Guild Wars 2

I’ve been farming mats/gold the past few days to save up for my first exotic set. I have my armorsmith up to 400 so plan I crafting it myself. I’m just torn and unsure which set I should go with.

I want to be more valuble in dungeons. About a week ago I came to the realization I was only bringing my group down with my glass cannon build. Partially because I suck an partially because I was dying a lot from that build. I switched to the 10/0/30/30/0 build. It works for me. I like it. I like having a lot of health and being able to take a beating. I’ve increased my survivablity and also feel I’m contributing more to the group. Also feel less self counsious since I’m not needing rezzed all the time. Anyways, what exotic set do you feel accompanies my build and play style best? In addition what sort of runes would you add to it?

Lastly, with the new Ascended gear soon approaching is it even worth spending all this on an exotic set since a new tier is just a few days away? What ate your thoughts on waiting to get myself an Ascended armor set?

Thank you

I’m not sure about Ascended gear you might want to wait and see before you do anything but otherwise if you really like that build with the healing shouts then you could craft the Cleric armor: Healing Power, Power, Toughness.

If you would rather do more damage and less healing then you can craft the Toughness, Power, Precision gear or use karma for Power, Toughness, Vitality set, 44,000 Karma each piece you can get everything but the Helmet from Orr event venders and you can get the Helmet from Hotw or AC.

Personally I would go with the Karma Power, Toughness, Vitality so that you can use your $ on Runes, Trinkets and Weapons.

Oh and I would go with the Runes that make your shouts remove conditions.

You can go a few ways with this. Overall you will see a lot better results out of clerics gear than vitality when you are running a shout healing build and here is the math to back that up.

You are looking at 224 Vit VS 315 Healing Power
which translates to 2240 health VS +252 heal on each shout

I run 3 shouts (pretty standard I believe) at 20/24/64 seconds traited CD all of which give uncapped AoE healing. So in one minute of spamming abilities on CD healing gear gives me an extra 1512ish AoE healing. If I use all 3 shouts together this gear gives me an extra 756 heal which means I have to heal less than 3 people with the shouts to give out the 2240 health I am lacking from Vit on gear.

On the other hand a lot of people will run that same spec in full berserker’s gear. You are still fairly tanky due to your spec and your heals are going to heal around 1.5k rather than 2.5k in full +healing. You will be doing a decent chunk of extra damage in this gear which can be very helpful.

With a shout healing build most will recommend using soldier runes for the condition removal on shouts and extra tankyness but I like running berserker gear with wurm runes for more damage and health.

As for Ascended gear I would say not to hold your breath. This patch releases Ascended rings and a back slot (so maybe don’t buy rings) but it is unknown when we will see full ascended armor sets.

Thirsty.2875:

I run 3 shouts (pretty standard I believe) at 20/24/64 seconds traited CD all of which give uncapped AoE healing. So in one minute of spamming abilities on CD healing gear gives me an extra 1512ish AoE healing. If I use all 3 shouts together this gear gives me an extra 756 heal which means I have to heal less than 3 people with the shouts to give out the 2240 health I am lacking from Vit on gear.

What 3 shouts are those? I’m pretty new to this build so still learning the skills.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcRM0m0M0MaRvMMaRvMa0xx0VMRqmRb
That is my build. The 10 point trait switches depending on what I am doing and there are a lot of viable options. I always use greatsword as my main weapon but switch between longbow, sword/warhorn and sword/shield depending on the situation.

I take “Shake It Off!”, “For Great Justice!” and “Fear Me!” in WvW but I switch “Fear Me!” for “On My Mark!” in dungeons. The healing stat math I did was based on “Fear Me!” but with “On My Mark!” the cooldown goes down from 64 to 20 making it even more effective.

Awesome! Thanks. My skills are fairly similar to yours. I really enjoy the shouts. What are your thoughts on the AC exotic token armor vs. the Clerics? I believe the stats I saw on it were power, toughness, and healing power. Don’t quote me though – on my phone so can’t check.

The only gear sets I would look at for a warrior are as follows:

AC tokens/Invaders (Power/Toughness/Vitality)
Berserker Power/Precision/Crit Damage)
Knight (Power/Precision/Toughness)
Cleric (Power/Toughness/Healing Power)

Berserker is the glass cannon armor

The other three you are comparing 224 Vitality VS 224 Precision VS 315 Healing Power
so 2240 Health VS 10.6667% Crit VS 252 Heal per shout and a slightly more powerful healing skill

With the patch last night running the shout healing build is less OP because it was incredibly powerful in WvW. (Shouts could heal all players in range now they are capped at 5 players which is the same for amount of players that can be damaged by AoE spells) I would argue that the vitality gear will yield the worst overall stats for warriors but if you want to go full tank mode without a shout healing build it is the tankyest.

there is a thread on the GW2guru forums for a dungeon build, you should check it out.

the way the did armor, was berserker boots, gloves, shoulders, and knights, legs, chest, helm. they also split trinkets between knights/berserkers depening on the stats. then ruby orbs in everything.