I Tried Heal..WILLBENDER?? - Thoughts

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[@MuklukYoutube]

Noxxi that is NOT what I asked for

[@samohanka]

(Sniff)

[@Dahkeus3]

...But it's what we all needed.

[@Apoz]

I'm already running it down. Since FB might generation is so terrible, I might aswell be the Heal top DPS. (ps. I'm in berserker's/sage gear)

[@bosunbones.8815]

Noxxi crashed our guilds raid training not long ago. They were more than welcome. We had a blast and they helped enormously! I'm sure what ever noxxi did was funny and deserved.😂

[@towelcat]

One of the strengths of HWB is how steady the stream of healing is (symbols+regen+elite signet), with access to multiple enormous burst heals (Bow of Truth, Receive the Light, staff 2+4). You even get a ~1.5k heal on your dodge, which translates to over 2k to allies once you factor in the ENORMOUS outgoing healing mod (Invigorated Bulwark is cracked). If you somehow need even MORE healing, you can take sanctuary and glacial heart for yet ANOTHER massive heal, pushing upwards of ~19k over 7s to allies on a 32s cd. Need even MORE healing? Well you're in luck! Holy Reckoning carries might all on its own, allowing you to take Pure of Heart for another ~1.3k heal on your aegis blocks. I have had ZERO issues keeping myself and my subgroup alive in Boneskinner pugs with this build (assuming they avoid the one shot lol). There's a ton of trait/util flexibility here, giving you the ability to fine-tune the amount of damage, healing, and boons you provide for each fight. FWIW I attempted the same "extremely threatening" pulsing aura test you did and had no problem surviving forever as long as I was cycling through the shout heal, bow of truth, and the occasional dodge (and casting virtues off cd for boons).

[@YasaiTsume]

Muk: "Noxxi cut this out" Noxxi: "nOxXi CuT tHiS oUt"

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

That thumbnail is pure art.

[@blubbblubber4342]

Watching this, it felt like you should swap to Staff more often, especially if you can't melee whack for a bit. In addition to the 'pole dance', skill 2 is both a blast and good healing on its own.

[@chester1882]

Noxi owes me a new drink after seeing that thumbnail!!

[@Cross_111]

You pretty much nailed it...one piece of advice...you dont need "feel my wrath" as the elite You dont need to bring quickness or fury on this build - and while the superspeed will be nice soon you really lack healing so signet if courage would be the perfect addition! Just leave it on passive and it will be another source of strong sustain healing while being a good oh s*** button when you need a bigger heal (with a precast time 😂 )

[@egoboost13]

Or just play a real support that fills the role better in every single way.

[@Cross_111]

@@egoboost13 i main HFB, sooo 😋🤣

[@egoboost13]

@@Cross_111yeah, that's good enough....not a fan compared to other supp that can actually heal but that's only relevant in WvW....fortunately in PvE most healers(minus WB) are more than enough unless you're trying to carry a new group.

[@maissthro3645]

I did played Healbender when SnowCrows posted it and it is a ton of fun when you are able to whack at least 1 enemy. The stupidly easy to obtain amount of boons ease a lot 90% of the PvE content of the game, but when you go to raids, strikes or T3 fractals your healing output is definitively lacking. Fun setup to go on most PvE but not all (unless you are part of SnowCrows). Also, much love to Noxxi for the treat and to you for laughing it off.

[@fullmetalathlete]

So as a guard main I wanted this build to be good sooooo bad but for all of the reasons you mentioned, it is a struggle. A couple of notes. 1) Relic of Karakosa - because it heals your group BUT NOT YOU, I often found myself dying while my group mates lived. In testing I brought two guildies in there with me and I could do blast finisher after blast finisher to keep them up. However what inevitably happened was I would die and they would still be there alive, because I didn't benefit from those blast finishers as much as they did. 2) you can swap the signet for Merciful Intervention, which is a cool ass skill where you have a 1200 teleport to ground target and heal, so you can use it for mobility or just right on top of yourself and the group to get a other big bump of healing. 3) replace the elite with Signet of Courage for a bunch more passive healing for the whole group and having a mega "oh shit" heal on hand, albeit with a long cast time that has to land to be effective 4) the drawbacks being that to have that higher output of healing you replace the utilities mentioned above and now you're either not helping in the uptime of fury, or quickness, or stability, or having a rez on hand. Takeaways. All the things you said about needing to have a target to hit is accurate, as well as all the movement skills making it dangerous to stay in target when the boss phases. I felt like this could be a usable build in 2 scenarios. 1) you have an excellent group where people aren't stepping in stupid things and all the other boons are covered and you just need continuous raw healing, so you're extra utility isn't required. 2) there's another healer in the group and you are just bringing additional healing to the group. Also, it's quite dependent on quickness. If you're quickness provider drops off that hammer swing slows to a crawl and maintaining your symbol is almost impossible to keep up so you lose your blast field and prot generation and you are just better off staying in staff at that point. So close, and yet just not quite there. It's clear why it's not the meta. I think it wouldn't take a lot to get it there, the appropriate relic or some tweak to the hammer perhaps. But as it stands your analysis is quite on point.

