Guild Wars 2

Should I be aiming for as a pure defensive bunker ele? I play solo a good anoint of the time, sadly. I’m currently running cleric, but should I go shaman? Soldier lacks healing power, but has both vit and toughness.

Oh why isn’t there a good bunker stat group like how there’s the perfect offensive one (zerker)?

Ryld.1340:

Should I be aiming for as a pure defensive bunker ele? I play solo a good anoint of the time, sadly. I’m currently running cleric, but should I go shaman? Soldier lacks healing power, but has both vit and toughness.

Oh why isn’t there a good bunker stat group like how there’s the perfect offensive one (zerker)?

D/D?
Clerics is nice or was, before the Signet of Restoration got nerfed by a lot in pvp. Still nice with EA, healing ripple, cleansing wave and cone of cold heals.

A few also run with Valkryie. It has High Power, Mid toughness, High crit damage and low healing power. Though your crit chance will be low (31% ish with fury) to take full advantage of that crit damage. Pop in a zerker jewel will only buff you to 35%.

Just remember that Healing Power scales well with higher toughness and lower health (though with this condition meta low health and high toughness can be bad).

Staff, sorry. And conditions are a problem, which is why I was thinking about Vit or Tough.

What are you doing?

Staff is a harder spec to play in PvP (infact the devs may have mentioned their lack of interest in it being a strong pvp weapon).

I would suggest and have seen work well, Clerics. I guessing the build is along the lines of x x x 15+ 30. If that is the case then clerics will be a good choice for healing. You have blast finisher in earth and earth dodge, you should also think about taking arcane wave.

Unfortunately the build (0 0 10 30 30 to be precise, my friends support build) is more a support then pure bunker. You are the backup for the mid point defender while adding some pressure with point aoe and aoe control.

Good luck on your journey young Padawan, you will need it.