What classes benefit the most from the guild HP boon?

greyhawk

As title suggests, I'm curious on what classes get the most use out if the HP boon.

I assume OPs, due to Aura of Courage, but are there any others?

I'd like to eventually ditch the Defense boon, on my GF, since I can hit the 80% cap with some gear and companion changes. And Life Steal just isn't needed with all of the boons and insignia boni out there.

Thanks for any feedback

armadeonx

It benefits a lot of classes in pvp where piercing damage from TRs and HRs ignores your armor stat.

greyhawk

So it's not useful or as useful as the other options, from a PvE perspective?

I'll have to dig around, but i thought i had read that it was very useful, especially in harder content like FBI and this new raid. And it was a better choice than Defense or Life Steal, since passive healing is so easily found from other sources.

Thanks for the reply.

santralafax

I can't imagine why it wouldn't be useful in PVE as well. It's more HP, after all!

rjc9000

In terms of PvE...

As you said, the OP benefits immensely from the HP Boon thanks to Aura of Courage.

I too liked the HP boon on my GF, both because I used to use the KC set and due to being at the DR cap.
I also liked the Lifesteal boon on my GF; it worked great when combined with Guarded Assault.

I believe, that in general, the lower your damage resistance, the more useful the HP boon would be, so that would usually include the CWs, TRs, and sometimes DCs.

I believe Sharpedge once had an Excel sheet that compared Defense versus HP in terms of keeping you alive, but it's been lost to time.

armadeonx

Lol I've just posed that exact question in the Citadel (OP class forum) and I'm hoping thefabricant (aka sharpedge) will reply as I tagged him xD

At GH 20 you're basically deciding between 8k Defence (20% DR) or 32k HP so the question is, if you take a big hit from say the likes of Orcus, will an extra 20% DR save you more than 32k HP? Personally I believe it does but I'll wait to hear back as belief and reality often don't match - lol

schietindebux

can´t understand those questions at all
PVP: SH-HP Boon essential, more or less
PVE: SH-HP-Boon = tank boon , in case you do not get till DR cap, no SH-HP-Boon because...

In case you are a GF and Orcus hits you for 500k, no block active:
-your DR is at 60%, you take 200k damage and get onehittet no matter if you took SH boon, you are dead.
-your DR is 80% bc you took DR Boon, you take 100k damage and are not onehittet
-your DR is 70% bc you thought that would be enough, you take 150k damage and may survive taking that HP Boon

...but you would definitely survive if you took that DR Boon, because Orcus has "Resistance Ignored" and mitigates some of your DR i read (up to 15%?) , so the hit at 60% is far bigger like 275k, at 70% 225k, at 80% DR 175k, at 90% DR 125k, at 95% DR 100k

...Orcus may hit quite harder than 500k premitigation

asterotg

DC with HP set and CW with HV loved the HP boon.

deathklaat666

All the classes can benefit from high HP. pve and pvp, especially since many of the newer game mechanics are based % of max HP(Ensignia bonuses, New Pants/shirts mechanics..and many more)