Guild Wars 2

Let me start by stating first and foremost: this is not my build. I stumbled across it last night whilst browsing the PvP forum and after having tried it rather extensively now I can honestly say that I’ve fallen in love with it.

I’ve always been skeptic about hybrid builds, but this one truly works for me in PvP so I thought I’d share it with the community. It has decent condition damage which helps with pressurising an enemy and whittling their health down to such a stage that they’re ready to be bursted. At that moment it has two stuns so you can lock them down, and burst them down with the usual combo of iLeap, Blurred Frenzy and Mind Wrack.

Obviously, it doesn’t do the condition damage of a pure condi spec, nor does it have the survivability of a PU spec. Neither does it have the burst of a pure power shatter build, but at the same time it doesn’t have the glass cannon effect either.

It sits nicely in the middle and as such is a jack-of-all-trades and a master-of-none, however, it all seems to synergise nicely and when you get your timings right and you’ve learned how far down you need to get an enemy’s health for you to be able to burst them down, it works really well.

PvP video by Countless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z37V1IseCM

Build by Countless
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-NFR30JGWPk51y6JV-71;9;49O9-O4;019-4;348-Uok6-wl6KJG4KJG47BE

you have the confusion on blind trait, but I don’t see many ways of you inflicting blind, am I missing something?

Like I said, it’s not my build. ;-)

It’s the only trait I actually changed as I came to the same conclusion last night. Instead I’m using extra bounce on bouncing attacks to bump my staff damage a bit.