Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,
I am happy to see changes to Writ of Exaltation. I hovewer struggle to understand which honor trait to remove to stick Writ of Exaltation in
Currently I use Superior Aria, Empowering Might and Pure of Voice
Would be glad to hear your opinions
Thanks in advance

arn’t those the standard traits you pick for an AH dps build?

Thats exactly the point of my question. While I use standart trits, WoE looks appealing. So I am asking which of the standart traits could be dropped to use WoE instead

have you tried looking into runes of the soldier and sigil of battle to allow some flexibility into your traits?

With AH if I’m running Hammer I’ll do Writ of Exaltation, Persistence and switch the 3rd around, EM or Pure of Voice mostly. With GSword I run Superior Aria, 2h Mastery and EM or PoV. Don’t be afraid to change traits between combats if you know you’ll need something, same with skills.

Blood~

kiba.2768:

have you tried looking into runes of the soldier and sigil of battle to allow some flexibility into your traits?

I am running with 6 soldier runes already

Bloodgruve.6038:

With AH if I’m running Hammer I’ll do Writ of Exaltation, Persistence and switch the 3rd around, EM or Pure of Voice mostly. With GSword I run Superior Aria, 2h Mastery and EM or PoV. Don’t be afraid to change traits between combats if you know you’ll need something, same with skills.

Blood~

Thanks!
I would try that one

when i ran AH, i never ran with EM, and some may argue the build loses out, but i did enough damage and survived enough for my own liking. : ))

if i play with hammer, GS or mace, most likely staff as well, i will always almost always take Writ of Exaltation.

Writ of exaltation works well if you aren’t using a dps/crit build. If you are then empowering might may be more useful.

EM is not necessary to an AH build. it is immensely convenient to the point that it will blind you from seeing other viable options. if you’re in w3, i can understand 6/6 soldier + PoV, but anywhere else(barring tpvp[hotjoins? please]), that combination is way overkill. i would drop PoV in lieu of other tasty train choices

DeathPanel.8362:

Writ of exaltation works well if you aren’t using a dps/crit build. If you are then empowering might may be more useful.

WoE works very well with a Hammer DPS build.

Blood~

Larger the symbol, the more people effected… the ore people effected the more dps and healing you recieve.

Pretty basic stuff.

Keep in mind, Empowering Might is very good with symbol builds because typically you’re getting very regular, AoE hits off which allow you to get consistent EM procs even if you have bad critical hit chance. Symbol builds are much more forgiving of low crit (in terms of synergy) for this reason.

I have 20 points in Honor…
I picked writ of exaliation (symbols are greater right?) and writ of mercifull
with hammer auto and my healing power and boon duration in fight I have perma-protection+healing comparable with regeneration while standing on symbol…

if you’re playing with hammer, taking larger and healing symbols, try mace as a 2nd set, drop mace symbol, then switch to hammer and keeping dropping your auto symbols. then switch back to mace every 2 – 3 auto chains for another mace symbol drop. that’s two symbols of healing, plus healing from symbol of faith, and protection from hammer. : ))

Persistence is generally better than Merciful for the reason Akamon just stated; it lets your Protection carry into your mace rotation. It doesn’t heal THAT much, and longer durations of Regen will aid you just as as much.

Edit: Qualifier: if you already have permanent regen and prot, Merciful resumes being better.

EM procs are capped at one every 5 seconds — it’s not that amazing and doesn’t improve much with symbols. You were probably proc’ing EM every 5s with or without symbols. I find 2H mastery much better than EM due to the 20% increase in skill usage (which is 20% more symbol action).

juno.1840:

EM procs are capped at one every 5 seconds — it’s not that amazing and doesn’t improve much with symbols. You were probably proc’ing EM every 5s with or without symbols. I find 2H mastery much better than EM due to the 20% increase in skill usage (which is 20% more symbol action).

I think you’re thinking of Vigor.

Bloodgruve.6038:

DeathPanel.8362:

Writ of exaltation works well if you aren’t using a dps/crit build. If you are then empowering might may be more useful.

WoE works very well with a Hammer DPS build.

Blood~

It may work well but it’s all relative.

EM is better for DPS.

juno.1840:

EM procs are capped at one every 5 seconds — it’s not that amazing and doesn’t improve much with symbols. You were probably proc’ing EM every 5s with or without symbols. I find 2H mastery much better than EM due to the 20% increase in skill usage (which is 20% more symbol action).

EM is 1 second internal cooldown.