Guild Wars 2

Inspired by Jportell’s “Protection Master”

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgQQNAW7fl4zioXUTgGb9IhpH9G5A/kCq7cSKc9rB-jADBIOERz0CDRj+AOJaIr5RRsMMsVXRr8KI6GYqVER1OFYeFER1iAYWD-e

The difference is that my WW Build is NOT meant to work alone. It is pure support. This build runs with 100% Boon Duration.

I call this a full support but why do I take Sigil of Corruption instead of Sigil of Life? That has to do with minimizing and maximizing. With this build with a full 25 stacks on Life your regens are going to be ticking for 292/s without the stacks it will tick for 261/s. That is a difference of 31/s. However, the difference in your conditions damage with/without stacks are: Bleeds 12.5 difference/stack, Burn 62.5 difference and Confusion in PvE is 37.5 difference while in PvP/WvW is 18.75 difference. Because I mainly developed this build for PvE that means since you can have all those conditions on the enemy at one time the difference in condition damage is 112.5/s. That is much more of a difference than 31 HP/s from regen. ?This math is no longer accurate after the updated version I posted will redo it later.

Since I first posted this build I have tested it a bit more with the 100% boon duration and found that ~95% of the time I do not need Veil to achieve a permanent protection on my party members. That being accomplished by having the protection duration you grant them being longer than the SoI CD of 36s. Due to realizing this fact I have switched it out for Mantra of Pain and taken Restorative Mantras to add some on demand party healing. This is still unaffected by Healing Power unfortunately but it is just yet another form of support the White Witch can wield.

I take the Compounding Celerity because there are many fights where the party is going to be spread out and the fast I can move to run to them to either pop off a few mantra heals or hit SoI so give them boons is very welcome. (The signet CD trait is pretty important for this as well since being able to hit everyone at once can be rather rough.)

Initial Boon Stacking Rotation: Chaos Field -> Chaos Armor -> The Prestige -> Decoy -> MI -> wait for The Prestige CD and hit again -> switch to staff and throw down Chaos Field before you pop out of your Prestige and then hit a final Chaos Armor -> Pop SoI

You will be able to keep up protection full time on your party (or near full time PU is random (Chaotic) after all but it seems to prefer protection) after this initial rotation if the boons are not removed.

Your Role in a Group: Constant Boon support, healing in the form of a 261/s constant regen thanks to phantasms that you are going to be placing strategically to cover as large of an area as possible (this is actually one of the reason iWarlock and iMage are so amazing because they remain stationary unless the enemy gets pretty far away) as well a manual on demand 2,500 HP heal from casting your Mantra of Pain. You do not do direct damage. I cannot stress this enough. I purposefully made the build so you can’t. Your conditions are nothing to win a medal for BUT the do tick nicely and can add an extra little pressure on the enemy.

With a traited Torch your iMage is also going to be curing conditions on his bounces so you are giving pretty constant all be it one at a time condition cleanse.

And that is that. Again I will restate this build is not intended to ever function alone.

Enjoy,
Hexxen

very interesting, i fought two mesmers of this build with my warrior, i died, i was pretty miffed so i cam back with my main (phantasm mesmer with high healing capabilities) and lets just say they both got destroyed, both downed in under 10 secs xD, pls advise people that this is only good as long as you are with damage dealers, you need the stealth to stay out of agro, but i fought them again but with an elementelist (this time it was arranged), the tanky elem even with perma prot couldnt survive and the others were easy :P

what im trying to get across is that this is in no way good for WvW, Spvp would be a better application though but thats not my area

Updated after the new stat changes. The major changes are the two major water runes now get you two travelers runes for 15% boon duration (yummy) and you can do away with those lack luster Snow Gems on your trinkets. This increases the healing power as well as your condition damage. This update was awesome for this build. ^^

Traveler runes are boon duration now? O.o
Edit: and never knew i inspired you! Warm fuzzy! lol

Yeah Most people that play GW2 play it because they don’t like the Holy Trinity of MMOs so the build never really got popular outside of my Guild so it doesn’t see much light of day. But since the PU update I have been running it and love the play style. ^^ Now that FFXIV is back out I have a real Healer class to play though so my GW2 time will gradually fade away I think.