Guild Wars 2

My Guardian currently has PVT armor with Runes of Melandru so I can be tanky as hell while diving in with my Greatsword, but I’m thinking of putting together a set for running dungeon support. Now I know you’d want Runes of the Soldier for a Shout build but is there any point in stacking Healing Power? I tried it out in the Mists and it didn’t seem to give a very big increase in the numbers.

EDIT: I was thinking of using something like this.

Personally I don’t like soldier runes for shouts. You should pick up the trait Pure of Voice. Does the same thing as soldier runes but coverts conditions into boons. Also with healing power, it’s great. I stack Clerics all around and man I can say I love it. I run + ~75% boon duration so I have 100% protection up time Mace+shield/scepter+focus. So many blocks. You still deal decent damage to people attacking you. But back to healing. I love it because effects almost everything we do. Run 2 sigils of energy on your weapon sets and spam roll for heals while avoiding damage.

The thing is, I wanted to run Absolute Resolution + Battle Presence for that continuous AoE healing, switching to Pure of Voice only for condition-heavy fights. I added the build I’m contemplating in my first post.

I wouldn’t go 20 into Valor in favor of 30 in Virtues.

Pure Soldier’s is one of the worse sets for guardians. You’re not going to do much with that extra 8k HP so shaving a little and allowing yourself more healing power does wonders for a sustain battle, which is the nature of most fights, even amongst glassy to glass cannon folks.

For guardian, make sure to pick up the minor trait selfless daring in the honor line. The heals scale 1 to 1 with healing power, it’s per dodge roll, you can have very high to near perma uptime on vigor…

I find healing power to be good if you’re either expecting a lot of long fights, or are more focused on healing others than your own health pool. If you are solely concerned about your own health, the total healing power ratio across a fight (add up all the bonus ratios applied, say two uses of shelter for 1.7, 4 uses of selfless daring for 4.0, 30 seconds of Virtue of Resolve for 1.8, total of 7.5) needs to total to more than 10. Otherwise getting Vitality would have been at least as effective as healing power, without the risks of getting reduced by poison or over-healing yourself.

Make your armor full Pvt with VT Runes( or rune of the wurm), Get full zerker rings etc then get superior sigil of life on both weapons set then use the food Bowl of Saffron-mango ice cream. This will give you 20k hp 3k armor around 3.2k attack and if you use zerker stats on weapons 40% crit chance with 60% crit dmg you can trait however you like here as your stats will match anything you want. Defensive stats do not scale well and you really notice that in scaled down dungeons.
I use to love boon duration but then after playing more without it i noticed that boons never stop coming everyone gives them to trying to keep them up is kind of a waste. IMO i would trait for dmg using meditations to get my extra healing. Traits 10/30/30, Zeal II Radiance III Vi Xi valor I VII XII.

Healing Power scales terribly for most of your healing abilities. You CAN be a healing support character even without healing power, and you’ll be more useful to your team if you can kill and heal. Mace/(Shield or Focus) + Staff is incredibly supportive in both healing and boons, and you don’t need healing power to make it so. You’ll heal everyone around you on your autoattack, you have regen on a symbol, you AoE heal for 1.5k or so with your Shield, and another 1.5k or so on Empower. Battle Presence is really not that great, unfortunately. Healing over time never saved anyone, burst healing does.

Almost identical to my setup, but I take Purity instead of Strength in Numbers. I swap out Pure of Voice for larger symbols or Battle Presence depending on the situation, though I’m finding larger symbols to be of more help than Battle Presence atm. I have 100% up time on regen and protection, and very high uptime on vigor, I abuse my dodge heal constantly which heals for ~1.2k.

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Personally I don’t like soldier runes for shouts. You should pick up the trait Pure of Voice. Does the same thing as soldier runes but coverts conditions into boons. Also with healing power, it’s great. I stack Clerics all around and man I can say I love it. I run + ~75% boon duration so I have 100% protection up time Mace+shield/scepter+focus. So many blocks. You still deal decent damage to people attacking you. But back to healing. I love it because effects almost everything we do. Run 2 sigils of energy on your weapon sets and spam roll for heals while avoiding damage.

I just wanna throw this out there. ( for WvW) i use soldiers runes and pure of voice. 2 conditions per shout is awesome. Then again if you running dungeons, if you have 30 in honor you can easily just swap when needed. a lot of fights dont need it and honor is a good enough line there are traits you want to swap to.(hell i would not mind putting 40 into it if it was possible)

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Healing Power scales terribly for most of your healing abilities. You CAN be a healing support character even without healing power, and you’ll be more useful to your team if you can kill and heal. Mace/(Shield or Focus) + Staff is incredibly supportive in both healing and boons, and you don’t need healing power to make it so. You’ll heal everyone around you on your autoattack, you have regen on a symbol, you AoE heal for 1.5k or so with your Shield, and another 1.5k or so on Empower. Battle Presence is really not that great, unfortunately. Healing over time never saved anyone, burst healing does.

Compared to someone w/ 1600+ Healing…. I can get a well over 700p/s to a party of 5..

But +healing is just horrible…………..

PS: Empowering Might – 3k every 16s if you went w/ Staff. Orb’s detonating for 1.5k or 550+ on pass through.. and if you’re good, you can pass through then detonate for 2k+ every 8s.