Guild Wars 2

I have a question about this shout. It draws all of my allies conditions to me while applying a ton of boons to everyone. With an altruistic healing guardian does the healing from boons usually out weigh the conditions you take on?

The other day in wvw during a big zerg battle I popped this shout and got like 20 conditions all at once and insta-died. I was thinking maybe I should use contemplation of purity right after it? Is that normal or just a bad spot to use it?

Thoughts, opinions?

SY has a number of uses but…you are correct, you shouldn’t use it in a zerg without additional condi clears.

1) It’s probably our strongest utility in duels (SyG is still probably the strongest overall), because you don’t take any conditions from your allies (yeah, duel!) and you gain all those boons. With something like +100% boon duration you can get prot, retal, fury, swiftness, vigor, regen, etc for 20 seconds off of ONE utility.

2) In zergs however, SY is used typically for instant mass condition clear…on allies. Yes, you will have to run things like lemongrass poultry soup and additional condition clears after taking on all your allies’ conditions.

The only thing you really have to watch out for with SY is taking on lots of bleed stacks, otherwise taking those conditions with LPS shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Thank you, awesome answer

Save Yourselves does not apply the boons to everyone else. Only yourself.

Edit: Oh, also – if you have Pure of Voice/Soldiers runes, the condition cleaning happens BEFORE the conditions are absorbed. So you can actually mitigate a lot of the suicidal tendencies of that skill by having one or the other of them, or almost entirely rid yourself of it if you have both.