Guild Wars 2

I always wonder what runes and amulet should I use for PvP condi chronomancer with shield, so this time I decide to go weird with amulet and rune. The key idea is to punish bad play so you probably will never see this in high tier gameplay, nonetheless it’ll be fun to try something different from our current meta.

What do you guys think about settler amulet with runes of guardian? With the new BWE3 changes to shield you’ll have full blocking for 2 or 4s on a 24s CD (can be lower given the alacrity you provide). This can be combined with illusionary counter to deliver decent burns against opponent who spam skills or have high attack rate.

Essentially like the standard MtD build tbh, but your defensive skills have more active role in damaging opponent.

P.S. forgot the add why settlers, with the well of eternity you actually have very decent heals for yourself or team. Just testing if healing power will truly be a use-able stats for mesmer.

I’m not sure how useful the healing power is on this build. I usually like to have healing power on a build which has many sources of healing including outgoing healing. You only have your heal skill, which does some outgoing healing, but not that much… You’re essentially gaining 1500 healing on a 30s (maybe 20ish with alacrity) cooldown, including 1000 outgoing. It’s not amazing…

i would go with something like this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAreWncfClqhFoBmfCUrhlej6cDKhQwMAugMqeUX1XF-TJRHwAQLDsb/BAnCABPBAA

more bunker role and support than just condi spammer which is not so good atm. maybe in 1v1 but than why you need wells for 1v1. thus your main dmg is from you weapon and not shattering and more clones up 9% dmg reduction

also the 5k healing is great in team fight as it huge healing burst and with wise F5 use you can doable it up

i play it the last beta with bunker wells boon share. amazing build and condi give nice pressure bit after bit

I have this one build that I feel is more about trolling in solo Q with a burn Settler build. So far, I win a lot.

I went with Rune of Balthazar. Sigil of Smoldering and Bursting on Staff, Hydromancy and Energy on Sc/F (Focus because it’s my only way to get some mobility speed).

Dueling : 1-1-3
Inspiration : 1-2-3
Chaos : 2-3-3

Signet of Ether. Utilities : Blink, Feedback, Null Field, Time Warp.

You shatter when you need condi cleanse, heal, stability or when you can spawn clones quickly. You’ll want to not use Signet of Ether, but use it when needed.

Now, for your build and Chronomancer, Rune of Guardian gonna be interesting now that our Shield 4 is a channeling block. I don’t know if going Chaos instead of Illusion is gonna be better to get the Staff trait since you have 4 ethereal fields, then maybe Sword to get those Chaos Armor from leap combo.

Ineptitude is on a ICD of 10 secs. It’s a one time thing and 1 confusion stack is nothing.

As for Dueling, it’s nearly obligatory for any Chrono build unfortunately (DE).