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	Type					Description
Guardian
"Receive the Light!"	Shout		2	20.25¼	30	Heal yourself and allies in a cone in front of you.
Shelter				10.25¼	30	Block attacks while healing.
Signet of Resolve	Signet		2	1	30	Passive: Cures a condition from yourself every few seconds. Active: Heal yourself.
Litany of Wrath	Meditation		2	0.25¼	25	Heal yourself. For a brief time, heal yourself based on a percentage of damage dealt to enemies.
Dragonhunter
Purification	Trap		15	0.75¾	30	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	Mantra			20.75¾	30	Prepare to heal yourself and grant allies aegis. The final charge of this ability is more powerful.
Restoring Reprieve	Mantra				1	Gain health. Grant aegis to you and allies in front of and around you.
Rejuvenating Respite	Final Charge				1	Gain significant health. Grant aegis to you and allies before and beside you.
Revenant
Enchanted Daggers	Legendary Assassin Stance		2	0.5½	30	Summon enchanted daggers that will attack as you attack, siphoning life from targets hit.
Empowering Misery	Legendary Demon Stance		2	0.75¾	30	Heal yourself. Heal more for each condition currently applied to you.
Soothing Stone	Legendary Dwarf Stance			1	30	Heal yourself and remove conditions. Gain retaliation.
Project Tranquility	Legendary Centaur Stance		2		2	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	Legendary Centaur Stance				3	Will the tablet toward the target location. As the tablet moves, it will heal allies it passes through.
Herald
Facet of Light	Legendary Dragon Stance		20	0.25¼		Place the Facet of Light on yourself to grant nearby allies regeneration every few seconds.
Infuse Light	Legendary Dragon Stance				30	Legendary Dragon. Consume. Consume Facet of Light to heal yourself and invert all incoming strikes to healing for a short duration.
Renegade
Breakrazor's Bastion	Legendary Renegade Stance			0.75¾	30	Summon Era Breakrazor to heal your allies while shielding them from condition damage.
Warrior
Healing Signet	Signet		2	10.25¼	20	Passive: Regenerate health. Active: Heal yourself, and grant yourself resistance.
"To the Limit!"	Shout		2	1	30	Heal yourself and regain all adrenaline. Nearby allies gain endurance.
Mending				1	15	Heal yourself and remove conditions.
Defiant Stance	Stance		2	0.25¼	30	Heal yourself. Absorb all incoming strikes for a period of time.
Berserker
Blood Reckoning	Rage		15	0.25¼	20	Heal yourself, gain adrenaline, and recharge all burst skills. Heal for a percentage of your outgoing damage.
Spellbreaker
Natural Healing	Meditation			10.25¼	25	Lose boons and conditions, then heal yourself
Engineer
Elixir H	Elixir			0.75¾	25	Drink Elixir H to heal yourself and gain protection, regeneration, and swiftness.
Toss Elixir H	Tool belt			0.5½	25	Toss Elixir H to grant protection, regeneration, and vigor to allies.
Healing Turret	Turret		2	0.75¾	20	Deploys 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, supplying a burst of healing that cures two conditions.
Regenerating Mist	Tool belt			0.25¼	21	Release a mist of healing liquid to regenerate nearby allies.
Detonate Healing Turret	Healing					Detonate your healing turret.
Med Kit	Engineering kit		2			Equip a kit that replaces your weapon with healing skills.
Bandage Self	Tool belt			1	17	Bandage your wounds and heal yourself.
A.E.D.	Gadget		2	0.75¾	30	Activate your A.E.D., enabling the system to heal you after a brief period of time. If you take lethal damage while the A.E.D. is active, it ends and heals you for a large amount and removes conditions.
Static Shock	Tool belt			0.75¾	20	Use your A.E.D. to stun an enemy.
Scrapper
Medic Gyro	Gyro		15	0.5½	20	Deploy a medic gyro to heal nearby allies.
Medic Gyro Self-Destruct	Gyro			0.75¾	10	Order your medic gyro to self-destruct.
Reconstruction Field	Tool belt			0.5½	25	Establish a defensive field, granting protection to allies in its area.
Holosmith
Coolant Blast	Exceed			0.75¾	20	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	Tool belt			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!"	Shout			1	20	Heal yourself and your pet. You each gain a copy of the other's boons.
Healing Spring	Trap		2	0.5½	30	Create a spring that heals you, your pet, and your allies. It also cures conditions on allies.
Troll Unguent	Survival		2	0.75¾	25	You and your pet regenerate health over time.
Water Spirit	Spirit		2	1	20	Summon a water spirit that grants nearby allies a chance to heal when attacking.
Aqua Surge					20	Your water spirit sacrifices itself to heal you and your nearby allies.
Druid
Glyph of Rejuvenation	Glyph			0.5½	24	Apply significant healing to yourself and pet, while healing allies for a minor amount.
Glyph of Rejuvenation	Glyph			1	24	Apply significant healing to your allies and minor healing to yourself and pet.
Soulbeast
Bear Stance	Stance			0.75¾	25	Heal yourself and your pet. Lose conditions while in this stance, healing for each condition lost.
Thief
Hide in Shadows	Deception		2	1	30	Vanish in stealth, gaining regeneration and curing conditions.
Signet of Malice	Signet			10.25¼	15	Passive: Heals when you attack. Active: Gain health.
Withdraw	Trick		2		18	Roll backward while healing, evading attacks and curing conditions.
Skelk Venom	Venom		2	1	30	Heal yourself. Your next few attacks heal you.
Daredevil
Channeled Vigor	Physical		15	0.75¾	20	Channel your energy to gain endurance and health per pulse. Heal for more if your endurance is full.
Deadeye
Malicious Restoration	Cantrip			0.75¾	25	Heal yourself and transfer your conditions to your marked target.
Elementalist
Ether Renewal	Cantrip		2	20.75¾	18	Heal yourself and cure a condition with every pulse.
Glyph of Elemental Harmony	Glyph		2	1	20	Heal yourself and gain a boon based on your attunement.
Signet of Restoration	Signet			1	25	Signet Passive: Grants health every time you cast a spell. Signet Active: Heal yourself.
Arcane Brilliance	Arcane		2	0.75¾	25	Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectiveness is increased per target hit.
Tempest
"Wash the Pain Away!"	Shout		15	10.5½	20	Mists billow out of the player, healing allies that are in range.
Weaver
Aquatic Stance	Stance			0.75¾	4	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	Manipulation		2	10.25¼	15	Reflect projectiles, and heal yourself.
Mantra of Recovery	Mantra		2	20.25¼	10	Meditate, charging a spell that will instantly heal you when activated. Heal yourself when this skill fully charges.
Power Return					1	Instantly heal yourself. Receive increased healing if you are below the health threshold.
Signet of the Ether	Signet		2	1	30	Passive: Heal yourself whenever you summon an illusion. Active: Heal yourself and reduce the recharge of phantasm skills.
Chronomancer
Well of Eternity	Well		15	0.25¼	30	Creates a well that rewinds time, removing conditions from allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.
Mirage
False Oasis	Deception			0.75¾	25	Create a mirage at your current location and heal over time. When the mirage expires, it spawns a mirage mirror.
Necromancer
Consume Conditions	Corruption			10.25¼	30	Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed. You become vulnerable.
Summon Blood Fiend	Minion		2	10.5½	16	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	Well		2	1	30	Conjure a well of blood to heal allies.
Signet of Vampirism	Signet		2	10.25¼	30	Passive: Heal when struck by a foe. Active: Heal yourself and mark a foe. Allied players will siphon life from that enemy.
Reaper
"Your Soul Is Mine!"	Shout		15	0.75¾	20	Heal yourself and strike foes around you, absorbing life force for each foe struck.
Scourge
Sand Flare	Punishment			0.75¾	25	Grant nearby allies a barrier. Convert boons on nearby enemies into torment and cripple.

