Guild Wars 2

I’ve decided to run Ether Renewal on my generic 00266 D/D build for the condition removal, and I’ve been considering taking Earth’s Embrace over Stone Splinters for the stability proc at 50% health. I also take Armor of Earth as a utility, but ER’s short cooldown of 15 seconds means that AoE will be on cooldown for 3/4 of my ER casts assuming I’m using it consistently throughout a fight. I’ve heard that ER’s main drawback is its long casting time (exceeding Churning Earth’s) which makes it easily interrupted; is the additional stability uptime from Earth’s Embrace worth losing the 10% damage from Stone Splinters?

ER should give you enough condition-removal to make the 6P water trait redundant. Therefore you can put 2P from water into earth for rock solid. At least this is what I’m doing.
You’ll always have stability for your ER-chanels and additionally you share the stability and get free stomps/rezzes all the time.