Guild Wars 2

I went from random rare armor to all exotic Explorer gear with Traveler rune for farming. I am down to 15.5k health from 20.5k and I can see a difference. So I am back to building a new exotic WvW armor set and wondering what everyone averages on the HP pools?

I was thinking of going all out on Toughness/Vitality/Power karma armor from Orr and adding a Cleric helm for healing. Trying to get to about 21-22k hp pool. Thoughts?

I’m in all Cleric’s exotics with my farming jewelry for now, sitting at around 13.5K hp. I am gonna push that up with my exotic jewelry set when I can, but I don’t really think you need to go above 20k. Guardians have a ton of ways to heal themselves constantly, and they’re already wearing heavy armor and have solid condition cleanses. I am not totally invincible in WvWvW, but I can usually take 2 or 3 enemies on at a time.

I think 18k around that mark is good. I feel pretty beastly. I wear full melandru exotics, with ruby accessories/rings/neck.

Its all a matter of preference.

Arkiels, are you using melandru runes as well?

I sit with 13k HP with full exo Cleric armor set/ trinkets and I feel just fine. I could possibly switch out my trinkets for ones with vitality but I just love the ridiculousness of high healing power [also the fact that most every skill I use heals me LOL]

My philosophy banks on the fact that Guardians have the best way of mitigating damage and flat out denying it with certain skills. If you find yourself NEEDING more than 15k health, you need to work on dodging / timing skills. This isn’t to say that more than 15k health is a bad/nooby thing. It’s a kittening GREAT thing. Just don’t rely on your health pool as a means of survival.

The way I play with my guild, I tend to fly in the group first, so drawing a lot of dmg to myself. So I experience a ton of initial burst that I would like to withstand. I was thinking stacking Toughness would help with that. Using a GS I usually can take off conditional damage pretty quick.

Yes I use the Melandru runes, I mostly wvw.