Guild Wars 2

Mercs is gone, but whatever. We still have wanderers, carrion. Maybe vipers or sage if we want to go glassy?

Druid (and their pets) got a huge nerf so we can easily take them down, they won’t be able to contest nodes for as long.

Revs can no longer port on top of you as easily, but thieves are back. And Condi warriors are looking pretty tough to deal with. Also Ele shouts got hit too.

Are we still going to be the condi 1v1 builds? Or are people planning on experimenting with power again?

Were there any thief changes? :o

I’m going to give a try to Paladin (old bunker style) chronomancer and Sage reaper because I feel they are decent (and good carry builds) and I enjoy them. Then I will see how hard it gets at higher divisions and adjust according to that.

Xyonon.3987:

Were there any thief changes? :o

Not this week, but last big patch. Thief is back on pro league, and therefore people (=sheep) will decide to play it in ranked too. And with revenant, druid and condi mes weaker, there is more and more place for thieves (because less bad match ups more good ones).

I’m going power shatter with Rampager

Chaos 1, 2, 2
Inspiration 3,1, 3
Duelling 1, 1, 1

There is your experiment.

Power with phanta damage as prio – Demo amulet

Inspiration 3-2-2

Illusions 2-2-2

Chrono 2-2-3 (sometimes swapping to 1-1-3)

Either that or swapping to condi with rabid or carrion with the same basic spec, swapping to Illusions 2-2-1

doable scepter here. so far thief melting and ele. too many block while i am able to contest the node.

but still low lvl only emerald

Still hybrid mes with sc/sw and gs but with sage so a little glassy so need to look out where thiefs are, and still with problems when need to fight dh.

Rocking a destroyer hybrid for the past week, will see how it fares. I have a wanderer build as well I want to test in ranked, given me a lot of success the past month.

Well since there’s no merc.. other classes having a hard time as well to survive or damage depending what build they have.

After a few matches in an experimental Destroyer’s build of my own, I decided to just go back to the meta Condie shatter with Carrion. Works 90% as well as Merc did, and is every bit as deadly.

I hardly could tell a difference TBH, and it kinda got me laughing and wondering if Anet will now remove Carrion as well. That seems to be their fix for everything lately, remove an Amulet, create a new supposedly OPd one and remove it again too…lol.

It’s fun that all the haters are still going to hate this build just as much as always, because crybabies just cry…it has nothing to do with balance in most cases, we all know that, so these scrubs will continue to die to the “cancer/aids/<insert epithet>” Mesmer.

They hated Immortal Mesmer, nerfed out of existence.
They hated PU Mesmer, nerfed out of existence.
They hated the Clone Death Mesmer, nerfed out of existence.
They hated the Bunker Mesmer, nerfed out of existence.
They beefed up everyone else to effectively nerf the Power Shatter Mesmer out of existence.
They re-create the Mesmer as a Condie Shatterer, and the crybabies now hate that too, so they nerf, and nerf, and nerf with every patch.

They haven’t nerfed it out of existence yet though! HAHA!

I’m sticking with Carrion + Scavenging.

It’s funny – the mercenary amulet removal is kind of a buff because it’s easier to kill players who were using merc in builds and have now switched to glassier amulets.

And you don’t lose much with Carrion – damage is just as good (condi damage is better), and with our active defences the loss in toughness isn’t a big deal.

Curunen.8729:

I’m sticking with Carrion + Scavenging.

It’s funny – the mercenary amulet removal is kind of a buff because it’s easier to kill players who were using merc in builds and have now switched to glassier amulets.

And you don’t lose much with Carrion – damage is just as good (condi damage is better), and with our active defences the loss in toughness isn’t a big deal.

is that viable even against condi necromancer ? do you suggest to use it staff /sword shield or staff /scepter shield ? (now if traited as a condi weapon scepter is really strong ) . I was also think of something like sword shield , scepter / X where X can be torch or pistol … any suggestion ?

Well, because im not a garbage player, and I don’t need meta builds to carry me to legend, just like last season I will be running a marauder power shatter build. Maybe i’ll even use base mesmer over chrono if I feel like it, because I can.

Not sold on scepter. The block is useful, but with so many channeled abilities and the long auto chain, it’s just begging for a pulmonary imapct interruption or a billion stacks of confusion from a condi mace warrior.

Still sticking with sword shield for now. Condi pressure from Carrior still looks good.

I’ve been using a Carrion hybrid build with scrapper runes and Sw/Sh + Sc/T and its work very well I must say!

skcamow.3527:

Rocking a destroyer hybrid for the past week, will see how it fares. I have a wanderer build as well I want to test in ranked, given me a lot of success the past month.

I want to hear about this destroyer build. Before the patch, I ran the ‘meta,’ only I swapped Merc for Destroyers and used Berserker Runes. It was glass, but strong.

Considering running Phantasmal Rectal Destabalizer, that or power berserker (the far easier option). The former requires ranked players playing a propper ranked game though since it’s no solo carry build XD