[@PhoenixKidd2]

A few good tips to increase healing output on the build is to use F3, advance, or other blocking skills to build up stacks of Invigorated Bulwark (a trait you had selected in Honor) which increases outgoing healing to other allies. The golem damage field can't break your aegis so there is no good way to see that extra healing there. Also when you are in a fight that were you don't use a consecration skill you can swap the Master of Consecrations trait to Resolute Focus in Virtues, which will give you some extra self aegis which will help with Invigorated Bulwark Stacks.

[@matsug5704]

The Sniff closeups are **cheffkiss*

[@MajorHuck]

That thumbnail pic is amazing 😂 Water Bender

[@Ramboondiea]

If you run bow of truth for long enough, you get real good at both predicting when you need it and where to aim it (and there will still be times when it just gets delivered to someone else house ha)

[@raarsi-dar]

Nice to see that Noxxi woke up and chose violence before finding that footage in the Nox Box. As for this build, it does seem like it started with someone trying way too hard to make a meme a dream because they couldn't make pre-staff healsworn work and only proved that base guardian could probably pump out the same healing.

[@mimimalloc]

I feel like Purging Flames is such a synergistic utility for this build it's hard to justify not taking. Multi-hit damage field to help trigger your virtues, cleanses condis, provides a fire field you can blast with either of your weapons...it's just Loaded.

[@Zambajazz]

10/10 editing

[@SirMasao]

I got all the healing I needed in this video from Chip being a cute ginger boy baffing his beans. ❤ Never change sweet prince!

[@corvuscorax9028]

i love the tumbnail thumbnail

[@MrDanielFields]

can u share a good updated ELI5 heal alac druid guide? urs or someonelses. can seem to find one

[@turnerz9393]

For the arcdps not working, I found that if you have blish installed and you run the game through it, arcdps works just fine regardless of the update 😊

[@boshabadoo]

Are you going to also show the builds you play a lot like druid or scourge? Would be nice to see a breakdown for all heal supports. Unless it’s already on your channel and I’m just missing it

[@KamilDrakari]

I think those are planned, but I'm not sure if they're just in the editing pipeline or still need to be recorded

[@AATproducer]

What is a better intro into the weekend than a Sniffluk?

[@Lyssiana-lq1eq]

Have you tried Heal Untamed yet? It's better at keeping itself (and others) alive than heal willbender.

[@Erik1495]

the cool thing about wb is that you can keep boons heal and alac with almost all weapons

[@student76543]

Something that I realized after learning my first few healbuilds: its not about keeping yourself alive. It's about keeping glass cannon dps alive in - at least - the moderate field. For example Cele Scourge can easily stay alive in extreme damage and still deal like 12k. But a dps besides you will just drop dead quickly. While in moderate you can keep a dps alive no problem (which should realistically be your goal. After all, even boneskinner has lower arena damage than extreme field). Just mentioning Scourge because it's the one I personally have the most experience with. That said, thank you very much for this series, it was very interesting seeing your perspective on all the healers.

[@riddlesphinxx]

I feel like you've had fun with most of these builds, this is the first video where I felt like you were STRAIGHT-UP BORED XD Not your favorite one eh?

[@josepazelli2653]

Hi Muk! Are you going to wait for the balance patch to test heal renegade? Since there is a rework coming.

[@MuklukYoutube]

Yep

[@RinRingo100percent]

Will you try heal catalyst next? :D

[@awesomika9024]

Purging flame is not for condi clns it's a fire field(right) so full combo will give might instead and hammer 3rd skill gives barrier and also for more healing u can stand on willblender flame

[@devinayaz9210]

Thank you noxxi XD

[@KM-ij9oe]

can someone tell me where this place is to test your builds?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Lions arch aerodrome, I have a vid on it here if you like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWK4oHyZiayWgqs

[@kenjieabulon1363]

7:04 you spooked Chip

[@dutchdragon6]

I like hammer healer, my build usess ring of fire for condi remove and elite signet for passive healing and shouts for agis and stab

[@cameirusisu1024]

you doing engi shortbow? I'm not convinced by it, but I've seen it creeping its way into guides.

