Guild Wars 2

So I’m not begging for any builds or anything but I just got this game and decided to take the liberty and make my own build for PvE.

Is the 30 point trait line in Zeal for “Zealous Blade” worth the 30 points? Or should I go a different route? I like the idea of healing off my greatsword attacks since right now I’m just a major solo PvE player.

I read around the forums and I keep seeing negative things about zeal, any ideas?

Nope. Zeal is terrible. Zealous Blade heals for like 34 HP and isn’t affected by damage, or healing. It’s awful.

Lol thanks for the quick reply.

Only point in Zeal is if you want to do a symbol build. Other then that some people put 10 into for Fiery Wrath.

Zealous Blade heals for 25 hp and doesn’t scale with healing power. Pretty much pointless.

Radion.4578:

I like the idea of healing off my greatsword attacks since right now I’m just a major solo PvE player.

If you want this, you get way way way better heals by going for Empowering Might and Altruistic Healing. Although if you’re solo you won’t get the full functionality out of it so it’d probably be better to use Monk’s Focus and add a meditation or two to your skill selection (I personally love Judge’s Intervention).

Archmortal.1027:

Radion.4578:

I like the idea of healing off my greatsword attacks since right now I’m just a major solo PvE player.

If you want this, you get way way way better heals by going for Empowering Might and Altruistic Healing. Although if you’re solo you won’t get the full functionality out of it so it’d probably be better to use Monk’s Focus and add a meditation or two to your skill selection (I personally love Judge’s Intervention).

Thank you, this helped much.

Definitely do 10 points in Zeal for Fiery Wrath if you want to do damage. 20 points for Greatsword Power also isn’t a terrible choice, but generally you’re gonna want to put those points in something else. As already stated, Altruistic Healing is actually a better choice because of its synergy with Empowering Might – Altruistic Healing will also make you heal on the third swing of your Greatsword autoattack chain by virtue of its Might proc, so it’s much the same thing.

While I agree that Zealous Blade is not sufficient, you will not get the same amount of healing from AH and relying on the might proc to heal you.

Zealous Blade heals for each enemy hit, so with a lot of enemies around you, you will heal for 25 for each target hit. Put 4 targets around you and you will get 100 life on a greatsword swing, 3 swings in the auto chain that’s 300 life.

AH will only give a heal at the end of the auto attack chain, and we will generously give it a 81 hp heal with 1200 healing power scaling.

Combine with whirling wrath you have some quick burst healing (7 swings and 4 targets = 700 health. Add in approximately 2 bolts for another 50 health that’s 750 health each whirling wrath).

Problem with Zealous Blade is that it does not heal as fast as the damage you take from 4+ targets. That and as you down enemy targets you get less healing. AH will maintain consistency as long as allies are near you and getting boons. So you will heal better with a group no matter if it is a single target or multi target fight.

Zealous Blade needs a higher heal to make it worthwhile, but if you are going AH, don’t rely on the might boon. Get the trait Empowering Might to proc might on crit to allies and you will see better benefit from Altruistic Healing and the greatsword, or go hammer or mace for more consistent symbol applications.

Eh, AH is better because you end up getting a great deal of +crit damage and +toughness to go along with it. What makes zealous blade in sufficient is that it it isn’t worth what you have to put into it.