@ OP:
Catch me in-game or through PM here, on the forums, so we can talk a little about improving your build.
I’d love to have a chat. But as for the build, I don’t know why people are jumping all over that. There’s nothing wrong with the build. When you do the swamp Fractal, you’ll need a running skill. So I brought Spectral Walk. You can also go with the Warhorn I guess. But if you’re taking the side of the spiders, or the side with the traps, Spectral Walk lets you pop back and forth. You also need condition removal. I chose well of power, because some mobs in the Swamp Fractal spam several immobilize attacks in a row. So just using Prayer to Kormir often does not cut it. As for Plague, I didn’t intend to use the elite anyway for the running of the whisps, so I didn’t change it. I also had Flesh Wurm to quickly teleport back to the place where you put the whisps, but I think I had time to swap that out before combat started.
But of course when the passage opens, you don’t want to be left behind. But I didn’t expect our guardian to immediately start combat, and you can’t change your skills underwater. So what usually happens, is you wait on the other side, adjust your skills, and then start combat. I didn’t have time to do that, or I would have had a different skill bar.
Fear makes enemies run away from the caster. So you would have to move round the other side of the mobs when loSing or something. Potentially putting you out of position and for multiple mobs they are always gonna split up because they are never perfectly stacked. Can avoid with imobalize + fear though.
It’s tricky. I’ve sometimes been able to dodge roll quickly to one side of a foe/mob, and fear them in the right direction. But personally I prefer to use fears to either slow an approaching mob, or to keep pesky enemies busy.
For example, when fighting the Ice Elemental in the Dredge Fractal, he summons these minions that are just annoying. I often fear those away, while focusing my fire on the boss itself. It keeps them from bothering with the rest of my party.
And when fighting the dredge boss before that, that annoying veteran that keeps respawning next to the boss, yeah I fear him away. There are more important foes to focus on, and if he’s really putting the hurt on one of my party members, I’ll target him for a fear.
In Urban Battlegrounds you have these clusters of mobs that come running to you. I usually drop a Spectral wall and some marks that they first have to run through. This doesn’t mess up the aoe attacks of my team mates, but just gives them more time to weaken the mob, before engaging them in melee.
Fear really isn’t as bad as some people in this thread make it out to be, but you have to know how and when to use it.
