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Guild Wars Guru · Aug 08, 2005, 03:09 AM // 03:09

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Black Forsaken · Aug 08, 2005, 03:09 AM // 03:09

Where do you get this skill?

Mercury Angel · Aug 08, 2005, 03:11 AM // 03:11

Current skill icon-

Andyt25 · Aug 09, 2005, 12:28 AM // 00:28

Can anyone help me by telling me where i can find this skill, Thanks

Arcanis Imperium · Aug 09, 2005, 01:34 AM // 01:34

Healing Breeze is a Monk Primary skill, you get it as one of the first skills you get in the tutorial.

Older characters with Monk secondaries dont have access to it, but newer characters will as ArenaNet included those skills in monk secondaries in one of their updates.

Myrkwid · Aug 09, 2005, 01:45 AM // 01:45

It's an ordinary monkskill. You can purchase it from the skilltrainer in Ascalon ( Sir Bertan ).

Arcanis Imperium · Aug 09, 2005, 02:29 AM // 02:29

Seriously? heh. I guess forget what I said then...

Crest · Aug 14, 2005, 04:55 PM // 16:55

heal other > healing breeze.

healing breeze is for noob monks.

ziraffe · Aug 15, 2005, 03:48 PM // 15:48

Healing Breeze doesnt suck Crest..

I am lvl 20 and still using it
And I don't know if it is a mistake but you said it heals for 3-8 damage

I have healing prayers lvl 15 and i heal of 9 with healing breeze

or maybe your numbers only show for attrbiute 0-12

Dazzler · Aug 15, 2005, 04:00 PM // 16:00

Yes a good monk takes both Healing Breeze AND Heal Other.

Healing Breeze is good because it is a steady stream of healing for 10s so you can cast it early and move on to another player for a while--especially good for healing the non-tanks that just need something to heal the odd dmg they are taking while you focus on the tanks. It is also > Heal Other when you need to heal yourself

And over the 10s period, it actually heals as much as Heal Other. At 9 pips, that is 180 health healed in 9s. I think Heal Other at a 16 Healing is around 190.

Mariodood · Sep 13, 2005, 03:04 AM // 03:04

Most people I see (who strangely enough, do not play Monks) look down upon this spell. When I cast it on them, they're like "DUDE, WHY THE **** DID YOU BRING BREEZE!?" Breeze is great for healing myself when I'm being attacked (Basically if a Warrior is attacking me, I breeze, then alternate between orison and touch, and it works great) and also, sometimes someone isn't taking a whole lot of damage but still enough to not ignore, so I breeze them and move onto the person who's taking real damage. And the last and best use is, it totally reverses DOT's. So I can eb being attacked while poisoned and I still don't have health degen.

a_nonamiss · Sep 15, 2005, 03:00 PM // 15:00

I would seriously question the competancy of any so-called "healing monk" who does NOT bring Healing Breeze. Personally, it's in my number one slot. Has been since I first started playing the game. Always will be. The posts above brought up the good reasons to use it, so I won't rehash those, but it's a staple spell, even for experienced monks. (especially for experienced monks... they will know how and when to use it.)

I think anyone calling themselves a "healing monk" should equip no less than 5 healing spells. Absolutely "Healing Breeze" and "Heal Other." Personally, I also equip the following:
1) "Heal Party" - use sparingly. It costs a lot of energy, but can be useful if the whole party just needs a breath of fresh air.
2) "Orison of Healing" - quick. cheap. marginally effective. Also, can be used on self.
3) "Signet of Devotion" - In case I run out of energy. This is slower, but if you have no energy it can get you out of a tight spot.

I also throw in a res, plus two smiting skills in case I NEED to deal some damage. I don't call myself a smiting monk, and rarely use these skills. They use energy better spent on healing.

Anyone have any luck with slightly different builds? Something I should be considering that I'm not?

Owen · Sep 15, 2005, 03:07 PM // 15:07

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Originally Posted by a_nonamiss

Anyone have any luck with slightly different builds? Something I should be considering that I'm not?

Depends on where you are in the game but my Healer Build is...

