Guild Wars 2

Prismatic Clone Factory 2.0 build

This is my current clone-kill build that includes prismatic understanding. My apologies if this build already exists somewhere. This build uses the same technique other clone spamming builds do and then includes pistol, stealth, boons, and ethereal fields to add to this recipe of destruction. I find this build to be highly effective in tpvp and dueling. Further build details are on my intothemists.com guide.

It’s very similar to the build that I’m using:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhiU0tC4V0

I really like the “on-death” traits paired with sword (chasing clones FTW), but since you’re using scepter, I would swap 10 into domination for 10 into illusion. So you can pick +33% duration for confusion.
Other than this, if you need to bleed more with duelist use RAMPAGER amulet with RABID jewel.

You wont even need 33% Confusion Duration if you take:
- 10in Dom (10%)
- 40% Food
- Perplexity 6/6 (30%)

That alone would be 80% You could take Givers for Main and Off hand for another 20% to get it to 100% and even increase duration of other conditions by 20%

I run a similar build, cept with the 20 torch trait, instead of the dodge roll trait.

Do u find yourself missing the condy removal and reduced cooldowns much?

Rinzler.8072:

I run a similar build, cept with the 20 torch trait, instead of the dodge roll trait.

Do u find yourself missing the condy removal and reduced cooldowns much?

i have ZERO condition removal in my build and i personally dont have that many issues. I mean if i come up against a condition burster then i am likely going to die with the traits and without them

@Mei Mato: I’ll give the video a look this evening. I wasn’t really going for confusion-focused damage as much as I was just attempting to overwhelm the opposition. I find dumping cripple with Crippling Dissispation helps a fair amount. It allows me to easily kite or disengage. It also acts as a “cover condition” to protect my other conditions from being cleansed. That said, I’m more than willing to try something new. I may take your Rampager idea up since this build is pretty survivable as is. If I went rampager, then I’d probably adjust my Runes to Lyssa or Divinity. The downside of this is the reduced survivability verse thieves.

@Armageddon: I feel I get most of my condition damage from bleeds. Yet, I’m hesitant to go with a specific condition duration increase since there are three of them that do damage. I find Torment really pulls through for me when faced against more than one. That said, I may give Perplexity a try just to see how well it works.

@Rinzler: I run http://intothemists.com/guides/381-gs_prismatic (20/20/30) in wvw/pve and love the torch cleanse. That said, I had to sacrafice it to achieve this build’s potential for pvp. You’ve a lot of boons and stealth to take care of most conditions. When a necro or engi decides to condition burst you though, then you at least have null field. Also, with this build you almost always have 3 illusions running around to absorb some poorly fired conditions.

Helios.3598:

@Armageddon: I feel I get most of my condition damage from bleeds. Yet, I’m hesitant to go with a specific condition duration increase since there are three of them that do damage. I find Torment really pulls through for me when faced against more than one. That said, I may give Perplexity a try just to see how well it works.

The Dom and Food buffs affect ALL conditions which is nice. So that alone is 50% extra duration for all conditions. I just add more for Confusion as thats the Condition i like to use the most, can hit 2k damage per a hit when i “burst” confusion

Sorry but I rarely talk about WvW. Everything I suggest is always based on a 5-man PvP team, that’s why I never consider foods and other buffs.

Having said that, I would like to know: if you major damage is bleeding, why don’t you boost it at least a little bit? :P
I’m also testing another “Illusionary Bomberman” version with multiple conditions to cover bleed stacks, but unfortunately I feel Sc/T a slow combination for burst conditions for my playstyle. I found that Sc/T suits a better spot for heavy support builds.

Maybe you should try a switch like:

• Sword/Torch – so you can burst Burning into Illusionary Leap
• Scepter/Pistol – so you can duelist into Feedback (or another field) then Confusing Images

Sword/Torch + Scepter/Pistol was my original setup and I used it for quite a while. It worked quite well and I feel either combination can be effective. I do feel the Scepter/Torch + Sword/Pistol has a an edge though. I think it’s because I feel the Sword supports the Duelist better than Scepter and that Torch supports Scepter better.

I open with Duelist, sometimes after using Decoy. I then want to distract my opponent away from my Duelist and I typically need survivability to avoid my opponent’s opening rotation/burst. The Sword does these things well. With Scepter, the trick is getting both Confusing Images and Illusionary Counter off. I feel The Prestige helps a lot with that. I usually have enough time to cast Mage and most of Confusing Images before reappearing and pulling aggro. By the time I do pull aggro I can usually get my counter up.

To the original question about Condi duration. Yeah, I have to say, would you rather take (in reality) 23% higher confusion duration with 10 off everything else…? I mean, I would use perplexity runes and in PvP you need more balance . I think its obvious, definitely go 10 into domination or further.