Guild Wars 2

So I have played with a shout heal spec in dungeons and I thought it was ok but I didn’t have any +heals or cleric gear on so I felt that it was kind of lackluster and was wanting to try the banner regen and was wondering what the consensus was on this sort of build.

If you never had to worry about needing spike healing and there was no one else in the party who was granting +Regeneration, then the Banner healing technically heals a bit more (assuming that your Banners aren’t getting destroyed). Banner healing does use 100% of your +Healing score, instead of the Shout’s 80% of your +Healing score.

People use Shouts because it’s a pain to always have a non-destroyed Banner out while also making sure that no one else is negating your “healing” output by using their own Regeneration abilities. Then since you’re not using Shouts, you won’t get the free AoE conditional removal from your Superior Runes of the Soldier. Nor will you have the AoE buffs of FGJ, the stun removal of SIO, or the Vulnerability stacks from OMT.

Yes, you can use Banner healing. Techincally speaking it’s a bit better if people are ALWAYS damaged and in need of the slow healing dot from the Regeneration buff. Having said that, those are a lot of limiting circumstances without a lot of return.

+healing being “useless” is a pro for the shout build. Banner regen is nice but the real drawback is that other classes can provide regen as well. So why double up on regen when you can provide instant heals with shouts.

I really love Banner’s. I’m using Defense and Battle Standard for my 2 Banners. they get 10% of healing power added to their healing. running Cleric’s Jewelery with full Toughness Vitality armor and they heal for about 220-225 each tick. Not to mention the stat bonuses are awesome

i enjoy using banners alot, because im a lazy healer and like doing the work done for me.

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i use this banner set for alot of the things i do, it is importiant to have the tactics banner because it gives your banner healing a little more of a push in healing.

i would recommend 1 of 2 sets. draconic (cleric’s), and rubicon of lyssa because of the heal bonuses along with its ability for you to still be able to do damage.

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Use Rune of the Monk, which you can get in AC exp. The purpose of this is the spammable aegis.

I suggest using Longbow mainly because of the combo field + might stack. If you plan to hang around with the ranged group, you can put a fire field on your ranged stack and then use arcing shot on yourself for might stacks. Then your group can spam burning on the enemy. A support build needs at least to have a warhorn in it. Any mainhand works. You can clean off snares and convert one condition to one boon.

I didn’t use a burst heal, instead, I use healing signet. With Adrenal Health, Healing signet, and banner regen, you get around 500 hp per tick.