Guild Wars 2

Hi all, i have some questions on my healing build
I always played s/d fresh air but now my guild will gonna run groups in wvw and i changed to a heal build but while mastering it, i have some questions:

1) in the earth trait: what is obsidian focus? what is a channeling skill, how long will the extra toughness be? now i use earths embrace but 240 more toughness is always welcome ^^

2) when i wsap to water i get a regen for 7 sec (= 2200 health regen) and when i use a cantrip i can get get 8 sec regen (2200 health regen) so when i use it at the same time will it be 8+7 sec = 15 sec regen or 8 sec regen with 4400 health regen?

3) what gives more healing to allies? sup sigil of life (250 more healing power) or the sigil of benevolence (+2,5% outcoming heal for alies)

4) we are more a bunch of freestylers, not rly playing in very closed group playstyle (but we try), so thats why i refuge to give up s/f but this is my build: what remarks do u have? http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFUQJArdhMM6cW5wwBd0AhAG5NwCoBOKAU+FUCWBA-TlSDABOcCA0R9no2fYIlcapMYXTfroHIJlCA8AAcVJYAAEA+ZgUAfLNC-w

5) schould i go for full apothecary? cuz then i lose more HP
6) now i have cleansing wave in trait, better to replace it for aquamancer alacrity or soothing disruption?

greetings
Denypria

No offense but that is a terrible build, no matter what you intend to do with it.

First off, S/F makes no sense whatsoever on a healing spekittenerally every other set would perform a lot better. I don’t see why you’d want to stick to the scepter if you won’t be doing any damage with it anyway. Go D/D or staff.

Second, investing in condition damage seems absurd. It’s not like you’d be autoattacking in earth anyway. Go cleric’s.

Third, going for cleansing water is probably better than aquatic benevolence, since cleanse is incredibly important in wvw.

To answer your questions:
1) A channel skill is something like ether renewal, scepter air 1, churning earth. Toughness duration = channel duration

2) 15 sec

3) Benevolence> life when you have around 1k healing power or more

4) Change to D/D or staff, change arcana 2 to vigor, change water 6 to cleansing water, change ether to signet, change all gear to cleric’s, with a little soldier’s or celestial for vit. Change food to -condi duration or +boon duration.

5) Absolutely not
6) Cleansing wave is fine in group

Also, I’d advise looking into a more balanced spec instead of ‘full healer’, you can do surprisingly good damage while maintaining well over 1k healing power, allowing you to be twice the factor you would be now.

If you’re doing large scale WvW, use Chemsorly’s Staff build: http://intothemists.com/guides/guide.php?id=107

@Gokil
Ty for the replay, u gave me stuff to think about it
on ur answaers:
1) so earths embrace seems more functual then obsidian focus
2) ty
3) so benevolence it is!
4) ether to signet: i use ether so remove condies when u face a necro or have stupid root/schill or so + imo it has strong heal: 6400 heals in 15 sec…
cleric: then i have more power but still zero crit chance and zero crit dmg… condi replace the 3 stats power-crit chance-crit dmg and gives so more dmg no?
the food chance: interesting!
5 + 6: ok

i used clerics before like u said and the dmg is rly very very low! so i think condi dmg would do better. so i want to go for full healing: was looking for nomads but it seems very hard to get them?

@Neko
i am not convinced about that build for example: not my playstyle (hate 2 handed weapons except warr hammer ^^) but ty anyway ;-)
here a video of the first time i did healing ele (bad gamestyle: too much clicking, too long in water, … i know, still working to be better xD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7hmvV7yAA

greetings all

It looked like you did a whole lot of nothing and pretty little actual healing in that video. You’d be far more useful with Staff and laying down CC and water fields for your friends to blast into.

hm u are right :-)
still, it must be possible like this
rly hate staff, i used it from lvl 1 to 80 but bah…
and our group has no blast finishers think, so…
still thanks for the advice!