Guild Wars 2

The cooldown reduction is a little help, but Shelter is still so good vs a lot of content and attacks because of the potential damage that can be blocked.

To help Litany you could increase the base heal to 3500 or increase the % damage returned as healing to 50%, or make it cleanse Torment, Confusion and Poison.

I could see 25% making sense if Guardian had crazy quickness uptime. It needs to be 75%

mrauls.6519:

I could see 25% making sense if Guardian had crazy quickness uptime. It needs to be 75%

I’d rather have more duration once it’s active. 8s will put it in a very nice spot imo. If you put it to 75% Burn guards are just going to be sitting full healed for 6s. Considering the fact that LoW takes account all damage sources including retal. and not just direct damage.

@OP % increase could be good too but making it cleanse Condis when we have Smite Condi on heal? Going a bit overboard basically a possible 5 condi clear on 20s CD, with WoR for another 5, smite condi on another. Seems a bit much imo.

Its at like, 278hps traited, afk, and without hpow.

I find Litany pretty decent, all Season 5 I used it as a burn DH and it pretty much was 6s of immunity during team fights. The one down side to it is you can easily get CC’d while it is going on.

It’s still only useful for burn guardians. Other than that, nothing has really changed.

I run it on my meditation guardian and it is baller. Everyone else uses shelter while I continue to pump out heals while staying alive and supporting my team. It gives me way more heals and works perfectly with “Monk’s Focus — Using a meditation skill heals you and grants fury to allies in a radius. Meditation skills have reduced recharge.” and “Smiter’s Boon — Smite conditions when you use a healing ability.” I am honestly surprised more people aren’t using this combination. Monk’s focus works so well. Helps to put out a ton of damage and also clears lots of conditions.

Shelter will still clear 2 condis with the Smiters Boon trait, just 10s less frequently.

Shelter itself can easily block 5-10k damage timed well with a 2s block.

You’d be lucky to pump out 20-40k damage in 6 seconds to have the same gains with Litany.

In pvp I used it when I was having some fun on a core burnguard. Tbf it felt a lot less strong than the trap heal. In PvE it has niche uses. It’s great on fights where retal would otherwise rip you to shreds (like gorseval).

Its hard to confirm when your burst will land as a guard. Chances are if they start kiting none of your weapon skills will land, so taking litany completely ruins you quite often.

I’d be happy with it if it didn’t have the cast time.