Guild Wars 2

I currently run full Viper’s armor, weapons and trinkets. I am looking to make a second set of armor for healing and I am stuck on choosing a stat to focus on. I would like to stay with a condition damage based stat since I can keep my Viper’s trinkets and provide some bonus damage, but I’m willing to give that up if another stat distribution is superior.
1. How much healing power do I need in order to be effective for raids, I will probably run mostly with pugs.
2. I was thinking of choosing:
A. Apothecary armor (high healing, still uses conditions, but it also has toughness)
B. Shamans armor (high vitality, but will it give me enough healing power?)
C. Magi ( I would provide very little DPs, and since it isn’t condition based damage I would need new trinkets and weapons as well).
D. Is there a different set up I should consider instead?

Thanks

I am having the same exact issue.

I have noticed the same thing. Is it a bug or is there a setting that changed for this?

I want to know what stat distribution I should go for on ascended gear. I don’t have a lot of time to play so I only want to make one set of armor for money reasons.

I mostly play open world PvE, not running dungeons or fractals.

Occasionally I do run group content though, so having some healing would be nice.

I like Druid, but not for healing, I really enjoy playing around with the daze and stun mechanics it adds to ranger.

I have an engineer alt so it would be a bonus if I could share my ascended armor with him.

I was thinking for my armor going marauder’s, I can share this with a power build scrapper, and the added vitality seems useful for the new content. For my accessories I was thinking about clerics for the healing and defense.

How much healing do groups really need for raids? I know using one set of gear my gear won’t be optimized but I’m looking for something that will let me access most content.

Here is my build: http://gw2efficiency.com/c/Ebon%20Marrow

Thanks for the feedback