Guild Wars 2

I played Guardian a lot before HoT, but since HoT I’ve been having fun playing support Tempest and Druid. Specifically, my Tempest and Druid builds are healing based and I wondered if I could create a healing support build on my Guardian.

I realized I liked Tempest and Druid as healing supports for three reasons: 1). a weapon with an auto attack that heals, 2). a profession mechanic that heals, 3). utility skills that provide utility and can be traited to heal allies.

Guardian has an auto attack that heals with mace, a profession mechanic that heals with virtue of resolve, and although guardian doesn’t have a specific skill set that can be traited to heal allies, there are a few utility skills that heal.

In the end I came up with this build —-> http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRApe7fl8Ah2hYpQwZIQTEH+DFOGehgwGAVwDkTiKcHA-TxxGABA8EAI/kAko6PspfYo9HWS5HeKBJFgfbBA-e

I tested this build in small group wvw and fractals of all tiers and thought it was a fun build to play as I enjoyed the melee combat. Even though I had fun playing this build there were a few downsides; your allies need to be real close to benefit from your heals and boons, as well as the mace being so slow.

Both Tempest and Druid outclass guardian by a long shot. Tempest heals with instant cast Shouts and the powerful aura trait, both having a 600 radius means you can heal with out having to get too close to your allies. Druid’s celestial avatar form has 1200 range abilities for longer range healing and rejuvenating tides has a radius of 240 which is nice.

To bring Guardian closer to Tempest and Druid wouldn’t take much changing.

1).Increase the radius of Faithful Strike to 240 from 180 and decrease its cast time from 1sec to 3/4sec.
2). Decrease the cast time of Symbol of Faith from 1 1/4sec to 1sec.
3). Change Battle Presence to affect all virtues not just virtue of resolve.
4). The heal from Monk’s Focus should affect allies (lowering the base heal and increasing the scaling to compensate) and increase the radius from 240 to 300.
5). Writ of Persistence scaling should be increased from .075 to .18.
6). Decrease Signet of Courage’s interval time from 10sec to 5sec (halving the heal to compensate) and increase its radius from 300 to 600.
7). also, not a guardian specific change but we should be able to see ally health bars in all party and raids, not just in wvw.

Do you think the changes would help? and are you running a support/healing build on any of your characters?