Guild Wars 2

I don’t do much WvW but what I’m seeing in this build, it may work for zergs. However, well of calamity is weird that all of its dmg is in the final pulse which means enemies can dodge out of it really easily. Also the traits you have are really all over the place. You have the potential for high dmg so for Domination, I suggest taking the 15% illusion dmg increase and power block since you’re using Gravity well. Furious interruption isn’t as useful so take Shattered Concentration instead for stripping boons. Boon removal is underrated. You have a lot of access to quickness but no way to share it. So there are two things you can do here. You can take the Signet trait and use SoI, to spread it to allies if you are zerging or with a group. You can also remove Chaos and take Inspiration for Phantasm signet trait. You aren’t really benefitting with Chaos. You’re not even using the manipulation trait to reduce Mimics cool down. Also, Blink is essentially required in WvW so you are really gimping yourself with no stun break. This build could actually more better suited for PvE (without Chaos to maximize damage.)

You’ve essentially designed a build around a concept that is awful. Well of calamity is such a bad skill in WvW that to even equip it, let alone try to quadruple cast it, is a poor choice.

The damage on the well is absolutely awful. Well of calamity has a total skill coefficient of 4.5, assuming someone is dumb enough to stand in it for the full duration. For comparison, lava font has a coefficient of 12.8. If you happen to move a bit and avoid the last pulse, the well coefficient drops to 1.5, whereas lava font is a consistent 3.2 per pulse.

The range and radius of the well are awful. The range is only 900, so you’ll find yourself unable to place it where you want it most of the time. The radius is small, so you’ll usually only clip a couple of people as they run through at best. Yes, I know lava font has a smaller radius, but it has less than half the cooldown, doesn’t take a valuable utility slot, has 1200 range, and does 3x the damage. Yes, I know necro wells are the same range and radius, but they’re both unblockable and either have a powerful effect (boon corruption) or do almost 10x as much damage.

So yeah, you’ll find nothing but disappointment with this build. You’re spending huge amounts of resources to infrequently use a skill 4 times in a row that will have a cumulative impact far smaller than a single elementalist casting meteor shower. I’ll take the elementalist any day of the week.

Fay is absolutely right on Well of Calamity. I love using the skill in pve because that’s where it is most useful (hardly since the damage it deals is painfully low.) But since your focus is WvW, I don’t recommend trying this. Chaos is our weirdest traitline as it really has no definite role. It claims to be the boon defense line but every other class does that wayyy better. Power Block is infinitely better than Imagined Burden and even Mental Anguish. I would suggest trying again and reworking this build.