Guild Wars 2

So playing around in the mists, i noticed that by using this trait (X in the curses trait line) and spectral wall, the duration of protection is increased as if it were spectral armor. Since this also increases the wall duration. It got me thinking, what would be the maximum uptime you could get from boon stacking to maximize protection uptime?

By my testings i think i managed to get some 18 seconds of protection with 25% boon duration increase.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune

With Rune of the Monk x 2, Rune of the Grove x2 and Rune of the Earth x2, Max Death Magic, Curses X and Soul Reaping IV I was able to keep protection up until Spectral Wall had 8 seconds left. This was in the mists.

That’s 75% group wide up-time. If you increase the time by a second you really cut your up-time because the wall won’t reapply protection unless you don’t have it.

I threw this build together to use the high protection uptime. http://bit.ly/UF7Pqb

It’s extremely support oriented.

Strengths: High AoE protection uptime. Very high AoE weakness and AoE poison uptime. Way higher than 100% AoE regen uptime.
Weaknesses: Moderate to low damage…depends on how smart your minions are behaving.

could be interesting for dungeons, only problem I have with it is trying to get my allies to actually run through the wall, ALSO, are you able to combo it with Staff 4 to get chaos armor? I haven’t been able to most of the time kinda want to report the bug in the other thread.

Can’t combo it with bone minions or staff 4 but I’d rather use those for AoE weakness anyway.

Boon duration stacking for protection up time with Spectral Wall and Spectral Attunement seems like a waste to me. The wall stays there for almost 15 sec and every time you step through it it reapplies the protection. Not to mention if your opponent follows you thru they add another 10 stacks of vuln on themselves (hint: you want to be doing this anyways). Throw 15 pts into Soul Reaping for Last Gasp and Spectral Mastery and protection up time goes way up just from the shortened CDs and Spectral armor proc at 50% health. Spectral Attunement can be a quick way to load up some LF at the start of the match as well. Never a bad thing when starting at 0%.