legendary imbued shaman build question
Your build is fine with a few changes. You should always be moving even if it’s just strafing back and forth. You shouldn’t need spirit weapons last longer. Take absolute resolution instead. Retreat would be better than purging for more group blocks on the arrows which is what your having problems with. Staff is terrible here. Take either scepter, mace, or sword and focus for more blocks and damage. Try to keep an aegis up on yourself and just pay attention to if he is facing you and you should be able to anticipate an arrow based on the time he used it last. Also don’t drop fiery wrath. Drop zealous if anything for the spirit weapon cd.
As soon as you think the boss hp is at the point of bubble phasing get close and get ready to cast shield. Once it is broken fall back a bit and put up a wall and binding blades the adds to it and burst them down. Pay attention to when it is about to end and start to go away from it.
I actually tried everything, scepter/sword/mace/focus, but always go back to staff.
Usually I try to stay in greatsword as much as possible. But there are times when the elemental are just too spread out or my binding blade is down, and it is better to hide inside wall and range the elementals.
I mostly pug, and there are times people focusing too much on poping the bubble, they didn’t kill much elemental and died. And there is nothing I can do to get through it. So I always focus on the elemental, since usually someone will go for the bubble anyway.
I actually tried everything, scepter/sword/mace/focus, but always go back to staff.
Usually I try to stay in greatsword as much as possible. But there are times when the elemental are just too spread out or my binding blade is down, and it is better to hide inside wall and range the elementals.
I mostly pug, and there are times people focusing too much on poping the bubble, they didn’t kill much elemental and died. And there is nothing I can do to get through it. So I always focus on the elemental, since usually someone will go for the bubble anyway.
Can’t you pop bubble by simply keeping him targetted and cleaving elementals with non targetted attacks? Like keep the bubble targetted and swipe at the elementals that are nearby.
IIRC it’s not damage that pops it but enough actions.
I actually tried everything, scepter/sword/mace/focus, but always go back to staff.
Usually I try to stay in greatsword as much as possible. But there are times when the elemental are just too spread out or my binding blade is down, and it is better to hide inside wall and range the elementals.
I mostly pug, and there are times people focusing too much on poping the bubble, they didn’t kill much elemental and died. And there is nothing I can do to get through it. So I always focus on the elemental, since usually someone will go for the bubble anyway.
Can’t you pop bubble by simply keeping him targetted and cleaving elementals with non targetted attacks? Like keep the bubble targetted and swipe at the elementals that are nearby.
IIRC it’s not damage that pops it but enough actions.
I actaully dont’ want to pop the bubble asap. If you read the guide in gw2dungeon.net (and I agree with him), you want to delay popping the bubble and kill as many elemental before you pop the bubble.
Thus it’s a good idea if a warrior pin down or elementalist forzen ground the shaman, and people focusing clearing as much elemental as possible.
That being said if your group is good, this dont’ matter.
True just saying you shouldn’t ever really not be killing elementals even if you want to break shield quickly.
I’d suggest using Scepter/Focus and Torch or Greatsword, so you can use Smite’s 16 hits against the Shaman’s large hitbox (not certain whether it is large or not) to both damage it and remove the shield stacks very quickly. Wall of Reflection works against both elementals and the Shaman, while you can bring both Purging Flames to remove conditions and lowering condition duration if you must stay a small area. Could also bring Retreat for the Aegis against the boss’ arrow and mobility or Shield of the Avenger if your greatest concern are the projectiles. I think 4(II, IX)/6(IV, VII, XI)/0/0/4(VI, IX).
One main thing about the Legendary Imbued Shaman is that you’re Burning almost all the time, and since Elementalists might have a problem stacking Fury for the team, you can bring Inner Fury for yourself (Radiance IV) to get almost permanent Fury from the Burning you take when you’re there.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Isn’t smite just 1 stack off the shield?
I could be wrong on all this, but I was under the impression that a stack = 1 action, not one strike but one action with him targetted. So multi hit abilities don’t decrease stacks faster, and in many cases actually slower for example whirling wrath takes longer than an auto to channel so it’d still be 1 stack vs 1 stack but you’re stuck whirling longer.
Go GS and staff.
Best bet is to camp staff auto and shoot #2, and #3 skills for dps. Throw an empower when available to might up and heal your party and yourself.
When he shields up, look for the NPC with the text bubble over his/her head (This will show you which NPC he will move towards)
When you find said NPC, go between him and NPC, and pop your WoR between the 2 (Position it so that its a line from him(Shaman) to the NPC)
Immediately swap to GS, and use #5 to hit as many ele’s as you can (proper positioning helps) then Pull them into the wall which will mitigate alot of damage to your party. (This will also set it up so that your team will hit those ele’s w/ AoE dps while they’re attacking shaman bubble since you pull the ele’s basically right under him resulting in faster kills on the eles)
After pulling the ele’s you spam all of your GS skills on them for a fat chunk of burst damage. (GS 4,3,2,1 order works best)
After the GS burst, switch back to staff, pop a Symbol #3, shoot off your @2, and auto atk with staff and keep spamming your empower whenever it recharges for heals and might.
Up your SoA if you feel that the team needs it (Low dps team/squishies), otherwise, save it for when you need it.
Here’s the Guardian build I currently use for fracts:
Zerk AH RubyMes V1
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApXolCxQI0ENR8QVVAg9TsFV61HRMcDA-ThCBABCYBRlq/cmSQsU+BwlUgijUQKaa0THQAPAAn2PgUA5pMC-e
Utilities for shaman:
X, WoR(Wall of reflection), SoA(Shield of Absorption)
X =
Retreat(Aegis block) /
Purging Flames /
Sanctuary(If your team’s really garbage and needs the 3rd anti projectile for some reason) /
Radiation Field (Asura Race only, Use on the pulled elementals)