Guild Wars 2

I’ve just been playing around with the build editor, and wanted a few fellow mesmers to critique what I came up with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhUQNAsdWnsISHaWkGmqB3aGZ1YMVLo+qqSr0bkdAA-T1CBAB7oqCLaCg4BAE0+DAcCAyS5HjKB9RtiU0DwwRAYjDBApA6TYF-w

To compare, I’ll drop a generic zerker build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhUQNAsaRnsISBa2pGmqB3aGp0gQ1aIdAuQRL9JaxHA-TFSBwAPOCAmVCeV53N1fQpPYxDAo5+DAOFAkCIPhVA-w

In exchange for losing 4%-8% crit chance, and ~25 critical damage, it gains about ~500 condi damage and ~2,600 health. Do you think it could be a viable shatter build for WvW?

Disclaimer: I don’t know if someone already made this build or not. But if they have, credit goes where credit is due. This is just a build I’ve been theorycrafting – I haven’t tried it out myself yet.

Simple answer – No.
Here are all the issues with this build.
You said it’s a shatter build for WvW.
I have a lot to write so it is probaby going to be quite a long post.
Weapon choice is fine, pretty much anything is fine in a shatter build.

Biggest issue – It’s a really poorly made hybrid.
Hybrid builds, while they work, are okay at doing two things while normal builds are epic at doing one thing.
If it was hybrid, then it would be okay, your condi damage would be mediocre as well as your power damage, this way, you have like 50% shatter burst potential as well as like 20% of a condi build potential.

Your heal – It’s been discussed over and over and over and over again. This heal is not good for WvW/PvP. Ether Feast is simply the best. Search up some threads about this..

Utility #1 – Another signet.. This could work but it’s not really needed if you know how to play shatter. MW comes off cooldown every 11 seconds which is plenty enough, you don’t really need to use distortion that often, much less often than every 45 seconds in a fight. This would be so much better swapped with blink or decoy. Would give you more mobility and can also save your kitten in a fight.

Utility #2 – Condi mantra – You don’t need that much condi removal. Null Field or the mantra will do.. I get it what you are trying to do, spam blind and confusion through glamour skills. That could pass but the issue is you only have 1 glamour skill on a 40 second cooldown. You opted for that instead of stuff like more crit chance on mind wrack, more damage for each illusion that you have up, recharging all your shatter skills at 50% HP, 1 more bounce on bouncing attacks (works wonders with mirror blade)

Utility #3 – Null Field – Same as above..

Elite – Okay..

Now for traits..
Here is where you effed up badly.
One of the things that is a must in all shatter builds and helps out so much is boon removal while using shatter skills. To this you also get halting strike which does damage on interrupts or a 20% damage increase on mind wrack..
You went for a single extra charge on your condi mantra + condi on clone death instead of that.
Why in the world did you go for phantasmal fury if you’re in a shatter set?
Deceptive evasion is a must in shatter builds, I already said about the extra charge on condi mantra,
Condi on clone death is okay, but that will do nothing for you. It doesn’t apply when they’re shattered, only when they’re killed. It’s not a whole lot of conditions either, considering you’re trying to save them for shattering. If you’re in a PU condi build where you want your clones to be killed, you spam them, then this is an insanely good trait, just not here..
I already told you what I think about the illusions traits in the part of my post where I was talking about the condi mantra.

I’ll just end it here and not discuss the gear choices..
Best thing to do is to either play PU condi or a shatter build. You could make a hybrid but as I said, it would be meh at both conditions and power damage.
Have a wonderful rest of the day!

~Monns

Odd as some may think, thank you for being direct. I want to hear constructive critique. Now that I know it sucks, I can go back to the drawing board.

Don’t mean to be rude but it does seem to lack synergy. Also, you NEED at least one stunbreak! (I rarely use less then two xD)