[@BenaSPACE]

Engi shortbow is pretty much hand-tailored for heal scrapper, but I don't think it's going to see much use with Mech.

[@ashwinarunachalamthirupath3639]

Would mace shield be a good replacement for hammer?

[@Exorius84]

The whole build is made around hammer that provides protection and constant blast finishers.

[@1Lofod]

HEALMENDER

[@dathuynh2243]

That thumbnail is mmm, delicious.

[@saunorine]

I tried heal alac wb like 2 months ago. Felt so bad to play when i took it to t3 fractals. I feel like they need to lower the amount of hits to trigger passive2 or even just some form of burst healing. And this was me coming from heal fb. It feels so bad compared to it. Not even the lack of utility thats the problem.

[@Apoz]

I didn't really understand the hammer? Is it for the auto attack chain symbol which generates might? If that is the case, why not use mace? It drops a symbol aswell and no way in hell you will ever die with mace 1h. That weapon has probably the most healing potential from all classes in the entire game.

[@Exorius84]

hammer symbol gives protection and blast finisher on 4 (~3 with alac) second cd for the karakosa relic heal.

[@Apoz]

@@Exorius84 Is that really worth it? You can blast finish with staff aswell. The staff healing (even excluding staff4) is pretty decent as well.

[@BK-pd1sq]

I find it easier to play with the elite signet and mace/shield tbh. It's certainly not as easy as heal brand though.

[@GBugden]

Noxxi is a gift to humanity

[@Kissumea]

for more healing I would recommend mace/shield with the staff

[@MuklukYoutube]

As I understand it the hammer was in the build for: 1 - the auto chain gives protection 2 - the 2 skill does blast combos on a 4 second cooldown, this procs relic of karakosa a lot and also does cleansing combos a lot

[@Kissumea]

that's true last time i played the build was in eod and the beginning of soto and the build changed a lot thanks for bring that up @@MuklukKZbin

[@megapunsh6645]

Hi Do you have promo code for gw2 in game store ?

[@MuklukYoutube]

I do not, sorry!

[@Who-fm2en]

Why not mace/shield instead of hammer?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Hammer is for prot and blast combos every 4seconds

[@arkanaloth2617]

"that heal has shipping..." dude.. I almost spit out my drink laughing on that one...

[@GetThePizza]

Mukluk i dare yo to try heal deadeye next

[@jonolsen9170]

Makes me think how insane vindicator is, able to deal around 10-12k dps (solo boons) and stay alive in the extreme setting 😂

[@duckyorwell9416]

Rushed it a bit to fast, you are not in healing mode when not having staff so switch back to staff, 2/5 both big heals, you also don't use staff 2 in the start which you could do after the pole dance / 5, thanks for the vid's tho

[@kennethvannorwick3557]

I really enjoyed Noxxi ignoring you.

[@felixpohlmann866]

Will we get a test Heal-Specter from you? Specter was "especially" designed to be a healer...in the first place😂

[@woof3065]

my solo all cele reaper can tank that xtreme damage and still do goo ddps without any extra added boons... Herald could too but after they nerfed the quickness trait it's dps is not good anymore

[@EmnelGaming]

As someone that has been playing like 5 (now six with new chrono) healing builds on the regular this sounds absolutely awful. Especially for a new player who won't be able to compensate for the build's many shortcomings. If you want to support on a guardian just leant to firebrand. It really isn't nearly as hard once you get some muscle memory going.

[@michailchatzipanagiotou3397]

My 2 cents as a guardian one trick. This one is great, unless you must mind your positioning. Things like KO CM, Deimos, Twin Largos, HT CM, Adina and Sabir CMs, to name a few make this build prohibited, unless played to perfection. We are talking no less than 3 force movement skills that can easily yeet you off platform. Also it lacks burst healing, which makes it kinda risky in pugs. The tradeoff is an extremely easy boon upkeep, on demand stability and blocks and endless CC if needed. Final verdict: The best situational healer, probably.

