Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I found the Boon Spam build, which is not listed in the Mesmer page in Metabattle. Its purpose seems to be similar to the Boonshare build, but seems to provide more Quickness (and might, and vigor!) uptime.

I’m interested in using this build to play dungeon/fractals with some mates. I wonder whether this build is good? Since Mesmer (or maybe just me?) is not good at sustaining DPS compared to other classes, I though keeping 100% quickness for the others might make the fights easier (and faster?).

What are your thoughts? Thanks!

Short answer: no, that build is bad.

Long answer: I highly highly doubt that build can do 100% uptime on quickness. Additionally, it has poor alacrity uptime, expensive gear, and poor damage.

For dungeons and fractals you should be using a variant of the standard chrono raid setup: dom/ill/chrono with sw/f + sw/sh, or maybe sw/sw instead of sw/f. You can drop domination for inspiration if you need a lot of reflects, and you should be taking heal well, quickness well, alacrity well, signet of inspiration, and time warp. You should be using zerker gear and chronomancer runes.

Edit: I think the creator of that build is under the mistaken impression that the stability from BD and the quickness from sieze the moment is aoe. Neither are aoe.

Fay.2357:

Short answer: no, that build is bad.

Long answer: I highly highly doubt that build can do 100% uptime on quickness. Additionally, it has poor alacrity uptime, expensive gear, and poor damage.

For dungeons and fractals you should be using a variant of the standard chrono raid setup: dom/ill/chrono with sw/f + sw/sh, or maybe sw/sw instead of sw/f. You can drop domination for inspiration if you need a lot of reflects, and you should be taking heal well, quickness well, alacrity well, signet of inspiration, and time warp. You should be using zerker gear and chronomancer runes.

Edit: I think the creator of that build is under the mistaken impression that the stability from BD and the quickness from sieze the moment is aoe. Neither are aoe.

Thanks for your comment!

Yes, I’ve been using the build that you mentioned. Except Chronomancer runes – I’ve been using Scholar since pre-HoT and am a bit too stingy to change runes.

Cheers!