Guild Wars 2

Anyone having luck with it? Ive been tempted…

I used crusader armor for a while, but found that the stats aren’t necessarily better than celestial.

Exotic crusader vs. celestial armor have exactly the same ferocity / healing (about 200).
Crusader armor has about 150 more power and toughness than celestial, while celestial has about 150 more precision, vitality, and condition damage than crusader. Again, I am only talking about the exotic armor, not sure about trinkets.

AehAZE.1867:

Anyone having luck with it? Ive been tempted…

revenant does not scale well off of healing power, unless you go into the ventari trait line. even then, it is subpar to the support a druid can bring. I would suggest not speccing into any healing power and going with soldiers/knights if you want toughness. Revenant has enough blocks/evades to usually avoid damage alltogether.

Potato Slayer.3107:

AehAZE.1867:

Anyone having luck with it? Ive been tempted…

revenant does not scale well off of healing power, unless you go into the ventari trait line. even then, it is subpar to the support a druid can bring. I would suggest not speccing into any healing power and going with soldiers/knights if you want toughness. Revenant has enough blocks/evades to usually avoid damage alltogether.

This is a good point. I am not in game right now so cannot give specific numbers, but here is what I have seen for healing power scaling (by looking at trait / skill tooltips with different amulets in PvP):

Scales very poorly (practically not at all) with healing power:
-focused siphoning (devastation trait)
-vengeful hammers (Jalis skill)
-replenishing despair (corruption trait)
-invigorating flow (invocation trait)

Scales with healing (modestly to very well):
-staff autoattack (healing orbs)
-staff skill #4
-assassin’s annihilation (devastation trait)
-shield #4 and #5
-equilibrium (invocation trait)
-steadfast rejuvenation (retribution trait)

I haven’t played with Ventari or Salvation pretty much at all, so I am not familiar with healing scaling here.

You will notice that most of the things that scale with healing power on this list are either self-heals, or long-ish cooldown small group heals. So I do think it is possible to build with healing power for a self-sustain build (whether or not this is effective is another question altogether). However, I do agree that using healing power to heal allies (outside of Ventari) does not appear to be useful.

fluidmonolith.3584:

Potato Slayer.3107:

AehAZE.1867:

Anyone having luck with it? Ive been tempted…

revenant does not scale well off of healing power, unless you go into the ventari trait line. even then, it is subpar to the support a druid can bring. I would suggest not speccing into any healing power and going with soldiers/knights if you want toughness. Revenant has enough blocks/evades to usually avoid damage alltogether.

This is a good point. I am not in game right now so cannot give specific numbers, but here is what I have seen for healing power scaling (by looking at trait / skill tooltips with different amulets in PvP):

Scales very poorly (practically not at all) with healing power:
-focused siphoning (devastation trait)
-vengeful hammers (Jalis skill)
-replenishing despair (corruption trait)
-invigorating flow (invocation trait)

Scales with healing (modestly to very well):
-staff autoattack (healing orbs)
-staff skill #4
-assassin’s annihilation (devastation trait)
-shield #4 and #5
-equilibrium (invocation trait)
-steadfast rejuvenation (retribution trait)

I haven’t played with Ventari or Salvation pretty much at all, so I am not familiar with healing scaling here.

You will notice that most of the things that scale with healing power on this list are either self-heals, or long-ish cooldown small group heals. So I do think it is possible to build with healing power for a self-sustain build (whether or not this is effective is another question altogether). However, I do agree that using healing power to heal allies (outside of Ventari) does not appear to be useful.

Ventari scales wellish with HP but not well enough on anything but the elite orbs . ( NH is about 0.6 If I remeber correctly )
The scaling is bad if you don’t account for outgoing healing therefore it’s terrible for self sustain.