Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this sort of build has been posted before, but I’ve been having a lot of fun with this. It’s a lot more interactive and “in your face” then Condie-PU builds, which like many, I’ve grown a bit tired of.

It seems a bit odd at first with 30/30/0/10/0, but has surprising synergies.

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Through Harmonious Mantras you’ve got both Heals & Condie Removal covered, as well as getting an additional spike from Mantra of Pain. The Power and the boost to both Phantasm and MW damage is just icing on top.

Since you’re running Soldiers Amulet, we also pump 30 into Dueling for both the Precision and the Crit Damage, and again we get a really nice synergy from pumping up 1) Phantasm damage with Fury, 2) Shatters (clone generation) and 3) our Sword DPS and CD reductions.

Naturally the 10 in Inspiration for the obligatory “cleanse on heal” that really makes both HM and MoRecovery shine.

So you end up with a fairly tanky package with medium Toughness & HPs on top of BF and a block, which has made a world of difference when facing Thieves in 1v1 as compared to a plain GC shatter build. However, you also get good DPS out of your Phants, and a little CC from the iZerker & Ill. Wave. You also get pretty high damage from your own weapons, as well as decent spikes from MW.

The only real downside is the lack of speed, but at least out of combat I compensate by swapping in focus to race between points.

It’s a quite happy medium between DPS and survivability, and is very fun to play.

If someone has posted this in the past, then more power to ya for finding a fun build. I’m really enjoying the mix between Phatasm, MW, and my own Sword and Ranged damage, and really it all comes with little to no blatant weaknesses IMO. (Aside from the lack of Swiftness.)

Have you considered using staff in place of gs? Or would that ruin some of the burst of the build?

Certainly you could do that for added defense, but as you said it leaves a few things to be desired:

1) Ranged DPS is overall weaker (slow), but you gain more defense for sure. Nice thing is you can gain Fury to make up for the somewhat low Crit Chance.
2) Lacking ranged CC options to catch runners (remember you have no speed )
3) Not as good a synergy for shattering as GS has. (Mirror Blade is a lovely way to add a big spike on your target, along with a MW + Power Spike from MoP. )

A nice shatter combo with GC is MB as you run in=>Change to Sword=>iLeap=>Dodge into enemy first=>then Swap=>MW+PS+BF.

~6 – 11k damage depending on crits and if you manage to hit all of them.

Although the iWarlock isn’t bad and would often spike for bigger damage then the iZerker in this build, overall I like the iZerker much more. It’s almost instant, AE cripple, good AE damage, and together with the excellent iSwordsman they really pack a punch in between shatters.

This is really almost a hybrid shatter/phantasm build, as you’re a bit more reliant on phantasms then a GC shatter build to hold you over till the next MW burst, but you have much better surivivability with the medium Toughness, 3x Mantra heals (almost 8k instant heals total!), and 6x condie removal baked into those heals.