Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: This is a WvW focused variation of skcamow’s “Chillruption” build

I’m going to jump right into it. I had been looking for some form of new playstyle the past few weeks, posting builds here, testing builds there. I think I have finally found one that not only synergizes well together, but also very much suits my playstyle. It is a variation on skcamow’s “Chillruption” Build that I’ve tweaked to my own personal liking. Feel free to do the same.

Playstyle: This build focus on Interrupts, and applying the condition Chill, among other debilitating ones. It is not a Condition damage build, it is first and foremost a WvW Lockdown Build. It won’t do as much damage as a straight Shatter, but your shatters and skills are still going to hit pretty hard, and it will definitely make your opponent want to smash his face on his keyboard for not being able to do anything. What more could you ask for in a build?

The Build:
http://tinyurl.com/py35yql [updated June 3rd, 2014]

The build plays like a Lockdown build in the sense that the name of the game is Interrupts. Your 3 sources of interrupts are from your F3 Shatter, GS #5 Illusionary Wave and Staff #5 Chaos Storm. All of these skills have 24-39 second cooldowns, so you need to be smart about using them and when to best take advantage of it. Chaos Storm is likely saved for large groups/zergs coming at you, while iWave and F3 Shatter can be used at your discretion pending the situation.

The beauty of the Interrupt is that it turns you into a god, and makes your opponent crumble infront of you. On EACH successful interrupt, you are going to:

- Gain 5 stacks of Might + a random boon
- Apply 3 stacks of Vulnerability
- Apply 5 stacks of Vulnerability (except with iWave) [per clone also]
- Deal some decent damage (Halting Strike)
- Apply Immobilize + (Blind/Chill/Cripple)

That’s a lot of things to happen for just interrupting someone. This is, naturally, the base of the build’s workings. On top of all this magic, once someone is interrupted/Dazed, you’re also going to do 5% more damage to them if they aren’t using a skill.

Chill:
This is where the real fun comes in. With the Rune/Sigil setup I run while using Greatsword, I have a 30% chance on HIT (not crit), to apply Chill for 5~ seconds. With an internal cooldown of 10 seconds on this, you can basically assume your opponent is going to be Chilled 50% of the time, considering the GS auto attack hits 3 times, and is quite fast. On top of that, you also have a 25% when Struck to produce an AOE Chill (great for WvW zergs when you rush in to iWave), and also a good chance to apply Chill when you interrupt someone. You also receive 7% bonus damage to Chilled opponents. Awesome.

If you think about how annoying Chill is, on top of how fun Lockdown is, you’ve got some real potential to make your opponent unable to do a whole lot while you beat on them. If they blow their Cleanse to get rid of it, it’s pretty easy for you to reapply it with one of various ways mentioned.

Notes:
A few general notes about the build are listed in point form below, incase you don’t like reading walls of text or just want to glance at the build.

2120 Power (without Might/Bloodlust on)
2600~ Toughness
19k Health
35% Crit chance
40% Reduced GS Traits (4.5 second Mirror Blade, yes please)
Decoy/Blink/MoResolve (These are pretty interchangeable)

In Closing
Would appreciate any comments on my take on skcamow’s build or if anyone has tried anything similar. I have played it a few hours and it seems to work pretty well, and is a TON of fun. I’ve always liked condition style, but Power usually reigns supreme for Mesmers, so I decided to negotiate and try a Power/Debilitating focused build.

Comments and feedback appreciated!

Just reserving first comment for any videos and additional information I might add later. <3

gears r pretty defensively build , try to get the videos asap, really curios of how its gonna work out

I’ve considered swapping out the Accessories for Berserker ones actually. The idea of the build is to have control of the fight though, and slow things down (literally with Chill). So having huge burst for the sacrifice of survival worries me.

In a fight, if I get jumped by someone Glassy, they’ll at least have a harder time killing me immediately. And if they don’t kill me right away, then suddenly they’re in a world of panic with Chill proccing all over, being immobilized, and taking huge stacks of vulnerability.

Theoretically the damage output as a power build seems lacking as well as movement speed out of combat possibly being an issue for most. It’s definitely a high skill cap build as is all lockdown builds because if you miss your shots and interrupts itll be dangerous.

Always fun to see other builds inspired by the now pretty old dog in chillruption

As for your build here, three things I would do:

1) Drop wastrel’s punishment in favor of illusionary elasticity. You will do much more overall damage with that. Wastrel’s punishment is a waste since everyone is spamming something all the time in big fights.

2) I don’t like ice runes in WvW. You’re not going to realize the damage boost too often due to the random chill procs. You’d be much better off with something like pack runes which will give you a much welcome damage boost with decent fury uptime, plus mobility.

