Guild Wars 2

Thought i’d make a build around controlling my enemies movements and being generally annoying to them.

The Weapon Set is Scepter/Pistol and Sword/Focus.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.1|b.1g.h2.a.5g.h17.0.0.d19|c.1g.h2.d.5g.h1j.0.0.d19|1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e.1g.7e|2s.d19.2s.d19.3s.d19.2s.d19.3s.d19.2s.d19|a5.u49a.5.p68.0|0.0|31.3d.34.3j.3o|e

The idea behind this build is to capitalize on players who may not know what they are doing in WvW, and Bosses/Champs/Anything in PvE, I do this by using Crippling Dissipation: (Clones cripple nearby foes when they are killed) in conjunction with the Scepter Auto Attack that’ll allow me to keep a nice amount of damage going, along with Scholar Runes (Since the aim will be to keep away, not getting hit, thus allowing me to keep my 10% damage above 90% bonus), when they die or replaced by the spammaholic of the Scepter Auto, it’ll also activate Confusing Combatants: (Your illusions cause 3 seconds of confusion when they are killed) which’ll help nicely if I can keep a good flow of clones going.

Thats the uh, general idea, what do people think?

I highly recommend keeping your PvE and WvW builds separate.

colesy.8490:

I highly recommend keeping your PvE and WvW builds separate.

Fair enough, I thought it’d be a fun idea either way. =o

Eh, I feel like Inspiration has enough useful traits that moving the five points over from Chaos is worth more than the occasional regen proc which you can get from standing near a phantasm anyway. Apart from weapon choice and Crippling Dissipation instead of Empowered Illusions, this ends up being the standard 10/30/0/30/0 phantasm build, which is well tested and effective. All you’re doing is giving up 15% illusion damage for cripples instead, which can be useful in WvW, but wasted in PvE.

In general, philosophically I’d think capitalizing on newbies in WvW is easy enough that you don’t need to build for it – your build should be optimal against tough opponents, the weak ones are never a threat to begin with…