Originally posted by GWFandaddy

Originally posted by Adalwulff

Dont let these people fool you, yes there are healers.

They are hidden in areas around the map, you have to explore to find them. Once you do, feed them and they will follow you around healing.

They never take damage, and they have unlimited hit points. Once you have your healer, you can finish the game in just a few hours, and take over the WvW.

I hope this helps

Or, you can purchase said healer, in the cash shop

This made me LOL.

Waiting for the Wow fanbois to start the CS bashing again.

/popcorn

Originally posted by FearTHeFro

I have read that all classes are able to heal themselves and all of that stuff, but does that mean that all groups wont have a designated healer?

 

In gw1 I really liked healing for GVG and HoH with my spiker group guild, and looking at the skills on characters and stuff it seems like you could build just a pure healer/support class.

 

I wonder how good that would be to have 4 people go complete damage and one person go complete heal/support. it seems like that would be pretty good to not have to worry about healing yourself and having one person to heal in the pvp group.

 

Anyone who has done more research than me have any insight on this? Or is it all unknown at this time?

I would think if we're playing a game that is not designed for designated healers but yet we still designate healers, we would be playing the game wrong in a sense?

I think if there is colaboration as a team and people pair up and designate a few heals here and there to simply help out the over-all initiative then thats fine, but to to say 'that guy go main heal' would be going by design. Also I hope they don't make it so that one class can heal better than others, that would be a set-up to have people designate main healers.

Originally posted by Adalwulff

Dont let these people fool you, yes there are healers.

They are hidden in areas around the map, you have to explore to find them. Once you do, feed them and they will follow you around healing.

They never take damage, and they have unlimited hit points. Once you have your healer, you can finish the game in just a few hours, and take over the WvW.

I hope this helps

This just make me laugh - great post!!!

Remember, in GW1, Gwen in pre-sear would follow you around and heal.

 The answer to the question is yes, there wil be healers. I wouldn't let anyone try to tell you otherwise, the skills are in the game, they do make a difference. They won't be the normal healers most mmo's are used to , but they will be healers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is completely ignoring the very obvious skills Guardians, Elems, and Eng's get. Like Creslin said ... I see them played as Moba Supports characters ... where they do far more than simply heal, but they are still the healers in the groups.

Originally posted by Redemp

 The answer to the question is yes, there wil be healers. I wouldn't let anyone try to tell you otherwise, the skills are in the game, they do make a difference. They won't be the normal healers most mmo's are used to , but they will be healers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is completely ignoring the very obvious skills Guardians, Elems, and Eng's get. Like Creslin said ... I see them played as Moba Supports characters ... where they do far more than simply heal, but they are still the healers in the groups.

 

Nobody is ignorant except possibly YOU. Nobody ever said they wont have healing skills, as a matter of fact the elementalist skills 3 to 5 of water are all healing skills. what people have said is, the amount of healing you could receive from those classes are not enough to sustain you for any period of time and given their CD it makes it almost impossibily.

Finally, when people talk healer they usually mean someone who plays wack a mole with the hp bar. In guild wars 2, it wont be possibily at all to be such a player, I can give you passive heals but I cannot play wack a mole with the hp bar, it just isn't possible or highly unlikely. The best healing skill in the game comes in the form of self heals.

If you don't believe me, at level 80 certain classes have 25k hp, an elementalist skill on a 45 sec CD heal for about 1000 hp, if you are getting pounded by a boss that wont keep you up at all.

Originally posted by silvermember

Originally posted by Redemp

 The answer to the question is yes, there wil be healers. I wouldn't let anyone try to tell you otherwise, the skills are in the game, they do make a difference. They won't be the normal healers most mmo's are used to , but they will be healers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is completely ignoring the very obvious skills Guardians, Elems, and Eng's get. Like Creslin said ... I see them played as Moba Supports characters ... where they do far more than simply heal, but they are still the healers in the groups.

 

Nobody is ignorant except possibly YOU. Nobody ever said they wont have healing skills, as a matter of fact the elementalist skills 3 to 5 of water are all healing skills. what people have said is, the amount of healing you could receive from those classes are not enough to sustain you for any period of time and given their CD it makes it almost impossibily.

Finally, when people talk healer they usually mean someone who plays wack a mole with the hp bar. In guild wars 2, it wont be possibily at all to be such a player, I can give you passive heals but I cannot play wack a mole with the hp bar, it just isn't possible or highly unlikely. The best healing skill in the game comes in the form of self heals.

If you don't believe me, at level 80 certain classes have 25k hp, an elementalist skill on a 45 sec CD heal for about 1000 hp, if you are getting pounded by a boss that wont keep you up at all.

 Where exactly did I call people ignorant? Yeah .... I didn't.

Healer  typically means  ... someone that heals others. I already conceded that the healers won't play typical to normal Mmo', what exactly is your point? I trust you're not going to argue that there are indeed healers in Guild Wars 2 , that they won't make a difference in a PvE or PvP encounter?

There are healers in Gw2,  they will be useful , they will do more than heal.

This whole issue is Anet's fault for stating they don't have a trinity, yet including classes with specific skills establishing they do in fact have a trinity. The trinity is a very different beast than most Mmo's are used to , but it in essence is still there.

As stated for at least a year, thre will be players who are better at support. If all your character is doing is healing, your team is going to lack in other areas (such as reviving, boons, condition removal, cursing).  Your team will also loose some of your damage edge and possibly some control.  

When they say no healer, it means, yes you can build a great heal heavy character, but if that's the only thing you plan on doing in a combat you're going to be more a detriment to the team.