantasm skills.
Chronomancer
Well of Eternity		0.25¼	30	Well. Create a well that rewinds time, removing conditions from allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.
Mirage
False Oasis		0.75¾	25	Deception. Create a mirage at your current location and heal over time. When the mirage expires, it spawns a mirage mirror.
Necromancer
Consume Conditions		10.25¼	30	Corruption. Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
Summon Blood Fiend		10.5½	16	Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.
Taste of Death		0.75¾		Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself.
Well of Blood		1	25	Well. Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.
Signet of Vampirism		10.25¼	30	Signet Passive: Steal health from nearby foes while in combat. Signet Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from that enemy.
Reaper
"Your Soul Is Mine!"		0.75¾	20	Shout. Heal yourself and strike foes around you, absorbing life force for each foe struck.
Scourge
Sand Flare		0.75¾	25	Punishment. Grant nearby allies a barrier. Convert a boon on nearby enemies into torment and cripple.

Racial healing skills

Skill				Description
Human
Prayer to Dwayna		1	30	Beseech Dwayna to restore your health.
Sylvari
Healing Seed		1	45	Create a healing seed at targeted location which periodically gives nearby allies regeneration.

Mount healing skills

The following skills are unlocked and available on all mounts when their respective mastery is fully trained.

	Skill		Description	Mastery
6	Bond of Life	180	Temporarily grant your mount the use of your own health pool at the risk of being downed in your mount's place.	Bond of Life

Related traits

•  Radiance
  •  Healer's Retribution – Gain retaliation when using a heal skill.
•  Valor
  •  Smiter's Boon – Cast Lesser Smite Condition when you use a healing skill.
•  Strength
  •  Restorative Strength – Using a heal skill grants might.
•  Salvation
  •  Blinding Truths – Blind nearby foes when you use a healing skill.
•  Invocation
•  Retribution
  •  Planar Protection – Cast Dome of the Mists when you use a healing skill.
•  Inventions
  •  Automated Medical Response – All heal skills recharge when struck while you are below the health threshold.
  •  Cleansing Synergy – Using a heal skill triggers a cleansing pulse around you.
  •  Heal Resonator – When you use a healing skill, you apply regeneration to nearby allies.
•  Scrapper
  •  Recovery Matrix - Using your heal skill grants you a barrier.
•  Acrobatics
  •  Vigorous Recovery – Gain vigor when using a healing skill.
•  Druid
  •  Cultivated Synergy - Using a healing skill heals allies around you and your pet.
•  Inspiration
  •  Mender's Purity – Cast Lesser Power Cleanse when you use a healing skill.
•  Spite
  •  Spiteful Renewal – Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Related equipment

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Air - gain  Shocking Aura
•   Superior Rune of the Adventurer - gain 50% endurance
•   Superior Rune of the Brawler - gain  Might
•   Superior Rune of the Centaur - grant  Swiftness to nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of the Flock - heal nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of Grenth - inflict  Chill to nearby enemies
•   Superior Rune of the Herald - grant  Protection to nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of Nature's Bounty - remove a condition from nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of the Revenant - gain  Resistance
•   Superior Rune of the Water - remove a condition from nearby allies

Related consumables

• Chance to remove a condition when healing:
  •   Roasted Aloe Seed - 20% chance
  •   Bowl of Poultry Stock - 20% chance
  •   Bowl of Poultry Noodle Soup - 20% chance
  •   Bowl of Kraitweed Salad - 30% chance
  •   Bowl of Savory Spinach and Poultry Soup - 30% chance
  •   Bowl of Herbed Poultry Stock - 50% chance, +40 Healing
  •   Bowl of Kale and Poultry Soup - 50% chance, +40 Healing
  •   Bowl of Hearty Poultry Soup - 60% chance, +50 Healing
  •   Bowl of Poultry and Winter Vegetable Soup - 80% chance, +60 Healing
  •   Bowl of Saffron-scented Poultry Soup - 100% chance, +70 Healing

• Gain Might when healing:
  •   Bowl of Marjory's Experimental Chili - 100% chance, +50 Power, +50 Condition Damage

• Gain a stat boost when healing:
  •   Jerk Poultry and Nopal Flatbread Sandwich - +200 power for 10s after healing, +70 precision
  •   Cheesy Cassava Roll - +200 toughness for 10s after healing, +70 healing power

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Skill types and profession mechanics