Guild Wars 2

Been running a Mace/Shield + Hammer build lately focusing on tanking/healing. http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcccMM0M0MRFbVMRFbV9MGxGVscabms. I’ve looked into the shout builds, but I just can’t get into that build for whatever reason. So this is my next-best solution to what I want to do.

Currently using full Soldier armor/weapons, and cleric jewelry. Sigil of Water on both mace/hammer and Sigil of Life on shield. I change the WoR and Merc. Intervention as needed depending on the situation.

I am using 6 runes of the Dolyak right now, but I am starting to wonder if they might be overkill. The 6bonus regen is only ~31 hp, and with the weapon symbols and Absolute Resolution I’m not thinking that little heal is making a big difference.

Current stats:
Power 1739 / Attack 2850
Precision 930 / Crit 5%
Toughness 1948 / Armor 3159/3310 (Hammer/Mace-Shield)
Vitality 1652 / Health 18,892
Healing 795

Some rune options I had thought of were Forge, Dwayna, or Divinity. I would be up to mix/match runes if a combination would produce some interesting results.

Any advice is welcome.

I run the shouts build 0/0/30/30/10 with mace shield/staff . I played around with runes quite a bit awhile back and found boon duration to be to my liking. Swapping mace/shield/Hammer can give pretty much 100% up time on regen and protection. As it were I cant stand the hammer.

For the healing part with your gear choices, it has been my experience +healing power is all or nothing. I run full cleric’s with the head swapped out for shamans. Gives me ~15K HP-1970toughness. Healing power is something like 1370 and I use a sigil of life on the staff to get the stacks.

I run Dwayna2/Monk2/Water2. From what I can tell Dwayna does not increase regen duration but does change the amount healed on the tool tip. I am also pretty sure boon duration doesn’t correctly affect boons from symbols, though its hard to tell since they are so short.

TLDR; I don’t think you have enough sources of boons without shouts to benefit from Forge/Dwayna on the defensive side. Divinity is also relatively low defense boost. I don’t see anything other than vit/toughness really adding anything for you other than proc effects you really cant count on.