New player after for feedback on a build
Is my build that bad no one has feedback for me? Or so good no one has improvements to add!!
Hey, a lot of advice is dependent on what you want to use the build for. Is this WvW, sPvP or PvE?
Regardless of your answer to the above, I’d get rid of the mercy sig as the recharge is absurd for what you get out of it, and I don’t care for unscathed contender in a purely melee focused build like you’ve got there.
If you are going sPvP, look at traiting vengeful instead, and you may have problems with kiters on nodes so scepter/sword vs mace is something to consider. And if you’re going the structured route, add Stand your Ground. SyG is a must, imo, for clean stomps.
Sanctum of Rall
Take 5 from virtues and put it in honor for another symbol buff IMO. The 25 point trait is fairly pathetic damage wise, and you could use the extra healing symbols or larger symbols trait very effectively.
You might consider taking staff over hammer because it works well with altruistic healing.
Defender’s flame is a pretty weak option to me, when you could have purity or meditation cooldown (which for even 1 meditation is fine) in the same slot. The burn is very short duration and you have a very limited number of blocks. Hell, even 70 toughness to your allies might be better (2-2.5% damage reduction).
Signet of mercy is almost never used, for good reason. It is slow to cast, unreliable without stability in PVP, and can be basically reproduced on a shorter cooldown just by using sanctuary and reviving them (a CD further reduced by a 10 pt trait in virtues).
In place of signet you have a myriad of options – stand your ground or contemplation of purity for PVP, wall of reflection/shield of avenger for WvW and dungeons, retreat! for pve—or sanctuary like I said. Signet of Judgement is often over looked, but provides a static 10% damage reduction regardless of how high your armor already is; so it can be useful on an already armor based build.
For gear you should probably be looking to get at least some healing power to make the most of selfless daring and the regen from symbols; though you don’t need to go full healing by any means. For pvp I’m a fan of dwayna runes because of the massive regen you get from them, but many people use soldier. For dungeons, and I’m no expert, usually you want to run boon duration runes to make the most of protection/regen for your teammates.
Cheers guys, I will have to look at that, with the Signet I was more looking at the passive than the resurrection use, I was also looking at the judgment one too as that looked handy! I was thinking hammer partly for the charge factor and lock in with moves 2 and 5 though I may look at staff!
having a look I may swap the signet for Contemplation of purity as that could have great synergy with save yourself, take all conditions for boons then change them to boons!