If anyone wants to help with ideas or theory crafting, I would really appreciate it!
Now this is just for fun, I have many toons and 4 level 80 Guardians and this would only be for the Guardian that I like to play just to run around and help people and revive them etc.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke
For a long time I used Mace/Shield with on my Mercy Guardian. Most players will tell you shield is pathetic, and they’re probably right ;D Right now I’m using Torch as my offhand. Alternate set is either GS or ranged, depending on needs. Heal, Utility and Elite are shouts, in order to boost support capabilities, with traits mainly in shout support. Not only are you good for getting people back up, but you provide group heals, boons (swiftness and stability primarily) and condi cleanse.
Preventing people from being downed would be a lot more helpful than trying to res them faster. In the case of a warrior warbanner would a faster res as well.
The only situation that I can think of where these runes would be genuinely useful would be as a front-line “tank” in a WvW zerg where you are the first one in to soak up damage while your squishy dsp zerg members do their thing, and to keep yourself alive long enough to rez your zerg members as required. Thus, I would tweek every possible gear, utility and trait to maximize my active and passive healing, toughness, vitality, cleansing, protection up-time, ageis, blocks, etc.
In other words, I would use those runes with a build designed solely for survivability in wvw to have the enemy waste their attacks on me.
The only situation that I can think of where these runes would be genuinely useful would be as a front-line “tank” in a WvW zerg where you are the first one in to soak up damage while your squishy dsp zerg members do their thing, and to keep yourself alive long enough to rez your zerg members as required. Thus, I would tweek every possible gear, utility and trait to maximize my active and passive healing, toughness, vitality, cleansing, protection up-time, ageis, blocks, etc.
In other words, I would use those runes with a build designed solely for survivability in wvw to have the enemy waste their attacks on me.
There are several other runes which are better for that. If it is an actual ZvZ situation a lot of that will be up to RNG anyway. There will be piles of AoEs and if you are lucking the game decides to select you instead of someone else.
The only situation that I can think of where these runes would be genuinely useful would be as a front-line “tank” in a WvW zerg where you are the first one in to soak up damage while your squishy dsp zerg members do their thing, and to keep yourself alive long enough to rez your zerg members as required. Thus, I would tweek every possible gear, utility and trait to maximize my active and passive healing, toughness, vitality, cleansing, protection up-time, ageis, blocks, etc.
In other words, I would use those runes with a build designed solely for survivability in wvw to have the enemy waste their attacks on me.
There are several other runes which are better for that. If it is an actual ZvZ situation a lot of that will be up to RNG anyway. There will be piles of AoEs and if you are lucking the game decides to select you instead of someone else.
Yeah, I realize that there are better runes for this role, I was just trying to think of where runes of mercy might be most useful since the OP is interested in options concerning these runes specifically. Also, if one has ever seen a small organized guild party take out zergs, one will appreciate how effect front line fighters can be at wasting inexperienced and/or unorganized enemy attacks/aoes.
Yeah, I realize that there are better runes for this role, I was just trying to think of where runes of mercy might be most useful since the OP is interested in options concerning these runes specifically.
ya this is for purely fun and theory crafting about builds. I was just speculating on what the bust build would be for runes of mercy. My main Guardian I recently crafted ascended gear and stuff for and I try to play meta-ish (as much as I can take .
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke
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