Guild Wars 2

So I personally like staff when playing healer in my clerics, but realized my fractal pigs would probably be disappointed in the DPS loss. So the idea: use ranger’s immense access to party regen to keep AF generation up.

I threw on my zerker gear, and ran standard Skirmishing and druid with BM and traited shouts. Took Heal as one for my heal and strength of the pact for the elite. Then usual glyph of empowerment frost and Sun. Also brought fern hound as backup

Obviously out of combat AF regen is still a big problem, but in combat I could still run a descent s/a + lb and have access to avatar on demand. I don’t think anyone would call this the new meta, but I think it makes a good proof of concept for a staff free druid life if you are into that sort of thing.

Thoughts?

Yea, plenty of people I’ve been in touch do this.

Your ideas are absolutely on the right track.
Just keep in mind that you might possibly be going a bit overboard with all the regen you took. You naturally want +20% personal DPS from Marksmanship, Spotter from Skirmishing, and that leaves Beast Mastery for regen out of the question.

Please, consider playing around with Healing Spring and Trapper’s Expertise (in Skirmishing same as Spotter) which results in the very same result, but potential Water Field as well.
It saves you a bunch of DPS this way.

I figured I was going overboard, that’s part of why I made the post. Healing spring is never on my radar because it has always been the heal most likley to do nothing for my right before I die unless I have a blast finisher on standby. I guess that makes sense then use it.

It also makes sense that more rangers are doing this, it just felt like all the threads on the forum were acting as if druid healing was over, and I thought it was worth talking about regen ( and other sources I forgot like healiing spring) almost makes me wonder if dwayna runes are worth rolling for the regen on heal and increased regen duration.

AF in shortbow regen very slowly but is achievable.
something like the sword but without the AA bug.
another question is the damage that weapon output but well…

i can’t edit my own post… anyway i forgot to tell you: cultivate synergy and verdant etching helps a lot with the AF.

Regen+WHaO is definitely what I roll with it up while in battle with a power build, especially for extra innate swiftness and regen (traited) and its low cooldown. While Staff has some utilities, I really dislike using it myself. I can sitll build up AF okay while fighting, but losing it on getting downed and building it up OoC is bothersome.