Sorry I was having technical issues with the actual builder so no link yet
Purpose
This build was inspired by another I saw awhile back, which I have changed around and made it my own. It is meant for distracting groups and keeping them at bay (not the keep lol) as well as being able to stay alive inside a captured structure for a long time until allies arrive to be ported in.
Traits
0
20 (IV, X)
30 (IV, X, XII)
20 (VI, XIII)
0
Weapons
sword/torch + staff
MH sword with sigil of life, OH torch with sigil of energy
when 25 stacks of healing, switch sword out (i prefer sigil of blood or generosity)
Staff with sigil of energy
Armor
Full knight’s stat armor + 6x melandru runes
Soldier stat backpiece and accessories
Cavalier stat amulet and rings
Food
Lemongrass poultry soup + potent superior sharpening stones
Skills
Ether Feast
Portal
Decoy
Veil
Mass invis
End Result
-kitten-load of invisibility
-very high toughness + chaos armor up most of the time
-minus 65% condition duration on self
-tons of dodges = tons of clones = +30% movement speed, -9% incoming dmg
-decent DPS from crits and reflection
Gameplay
-Upon entering map get your sword stacks up to 25 and swap for other sword
-Abuse the reflection from focus skills
-Save Decoy for stunbreaker when needed
-When you walk through veil take a step or two and walk back through the other way
-Use combos to keep chaos armor up (focus 4 or stakitten + sword 3 or staff 2)
-Don’t wait til low health to heal. Heal at around 70% to stay at full health always
-Use sword #2 to avoid bursts
-F4 for emergency distortion
-If you have 3 clones out and you’re about to spawn several more (which will happen often), go ahead and shatter them first rather than just replacing them. Use F3 for max trolling duration. F2 will hardly do any damage. Use F1 if target is low health.
Fun
Tower or keep getting capped by 10-20 enemies? Hurry get inside! you have access to up to 15-20 seconds of invis. Usually a group will just ask a few people to hang back and deal with any hiding mesmers, the rest will run on. That is their mistake!!! You can easily survive vs a handful of enemies for 5 minutes while RI wears off – just make sure you have allies on their way so you can eventually portal your friends in for the recap.
15 enemies just took a camp and going to head to your tower? Engage them! See how long you can troll them. Get good at this build and it will be a long time
Often after several minutes they will get frustrated and just move on but by then your allies have had time to finish whatever they were doing and head over to defend.
The weakness of this build is obviously DPS vs melee/tank classes. DPS can be very good vs ranged due to reflection but vs any tanky melee class you will probably stalemate.