Guild Wars 2

Any Tips for fighting Chronomancers as a power engineer/Scrapper?

I run a power scrapper build. I’ve been running into quite a bit of trouble when I roam on a Scrapper and I encounter the following Chronomancer build or one similar to it.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8elknhS0YjawTNwtGLrGV9y+sXL5CMADXZEUcBAA-TZRBABkVG4q9He4CAY8BBAgnAAA

I found a video of the build in action but its pvp

In general I have an issue dealing with the shatters, how exactly do Scrappers/ Engineers avoid being kitten d by the shatter.

Honestly if I see a chrono I want to take a stab at, I swap to rifle and try to out-kite them.

Well if you know the chrono build, you should also know how to roflstomp them – they got absolutely zero condition removal. So the proper answer is throw away that power build and run condi. Under the assumption that you can actually hit them, a p/p build dumping burns would kill such a foe in like 5 seconds.

Mesmers have a lot of skills that require targets which is why Thieves tend to give them trouble. As a Scrapper, make intelligent use of Toss Elixir S and Sneak Gyro and they should have a much harder time pinning you down.

I tend to camp under Sneak Gyro against builds I really don’t want to get hit by (meaning builds where I can’t afford the damage they’ll put out) because it allows me to reposition and hit and run more easily.

To make it as simple as possible, Shatter mesmers are a burst class. Once the burst is done, they wait until MindWrack (F1) is off cooldown again and burst. Cooldown on mindwrack is 12 seconds.

If you play Scrapper, I’m assuming you have hammer. Basically you just need to dodge the burst every 12 seconds and you will never ever die with the amount of sustain Scrapper has.

Scrapper has about million different ways to dodge the burst, but here are some examples:
1. Hammer4, block the burst.
2. Hammer3, dodge the burst, and apply pressure.
3. Tool kit 4, blocking the burst
4. ElixrGun 4, creating distance when Mesmers burst to get out of range.
5. Sneak gyro or elixr S to gain stealth, mitigating burst.
6. General pressure on the mesmer, so you force them to play passive, therefore rendering their burst alot weaker.
7. Dodges. Bruh, you got 2 dodges. Don’t waste them. Once you see mesmer casting Mirror Blade (GS2) they will almost always burst. Time your dodges on those.

You can also mitigate the burst with Bulwark, CC the mesmer when they burst with Thunderclap and Magnet, etc etc. List goes on and on.

To be perfectly honest, Scrapper should never lose to a shatter mesmer. The matchup is really favoring the Scrapper. Once you learn how Shatter mesmer works, you should never lose to them again. Of course good mesmers will have alot more tricks to outplay you, but you will learn to watch out for those when you improve and gain experience.

Hope this helps. Happy hunting.

thanks for the responses ya had to make a couple changes to my build.