Guild Wars 2

I know at least some of you are wondering why i am posting this? well a new aspect for getting tons of might and other helpful boons is here!

This is a link to the build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsdRlknpMtNqxUNcrNCvBZ6FUgNeyN8hSGgbB-TJBEwASeCAp2fAwpAIbZAA

The build is by far fun with shattering your Illusions, and it makes for a bit of fun with Bountiful Disillusionment, you can play around with it to fit your playstyle if you wish but this is by far great for generating Clones maximizing might with knock backs via IW and ITV from TC.
It’s only weak point is conditions but with the use of Null Field it allows you to break through most of it.

As you Create clones and shatter them on enemies you gain Vigor stacking each time during combat as well as other neat boons from interrupts and shattering illusions.

Please leave comments if you like the build. if you find some problems with it then your not taking dodging into account. and weapon swapping.

My two cents on my experience with this build …

I tried this exact build the week following the 4/15 patch, trying to get Bountiful Disillusionment (BD) to work. With strength runes and sigils, you can really stack some might and the build feels somewhat powerful, but there are some significant flaws which deem it too weak to play IMO:

• Shatters. BD relies on shatters to gain benefit from. You’re going to have mind wrack the most prevalent available to you on a 15s CD. The problem is, you get retaliation for a very short duration for this. Cry of Frustration and Diversion contain the best boons here and you have them on the default 30s/45s CD, respectively. This is way too long to get any good use out of these boons for a grandmaster trait.
• Identity crisis. Using BD in a power build means that you’re spamming cry of frustration, and for what? 3 stacks of might every 30s? It’s too clunky. The shatters work generally for MW, Diversion and Distortion, but Cry of Frustration just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
• What you give up. By taking BD you’re giving up the coveted Chaotic Interruption, which blows BD away in power specs, especially when taking GS/Sw-F. Imagine just switching out BD with CI, keeping everything else equal, you still get decent might and what are you missing from the lack of BD? Really not very much.

In my testing I’ve found taking BD only really works by 1) going deep into illusions for shatter CD’s and 2) best in a condition spec (even then questionably viable). It works decently with celestial amulet.

Well just to plop you off the high horse but yes I’ve played with CI, I know it’s powerful but BD is a good set up mainly for if you want to do a shatter support build.

So I’m on a high horse for giving you my 2 cents on a build I’ve played? When I post a build I fully expect and appreciate both kinds of reinforcement. Maybe you just want positive feedback? I don’t know.

It’s not what you posted, but I also tried a support build with BD and it’s probably worse than the power spec here. That’s just my experience. Maybe you had better experience and that’s fine.

I actually tried a build like this (except sig of inspiration for decoy which imo is needed for this type of spec) and ultimately I agree with skcamow on this. CI is just way better for this type of build, and also BD is really underwhelming as a gm trait. If BD gets buffed I may try it again but until then CI>BD.

Yeah the support build i ran was good with a comp of switching between weapons stacking might and giving it to allies via Sig of Inspiration. was fun for 1 match. the other team had ranged guys so i used Feedback was hysterical, and it’s cool you putting your 2 cent in sorry for the high horse remark wasn’t meant to harm.
the other build was the same as this one just relied on stacking with might and i stood on a point with someone stacked might and assisted with kills.
work out perfectly.

If you want heres my version of the spec. I debate 20 in dom vs inspir a lot but since this boon meta is here in NA I have to go dom for boon remove. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8dlknpMtFoxUNcrNipBZ6bEjjSyA0gS2ixB-TZBFwAOOIA12fYxVAoaZAAPAAA

You might question my choice of pack runes. But honestly, try them and you will love them with this spec. I would rather have perma swiftness and fury then more might (and the fury/swift is aoe also for the team)

Edit: Sorry for the wrong build haha.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

If you want heres my version of the spec. I debate 20 in dom vs inspir a lot but since this boon meta is here in NA I have to go dom for boon remove. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8dlknpMtFoxUNcrNipBZ6bEjjSyA0gS2ixB-TZBFwAOOIA12fYxVAoaZAAPAAA

You might question my choice of pack runes. But honestly, try them and you will love them with this spec. I would rather have perma swiftness and fury then more might (and the fury/swift is aoe also for the team)

Edit: Sorry for the wrong build haha.

IMO , CI still better than Bountiful boons , and make much more sense in team pvp. Also , celestial could work well with this build (weaker to against d/d 0/0/2/6/6 ele tho).

Yeah, as a general rule of thumb, BD is not a good choice to take in any type of build for any reason. It just provides nothing that can’t be obtained in a better way elsewhere.

Retaliation? You get that from a 2 point trait in illusions for far longer than BD. You can also combo iLeap/iSwap on temporal curtain for 15 seconds every 20 seconds.

Might? You can get that from a couple of sources, but a big one in particular would be bountiful interruption, where 1 interrupt would instantly give you more might than a shatter in BD.

Fury? Ok, this one is actually unique. Unfortunately, it’s also uniquely and incredibly short duration, making it totally useless.

Regen? Let us count the ways. Chaos 1, chaos armor on any one of a bunch of combo skills, the chaos armor skill itself, and last but not least…easy permanent aoe regeneration from phantasms with 3 points in Inspiration.

Instead of BD, you could take CI and actually be useful to your team, or BI and actually get significant offensive boons to share, or PU and get significant defensive boons to share. It just doesn’t do enough for even a master slot trait, let alone a grandmaster.