Guild Wars 2

Something everyone seems to be missing here: when you are dealing with percentage max HP gains or losses (Life Force pool/decay), Toughness and Vitality are equally effective. Yes the flat number will be lower with more TGH over VIT, but that health will be more effective. You do not get any extra benefit from shroud by having extra flat HP.

Now, as far as op’s Q: It really comes down to Power vs Condi damage and which you struggle with more. Personally I run a heavy Condi xFer/Boon Corrupt build, meaning I’m frequently Condi free or close to. I do this by taking Plague Sending, Plague Signet, Consume Conditions, and Staff for the 4th weapon skill. Intelligent timing of those skills has proven more than enough to keep Condi Damage Taken fairly low for me, but it does take some adjustment.

My recommendation would be take Vitality until you’re comfortable with Condi removal, then swap over to Toughness as over the course of most fights this will net you a higher effective health pool.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or intended, and not sure exactly what is causing it, but twice now in PvP I have instantly died (aka skipping “downed” state) from a Guardian using some sort of pull ability. The ability itself didn’t kill me, what actually did it was being launched HIGH into the air as soon as the pull ended and falling back to the ground.

Any idea what might be causing this? Also, is this working as intended or should I report this as a bug?

Please let this become a thing! I’m sitting on a set of Zealot’s gear just WAITING for Mesmer’s to be viable healers. IMO they would be right at home as something similar to a Discipline Priest from WoW with boonshares and distortion: I can’t exactly give you much health or reverse what happened, but I can make you feel invincible and let you forget about damage for a bit.

To me it seems like the Mesmer could be so good at manipulating, they could make their own allies forget they just took a giant claw to the face. But maybe that’s just me. Either way, A+ for effort!