Guild Wars 2

Hello, new poster here. I started playing during the lost shores event and I ended up choosing a grenadier elixir gun build. Welp… didn’t think anything was bugged or imbalanced but then again I’m new so that build probably felt like cheating to others.

Anyway, since I like playing a support role (healer + conditions) I wanted to see if I could get some help finding a useful build for dungeons (I don’t play PvP WvW).

I fear that this game isn’t going to be focused very much around supporting your allies. Healing is almost completely out of the question. The best you can most likely do it remove conditions and keep yourself alive so you can Rez your dead teammates.
Combining all the engineers small heals can give a nice chunk of health back but it requires others to stack on you which is never going to happen in this highly mobile game.
I focus on my own dps and keeping myself alive while eating incoming damage. People complain that I’m not dodging “the bosses hardest hitting skill” and I tell them I’ve got toughness and healing power; I don’t need to dodge like a glass cannon.
And I am always the last to die. But I can’t save anyone else’s life even if my life depended on it.

What kind of build do you play? I run 30/0/30/0/10 but I haven’t gotten any exotic armor yet. I couldn’t make up my mind between Orr (pow/vit/toughness) armor or cleric gear. Based on what you’ve said I should mostly value healing power for self heals, do you think thats a better bet than getting more vit?

This is what I use for PvE Support. All the relevant details are included in this website as well (mainly what runes to get, sigils to focus on, and armor nomenclature-Cleric’s). You get ample healing from your Med Kit Bandages/Supply Crate Bandages and Regeneration Boons (Rune of Dwayna/Healing Mist) when you stack Cleric’s gear. The Elixir Gun, while pretty weak, roughly heals for ~300 HP a second in Full Exotic Gear and coupled with Kit Refinement, spawns two which doubles that to 600 HP a second (provided your allies are standing in the circle…let them know ahead of time). Your bombs will also heal for approximately ~300 HP an explosion which while not terribly efficient for healing allies, can be used to bolster your own survival. Use the bombs to control your enemies with Smoke Bomb and Glue Bomb, the Flamethrower to push/interrupt key enemy actions (when monsters charge up for example) and blind, and the pistol/shield to daze, knockback, and blind.

Edit: Bad link. Here’s another site: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mzMzM9Mz0mLNlMmGNlMa0xGaczsqmsm8kiU70z7070z7kiU707kIM70V7ofF70m8of2.
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