Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

I just recently hit 80 and I want to really start to focus on running dungeons. Up until now I’ve only run a few here and there.

I plan on going Hammer/Staff with a 0/0/30/30/10 build using

Stand Your Ground
Hold the Line
Save Yourselves

My question is, when is the BEST time to pop your shouts. I know this can be situational but any general type advice?

Do you just spam them at will? Wait for certain circumstances?

Also, when you go into a full “heal rotation” I was going to go the following

Swap to Staff
Pop all 3 virtues
Dodge twice
Pop Empower
Pop Renewed Focus
Pop all 3 virtues again if needed

Is this the general “oh crap” rotation you guys use in 5 mans?

Thanks for any advice to get me started on running these!

-Jael

If you are not facing any enemies that will knock you down, pop SYG and SY whenever it’s up. Save Hold the Line always when you are your teammates are below 75% hp or so. If you have enemies that will knock you down, I’d save SYG and maybe SY if they do it often cause our cds are ridic sometimes.

To be more specific about SY, pop it if the enemies does a lot of conditional damage when your teammates seem boggled by conditions. If the enemy doesn’t drop many conditions use it when your main offensive skills are off cd. SY is your only source of fury so you want to make as much use of the burst as you can. Also, make sure you dodge frequently even if it’s not to actually evade, you’ll heal and vigor will bump your end up really fast.

Stand your ground is your stun-break slash stability when you have lots of CC’s being thrown around. The retaliation is also nice.

Hold the line is your mini-group heal slash protection buff. Use it when you’re expecting big damage to come in or cycle it between other cooldowns to maximize your defenses.

Save yourselves is a jack of all and has the most uses. Use it to redirect debuffs to your party to yourself because you have lots of cleanses to get rid of them. Other uses include being used as a temporary DPS boost, stun break, extra protection between other CD’s, or a way to run away.