Word of Healing {E}
Heal Other
Healing Breeze
Heal Party/Healing Seed (I swap these depending on Tank #'s)
Heal Area
Vigorous Spirit
Mend Condition
Rebirth

Nothing fancy there at all, I have 14 Heal 13 Divine and the rest in Protection. Going full Protection soon though as straight healing has run it's course for me.

Basically you'll drop Orison from your build as soon as you get Word of Healing (Capped in any Ascension Mission). I use Vigorous/Seed to supplement my healing on Tanks so i don't have to focus so much on them in the early going of a battle. Heal Area is for self healing although I have become deadly accurate at healing Tanks in combat and not healing the enemies they're fighting, it keeps things interesting. I also think any pure healer should be able to purge conditions (but don't use the horrid skill called purge conditions!) so i keep Mend Condition around as it cures one condition plus it heals them for a small chunk and of course they also get my Divine healing so just mending a condition off someone heals them for around 60+ health.

Gaiserik · Sep 15, 2005, 03:15 PM // 15:15

Spike Heals (Heal Touch, Heal Other, Orison, Heal Party, etc) > Healing Breeze

Sep 17, 2005, 02:54 PM // 14:54

First off I'm sick of suicidal wars and then have then nerve to criticize a monk for bringing healing breeze? Healing breeze is 1 of the best skills in game it almost completely eliminates health degeneration. Not only is it effective protection against the health degeneration associated with conjure phantasm, crippling anguish, faintheartedness, life siphon, migraine, virulence,well of suffering, diseased, immolate, life transfer, incediary bonds, mark of rogert, rogorts invocation, huntershot, apply poison, barbed trap, flame trap, incediary arrows, melandu's arrows, poison arrow.It also is 1 of the best self heals for a monk save for heal area and these moron dont want you healing what they are fighting right?
But hey who am I to judge. If ppl want to deal with the degen from those skills without help from a monk I got no problem letting them die.

Owen · Sep 17, 2005, 03:02 PM // 15:02

I don't think I would consider a non-versatile spell like Healing Touch to be better than Breeze or a low powered heal like Orison either.

With Touch you either have to stray close to the mobs to heal or only use it to heal people who aren't near mobs that might then turn on you. It's too much of a limited use spell for me to even consider using period.

I devote my whole bar to Healing (as you can see above) so their is plenty of room for a host of heals, not just spikes. I could prehaps find someone who only has 3 spots for heals having to make the tough choices and choosing to cut Breeze but in the hands of a well rounded healer Breeze is just as valuable as any spike.

Jamski · Sep 18, 2005, 01:44 AM // 01:44

The best way to counter DoT is to remove the hex or the condition. The best way to heal damage is to heal it when its needed, not trickle it in. Lastly Healing Breeze is an enchantment - about 90% of the PvE maps have enchantment strippers and in PvP I take great joy in shattering or stealing a Healing Breeze off an opponent.

Tactical-Dillusions · Sep 18, 2005, 02:00 AM // 02:00

Ever since i started playing a healer monk, breeze has been glued to my bar. It is the most important heal IMO for general purposes unless we're up against heavy spike damage, in which case word of healing is my top banana.

Raiin Maker · Oct 26, 2005, 05:49 PM // 17:49

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Originally Posted by Tactical-Dillusions

Ever since i started playing a healer monk, breeze has been glued to my bar. It is the most important heal IMO for general purposes unless we're up against heavy spike damage, in which case word of healing is my top banana.

i always use healing breeze on my warroir, and its great in pvp, a steady health regen... also good in plauged with hex's to counter the health degen.

Jetdoc · Oct 26, 2005, 07:55 PM // 19:55

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Originally Posted by Raiin Maker

i always use healing breeze on my warroir, and its great in pvp.

I would agree that it's great in PvE for a warrior, but I think it's terrible in PvP. Generally, as a warrior, you're going to encounter spike damage in PvP as you are targeted by focused groups AFTER some of the soft targets have been taken care of. Healing Breeze will help you in a long, drawn out fight, but not if you have five guys spiking damage on you at once.