[@Lord_Einhorn]

You Can inglude sancturi for Healing you dont need Stabi if ist Not requerd. And if your das Support Profits fury you Can take some Healing from your Elite. The Most Problem i have whit that Build that you die so fucking fast. Healing out put is Creat if you use 2 times Hammer 2

[@i_arji]

try staff staff alacheal mirage :P

[@agaaga7748]

Do xxxx, this, that, THE POLEDANCING THING, xxx, that, this, xxx, THE POLEDANCING THING :D

[@pantheraleo2]

The inverse of heal Willbender's sustain only healing would be heal Virtuoso's burst only healing. If only clone summoning traits still triggered when blades are capped like when clones are capped 😢

[@pantheraleo2]

Also both willbender and virtuoso both require a target to wail on for healing and boons, and do above average DPS for a healer. Maybe some new attribute combinations could make hybrid DPS/healers a thing. Virtuoso can kind of use Seraph's gear but doesn't provide alac or quick so it's harder to fit into a comp.

[@jerod4036]

If you want a real challenge, you can try quick-heal catalyst. It 's scuffed as all get out, it's hard to play, it has multiple very different build variations, and it actually performs well IF you do it correctly. I warn you though, it's not for the faint of heart.

[@MuklukYoutube]

It's on my to do list. I'm scared.

[@jerod4036]

I wish you luck! I'm an ele main who already knows all the skills by heart and it still took me a day or two to be able to pull off the ice bow rotation in an actual encounter@@MuklukKZbin

[@minkuspower]

those "agony fields" do so much more damage than you'll actually take in a real scenario tho :/

[@crow_buddy]

I don't know about that. As a healer main, being able to survive in damaging areas/AOEs while ressing someone is pretty important. It could be AOE damage, stacked condis, knockback effects/instabilities, cleave, etc. Gotta keep yourself alive so you can keep your allies up. Other healers excel in this area, Healbender less so.

[@minkuspower]

@@crow_buddy yes you're right, but from my experience (raiding, strikes, t4 fractals, open world) on various healers, you VERY RARELY encounter damage that high, unless everyone screws up ROYALLY

[@idontunderstandnihongoqwq940]

Heal Blender

[@cliffyk3380]

You know its bad when you try and rotate the camera.

[@publicuniversaldeacon]

Day 3 of begging Mr. Luk for Heal Untamed! Give it up for day 3!

[@sanguin3]

I think it's time for you to make a video on the absolutely CHADest of all healer, Heal Alac Specter. Prepare to be confused by all the weird ally-targeting skills 💀💀💀

[@MuklukYoutube]

It has been recorded and it is in my editors "to do " box. Also it was awful LOL

[@user-fq7ti7bl4t]

Bro you actually need to use the staff and press keys. If you auto only you will die.

[@Amikeho]

Thx for noticing the build. Few notes: For Weapons - hammer is actual meme viable pick - have some heal on autoattack symbol, but that's it, symbol is quite small area too. It can easily stack few healing fields on each another, which is nice. Staff have good burst heal on 4. Also consider wearing axe - big aoe symbol, and fury and little pull, mace for more heals and overprotection spam, both paired with shield for some aegis and even more protection. For range heal, like sabetha kite, scepter is also an option (and do might in symbol). For traits, upper major master wb - [Restorative Virtues], reduce cds of weapons skills, depends on weapon (meh on hammer, good on staff and scepter, mid on mace/axe) may be helpful on some fights too. [Holy Reckoning] is my default pick too. Every adept-honor trait have something to offer too. For skills: traits of virtue [Master of Consecrations] - empower consecration skills, gtfo SYG, its crap!, [Purging Flames] (great cleans and also hits, to activate our F skills) and [Hallowed Ground] (actual permanent resolution, and stab pulses) are the way to go, also both are fire fields. For ultimate, FMW is actual bad pick, [Heaven's Palm] for great cc or [Signet of Courage] for some more heal are much better. For rotation - F rotation is F3->F1->F2 then F1->F2, repeated on every F2 cd is available, the idea is to keep F2 effect on, casting another F replace effect of older F skill. Hallowed Ground can be spammed on cd for resolution if we don't expect need of stab. Everyone, gogo enjoy healbender! Now to wait for vid of undruid with double staff (or staff with mace/horn), that blinds all (includes teammates).

[@glowdonk]

kity

[@AATproducer]

whats left? only specter and renegade ( for which he will wait for the rework)?

[@GlacierRain]

it isnt a serious build

[@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu]

Guardians are not really healers they are more into boon givers

[@crow_buddy]

Muk's cat cam says it all: this build is a total sleeper. Just play Healbrand instead, groups will thank you for it.

[@egoboost13]

Yeah this is just another one of those "it exists because people just want to play something different even if it isn't good"....

[@VamanaGW2]

I think youre being too strict on the rotation here. Get your boons out and stay alive, you spend way too long in hammer and hold off on bow way too much

[@critical-thinker666]

copium build like healwar.