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that 'optimal' setup has you use your heal and your stun break for quickness while doing less dps than half-afk harbinger still though

you get permament swiftness from facet of elements already, no reason to add it to shield 4 stability is really the only thing heal FB has over heal herald right now. adding it to shield 4 would make so much sense I fear it's never going to happen but hey there is always hope

(I would personally prefer stability) It would make heal qherald very competitive in PvE vs. heal firebrand and it wouldn't even bring up any balance issues in pvp since as far as I know, shield isn't really used anywhere.

yeah now that you mention it, not for a long while. seems to have been fixed

I dont do fractals too often but from what I can judge from LFG, for t4 people dont seem to care who brings alac might be a different story for cms

tried it, wasnt able to break 20k. the vitality is all wasted, unlike on certain other class that shall not be named Im sure with a proper rotation its possible to do more but you still wont come nowhere near to a cfb so why even bother

yeah after trying it myself yesterday I take back everything I said in the other thread - it simply doesnt work full diviner / sigil of concentration (100% bd) - you can upkeep quickness...on a golem..with perfect alacrity..if you spam all consumes when they come up - while doing about 15k dps. ('fun?' fact: you might as well just camp dragon stance - easier to upkeep quickness that way. sure you lose 2k or so dps but your dps is already so low it doesnt matter anyway) then I had an idea - how about condi? so I tried full ritualist with firebrand runes (100% quickness duration) . sadly, same story only the dps was slightly higher (around 18k). Im sure I was not doing any sort of optimal rotations but still...

hmm, yeah actually you have a point, it seems you will need to consume all the facets, including nature. are you sure of the math though? cause it should be 3.6s of quickness per consume with 100% boon duration from gear + 20% from facet of nature passive, and that passive is going to persist for 6 sec after you consume it thanks to draconic echo. so that would make it 6x3,6 + 2 sec from the facet of nature consume = 23,6s of quickness, no?

not all. pretty sure you will want to keep nature running. using elements, strenght and chaos on cd is how dps herald rotation currently plays, nothing new there. as for light and darkness, we will see if they are needed as well, too early to tell.

using a facet consume on CD is not 'spamming' and yeah all supports require boon duration gear, nothing new there

Go read up on what Facet of Nature does.

it works in fractals http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PmQAElZSHMUyhlSNsT6hpSfsSKgp6lesF-zxQYhogzfHUwZ0jCICJgiXjqA-e

I can live with gs5 animation but gs2 absolutely needs to be changed.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PmQAElZSHMUyhlSNsT6hpSfsSKgp6lesF-zxQYhogzfHUwZ0jCICJgiXjqA-e permanent protection is just as good as celestial stats. possibly even better

constantly happening to me tonight. build template 3 is getting wiped every time I go through loading screen. other templates are not affected it seems. bizzare and annoying