Guild Wars 2

Currently have Magi’s for my auramancer but am really wanting to get to the point that I can start farming Nightmare Challenge mote for the guild decorations.

Think it’s worth it switching over to cleric’s for the extra survival to help the team out or should I stay Magi’s?

I don’t have the quickest reaction time but may not be as bad once I get used to the mechanics. I don’t really raid but I did kind of choose magi’s in case I wanted to.

Working on getting the rest of my monk runes for the extra healing output and didn’t know if I should stick to the stats I have and use them or wait and switch to cleric’s. I also have a healer druid which I understand is still the most viable for raids in case I wanted to heal.

Anyone tried cleric tempest and liked it better than a pseudo-damage build? Without enrage timers in fractals it doesn’t seem like it would be a bad trade off but I’m not sure how much that extra toughness will actually help.

Toughness doesn’t help much (they have significantly butchered armor due to no PvP/PvE split), and specially on fractals, you’re better off with the extra HP really, that is what is going to give you an extra second to stop the ticking damage from killing you.

Also, although Magi’s do not bring much power into play, you can easily proc effects from traits and sigils with the extra precision, and as you said, there is no reason not to go full blown support on fractals. It’s better if your DPS can not worry about his/her health at all and can focus on their rotations than having to share the burden of overall healing with you (e.g no one else has to bring defensive traits if everyone can dodge and stay close to you).

maxwelgm.4315:

Toughness doesn’t help much (they have significantly butchered armor due to no PvP/PvE split), and specially on fractals, you’re better off with the extra HP really, that is what is going to give you an extra second to stop the ticking damage from killing you.

I disagree. Toughness is at least as good, if not better, in fractals. Especially on a character with some aboveaverage healing ability, as it is a de facto multiplier to healing. The real decision comes between power and precision. If there’s a lot of important on-crit effects from traits and sigils, go with Magi. Otherwise, go with Cleric.

Though that is only when making a new set. If you already have one, stick with it. Changing it is not worth the effort, in my opinion.
Not in this case, anyway.