Guild Wars 2

I’m rocking full Cleric’s on my armor with runes of the water, pow/prec/crit on my greatsword with superior sigil of water, and chrysocola jewelry. I find that the healing really synergizes with the greatsword heal on ability use, and also provides my party with constant (and significant) healing, while the extra vitality from the jewelry makes me very difficult to kill.

I am very pleased with this build and am surprised that not many more are doing it as it gives a decent amount of damage for farming, tons of survivabilty, and great support for dungeon groups.

I’m in all Cleric’s exotics with my farming jewelry for now, sitting at around 13.5K hp. I am gonna push that up with my exotic jewelry set when I can, but I don’t really think you need to go above 20k. Guardians have a ton of ways to heal themselves constantly, and they’re already wearing heavy armor and have solid condition cleanses. I am not totally invincible in WvWvW, but I can usually take 2 or 3 enemies on at a time.

I am not worried about constantly bumping up to full health. I just don’t think I need more healing power in the build because as it stands, I need to go down to 10% hp in order to get the full amount of my heal. If I bump up my vitality, I feel like it’s going to give me more options as to when I should pop that main heal.

You make a good point though. I definitely don’t feel like I’m lacking in offensive strength now, but I am thinking the way I should go forward may be to stop stacking survivability in favor of some increased damage.

I have a very similar build but with only 20 points in Honor, and 20 points in Valor. Greatsword healing with CD reduction is great. I also use Cleric’s armor for more healing power so that my heals on hit are more effective. I use more healing runes so that my allies get the benefit of my healing power as well, since my build is for both solo farming and dungeon runs.

I am having trouble deciding on what jewelry to go with for my exotic set. My armor is the Cleric’s set with a Rune of the Water, so I’m focusing largely on healing power.

My build for now is based on the greatsword, taking the 2H cd reduction and heal on ability use, which is why I’ve gone for healing power. This is the build: http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=en&code=3a70009cmf8nho9fcdu0kk06g737e7ki0i5ih . This is mostly for PvE.

I’m thinking either Chrysocola Jewelry(http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/8106-chrysocola-orichalcum-amulet), which will give me a little more health and also make my burns hurt a little more, or sapphire(http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/8107-sapphire-orichalcum-amulet), which keeps in line with my current healing. I just think my healing is largely going to become less effective if I don’t get more health.

Thoughts?

I like the idea of a hammer build, particularly with 30 points in Virtues. I would offer two things right off the bat though:

1. IMO, if you’re using “Save yourselves!”, you should also be using Contemplation of Purity to convert those conditions to buffs.

2. If you are going to focus on a hammer build, you should almost definitely put 20 points into Honor and grab the 20% recharge reduction for 2H weapons.