Guild Wars 2

Just wondering if anyone has run something like this and what they thought of it. I’ve got a level 80 guardian I was getting bored with and haven’t played in quite some time, then I thought of this build 2 days ago and tested it last night for 30 min in spvp. I was ranked highest on the server, which is a first ever for me on any class, so I figured I might be on to something.

Used settler’s equipment (I think this is Shaman in pve edit, its not, its settlers as well. Oops! I was considering Shaman, Apothecary, and Settlers and guess which one was available in spvp to test?, I’ll be attempting to use this build in all build modes, but I don’t really have time to do dungeons, so I’m less worried about that. Respeccing my PVE equipment is obviously going to cost me quite a bit, which is why I’m asking for opinions first)

Lowish physical damage, fire dots for about 620 in spvp, lots of healing. Concentrating on toughness instead of vitality increases the effectiveness of healing (smaller health pool means smaller heals are a bigger deal) but makes you more vulnerable to conditions.

Toughness(Pri)/Condition Damage/Healing

Mace/Torch

Z 0
R 20 – III, VII
V 10 – II
H 20 – VI, X
V 20 – III, VIII

Shelter
Judge’s Intervention
Purging Flames
Sanctuary
Renewed Focus

Offensive abilities: Judge’s intervention for burn + teleport, purging flames for aoe, torch 4 and torch 5 (torch 5 procs burning 3.3 times due to rapid attacks), shelter (blocks proc burning, so shelter becomes a situational offensive weapon vs rapid attack enemies or when you’re being mobbed), virtue of justice

Defensive abilities: Dodge heal, aegis heal, shelter, sanctuary, mace 1, mace 2, virtue of resolve, virtue of courage

Thanks,

Maybe I should clarify, if you haven’t used it, I still want to know what you think. Do you see an obvious flaw I’m missing?

You’re only source of any damage at all is a tiny amount of burning.

I was thinking of something somewhat similar, but getting the condition damage to noteworthy levels using only minor stats was too difficult for me. I liked the idea behind the healing though.

Plus as Carpboy said, access to only burning popped my balloon far too quick.

Definitely isn’t high damage, but because the toughness and the healing making it a tanky build it still works.

Did some number comparisons with about 2000 power and no condition damage as a comparison.

(- means power build is better)
Mace 1 Sequence: -300 damage
Mace 3: Even
Torch 4: +2.2k / -200 if thrown
Torch 5: Even
VoJ active: +1.5k
Judge’s Intervention: +800
Purging Flames: +1.2k

The problem I was having with a power/healing build was that the abilities weren’t as good. Every single ability 1-9, F1-F3 on my bar right now does either significant fire damage, healing, or both.

And its not like I’m doing 0 physical damage…