Guild Wars 2

I think it’s safe to say that Giver’s armor is completely worthless. Can we please have that 1% boon duration turned into a 5% condition duration? Condition damage is already greatly subpar to that of power/crit dmg so please give condition builds a viable armor piece that works with their condition damage. Stats should be Prec/Condition dmg/Condition duration.

For the longest time I thought they should change rampagers to this, but enough people really like having that middle ground between condition and power.

Please change this worthless armor into something really great.

Signed,
Engie

i agree with a condition duration stat implemented in armors and jewels not only woth runes… the thing i wanted to ask you btw is why precision? am i missing something?
is it for sigils that apply conditions on crit?

Y’all really are daft. I play a support guardian. I use 5/6 giver’s gear in combination w/ my runes and traits. When my protection procs I usually sit at roughly 8-25 seconds of it depending on which proc gives the initial buff.

Yes precision because many classes need it to proc abilities Also if your rolling a guardian with this gear you are awefully green or poor. 6% total boon duration may seem nice, but when you compare it to almost every other type of gear your really missing out. The opportunity cost is too great. Also I’m not daft, check out the giver weapons, its condition duration.

I understand you like boon duration, but you’d serve yourself and your party better with either clerics or knights. This game is damage orientated, even though there’s a dmg/support/control trinity going.

Aura.9530:

Y’all really are daft. I play a support guardian. I use 5/6 giver’s gear in combination w/ my runes and traits. When my protection procs I usually sit at roughly 8-25 seconds of it depending on which proc gives the initial buff.

Buy my exotic level insignias. They are already in the TP at 2 g 99s 31c each and make the gear. I’ll make it cheaper if you want just to avoid taxes and buy it off me in mail system.

First of all; let me start by saying that the giver gear (armor) is not in the least bit useless. I also have to say they extra 5% boon duration is not ALL that I have. It works in tandem w/ my other traits and runes.

Between the 5% on the armor, the 10% from my traits, and the 15% extra boon duration from the Superior Rune of the Monk; I sit at 30% extra boon duration for normal boons.

For protection; however, the armor gives the 5%, 10% from traits, 15% from the superior Rune of the Monk, AND the additional 20% protection duration from the superior Rune of Earth. This gives my protection a grand total of 50% duration increase.

So taking all of this into account; this is why I have 5/6 pieces of Giver’s armor, and the rest of the gear I have is Cleric’s, aside from the back piece, which is Soldier. I do this for a reason; you can’t take a stat combination and call it useless, unless you think of ways to use it in combination w/ other things.

Yes useless. Defending your terrible choice of gear is pretty sad. I know your kicking yourself for picking this gear. If the givers offered 2-3 percent to boon duration per item that would make it feasible. However since ANet went down the path of making the weapons with condition duration I think they need to give Givers boon duration a boost or change it.

I’ve got about 6 sets of gear between my characters and I know your frustration with gear changes, but you don’t know what your missing if you don’t try other gear.

Um, isn’t the Giver’s gear all still bugged? I.e. the boon/condition duration buffs on them aren’t actually being applied at all?

You are aware that the stats on the armor is Toughness, Healing power, and 1% Boon duration. While I give up a few point in healing power; I gain survival by using the more toughness. I.e. I’m harder to kill which allows me to heal the group more. I’m a support Guardian; if I die then I can’t provide ANY support.

Nothing is wrong with the toughness or healing, its the worthless boon duration. 1% is just not enough.

Assuming the wiki is up to date, yeah any extra effect you believe you’re currently getting from Giver’s Armor is a placebo.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon_Duration

According to this forum thread, dated a month ago and last posted about 2 weeks ago, neither the Giver’s Armor or Weapons are working unless they have fixed it in a recent patch.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Giver-s-Weapons-duration-doesn-t-work

Tbh, I think this is still true. I’ve been trying to get a condition based engineer. I should hit 100 duration with everything to increase my durations from 2 to 4, but its stuck on 3 1/2.

I know condition duration runes are not registering on the hero panel, but they are working.

Alright just tested it out, Giver’s weapon’s condition duration is not work at all still. This surprisingly makes me feel a lot better, can actually go HGH with the engineer once this is fixed.