Guild Wars 2

Ok im sure im not the only guy out there thats perplexed at whats what when it comes to what i should be focusing on in ths game so lets get some input from the community. Whats the top 3 stats that wellomancers should look for in gear? Do you have a favorite build or specific rotation for pve or pvp. lets help out the guys like me that are just looking for straight answers in one post.

Wells are both Utilities (blind, vulnerability, etc), and damage spells. The main stats to increase damage on wells are power, precision and crit rate, (in this order). In my opinion they go best together with an Axe/X Dagger/X build since those also require those stats to be effective. Some wells can be used however with condition builds. Well of Suffering damage is very high and even works good without heavy boosts to the listed stats.

If you like to focus on wells, you definitely should take the trait ‘wells recharge 20% faster’.

I like to stack Blood is Power, with Well of suffering, and Life transfer, for a high spike in damage.

Well thanks for that!!! But im wondering why only power,precision and crit? And why axe over scepter? Also any reason why precision is over condition dam? can you also if possible weigh in on lich vs having flesh golem? thnx again for the input so far!

Wells don’t cause damaging conditions, therefore they don’t deal condition damage. They cause periodic ticks of damage, but it’s affected by power, not condition damage.

For elites, I think Plague is pretty unmatched for PvP. Perma-blind is too powerful of a tool to pass up, but I’m sure some would disagree. For Solo PvE, I’m really keen on flesh golem. For group PvE, I think either Lich or Plague work well, depending on what role you’re going for. Lich offers raw offensive power while Plague offers utility, basically lets you tank anything and slow incoming damage to a crawl on your group for 15 seconds.

wowzers that was an eye opener!

For increasing Wells damage (Excluding Darkness and Power) Power, Precision, Crit Damage or Power, X, X depending on how much tankiness you want to sacrifice for damage. For playing a Well Support build you would want more Toughness or Vitality as wells (excluding heal) act as a dark combo field for blindness or lifesteal for allies.

I tend to view and use wells like this;

• Well of Suffering for raw damage and vulnerability stacking stacking up to 10 stacks of vulnerability on anyone who remains in the field for the 5 seconds.

• Well of Corruption for boon disruption, shuts down guardians and warriors. i tend to play this with power too but it can work well in a support tank build.

• Well of Darkness AoE blind can really help disrupt Thief’s C&D Backstab combo, usually i wont use this unless i trait in Chilling Darkness in Curses to turn it into a chill & blind dark combo field.

• Well of Power I swap this in when supporting people on siege in WvW or about to engage in a small scale fight. Dropping Well of Power then going into Lich Form pretty much turns you into an unstoppable killing machine for a brief period.

I tend to drop wells whilst running at an enemy when in range, then pass them and Death Shroud Doom them to fear them back into the wells too.

Hope this helps!