Guild Wars 2

so i noticed that some gears have tough vit and vit heal, with the proper trait we can get healing shout / regen banner, which one you think is better to be used at dungeon? the tanky regen / suportive shout heal?

and im kinda wondering how the heal stats works, is regeneration from trait / banner affeced too?

Well, I really can’t say for sure because I have tried a full toughness build and still get 1-shot by dungeon bosses. On the other hand sometimes the healing just doesn’t put out enough. If traited correctly and with the right rune set I think that either could work it just depends on if your build has the ability to heal others. If so then looking into extra healing may be worth it.

I use full power/precision/toughness on armor and have healing power on my accessories, dont really use any vit gear at all.

r you sure u play the right way? ive meet tanky build like 10 runs on explor and none of them actually died (down stated only), they actually the last standing man while giving us support as well as dealing decent damage, im kinda wondering the build and which one better, healing / toughness

yes I’m sure I play the right way, I barely ever get downed in explorable modes and provide some decent healing/condition removal as well.

What has a tanky build warriors you ave played with have anything to do with me, do you know what gear they had……

both toughness and healing are great and they work better together than vit and healing.

Toughness is a better pve stat than vitality due to how it scales a hell of a lot better with healing than vitality does.

but yeah just saying kinda rude, asking someone if they know how to play their class when you are on the forums asking for advice.

but yeah I run with a tanky defense build with healing shouts. it works extremely well

@hype r ah sorry my bad, poor choice of word… its kinda odd cause what ive seen is that they kinda unkillable, 1 more question which one will you choose? vit tough / heal vit? how do heal stats work on regen banner or healing signet?

@hype r ah sorry my bad, poor choice of word… its kinda odd cause what ive seen is that they kinda unkillable, 1 more question which one will you choose? vit tough / heal vit? how do heal stats work on regen banner or healing signet?

Not to sure about hoe healing works with regen to be honest, but out of those options I would go toughness vit since they have better synergy than vit healing

I consider myself a pretty knowledgable warrior.

I’ve tried a combi of soldier(vit/tough)/Cleric(Vit/healing) and have done full soldier and full cleric.

My opinion is that healing power is by far the worst scaling stat out of them all. I currently run full knights with knights jewelery (power/precision/toughness) without vit and land around 19-20k hp, with 30 obligatory points in defence, i’m really tanky.
And that’s just from stacking toughness. You get 300+ healing power from Defence, so if i wanted tankyness i would go full Soldier (power/tough/vit) and just get defence tree for plus healing.

As for “i went full tank, and still got one shotted by a boss”, that’s working as intended as you are not intended to stand there and take the big hits in the face!

I’ve been frontman for many groups and playing it smart, getting traits in defence and getting some toughness and playing smart is all you really need!

Any other questions I might help with?

so if im gona go tanky – suport build, getting vit – heal is not worth it? vit tough is better? and what will you choose? shout heal? regen banner?

mm for my tanky support build i went with knight crafted gear Power/precision/toughness for all my armour and power/healing/toughness for my accessories, I can heal for about 1.8k a shout.

I prefer a shout support build to a banner support build since when using a banner people tend to run out of the buff

I just want to point out that if you plan on healing other people, healing is totally worth it because it effects both incoming and outgoing heals. I spec heal for WvW and it helps, though I have little dungeon experience.

pow/tough/vit if you wanna be tanky. don’t gear for healing at all, makes a very small difference. my only healing pieces are my trinkets.

eLre – Yeah don’t go for healing.

Honestly going 30 in defence with enduring pain and endure pain on the bar should hold you up through most situations.

I’d say go knights armor like i did! Possibly get Melandru runes, if you want more tankyness add some knights or valk jewelery or just get zerk jewelery fore the umph in your dps!

what about the trinket? which i only can found tough-vit spec in avenger (wvw) with ridiculous price, melandru / soldier better?

Trinket?
You mean jewelry Amulet, rings and such?

If you are going WvW get Melandru runes in your armor.

And i meant go for knights ARMOR and zerk jewelry!

If you really want tankyness, to watch the diminishing returns go for valk jewelry instead of zerk!

I wouldn’t get tough+vit gear. You don’t really need both. Hell, warriors have such high base defense and health that they don’t really NEED either.

Enemies do take into consideration armor when choosing who to attack though, so if you intend on tanking then you’d probably want clerics. While toughness/healing won’t do much alone, the combination of extra healing and mitigation will definitely be noticeable. Moreso than tough+vit. Though maybe not as much as you may be hoping, you still have to do a lot of dodging to stay alive.

I’d personally leave the straight up “tanking” to guardians though. Hard to compete with altruistic healing and their many sources of protection and aegis. I’d gear for offense instead, though still use shouts/banners and warhorn for support. Maybe some extra vit just in case.