Guild Wars 2

I currently have 3 sets of armor for my ele (berserker, soldier, and MF). I considered getting Cleric before, but I never liked playing the big healer role. Then I saw the new Giver’s set. It looks really nice, majoring in toughness with minor in Healing Power and Boon Duration. However, then I saw that each part only gives 1% boon duration.

So my question is this. Do you think it is worth going for a Giver’s set to play a more support based role? Or is the 6% boon duration not worth it compared to the 224 attributes of another set?

It’s not worth it. You have enough boon duration to keep the boons up if you keep rotating attunements.

Zenith.7301:

It’s not worth it. You have enough boon duration to keep the boons up if you keep rotating attunements.

Agreed. Arcane line gives you +5 seconds to your attunement boons, which is pretty significant. I rarely see them getting close to running out when I am active in combat.

Troponin.4081:

Arcane line gives you +5 seconds to your attunement boons, which is pretty significant.

If you’re referring to Lingering Elements, that’s not what it does. Lingering Elements makes the attunement last 5 seconds after you swap out of it. It has no effect on boons. Arcana itself however does increase the boon duration by up to 30%.

But other than that, I agree. The thing is, the boon extention effect from the Giver prefix is pretty minor. Even for long lasting boons like 20 seconds Might, the effect is only 0.2 seconds per armor piece. Also, you’re giving up a lot of power for it. Even if it’s a minor stat on Cleric’s gear, that’s still around 200 power that you get from it and that’s quite significant.

If you really want long lasting boons, then I recommend the popular 2 Runes of the Monk/2 Runes of Water setup. They give you much mroe boon extention for the amount of stats you have to ‘give up’ for them.

Thanks for the comments. I thought 6% was trash compared to the other boosts I can achieve; but I am not that knowledge on those exact calculations where it could have greatly added to the normal boon boosters. Maybe there is some combination where boost boons another 6% is actually worth it, but I don’t think I will be doing anything that complex.
At the moment I don’t use any Boon Boosting Runes, so I’d need a new set of armor to add them. I would probably go for the 2 Monk/2Water with either 2 Minor Monk or 2 Dwayna. Although the 2 Monk/Water and 4 Altruism looks pretty decent too.
I guess I will just be waiting until I decide to get Cleric or another new set catches my eye.