3) Utility choice. With a lockdown oriented interrupt build, you’re going to want to give yourself as much of a chance to strip stability as possible. For me, null field is a necessity for that, and helps clear conditions from you and allies in a wide range as well. I run only null field in my chillruption build in WvW and never have a problem with conditions.

As with any AoE lockdown build, keep in mind most will work decently in pug zergs but not as well as your world tier rises. Personally, I pug’d the updated chillruption the other night for a few hours and it still works great.

Hmm, interesting suggestios. I happen to agree with them for the most part.

While I’m hesitant to drop the Ice Runes due to the Chill Duration bonus, I’ve realized it only adds 3/4 of a second to my attack proc. I think I’d rather have 10 seconds of Might/Fury/Swiftness and some extra power than 3/4 of a second longer Chill… heh.

Updated build with changes:
http://tinyurl.com/py35yql

I opted to take Berserker Accessories as mentioned as well. 2400~ Toughness and 18k~ HP is still very doable, especially when using a Staff as a defensive Swap + Decoy. I’m considering even taking Signet of Inspiration over Decoy actually as well.

tried the build , without deceptive evasion its pretty underwhelming, gonna try with DE instead 20 in inspiration now

It make take a bit to get used to, but with a 4.5 second Mirror Blade I really don’t see Deceptive Evasion being worth it to blow 20 points in. What would you drop to get it?

I guess you could try 2/4/6/0/2, but then you have ZERO cooldown on your GS, thus making your Vuln/Might stacks substantially less from Mirror Blade, and no CD on Phantasm or iWave. =/

Keep in mind you don’t really need 3 clones to F3 Shatter. only 1 has to hit for the effects to proc. You’d just lose some Vuln stack.

keep in mind that mirror blade has to hit to spawn a clone, and my favourite trait is deceptive evasion:p

anyway i tried exactly this build in 2 outnumbered fights , had a blast with it

here is the build i tried, grenth runes work rly good with miror heal

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQJARWlsnpRtlpxNNcrNipxY6eiJHSGwBlMkxB-TVyHwABeEAg2fwj6PMVC2TZmPlGe1B4QTAgrAQAAEgNuxAAA-w

ah and i cant afford to loose my energy sigils on weapons :p, they cost 12 g atm >.<

anyway gonna try to test out more and if possible, record it

I got around to playing fully with it a bit tonight actually, and I might agree that Deceptive Evasion is sort of… missing. Especially with how fast opportunities to shatter are coming up in WvW fights. Will have a look and try to tweak a bit. I still like the idea though. Might take some adjustments.

i modified the build pretty much as i was roaming, found this set up best for now

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAW8clsnpMttpxRNcrNipxY6eiJHSGQDlMkxB-TlyHwABuIAg2f4tGBPq/wUJYPlZ+Ua4QHgXNBAeCAAA-w

i could have taken focus but, iWarden kept coming to my mind so i hesitated, u can swap the manipualtion range to sword skills cd thingy, its about 1 interrupt everytime u swap to sword, or 2 if u use right away and then before swapping out

anyway uploading a video of the fights i had in 2 hrs, arent rly many and may not be fun to watch, i just wanted to have it done and go back to my poke and run shatter build:p dont get me wrong, the build is fun to play , but its not rly relaxing as u need to watch ur enemy to land the interrupts, interrupt builds arent rly my thing in wvw

edit: and i was pretty clumsy, didnt upload half the fights i had cause i kept using shatter combos and ruining my phantasms and sustained dmg etc:(

edit 2 : video

vid up~ edited and forgot it doesnt bump the thread~

So that build is quite different than OP posted – basically the standard 4/4/6 lockdown spec that’s become really popular over the last few months with the one change being the grenth runes, which is rather interesting. You obviously lose the damage from other popular rune sets but the additional chill is indeed nice.

I personally run grenth runes in a condition lockdown build, but don’t know if I’d run those in such a power heavy spec since you can kill things faster with a power focused rune.

I have been thinking about chill for a while. I run a cripple build and added the 2 sigils for extra chill . Works very well. idea is to CC your opponent as much as you can and use the long range of GS to kill them at max distance where they can’t hit you. Power PU with condi food .

The build has changed too much from my original idea, but I figured if anyone wanted to know what I was running now:

http://tinyurl.com/k6zhr2o

I’m really happy with how this build plays. I was in a few 1v1’s and 1v2’s with guardians, necros and ele’s last night, and I won most of them, or if I didn’t, it was because we both just couldn’t kill each other and kept reseting the fight so I just left.

Not really sure what to call it… but it’s a really fun, powerful Roaming + Zerg video.

wow totally didnt realise that i made it to a 4/4/6 meta interrupt build o.O