Guild Wars 2

Greetings fellow adventurers!

After big patch, i decided to roll back to the game (i am still quite furious abaut the resons i left, but i decided to get over the billion kitten that kittenes me of abaut the game).

But right now i am not sure what is worth playing. Sure sure play what you enjoy…whell i dont enjoy any of the classes right now after logging in, so i decided to pick a feature i enjoy. And that is toughness. I must add its not survivability, i dont mean active defence like mobility, vigor, or dodges, runing araund, but pure passive (or the capacity to buff passive defences, like block or heal, at best).
So anyone got ideas what classes are the *toughest" right now? (excluding warrior, it feels horribly boring)

Pure passive toughness without things like vigor or dodges would probably be:

Minion Necromancer

25k health
Close to 3k armor
Tons of passive body blocking from minions

Bunker warrior is absurdly tanky, but also quite boring, and you agree with me there I see xd

Ranger can be very tanky, but relies a lot on evades

if not warrior, then probably elementist or necro.

AoE engineer with bombs.

430 heal per second while in bomb kit. 260 Of that is AoE. Not counting the constant heal of healing turret, super elixir, regenerating mist, and healing mist.

AoE burn from

AoE confusion

AoE immobilize

AoE blind

3200 armor

25,500 hit points.

-53% damage while stunned or disabled + -25% stun duration

-65% condition duration.

This is the build I run anyway.

Um, Guardian? Also known as a “Tank/DPS/Healer”, “The Holy Trinity in One” ?
I mean, just invest in healing and boon durations. With perma protection, endless regen it should’ve been most tough profession? It’s also boring to play, but well.

As for Necromancer – It has big health pool, but not the best armor nor regenetation. But full tank MM Necro could be the most effective AFK tank besides Warrior.

Rym.1469:

Um, Guardian? Also known as a “Tank/DPS/Healer”, “The Holy Trinity in One” ?
I mean, just invest in healing and boon durations. With perma protection, endless regen it should’ve been most tough profession? It’s also boring to play, but well.

As for Necromancer – It has big health pool, but not the best armor nor regenetation. But full tank MM Necro could be the most effective AFK tank besides Warrior.

Rym guardian are by far the sturdiest classes in game, i manage to kill most in a few seconds no matter how styrdy they are, boon duration got reduced, and healing power guardians are the most easy build to kill…
Note: this on small scale, on larger grups anything work even naked ^^.

GS Ranger
1 sec evasion on AA (spam 1 to live, spam 1 to win)
extreme fury uptime
Permanent passive regeneration close to 450 hp/second healing
AOE immobilize
AOE condition cleanse
23k HP
3.1k Armor
-40% condition duration
long lasting stability
Water field with 3x leap and a blast finisher

the necro with minions dies to aoe dmg he cnat heal himself that good and all the minions die

guardian got not so much vitallity health pool is quite low
but toughness and healingpower will make him the class you are looking for

If you want toughness you must be a wvw player. Check wvw forums for builds. Btw warriors are the thougest nuts

Prysin.8542:

GS Ranger
1 sec evasion on AA (spam 1 to live, spam 1 to win)
extreme fury uptime
Permanent passive regeneration close to 450 hp/second healing
AOE immobilize
AOE condition cleanse
23k HP
3.1k Armor
-40% condition duration
long lasting stability
Water field with 3x leap and a blast finisher

Link build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vMAQNBhOD7kRF6F0OWwiF4aBBSTBnYesC83rws4e4feSIeyGuyK-z0CBojA4ORmiAioGmwAIVtIasV1FRjVZDTdaR1qXAeeLqOAwBw93HAcfYfpAYSYE-w

Add in guard stacks and BAM, 23-24k HP… Also recalculated HP regen, it is closer to 220/second because i had to make some more major adjustments then first thought to preserve DPS output at maximum. Due to how the build was originally a more “max DPS tank” oriented build, i had to make adjustments to account for the increased DPS that the new sigil changes brought.
The new sigil changes means i can use Water + Blood on my GS (which is what i have) to maximize my survivability. So while i could no long could use the runes and traits i formerly used, i have gained a little less overall DPS but a lot more survivability.

My regen is AOE – thus most of my healing goes to my allies too. Feel free to use Rune of the Trooper to remove condies on shout.

Guardian i’d say.

Hmm all sounds right, trough this caught my eye: “if not warrior, then probably elementist or necro.”
First time i hear Elementalist.

Thank you for all the opinions.

Prolly guardian, maybe elementalist with stone heart (if you don’t use stone heart and want passive damage mitigation stay the hell away from ele at any cost).