Guild Wars 2

edit: new vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1yFyj6Dxg

Hello. I just uploaded a vid of my favorite thing to do in the game which is heal supporting in WvW small group outnumbered stuff and thought i’d share it here.

I know small group WvW is done by like 0.001% of the gw2 population but I feel like its popularity is on the rise a little and I hope this video can help some Guardians get a group together and try out a style like this.

build is 0/0/10/30/30 http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJAWSlcgCDXFSLEm4ES2DRCBLJsHYUGtRXFSIA

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdPs52iTeA8

Brief keys to this style of play for me:

Tome of Courage with Hallowed Ground and Elite Focus so it lasts 30 seconds, I get healing to 1700-1800 in a 4+ man group and if i’m duo or trio depending on group i’ll sink it down in favor of more precision/damage(I find precision is important for healing to maintain vigor procs). I believe all of the Tome abilities are insanely helpful if used right, with high healing power you get alot of bang for your buck with #1 and #3 abilities.

Hammer/Staff: to me they are the great support weapons, hammer you can jump in the mix and get off nice blast finishers, buff protection, put up light fields like crazy, immobilize people which creates kills with a communicating assisting group and trap them in rings… ring of warding and line of warding are so important for drawing stability out of enemies and allowing your berserker teammates to make space and get healed while bursting.

Playing with a Mesmer in the group(my gf plays a Mesmer yay), makes going down alot more forgiving, makes for nice escapes, helps cast a full heal/aoe daze that can turn a fight around. Really important thing with Mesmers too is they can steal boons (stability!) on your focus target which really makes your CC helpful.

Gear is a mix of mostly Clerics with some precision/vitality/healing power, depending on group I mix in more or less precision/berserkers, sigil of stamina or energy are great choices for this stuff imho, energy better for a tough evenly matched fight where people aren’t gonna die alot and sigil of stamina for stuff like outnumbered chaotic fights where your group gets consistent kills.

Burst healing, big key, making enemies think your berserker teammates are tanks so they get confused as to who to attack, this doesn’t only work against pugs, most Guardians in WvW do not spike heal with all our cooldowns/dodges/tome, against pugs in particular it really breaks up their assisting and causes target indecision.

It’s not an easy way to play, i’ve been WvWing in many builds since beta as a Guardian and I always feel like i’m improving.. it’s important to have high dps teammates and good focus fire/communication, things that can be really hard to come by in WvW .. i’m hoping in the future alot more people get interested in small scale WvW and I hope this vid can help give some Guardians ideas, I feel like it is a very strong setup for supporting a group in WvW and we’re having alot of success with it.

Love to discuss this stuff if anyone has feedback/questions.

Well played, i like so much small scale video :p, in this period i’m playng a mesmer in my team, can you link the spec of the mesmers in your team pls? I’m just curious, because your team have a good survival in lot of difficult situation and i’m always reday to improve myself.

heya incomingray!D haven’t seen the video yet. but will check it out during lunch. glad to see vids from you again mang.

will come back for more after watching.

lol@ 7:30-7:43
Nice

You mention having precision. How much? What kinda crit rate you prefer to have?

Amiga huh? Kudo’s there. 2000 owner and also their Unix port.

Nice video. You played well and its nice to see smaller group play. You didn’t really shy away from numbers either, cool. I wish Arena Net would try and induce some form of rewards for controlling the blood lust points. Seems that area provides a lot of roaming on all maps which helps the whole team. However, those roaming to keep it up will miss on all the chests and bags from taking towers and supply camps

Thanks for taking the time to record, edit, and share. Always good to see how others play.

Edit: What server? I thought I read in the youtube comments Dragonbrand? If so, then heck, we probably either have, or will, meet up in WvW…

Nefejrangh.2584:

Well played, i like so much small scale video :p, in this period i’m playng a mesmer in my team, can you link the spec of the mesmers in your team pls? I’m just curious, because your team have a good survival in lot of difficult situation and i’m always reday to improve myself.

Hey i’ll get their spec and message it to you or something, basically if i’m with 2 one is berserker one is alot of valkyrie and thats all I really know besides the obvious from weapons.

styx.7294:

You mention having precision. How much? What kinda crit rate you prefer to have?

I like to have 25-30% crit, I guess imho below 20% is really bad, just seems like when I go too low theres times I cant get the vigor proc and it can mean so much.

Crapgame.6519:

Thanks for taking the time to record, edit, and share. Always good to see how others play.

Edit: What server? I thought I read in the youtube comments Dragonbrand? If so, then heck, we probably either have, or will, meet up in WvW…

It ended up being mostly sega genesis only a couple of amiga tunes but if you skim through my older videos especially my later Warhammer vids theres alot of cool amiga stuff. Anyways yes we’re on Dragonbrand and thanks, glad it was worth watching.

Incomingray.8075:

Nefejrangh.2584:

Well played, i like so much small scale video :p, in this period i’m playng a mesmer in my team, can you link the spec of the mesmers in your team pls? I’m just curious, because your team have a good survival in lot of difficult situation and i’m always reday to improve myself.

Hey i’ll get their spec and message it to you or something, basically if i’m with 2 one is berserker one is alot of valkyrie and thats all I really know besides the obvious from weapons.

styx.7294:

You mention having precision. How much? What kinda crit rate you prefer to have?

I like to have 25-30% crit, I guess imho below 20% is really bad, just seems like when I go too low theres times I cant get the vigor proc and it can mean so much.

Crapgame.6519:

Thanks for taking the time to record, edit, and share. Always good to see how others play.

Edit: What server? I thought I read in the youtube comments Dragonbrand? If so, then heck, we probably either have, or will, meet up in WvW…

It ended up being mostly sega genesis only a couple of amiga tunes but if you skim through my older videos especially my later Warhammer vids theres alot of cool amiga stuff. Anyways yes we’re on Dragonbrand and thanks, glad it was worth watching.

That’s a lot of precision…

styx.7294:

That’s a lot of precision…

Well I gotta correct myself a bit, I end up 20-23% crit with my heavier healing bigger group set and when I do a 2man or maybe 3 man depending, I bump it up to about 26-30% with some berserkers and an ascended power/tough/heavy precision ring, way I see it is if i’m going to be in a tough fight against 3-5 people as a 2man I won’t be hitting as many people at once and I need higher crit(more damage helps anyways in this situation) so I can reliably proc vigor, when fighting 10+ people at once 20% is totally fine for the most part esp for staff autoattack, when I analyze my clips and see myself get into trouble alot of the time it seems to stem from not getting vigor procs/remembering to keep attacking clumps of people.

Made a new vid, silliness and ninjaing a tower with portal

styx.7294:

That’s a lot of precision…

Not really, and you need about that much to keep the uptime on vigor for selfless daring heals.