Guild Wars 2

So with the buffs to both of these, they are now viable alternatives to Cleansing Ire. Which one would you recommend for a GS/Hamm or GS Axe/Shield build?

I like both and have found uses for both. The buff on heal of RR is very nice. But then again stability is awesome.

Rousing resilience is lousy in a sense that it requires you to break a stun for it to go into effect, meaning that you have to get CC’d, then using a stun breaker. It’s very situational and certain stun-breakers such as endure-pain can’t even make use of the 1000 toughness gain. It might have it’s use in berserker specialization with the self inflicted stun and short stunbreakers, but it’s hard to make use of this once you gain stacks of stability.

TLDR Rousing resilience is still terrible.

Last stand always.

Cleansing ire cuz last stand is lame passive gameplay. Boring

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Rousing resilience is lousy in a sense that it requires you to break a stun for it to go into effect, meaning that you have to get CC’d, then using a stun breaker. It’s very situational and certain stun-breakers such as endure-pain can’t even make use of the 1000 toughness gain. It might have it’s use in berserker specialization with the self inflicted stun and short stunbreakers, but it’s hard to make use of this once you gain stacks of stability.

TLDR Rousing resilience is still terrible.

I agree on the stun break but unless they fixed it Balanced stance would proc rousing resilience even without being stunned and the buff is to healing which is now over 2500hp vs 1100 hp pre buff. Thats pretty good.

I think cleansing ire is still needed against most comps these days. Most people are running condition builds, and having last stand really doesn’t help aside from having a sligthly longer berserker’s stance.

I found that I was dying much quicker without using cleansing ire.

In wvw, 1000 toughness might as well be 1000 pigeons. Condis will still eat you alive.

Last stand or CI still.