Guild Wars 2

I got my Guardian here. Love to support and sustain groups. I don’t understand why I cannot get stats like Giver’s stats(+Toughness, +Healing power, +Boon duration.) for the exotics. Was it decided that boon duration is not important or useful? Looks like the only choices I have now are
-Healing power:
Power, Toughness.
Precision, Vitality.
Toughness, Condition damage.
Not even a Healing power, Toughness, Vitality. Are these build not available because it is too much sustainment and would break the game mechanics or something?

I also heard about some changes coming up. Should I make healing power ascended items or just wait until this expansion drops?

If you like boon ans healing power, you should make giver’s set which is toughness (main), healing, boon. This was special stats, so I am not sure if you can still get recipes for armor. (no ascended tier for giver) I think each piece gives 1% boon, so if you make 6 and put Platinum Doubloon for upgrade then you will get total of 30%

Exactly.. I have not made any ascended gear because I like my boon duration on my Giver’s…

Meowwilson.5106:

Exactly.. I have not made any ascended gear because I like my boon duration on my Giver’s…

You arent missing much. You in fact, kitten yourself a lot by favoring boon duration over another stat. Depending on what you’re doing, you arent going to miss losing 6% boon duration. With the way rounding works anyways, that 6% makes little difference. That’s furthered by the fact that you’re seriously shanking yourself if you’re using the boon duration upgrades (plat doubloons). Trait lines and food will give you +60% boon duration. With runes of water, you’re gaining another 20% boon duration. That’s a combined total of +80% boon duration. You dont need giver’s armor/gear.

Boon duration is taken away from traits with the specialisation changes. It may introduce new sets with boon duration.

Other than that, Nomads is the most defensive/support combination you can get at the moment.

My main issue is still not having boon duration on ascended armor. Are there even boon duration infusions?
But i guess I will wait till the expansion drop then to see what all they add.

Meowwilson.5106:

My main issue is still not having boon duration on ascended armor. Are there even boon duration infusions?
But i guess I will wait till the expansion drop then to see what all they add.

Again, you arent missing much, it’s at best SIX PERCENT from armor. Why do you want boon duration so much? Boon duration on armor was a gimmick stat. There’s no need for it on ascended armor (let alone other ascended gear types, not when you keep in mind the intended use of ascended armor means the loss of a third offensive/defensive stat means you’re running at poor efficiency.

Even with the changes to traits, some new traits grant boon duration. Beyond that, unless boons last for a base duration of at least 10 seconds, ideally 15s, +/-6% boon duration is meaningless.

So, to ask again, why do you want boon duration so much?