Guild Wars 2

Healing Power/Condition Damage/Toughness

I’m Very tempted to get a full set of this, and drop the 10 points I have in Skirmish for 10 Points in Nature’s for the Regen Increase.

My Damage right now is all from my Conditions, so Increasing my Healing power actually might be fairly decent for me.

Nope.
I don’t have the time to grind for Apoth gear.
And so I suppose I’ll be boycotting them.

Healing Power is atrocious and stacks terribly. Stay away from it – far away from it!

dont get that gear, just wait for the ascended armory

As above – unless you spec entirely for healing power and regen time the return on point investment is pretty awful. So unless you have a very specific reason for doing it (healing spring spam for a camp trolling group in WvW comes to mind) you’ll often get way more out of some toughness, Companion’s Defense, or Bark Skin.

deepwinter.9015:

Healing Power is atrocious and stacks terribly. Stay away from it – far away from it!

I run in Magi’s gear so i find this horribly offensive and wrong….

@OP I would LOVE to have that gear (or shamans) however i don’t have nearly as much condition damage as i would like so i feel like it would be wasted =(

Angela Ranna.5638:

As above – unless you spec entirely for healing power and regen time the return on point investment is pretty awful. So unless you have a very specific reason for doing it (healing spring spam for a camp trolling group in WvW comes to mind) you’ll often get way more out of some toughness, Companion’s Defense, or Bark Skin.

A. I run a 30 wilderness/30 beast build right now anyway.. so I spec for it automatically.
B. The gear has Toughness on it, and Empathetic Bond is better then Bark Skin.
C. The way my build works is using Asura Racial + With lots of Conditions while my Pet does the Burst Damage. Healing Power would just make me more annoying to fight.

So I just went ahead and made the armor and bought the weapons/jewelery to test it out.

Man…This gear set is hilarious for my build. 1v1 Nothing could really touch me, I mean.. before stuff had trouble fighting me.. but the amount of health i get back constantly + the toughness at this point is just silly. It takes 2v1 and 3v1’s To really bring me down now.. My Personal Favorite was fighting a Guardian/Ranger Duo…Crapping on the ShortBow using Archer, then turning around and watching the Guardian unable to bring me below 75% of my life… ..before killing them, and they were 80’s.

Thief/Guardian duo fared about the same as well…The Thief ran after I killed the Guardian, but I /laughed at him and came back to try his look solo and was dead in a few seconds… ..Course that’s how it was with my previous armor as well….This just gives me more survivability in the fight.

All I can say is you are fighting noobs. A ranger will never beat 2 competent level 80s in a 2v1, especially not a thief and guardian duo.

fishergrip.4082:

All I can say is you are fighting noobs. A ranger will never beat 2 competent level 80s in a 2v1, especially not a thief and guardian duo.

I’ve done this on a regular basis in tPvP, maybe a BAD ranger can’t, but a good ranger sure as hell can.

Durzlla.6295:

fishergrip.4082:

All I can say is you are fighting noobs. A ranger will never beat 2 competent level 80s in a 2v1, especially not a thief and guardian duo.

I’ve done this on a regular basis in tPvP, maybe a BAD ranger can’t, but a good ranger sure as hell can.

Or more likely, the people you are fighting are the bad ones.

fishergrip.4082:

Durzlla.6295:

fishergrip.4082:

All I can say is you are fighting noobs. A ranger will never beat 2 competent level 80s in a 2v1, especially not a thief and guardian duo.

I’ve done this on a regular basis in tPvP, maybe a BAD ranger can’t, but a good ranger sure as hell can.

Or more likely, the people you are fighting are the bad ones.