Guild Wars 2

Which of the healing skills are better for solo pve for guardian, shelter or signet of resolve? I read through the guide book and it says shelter is better, but yet when I scroll over each of the skills in game, to me SoR is better heals for more.

if you are human, dwayna heal.

I like Shelter, since I can hold it of a bit longer, since I won’t take damage during the cast time, but Signet of Resolve is probably better.

Leeain.2431:

if you are human, dwayna heal.

Well in fact my guardian is a human, but out of all the healing skills it still looks like Signet of Resolve is the better choice.

Signet of Resolve = 185
Dwayna = 145
Shelter = 93

Ynna.8769:

I like Shelter, since I can hold it of a bit longer, since I won’t take damage during the cast time, but Signet of Resolve is probably better.

Yeah it looks like to me that it is better heal since it heals more and has 15 seconds less cool down + the removal of a condition every 10 seconds.

I lowe dwayna… u.u

Signet is the best heal for Guardian. It heals for over twice of what Shelter heals. Some try to claim the 2 seconds of invincible justify it, but you’re rooted for those 2 seconds. Anything attacking will just kill you 2 seconds later, and if you were kiting or running away, Shelter lets the enemies catch up and get on top of you. So not only does Signet heal for over twice what Shelter does, but also allows movement/kiting AND passively removes conditions. Signet is even the same cooldown if youre 0 points into the crit traitline.

I use shelter, it’s saved my planty butt many times during boss fights and group events. If you time it right, the block will mitigate a lot more damage than signet of resolve can heal. Still shelter could use with a bit more healing and one more second of block time, because right now almost no guardian ever uses shelter. It’s just that I take so much damage and my health pool is so low, that the extra healing from the signet doesn’t seem to make any difference, so I use shelter as an extra block/dodge.

Not standing still while taking loads of damage does wonders for extending your health pool.