Is perma protection build possible?

Is perma protection build possible?

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Posted by: Tomiyou.3790

Tomiyou.3790

Just wondering. Is it possible, to make a build with perma protection, lots of healing, decent damage and at least 25% movement speed multiplier (blasting air overload is ok, but Elemental Attunement for swiftness is much better in combat)? The build is intended for WvW.
I was thinking of water, arcane and tempest with durability runes with concetration sigil, but that doesn’t get you perma protection (or you need to make perfect rotations to get perma protection). Plus thief boon steal makes the protection go away.

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Posted by: Ghotistyx.6942

Ghotistyx.6942

Sounds like it would be easier to go with Earth for prot on aura and aura spam.

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Posted by: reikken.4961

reikken.4961

Earth is likely better to counter boon steal because it applies it more frequently in smaller doses. Earth and tempest. Then whatever other trait line you want.

Also move speed isn’t an issue. Tempest gets you easy permaswiftness for running around out of combat. Just start an overload and then immediately swap. 8 sec of swiftness with 0 boon duration. You can do this every 6 seconds, and also combine it with your air swiftness skill to stack duration.

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Posted by: Faction.4013

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Posted by: Gokil.2543

Gokil.2543

I (ab)use this when I really want to run D/D. It’s expensive to maintain and a pain in the rear to get though.

That food is completely out of this world power-level wise. It’s actually silly. Its damage reduction stacks additively with protection, meaning you have a permanent 50% damage reduction.

It’s got so much boon duration it can stack protection out of combat while running. Use overload – insta swap to earth – swap to another attunement and overload, rinse repeat. In combat you have the added armor of earth, elemental contingency proc and the rune proc to keep you at 100% pretty comfortably.

Power is kinda low, but I just happen to have my durability on a cele set, which I don’t feel like changing.

Signet vs ether, armor of earth vs a shout, gale song vs unstable conduit and harmonious conduit vs invigorating torrents are all debatable, as well as both sigils.

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