Guild Wars 2

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Why you ask?
because I like toying with the idea of a healer/dps hybrid. revenant seems to be the only class that can do that without sacrificing so much healing.
Don’t you dare tell me with a straight face that vipers druid is strong healing. I will slap you.

Constant blinds with blinding truths, or swap it to tranquil balance for any sort of group play.
second thing in salvation could honestly be anything depending on situations. heavy condi pressure? eluding nullification. lots of players who get chunked often? invoking harmony. Tranquil benediction for solo play or just easier access to swiftness/regen.

damage will not be top tier. I never claimed it would be. but with this set up, you’ll be able to kill just about anything short of a few champ enemies thanks to blindspam, huge sustain, and cheap foods.
You’ll even be able to help other monkeys stay alive thanks to ventari’s absurd healing and salvation’s bonkers healing mods.

Viper’s druid is all about keeping GotL stacks up, not really healing. Maybe just keeping Scholars topped off, but that’s about it since the last round of nerfs.

I haven’t seen anybody try out Seraph for a Druid in the raid scene… Everybody (for the most part) just goes Magi for the heals or Viper’s for the damage—it’s a really all or nothing sort of crowd. But I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. And I think a Seraph Druid would probably put out more DPS than this. (Probably less healing though.)

This hybrid Rev build is obviously fine for solo play/open world, but I think that’s about it. If you’re looking to fully replace one of the more meta healing classes, you’d need to bring group fury to the table, and you can’t do that w/o Glint. Or if you’d be looking replacing a DPS for an utility/extra healing role, I think you’d want more utility. (Maybe a good choice if you’re group can’t find a second chrono to help with alacrity up time.)

I could maybe see this hyper-carrying newer groups through Slothasar tho with the almost permanent projectile denial for slubs and a quick group resistance followed by a tablet mega cleanse for shakes (and if you traited Herald you could AoE stun break tantrum fails and fears too.)

But hey, if it’s fun, it’s fun, and that’s what it’s all about—especially open world… Rev’s probably not going to snake it’s way back in to a meta dps slot anytime before the expansion, so might as well have as much fun with the class as you can.

I didn’t even think of sloth LOL.
You’re right, it might actually be useful in one or two raids.
Id prob swap the runes for something more damage oriented/heal oriented rather than insane selfish survival

Why should anybody vomit on that? Its just a normal balanced build which isnt meta.
I myself play rev with seraphic gear. Shiro-Ventari with invo/destro/corr and ice sigils and runes for torment.
Its a solid build. Not top tier dmg, not top tier healing but as long as you can solo HP in auric basin its decent dont you think?
Free building is the best part of this game so i am glad not everyone is running for meta.

To be honest, Druid isn’t much healing anyhow, no need to apologize. In raw output, Revenants and Elementalists are the healers of the game, and I reckon Mesmer might be third.

Carighan.6758:

I reckon Mesmer might be third.

Oh? Please, please explain!

Mantra spec with some heal proc rune (triggering the heal skill constantly anyhow, so can fire a 10s CD one all the time) + regen from phantasms + EHP gain from Defenders (even better than raw healing).

I’ve wanted to try out that build WvW since the day Lake Doric was released. If only I could bring myself to spend the resources on getting the armour and trinkets…

Kain Francois.4328:

Carighan.6758:

I reckon Mesmer might be third.

Oh? Please, please explain!

Because most chronotanks these days are running Minstrel’s gear and spam their Well heal off cd for alacrity + 100% phantasm regen uptime. I still don’t think they outheal a Druid tho. Maybe a Viper dr00d.

narcx.3570:

Kain Francois.4328:

Carighan.6758:

I reckon Mesmer might be third.

Oh? Please, please explain!

Because most chronotanks these days are running Minstrel’s gear and spam their Well heal off cd for alacrity + 100% phantasm regen uptime. I still don’t think they outheal a Druid tho. Maybe a Viper dr00d.

As ranger main i can say that full healingpower druid has biggest burst heal potential but lacks of sustain and needs to run staff for healing.
Ventari is pretty much on par with druid and has better accessability to heals.
Tempest has best PbAoE sustain in the game and support chronos are good sustain healers too but they cannot compeed with ventari or druids burstwise.

I play Mallyx/Ventari hybrid rev in PvE. It’s fun too. I use mace/axe and hammer though.

I’m also using a Mallyx/Ventari rev ! In PvE, it works wonders in DS for example, both as damage than sustain.
In WvW, it truly depends, but using Ventari, I’m really hard to kill ! I just don’t deal enough damage