Guild Wars 2

If I ran 0/0/30/10/30 on next patch

I’m trying to gear round that build, for the stone heart trait as I see alot more crit damage with the guaranteed crits for 3 hits with int sigil becoming common.

I’m finding the 30 in arcana needed for the heal+cleanse in water to cope with some condition removal, also the might stacking it gives.

I’ve been running this build now (but with some diamond skin) and my damage is still pretty good. I find myself having to use ether mist more often.

Anyone else considered a similar setup? Or am I missing something so obviously bad it’s a no no setup?

You’ll probably miss Healing Ripple and Cleansing wave from Water. But take in mind that since you now run 30 in Earth and Stone Heart, you will have higher Armor and be able to lessen the damage you take which means you won’t need to heal as much.

As for condi cleanse, I believe you can never have enough condi cleanses in this meta because of the ease of application. I believe you’re using Rock Solid + Ether Renewal so that should be enough for your condi cleanse but you’ll probably need to get more experience on when to cleanse your conditions.

Alternatively, you can skip on EA and get 20 in water instead if you value heal+cleanse more than blast finisher because you can’t proc the Heal + cleanse from EA if you’re immobilized.

Hmm, all good points.

I’m hoping the damage I mitigate by having heart of stone more than makes up for my loss of overall healing.

The other reason for going 30 arcane is I really want the swap to earth to be available as often as possible.