Racial healing skills

Skill	Type					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

Related traits

•  Healer's Retribution – Gain retaliation when using a heal skill.
•  Smiter's Boon – Cast Lesser Smite Condition when you use a healing skill.
•  Restorative Strength – Using a heal skill grants might.
•  Blinding Truths – Blind nearby foes when you use a healing skill.
•  Bolster Fortifications – Grant protection to nearby allies when using a healing skill. Deal increased damage while you have protection.
•  Fierce Infusion – Using a healing skill grants you fury.
•  Planar Protection – Cast Dome of the Mists when you take damage from falling or use a healing skill. Take less damage from falling.
•  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.
•  Stimulant Supplier – Drop a stim pack when you use a healing skill.
•  Recovery Matrix - Using your heal skill grants you a barrier.
•  Trapper's Respite – Drop a Lesser Needle Trap when you use a healing skill.
•  Vigorous Recovery – Gain vigor when using a healing skill.
•  Cultivated Synergy - Using a healing skill heals allies around you and your pet.
•  Mender's Purity – Cast Lesser Power Cleanse when you use a healing skill.
•  Spiteful Renewal – Consume conditions to gain health when you use a healing skill.

Related equipment

Runes

•   Superior Rune of the Air - gain swiftness
•   Superior Rune of Balthazar - burn nearby foes
•   Superior Rune of Vampirism - steal life after healing
•   Superior Rune of Dwayna - grant regeneration to nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of Grenth - chill nearby foes
•   Superior Rune of Lyssa - gain a random boon
•   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 Defender - gain aegis
•   Superior Rune of the Flock - heal nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of the Revenant - gain two seconds of  Resistance
•   Superior Rune of the Water - heal nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of Altruism - grant might and fury to nearby allies
•   Superior Rune of Tormenting - torment nearby foes

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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