Guild Wars 2

Anyone use this over Signet of Resolve? Ok it has a shorter CD time by 10 seconds and blocks for two seconds. Resolve on the other hand cures a condition and heals for almost double.

I just don’t see the point. The block is nice, but that’s not worth giving up more heals and curing a condition every ten seconds.

Thoughts?

It depends on the stress of the situation that you’ll be in, if you know you can manage the damage obviously use signet of resolve for the healing per second advantage. If you know you’re going to be in a situation in which you’re likely to go down often, buying that extra few seconds can help a great deal, such as taking point on 2nd capture point during the capture Arah event, you can throw up a ring of warding, , dodge twice, shelter, slam all virtues, renewed focus, and dodge twice again. Hopefully by the time you expend all your resources the zerg provides back up.

Shelter can also help greatly against teams that use double thief. To remove you from your point.

2 full seconds of Blocking almost anything thrown at you is an eternity in this game. Shelter is situationally insanely powerful. That said, I feel it’s slightly underpowered. Guardians have a dozen ways to purge Conditions, so Condition removal is not a priority. It’s nice in Signet of Resolve but not a selling factor.

The advantage of Signet is that you can bring it down to almost the same Recharge as Shelter with Signet Mastery. While still healing almost twice as much. A Trait which happens to be in a highly desirable Trait line and in a tier without a lot of other advantageous picks. Without this Trait they’d be balanced.

If there was a Trait that buffed the healing of Shelter they’d be in balance again.

I play Hammertank right now, I’ll be putting the specifics of my build up at a later date, but in WvW I can’t using anything other then Shelter. Running headlong into enemy groups (as I love to do) and amidst my barrage of Mighty Blows and Symbols of Protection, being able to bloack for 2 seconds while healing, and gaining health from Altrusitic Healing… it’s just too much fun.

Yes the signet heals more, yes it removes a condition, but that’s not enough for me to switch from laughing for 2 seconds ever 28 seconds while my health goes up and the enemies attacks are useless. Just my 2 pennies.