Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I used to play a healway guardian in wvw a lot and was wondering if that build was still viable or if a new variant had been made with the expansion?

Thanks!

I liked the Healway idea but i started GW2 just after they nerfed the build (via the rune mixing not being possible anymore) and also retaliation nerf in pvp/wvw and also all the boon stripping, boon hate that has infested the game.

It is possible to get boon duration now via wanderer armor/weapons etc but the old idea of using, perma Regen/Retaliation/Boon spam is not really feasibile in my opinion. I wish it was.

If anyone does have a build i would be interested also.

I did mess around with a build just last week mixing Soldiers and Cleric Gear and using Zeal/Honor/Dragonhunter trait lines for HoT open world Solo farming and it works really well. (using Great sword, Mace/Focus) I guess for WvW you would drop Zeal for Virtues but not sure you could do enough damage to kill people with it and of course the boon spam/hate is bad.

I would replace the soldiers gear with wanderer’s gear if you can since its much better than soldiers for a boon build.

Never tried it after the rune changes where you could not mix and match along with the retaliation damage which was a main damage source of the build.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNApeWn8cCFdidDBWDB0EhlGiSe4T+nHbCigu8aY3yAA-TVyGABsr+DAPBA+V+1qJos3fgZzPOfKAAWJI36DIFwXzsA-w

I have a healway dragonhunter.

Works very well in small group skirmishes due to the tons of aegis i can apply. thanx to the double fragments of faith, shield of judgment, shield of courage, wings of resolve. and a nearly 1.5 k heal every 10 secs.

I’m incredibly tanky and u can 1 v 2 comfortably and pull of resses. Defending a camp on your own has also become quite a lot easier. thanx to your aoe heals.

u have quite a bit of condi cleanse as well.

sigil of cleansing on both sets, smit condition on heal, smite condition and contemplation of purity.

managed to get 3 secs of regenration thanx to runes of the defender.

try it out guys.

thanks for the link, looks promising

Xenocide.9062:

thanks for the link, looks promising

BTW I play this build on tier 1 and tier 2 servers for your info.

Am currently playing this build on piken square.

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

managed to get 3 secs of regenration thanx to runes of the defender.

Yeah Defender Runes are the best. I have been using them since they were released. They are awesome.

I play support guard for a small havoc squad and the role of the support guard is more condi control and boons for the group with some backup healing. The main healing role is picked up by our Ele with the Guardian providing backup post HoT. Guilds also utilise Druids for this main healing role, it just works out we had experienced Ele players that hadnt played Ranger much so we just rolled with it.

I think the traditional Guardian is still viable in this role. But the specs shift and change depending upon what you are doing. If you look at say BOO and their 15v15 DH build it is vastly different to what us[tRex] run as a small havoc squad.

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I switch the mace/shield out for hammer if we have our ele in group to blast fields. Stalwart Defender becomes Strength in numbers.

Would this kind of build work in pvp?

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Because i like green Numbers and the Idea of a Healing Guardian, I converted my Ascended Soldiers Armor to an Ascended Cleric’s Armor yesterday, i play with Ascended Cleric’s Amulet & Rings and Soldier’s Accessoires & Backpiece.
Weapons are Mace & Shield / Staff. I only use rarely Staff, most Time i spam Mace #2 & Autoattack #1 (so i use pure of Heart instead of Honorable Staff). Its a very nice amount of healing from Virtue of Resolve, Regeneration & Traited Symbols. Testing it at Fractals #54, #65 & #67, was fine so far.

I Don’t know if Minstrel’s would be a better choice. I also running cheap Dwayna Runes, have to run some AC Dungeon to replace them as fast as possible with Monk’s Runes

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Leopold.9240, damage is all u need to be successfull in pve, other classes have better healing support either.

FrownyClown.8402, probably not, slowpoke build as i call them, no damage with mace, healing works awfully on guard, sacrifices to much stats for nothing.
Damage build with Bow and GS/hammer, because mace and shield are a bit deprecated.
Other sturdy builds from other classes still do alot of damage compared with Guard can do and they have more sustain , all u can do now is play trapper and farm bad players.