Guild Wars 2

I was trying to avoid Celestial, I’m not sure why now. I was trying to get the most damage and healing power I could. But looking at the stats it looks like Celestial will have nearly as much damage as Apothecary’s/rampager’s, but superior healing and significantly higher defense. I guess I can go full Celestial for normal, and switch to Zerker/Celestial when I want more damage. That should be good for letting me try out different builds too, and save some inventory space.

Now if only I could get gear that was just Power, Condition damage and healing power. Like Zealots, but with condition damage. Ah well. Thanks everyone.

*edit: Whoa, it will take a while get it. at least the crystals aren’t too expensive.

I am in love with my longbow on my healing support warrior, but I need more damage, and my equipment stats are all over the place. I love that I can try out different styles on the fly in this game (I am a very indecisive person) so I have 3 different armor sets.
1. Clerics with runes of mercy. For when I want to use mace/shield and have fights that never end because neither side can kill the other.
2. Apothecary’s with rune of the trooper, for when I want to shout heal with Vigorous Shouts. (my favorite)
and 3. Berserker with rune of the privateer, for use with Phalanx Strength. Because damage is good.

My accessories are a jumble of stats that I managed to pick up as I went along. It doesn’t help that I changed my mind about what I wanted to do half way… I have 2 rampager accessories, a cleric amulet and ring, and a zerker ring. All ascended. And an Exotic celestial back piece.

Now I typically use 6 points in the Tactics tree for the grand-master traits and to improve my longbow/shouts, and 6 points into Discipline to get Burst Mastery so I can keep combustive shot going about 90% of the time on a good day. Last two go into Arms for deep cuts. I use Sword/warhorn as an off weapon.

So the point I am trying to get to is this. What should I do to improve my damage? is longbow a power or condition damage weapon? I can keep up a perma-burn on targets but a lost of the damage seems to be power based. Burn also apparently scales with condition damage less effectively, and if I get someone else with better condition damage than me also applying burn then it will use their stats instead. I am trying out Zerker, but I find the damage boost to not be worth the loss of my healing/adrenalin boosting/condition removing shouts. Unless I’m in a group that both throws out enough Might to make my Phalanx Strength useful and can handle themselves well enough that the shout support is unnecessary. I’m not in a guild, most pick up groups I join need the healing more than the damage. Right now my plan is to fill my accessory with all rampager’s and switching between Zerker and Apothecary’s as the groups change. But now I’m not sure.

What do I doooo?

Methal.9045:

TheDaiBish.9735:

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Not sarcastic. I’m dumb. USA infantry. Get shot at for a living. =D

Are you dead yet? If not then you are at least smart enough to be doing something right. If so then I must say I am extremely impressed at your ability to type when in the grave. What’s it like being dead?