Guild Wars 2

Do we know if we can have 5-man parties within a squad for the purposes of boon sharing / buff management?

during beta we had the ability to assign subsquads.
I believe that influenced boon sharing.

However with things like a PS war it may be more desirable to let the boons flow amongst everyone.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

However with things like a PS war it may be more desirable to let the boons flow amongst everyone.

I think having a PS war in 1 party and a Herald in a 2nd party is a better way to do it. Also might from the PS war keeps overwriting might stacks on people with 25 already, no?

Alphard.6529:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

However with things like a PS war it may be more desirable to let the boons flow amongst everyone.

I think having a PS war in 1 party and a Herald in a 2nd party is a better way to do it. Also might from the PS war keeps overwriting might stacks on people with 25 already, no?

possibly. However a rev won’t cap at 25 on everyone solo.

Also it looks like PS might duration got nerfed from 8s base to 6s.
(which explains why i’ve noticed might wearing off very fast since patch on war).

So capping 25 might on ps takes more investment now ( str sigil).
It also allows berserker ( warrior) to take prec food over dumplings since they should hit 95% might with str runes + facet. (dropping arms means the need for extra prec, but the % mods are totally worth it).

also partying subsquadding up hinders EA application ( 9s duration, 3s interval) so you’d want the war not restricted to buffing 5 people.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

possibly. However a rev won’t cap at 25 on everyone solo.

Also it looks like PS might duration got nerfed from 8s base to 6s.
(which explains why i’ve noticed might wearing off very fast since patch on war).

So capping 25 might on ps takes more investment now ( str sigil).
It also allows berserker ( warrior) to take prec food over dumplings since they should hit 95% might with str runes + facet. (dropping arms means the need for extra prec, but the % mods are totally worth it).

also partying subsquadding up hinders EA application ( 9s duration, 3s interval) so you’d want the war not restricted to buffing 5 people.

A Herald with strength runes/sigil can maintain 20-23 might in combat, so it will need only a little help.

The EA concern is valid, but I think it may be trumped by the lost might from the PS war due to it being too unequally distributed (wasted on people who already have 25 stacks). Same with the might from the Herald, it might keep buffing people who already have 25 from the PS war.

If you have a 2nd revenant though (+PS war), maybe you don’t need subsqauds.

hmm. I’ve been using scholar runes on my rev for the better dps. so 15 might is about the upper limit on my stacks. But I like to rotate out of dragon stance for other utils.
Also str sigil counted in that 20-23? that won’t be on allies.. so rev would benefit from extra might elsewhere.

I don’t think the overlap will be too much of a problem in raids to be honest. A little ebb/flow won’t hurt too much since there will be room for might from other sources.

Also given I expect 1 druid to be a good choice for raids – they won’t need to be under 25 might all the time anyway, due to dropping into CA.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Also it looks like PS might duration got nerfed from 8s base to 6s.

It was always 6 seconds.