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GW2: Tier List of the Best Offensive Healers in PvE (February 2026)
This video presents a tier list of the best offensive healers in Guild Wars 2 for group PvE content, considering the ability to provide both healing and damage. Various builds and elite specializations are evaluated, ranking them from 'Impossible' to 'S-Tier', with detailed explanations of their strengths and weaknesses.
1. 🚫 Impossible and Meme Tier: Unviable Classes as Celestial Healers
- 🚫 Core classes like Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Necromancer, Engineer, Ranger, and Mesmer cannot consistently provide Aegis or Alacrity to their groups, making them unviable as celestial healers.
- 🤡 The 'Meme Tier' includes builds that can technically provide benefits, but have major counter-synergies or are simply not worth playing.
- ⚔️ Examples of the 'Meme Tier' include:
- Berserker (Warrior): Bad weapon combination for healing and damage.
- Amalgam (Necromancer): It's better to play as a full healer.
- Ritualist (Necromancer): Doesn't scale well with condition damage.
- Vindicator (Guardian): Loses a lot of damage when taking certain traits.
- Bladesworn (Warrior): Scales mainly with power, wasting celestial stats.
- Wind Walker (Ranger): Doesn't scale with condition damage and makes no sense as a healer.
- Dagger (Thief): Doesn't provide enough healing or damage.
00:00 - 01:32
1. 🚫 Impossible and Meme Tier: Unviable Classes as Celestial Healers
- 🚫 Core classes like Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Necromancer, Engineer, Ranger, and Mesmer cannot consistently provide Aegis or Alacrity to their groups, making them unviable as celestial healers.
- 🤡 The 'Meme Tier' includes builds that can technically provide benefits, but have major counter-synergies or are simply not worth playing.
- ⚔️ Examples of the 'Meme Tier' include:
- Berserker (Warrior): Bad weapon combination for healing and damage.
- Amalgam (Necromancer): It's better to play as a full healer.
- Ritualist (Necromancer): Doesn't scale well with condition damage.
- Vindicator (Guardian): Loses a lot of damage when taking certain traits.
- Bladesworn (Warrior): Scales mainly with power, wasting celestial stats.
- Wind Walker (Ranger): Doesn't scale with condition damage and makes no sense as a healer.
- Dagger (Thief): Doesn't provide enough healing or damage.
01:33 - 04:03
2. 🤡 Meme Tier: Not Recommended Builds as Celestial Healers
- 🤡 The 'Meme Tier' includes builds that can technically provide benefits, but have major counter-synergies or are simply not worth playing.
- ⚔️ Examples of the 'Meme Tier' include:
- Berserker (Warrior): Bad weapon combination for healing and damage.
- Amalgam (Necromancer): It's better to play as a full healer.
- Ritualist (Necromancer): Doesn't scale well with condition damage.
- Vindicator (Guardian): Loses a lot of damage when taking certain traits.
- Bladesworn (Warrior): Scales mainly with power, wasting celestial stats.
- Wind Walker (Ranger): Doesn't scale with condition damage and makes no sense as a healer.
- Dagger (Thief): Doesn't provide enough healing or damage.
04:04 - 08:44
3. 🤔 Works in Theory Tier: Builds with Limited Potential
- 🤔 This tier includes builds that can work with celestial stats as healers, but are not recommended in most cases.
- 🐾 Untamed (Ranger): Good, but doesn't provide stability and is very limited to the staff for healing. There is an offensive build without celestial stats that could be at the top of the A-Tier.
- 🌪️ Catalyst (Elementalist): Doesn't scale well with celestial; it's better as full DPS or full healer.
- 😈 Renegade (Revenant): Has abilities to function, but lacks utility due to the necessary skills.
- 🛡️ Firebrand (Guardian): Received improvements, but is better as a full healer or full DPS.
- 😇 Willbender (Guardian): Similar to Firebrand, requires a lot of effort to make it work.
- 💀 Harbinger (Necromancer): The full healer is no longer the best, and celestial doesn't improve it.
- 🔥 Radiant (Guardian): Mainly focused on power, which doesn't favor celestial stats.
- 🐾 Evoker (Ranger): Invests a lot in damage, but lacks healing.
- 🌿 Druid (Ranger): Loses the damage trait by opting for electricity, resulting in a significant loss of damage.
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4. ✅ Decent Tier: Viable Builds with Limitations
- ✅ This tier includes builds that are viable as celestial healers, but have limitations and do not reach the potential of the higher tiers.
- ⏳ Chronomancer (Mesmer): Can provide healing and damage with the right weapon combinations, but is not up to par with the builds in higher tiers.
- 🛠️ Scrapper (Engineer): Underrated, provides superspeed and alacrity, with some damage.
- 🤖 Mechanist (Engineer): Similar to Scrapper, but with more base value. The mech doesn't provide alacrity or much damage.
- ✨ Mirage (Mesmer): Was S-Tier, but received many nerfs.
- 🐉 Herald (Revenant): One of the best, if not the best, Revenant specialist for celestial or as a healer in general.
- 🎤 Troubadour (Bard): Can be played as celestial, provides stability and has good barriers.
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5. ⭐ S Tier: The Most Powerful Celestial Healers
- ⭐ This tier includes the most powerful and effective builds as celestial healers, capable of providing a large amount of healing, damage, and utility.
- ⚡ Tempest (Elementalist): Extremely powerful, provides alacrity, many benefits, and a lot of healing.
- 💀 Scourge (Necromancer): Has a lot of barrier, cleanse, and defenses, plus a lot of damage.
- 🔥 Healbrand (Guardian): Extremely strong if you know how to play it, especially in fractals.
- 📣 Tactician (Warrior): Works very well in open world and in fights with low healing pressure.
- 👤 Specter (Thief): Along with Healbrand, at the top of the lists. Provides a lot of damage and base healing.