Guild Wars 2

Phantasm (Berserker) – Now that they (all Phantasms really) have profoundly suffered from the nerf bat. What is the replacement AOE dps for this class? Oh, wait there isn’t one… The Berserker could be made into an unkillable gtarget (twice the size of other classes since it’s moving) that hits everything within a specific area similar to other classes. If not then other classes should suffer the same in their AOE spells in that they can’t wrap over walls and areas they can’t see and remove splash damage too.

If you want good aoe damage go for a shatter build. Berserker still does good aoe damage it’s just not as inflated as it was, the damage will be increased again because that change in damage was not intentional. Do not forget warden can do some decent damage too just plop it in the middle of a group of mobs let it do its thing then shatter it.

I don’t have enough skillpoints for the illusionary wall climber.

@Disastro – shatter builds only work if “IF” your summing spells work and as of now due to the changes they don’t work very often. A player should not be forced into a build they don’t like either. Also this is about PvP for me as I don’t PvE unless I have too.

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@Disastro – shatter builds only work if “IF” your summing spells work and as of now due to the changes they don’t work very often. A player should not be forced into a build they don’t like either. Also this is about PvP for me as I don’t PvE unless I have too.

Whenever I read this type of comment I have to conclude that the player doesnt run a shatter build.

I do. I summon illusions like crazy and send them to explode. The patch notes really effected phantasms, and even then its rare not to attempt to summon, and not get what I want.

In conclusion, shattering is an effective AoE. You just pick the guy in the middle of the pack, spam up some illusions, then send them in. If you know what you’re doing and have the right weapons/utility, you can send in three easily made waves in a few seconds.

@RossBiddle – Whenever I see a response discounting/ignoring one of the main points “A player should not be forced into a build they don’t like either.” I wounder why they even made the post. The point is ALL specs should be viable. Furthermore this is about iBerserkers as the tag line notes not clones for a shatter build.