What spec works best with a healway guardian?
Anything works well with healway Guardian, the way you play that build doesn’t change regardless of who you are playing with.
Basically it’s all about healing, reviving and not dying yourself. That’s it.
Is there any help you’re looking for in particular, or would you just like help for the general build?
I suppose it’s worth mentioning that taking Healing Breeze will make your allied healing rather powerful, but it’s not quite the best heal for your own survivability. Same goes for Tome of Courage pretty much.
I suppose it’s worth mentioning that taking Healing Breeze will make your allied healing rather powerful, but it’s not quite the best heal for your own survivability. Same goes for Tome of Courage pretty much.
I’m new to support guard, but this is what I’ve played around with.
Don’t use tome of courage. It’s not very useful. The virtues recharge on renewed focus is way better and helps as a secondary source of defense if you get spiked.
Generally speaking, if a person wants to run healing breeze, I think running focus offhand would be best as it gives you the personal block to make sure you don’t get interrupted. Also I recommend running with an altruistic healing build if you use healing breeze, as you have said, personal survivability with healing breeze isn’t the best but altruistic healing picks up the slack.
You get somewhat less condi clear than a virtues guardian, and you don’t get a secondary access to stability. Your virtues are on a longer recharge too with an altruistic healing build. But you’re tanky as hell and you get to use healing breeze which is boss.
Don’t use tome of courage. It’s not very useful. The virtues recharge on renewed focus is way better and helps as a secondary source of defense if you get spiked.
Keyword: You. Renewed Focus is the most selfish elite the guardian has, and it’s more commonly used probably because it’s good in bunker builds, it’s easier to use, and it’s more easily inserted into builds. The tomes typically require specific builds and good positioning to be used at maximum efficiency, whereas RF is a panic button that can be used in most situations.
ToC not being useful is very debatable. I wouldn’t recommend it on a build that doesn’t use consecrations (since those protect tome users very nicely), but it simply being “not useful” is just not true.
Generally speaking, if a person wants to run healing breeze, I think running focus offhand would be best as it gives you the personal block to make sure you don’t get interrupted. Also I recommend running with an altruistic healing build if you use healing breeze, as you have said, personal survivability with healing breeze isn’t the best but altruistic healing picks up the slack.
You get somewhat less condi clear than a virtues guardian, and you don’t get a secondary access to stability. Your virtues are on a longer recharge too with an altruistic healing build. But you’re tanky as hell and you get to use healing breeze which is boss.
What you’re describing sounds more like a tanky guardian using healing breeze than a supportive one. I mean, all guardians are supportive in one way or another, but AH alone typically makes a guardian’s primary role bunkering/tanking. Although, using Healing Breeze does make it strike much more of a balance between tankiness and support. A purely supportive guardian running consecrations/ToC/Healing Breeze would carefully position at mid-range whereas your kind of guardian would jump into the fray and take a lot of hits, but provide less support.
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Keyword: You. Renewed Focus is the most selfish elite the guardian has, and it’s more commonly used probably because it’s good in bunker builds, it’s easier to use, and it’s more easily inserted into builds. The tomes typically require specific builds and good positioning to be used at maximum efficiency, whereas RF is a panic button that can be used in most situations.
ToC not being useful is very debatable. I wouldn’t recommend it on a build that doesn’t use consecrations (since those protect tome users very nicely), but it simply being “not useful” is just not true.
Renewed Focus is not seflish as it a) allows you to support much longer because it gives a lot of survivability and b) allows you to instantly reset your virtues, which can be very powerful for your allies (heal, condi cleanse, aegis, protection, blinds, ect…). It’s seriously NOT a selfish elite.
The problem with tome of Courage is that it turns the Guardian into a sitting duck. If you’re facing a few experienced players they’ll jump on you the second you cast it and there is nothing you can do to avoid getting destroyed/cc’d apart from putting it away again. It’s one of the reasons why meany ‘support’ Guardians in WvW guilds are also switching over to RF.
Renewed Focus is not seflish as it a) allows you to support much longer because it gives a lot of survivability and b) allows you to instantly reset your virtues, which can be very powerful for your allies (heal, condi cleanse, aegis, protection, blinds, ect…). It’s seriously NOT a selfish elite.
I never said it was selfish, I said it was the most selfish of the elites. It offers much less direct support compared to the tomes, but yes it is still quite supportive, as is everything with guardians.
The problem with tome of Courage is that it turns the Guardian into a sitting duck. If you’re facing a few experienced players they’ll jump on you the second you cast it and there is nothing you can do to avoid getting destroyed/cc’d apart from putting it away again.
There is actually, as I mentioned with my last post, there are consecrations. For example, place down Hallowed Ground for a guaranteed Light of Deliverance, and if you need to, use Sanctuary as well.
Not to mention the tomes have long-range for a reason. With proper positioning, often times you won’t even need a consecration or two.
Tome of Courage is more situational than renewed focus, but it can be very powerful in certain cases when used right. Obviously if you use it like you use renewed focus, you will get rolled. You don’t use ToC to save yourself from spikes; you use it to save your allies so the positioning is completely different. Though I’ve only found success with it in large scale wvw where I am less likely to get targeted. Frankly, one could argue strongly in favor of ToC; I mean renewed focus is a mere 2 seconds of invul every 90 seconds— is that worth giving up a massive burst heal? Chances are if your allies are dead, you will die anyways.
However, if you’re speaking about healway that takes 6 into virtues and takes absolute resolution/indomitable courage then I’d say Renewed Focus wins because those two traits are pretty bad without it due to the long cooldowns. So ironically, I’d say ToC works better an AH 6 valor build that doesn’t go deep into the virtues and is also able to take a bigger beating. But again, it’s hard to speak in absolutes.
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