Guild Wars 2

Mostly to help my guildies.

What to boost for support/dps?

Ryou.2398:

Mostly to help my guildies.

1st:
This is a shallow post if there ever was one. please make your purpose a little more clear…

If you mean: WHAT STATS TO USE:

For SUPPORT (for Healing or Booning)
Healing (to boost healing skills) and/or concentration (to boost boon duration) for support… Combining this with DPS or conditions proves difficult…

Main for booning:

• Commanders (power, precision, toughhness, concentration)

Main for healing in raids, mostly harmless or useless in PvE outside raids:

• Magi (healing, vitality, precision

Optional for PvE outside raids will provide moderate healing at a significant DPS loss:

• Zealot (power, precision, healing)

Niche for tanking in Raids, useless outside raids, unless you want to run a pacifist build:

• Minstrel (Healing, Toughnes, Concentration, Vitality)

Potential options for condition and healing, but considered non viable by many:

• Seraph (Condition dmg, Precision, Concentration, and Healing power)
• Shaman (vitality, condition dmg , healing)

not for PvE:

• Clerics (healing,power toughnesss), maybe even
• Crusader (power/toughness/healing/ferocity
  Niche & not for PvE
• Apothecary (healing, condition dmg, toughness)
• Settler (toughness, healing, condition dmg)

For DPS/DOT damage (No specific support or healing!)

You’ll need power& ferocity and/or condition dmg &expertise with precision for cirtical hits.

For pure damage:
Boons will be buffed with somthing other then stats, little chance for healing

• Berserker: Power, precision and ferocity ( for DPS builds)
• Assassin: Precision, power, ferocity (to replace some berserker to boost critical chance.)
  or
• Viper: Power, Condition dmg, precision and expertise ( for Condition Builds)
• Sinister: Condition mg, power, precision (to buff dmg when overcapping on expertise)

If you mean What CLASS could I Play for Damage and Support (=Healing and/or Booning)?

Fixed in the Meta at this time are:

• Chronomancer (mesmer elite spec) is focussed around speeding up combat, providing quickness and alacrity, and optionally reflects and stealth
  (commanders/minstrel) requires a lot of knowledge of encounters, is tank in many cases making your presence and knowledge vital for progression, very low damage. Focus lies on self sustain and providing boons.
• —> Phalanx Strength (PS) Berserker (warrior elite spec) are focussed on buffing power on allies by banners, might and other triats
  (Berserker or Viper) requires minimal knowledge of encounters, buff 5 ppl to do +30% dmg without much effort, being berserker berserker is very accesible requiring devona’s named armor and a GS. Viper’s is much more expensive, moderate dmg for zerk, good for viper. Focus lies on dmg
• Druid (ranger elite spec) are healers and will provide several dmg buffs. Grace of the land frost spirit and a glyph buffing dmg.
  (Magi (or zealot)) The healing role will make or break encounters, difference between good and bad druids is easy encounters or struggles often ending in wipes. Magi Druid is no dmg , Zealot is low to moderate. Focus is on healing 1st.

Optional, but definately not standard:

• Auramancers (tempest, being elite spec of elementalists) can provide good healing as well, but are considered inferior to druids, the discussion generally stalls on auramancer is a better healer but a worse buffer.
  (Minstrel, Magi (, Zealot))
• Dragonhunters (& Guardians) can proviode nearly any buff in the game, have acces to reflects and can also provide a bit of quickness, doing so comes at a grreat DPS loss compared to the pure DPS role. guardian will be better cause their DPS role is less defined
  (Berserker (or (non-PvE) Commander’s))
• (Herald/Revenant) can boon a lot but has no real place in the META at this time
  (Berserker (or (non-PvE) Commander’s))

Less intereting would be in my perception:

• Daredevil/Thief is mostly a DPS class able to provide stealth…
• Scrapper/Engineer is also a very versatile class, BUT I do not really play it….. as such it ended up here… and it might be misplaced!
• Necro is a (DPS or) DOT class providing debuffs… as such it is also capable of supporting your group but you’ll focus on minimizing the enemies effectiveness instead of maximizing your own.

For builds I’d refer you to sites like qtfy.eu or metabattle.com, provided you can understand a booner has less viablility in many cases then a raw dmg build like most builds are build around. For WVW builds I’d suggest: metabattle.com

I hope I interpreted your question correctly. GL anyways

I assume you mean level 80 boost

Make a warrior for offensive support/dps or a ranger for healing support/dps.