Guild Wars 2

So I am lovin my guardian. He is like 100% hybrid so i have good decent damage and die hard.

Basically I am shout spec, and it is so nice to pop my shouts and be a beast for a short amount of time. My problem is when i get snared or rooted in place.

How the hell do people counter those? Doesn’t seem like stun breaks pop them. Are immobilizes just that strong as where they are the best form of cc?

Doesnt let me roll or anything, i just stand there and get pwnt by their zerg.

Condition removal will get rid of the immobilize condition.

Judges Intervention and Flashing Blade can teleport you out of snares and knockdown, and give you a couple of seconds breathing room when you are immobilized ( If you are out of condition removals ).

When it comes to things like Entangling Roots, your best defense is either to teleport out of it OR to use a condition removal and immediately dodge roll out while the immobilize is off. It’s reapplied after 1s if the roots are still alive, so you have to dodge out fast.

Smite condition, Contemplation of Purity, Signet of Resolve/Purity (depending on when the 10s condition removal happens), runes of lyssa (eliete skills turns all conditions into boons) will all remove it.

Anti-condition duration food (lowers immobilized time as well as all other conditions)

JI & Flashing blade will move you to a new location but will not remove the immobilized… but with the distance on JI that’s usually enough time for it to wear off.

Stun breakers do not remove immobilized.

Ahh so its a condition i need to cure, interesting. Thanks for the info all.

So being a 0/0/30/20/20 build I realize I do not have much condition removal.
I run shout sped and no shouts will remove conditions unless using pure of voice which I hate atm due to its bugginess.

Looking at an alternative route im thinking about just replacing 1 of my shouts with a condition remover.

Smite condition just wont cut it due to only removing 1 condition and usually if im rooted i have more than just that on me.

So this leaves two options.

Contemplation of Purity, 60s cooldown, instantly all conditions removed, will provide random boons.
Purging Flames, 40 second cd, does decent ae damage and removes conditions.

My question is this…. how fast does purging flames remove conditions?
If it is not instant I am probably going to be running Cont of Purity just due to the instant nature of me needing that root breaker to get away.

Anyone else experiment with a good immobilize remover as a shout spec?

If it helps, full soldier runes turns all your shouts into condition removal:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Soldier

Purging Flames clears one condition total. It’s not any better than Smite Condition in that respect.

As you have 20 in Virtues, you could try Absolute Resolution, which will remove 3 conditions from you and all of your nearby allies when you activate Virtue of Resolve. A wonderful get-out-of-jail-free card.