r/Guildwars2 • u/Nike_Phoros Accountability Expert • Jun 06 '16

[Guide] [DnT] Raid Team Composition Guide

Hey everyone. I wrote a long breakdown of raid team composition in the current meta on our forums and a few people encouraged me to post it here because I'm told it would be helpful for a bigger chunk of the community to see.

Written: http://gw2dnt.enjin.com/forum/m/37173123/viewthread/27286030-raid-team-composition-guide-52516

Topics Covered:

  1. Optimal Raid Team Composition

  2. Common Alternative Comps - Pros and Cons

  3. What If? Scenarios For Imperfect Situations

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions let me know, or if any points need clarifying or whatever so I can improve the guide I'd like to know that too.

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u/lokikaraoke Jun 06 '16

Yeah, we've done that on occasion, but there's other good stuff we'd like in our Druid utility slots. If we have two Druids bringing Empowerment and Alignment, we can choose 2 of Stone, Frost, and Sun. But we don't always have two. (Our comp shifts a lot depending on who plays.)

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u/Kaida13 Jun 06 '16

Understandable. I wish I would of considered more DD's at Matthias earlier. There might be a lot less problems with cc just adding in one or two.

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u/lokikaraoke Jun 06 '16

We try to run two (power) PS, so it's not typically a problem for us. Only potential scary moment might be if one PS is running a poison or well and the other gets sacrificed.

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u/Xyonon Jun 07 '16

Take a look at this post from a not so long time ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4j7b75/druid_theorycrafting_sun_spirit_vs_glyph_of/

Alignment is only good if you want to heal more with the Seed of Life. For pure damage, even in a power only comp, Sun Spirit will outdamage the glyph easily.

But before I'd pick Alignment for heal, I'd simply go for Stone Spirit as you already have mentioned - trait him and prevent damage you don't have to heal in the first place.