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Its-Working! Thanks for the tips. Its now up and running beautifully.

It was this thread that confused me https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/120919-yes-you-can-link-your-anet-account-to-steam-and-its-really-easy/ The final comment is about the thread being misleading, and the thread was locked so I didn't read into it further and assumed it was false.

Thanks, I saw a post earlier about this, but people were saying that it was a misleading post and it was closed, so I took it for a false statement. I'll download it via Steam and do what you suggested. Thanks for the help! I'll update this post when I have it working.

So, as much as I'd love to use proton, my account is 10 years old and I'm not sure how to get it running on proton with an account not linked through steam. How do I go about doing that. I have Lutris, but I'm getting problems installing GW2 under it. Proton worked great with Hogwarts Legacy when I ran it last night. I'd love to get GW2 working on it too, but if I could get some help from you guys on how to do that I'd be grateful. Im using Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.

I feel the same. I feel like treasure hunter, or dungeon delver would easily suit a theme of needing a torch for a thief class. I don't know if it could be jazzed up into a more kitten (*edit: Cool) theme name than those, but definitely a torch feels like it would be at home for some types of thieves.

I was doing SAB with a friend in tribulations mode world 2 zone 3, when near the second final boss I d/c'd. d/cing isnt even all that uncommon in this game, when I rarely do in other games. The problem isnt that I disconnected tho, but the fact I was kicked out of SAB and could not continue from where I left off with my friend. I feel burned pretty bad by this. Could something be done so that people don't lose hours of progress and honestly aggrevation to complete this? I need to complete this another 12 times If i want the infusion this year and it's not gonna be pretty if I'm losing my progress every few runs. My friend at least got to continue the run, but I lost a a lot of progress tonight. I get that you don't want people selling runs and such, and you want people to complete it themselves. Can you lock an instance to party members who started the instance, and keep an instance open for them if they disconnect or something? Anything to make it not this tbh.

umm... what? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Sanctuary

You know, I haven't tried Sanctuary runes, if you think vitality would be a better stat investment than healing power from monk runes... perhaps these could help me with more survivability? does the final effect of sanctuary rune effect allies? I know I'm wishing hard here because it says on it "any heals you receive", but I mean that'd be a wet dream. Would it detract from its support capability at all, or only boost it you think?

I have a full set of ritualist, but I don't use it for healing. Its my dps/alac set. You can't get much tankier than minstrel tho even if vitality is a sub stat. Plague doctor has vitality as a main stat as well, and I find its much squishier than minstrel. I've heard healing power doesn't scale well, but I don't know what else I would put points into if I want to main healing/alac for a group in fractals. I see plague doctor is recommended on metabattle, and thats what I tried second, after harrier. group stealth isnt worth much except for protection buff in pve. It might be worth it to take shadow refuge, and I see it recommended in metabattle, but I don't because people often don't stack in fractal pugs. So I mostly don't bother with that. I don't use deadly arts at all. If you want to know mostly what I'm running, meta battle support healer specter build is very closely what I am following. https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Specter_-_Support_Healer I use the shadow refuge slot as my flex slot, and often use blinding powder there as a break stun/invis so I can follow up with the heal spam bolts (idk what its called, I've heard people complain that it can get blocked by pets and other people tho, and have had problems with this myself **edit: its called shadowsquall). I also use minstrel stats are very heavy on tankiness/support. ++toughness + vitality ++healing power + concentration. I appreciate your input, bursty is a good way of putting the healing perspective on it tho. WvW is going to be a very different experience from PvE tho. I've played a fair bit (I say a fair bit but Im only about level 350 or so in wvw) of WvW and if you want to be effective you certainly can't run the same things you run in PvE and vise versa. I'll try playing with shroud more, but right now most groups aren't willing to take a specter healer into higher level fractals because they either want a HAM or a HB and nothing else. So there's not a lot of room for practice in anything very challenging. Pugging can go badly as well when people aren't happy with you if you aren't fulfilling your role too, so that's a thing.

Really interesting to know the that our main healing well scales of vitality. I hadn't known that. I'm using minstrel to try and heal fractals and even with a super tanked up thief healer I find myself downed frequently depending on the instance. I wanted to make a go of it, and have honestly tried really hard with various builds and play styles. I tried harrier first, since I had it from my engineer, then I tried plague doctor, and lastly minstrel. I had trouble surviving in sirens reef as a healer with plague doctor, so I thought surely minstrel would perform better. I found I was still dying in t3 uncategorized poison golem fight where healing and dps is really important. I was spamming all my wells, and I tried the shadowstep spam with main hand sword to get as much shadowstep healing for the group as I could. This wasn't enough healing for myself tho, and I was the first to go down, because I feel that my self healing is not good compared to my outgoing healing. I was using bountiful maintenance oil, riceballs, and monk runes, so my outgoing healing was as high as I could get it I believe. I feel that the single target aspect heal of the specter is a nice quality, and with shadowstep you do get the aoe heal option. I love being able to focus one person by toggling them from the party tab when I can't find them roaming somewhere away from the group. It would be a great option for pug groups in fractals... if it had enough self healing imo. The shroud I don't find very useful, because you lack aoe healing with it. It basically turns off healing in general except for 1 random ally until you can get 5 stacks for a burst aoe heal. If I could toggle shroud on and still use my heal abilities, I would love the shroud for healing. The fact you have to replace all your active abilities you could be healing with to get a delayed heal is not great imo. So I'm usually stuck not bothering with shroud most of the time. I want really badly to love specter healing, but no matter how I look at it, the self healing in situations where you can't avoid damage is a problem. When you can't provide protection, aegis, or get a free -10% damage reduction like HAM, or even get more self healing, you're going to go down much faster. A downed healer can't heal. I know you can use shroud for a second set of HP, but if your teammates are dead while your in shroud as a healer, what's the point? This is all my own opinion and experiences I've had with specter healing so far in fractals. Sorry for reviving the thread, didn't want to start a new one when I know there's plenty of healing specter threads already.

Celestial is a good open world set to run. A little of everything in it in terms of stats. It is a little pricey or takes a while to craft but I've only ever heard good things from people who run it for open world.

Just curious, but why is pistol 3 not a good enough heal, ontop of spamming 1 heal coming out of invis. If youre fully spec'd for healing, pistol 3 almost fully heals someone since it also counts as a shadow step.

Could this trait be made to work on allies? As of now you do not enter stealth when “stealing” from allied targets. It’s not the end of the world but it would be nice to not need to change targets so frequently. Thrill of the crime also does not activate on theft from allies. Both accounts are a bit disappointing.

I agree for both mechanist and spectre, they have a lot of barrier they apply and it seems like theirs literally no options to buff, or work with barriers. I generally just use barrier to keep ppl alive before I can get a heal on them tbh with spectre. Spectre has good heal options if you work with certain traits. I agree some support runes that work with barrier would totally be a welcome addition, as it seems all my support builds use monk runes. barrier is already really strong, might be making a wish with a monkey paw if you want it to scale.

I would like more buffs offered by the spec to compete with other support specs. I feel like we do have some relevant buffs like alacrity. But it by far is not competitive as a heal/alac spec compared to a healbrand that has a huge amount of useful buffs that are used almost instantly and reliably. I also would like to feel like we aren’t pigeon holed into using specifically ritualist gear. I like using minstrel with my support spec of spectre to combat the forced use of teleport with the wells. If we are being forced to teleport we need tankiness/evasion to be either included in the skills use or have it be a ranged ability. I would like to eventually be welcomed into fractals with a full support spec of spectre. Right now I feel useful as a minstrel spectre, I can heal lots with pistol 3 skill, can revive at range, and have tons of CC with pistol 4 for breakbar. Pistol 3 is my bread and butter heal, because it counts as a shadow step. Every shadow step is an aoe heal when paired with shadow trait line. It feels the like we have a lot of support options but it’s not really a viable replacement for something like a healbrand at this point in high level fractals. I feel the biggest buff to a spectre support would be to at least let us distribute might to the party as opposed to one person. I like that we can have huge shields on one person, but might is crucial for party buffing and makes us not really viable as a replacement support. I talked to someone about doing t4 fractal support and they asked me what buffs I could provide. When I showed them my buffs they told me to just play dps and got on their healbrand. I don’t like that it’s not seen as a real support option. It feels like a dps with some support abilities.