Guild Wars 2

So as you all know today is the start of BWE3 and the more I look at the mesmer skill set right now Sword+Sword/Focus is “meta” but it seems that with chrono coming we won’t need to have swords in our mainhand on both 1st and secondary weapon sets. So my theory…. with a power build could a staff become a good secondary weapon set? With chaos storm + power I would think it would do nice aoe damage combined with it being a field and giving you aegis and ret while you are up close with your sword an shield not to mention the chaos armor from using number 4 and the field you would have some nice protection going on. With alacrity you can almost spam sword 2. I know staff 1 with power will be kitten useless and staff 2 would be situational but 3,4, and 5 seems (to me anyway) that they would nice to have at our dissposal. Heres the build Im thinking of trying during beta. Any ideas?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseWncfCtqhlfC2fCEgilVjqcDGhAAd6qurr+Yj2pF-TRCEABMcIAI4BAko6PbpEkJlfGcEAaTfAAnAAh2fgUA6J1C-e

It is an interesting thought, I don’t know necessarily if it will be stronger than having a sword or focus in our offhand, as the phantasm from sword 5 does a fair amount of damage. I will definitely save this build and give it a shot today and see what I find tho, I love staff, and would even further love to see it become more viable in PvE.

This is the build I plan on trying out first

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8cncfCtfilfC+fCUrhFVjiMAKgirsDKhlrOZn2qF-ThBBABYt/o8DgTqgh6fGV9nAeSBnpEkUAjqrC-e

So couple questions (honestly just questions im not an elitest) why have well of recall?? chilled never seem to do much in the ways of PvE to me, did you find a use?? Second I noticed you chose shattered concentration (havnt played much if any new content) do mobs have boons we need to worry about? If so I need to rethink my build XD

A pretty good build. Here’s just a few changes I would make: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsc8dncfCtqh9fCmfCUrhlVjqcDGhAo+Yj2pFd6OjrD-TxRBABXt/o8oQ9Diq+DZKxy7kAAwTAwMlgBAOAGuwFuwBrv+6rv+6N8wDP8wDPGg8A-e

Staff isn’t getting any better with HoT. You can swap in shield if you need more defence/quickness/stuns. You can take a pistol if your phantasms will stay alive longer that way. You can take well of precognition if your group needs more defense. If your talking about raids, we will just have to wait and see. I’m thinking something around this for raids: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsc8encfCVoh9fC2fCUrhFVj68JeujgMAGhirOZn2qF-TxRBABXt/o8oQ9DacSAEV9HyUiBwTAwMlgBAOAGuwFuwBrv+6rv+6N8wDP8wDPGgqA-e

Neap.5402:

So couple questions (honestly just questions im not an elitest) why have well of recall?? chilled never seem to do much in the ways of PvE to me, did you find a use?? Second I noticed you chose shattered concentration (havnt played much if any new content) do mobs have boons we need to worry about? If so I need to rethink my build XD

Honestly, I’ll be a little surprised if every chrono doesn’t run Well of Recall in PvE group content.

Why?
Because no matter how you’re built, That’s at least 10s of group alacrity every time you run a CS nova. If you forgo Superspeed shatters for AWtEW, that’s 14s of group alacrity. Support chrono is gonna be a big deal, but you don’t need to build support chrono to be giving some valuable speed support. We’ll all run Time Warp anyway, and we’ll probably all run Recall.

Neap.5402:

So couple questions (honestly just questions im not an elitest) why have well of recall?? chilled never seem to do much in the ways of PvE to me, did you find a use?? Second I noticed you chose shattered concentration (havnt played much if any new content) do mobs have boons we need to worry about? If so I need to rethink my build XD

In raids it’s not going to be all about you doing your maximum damage. If I lose 10% of my damage running recall, but the other 5 players affected are getting extra damage from it, we’re still at a positive. We should be (speaking from a raiding point of view here) focused number one on maximizing our damage returns with Alacrity. I will gladly take a personal damage cut to have a positive damage gain in my raid.

As for Shattered Concentration, basically, that trait heavily depends on the encounter, it’s going to come down to whether or not there are enough targets to interrupt vs how many boons need stripped from the boss / adds / whatever. We wont be running signet anymore so Blurred Inscriptions doesn’t help us, so its basically a tossup between Shattered Concentration and Furious Interruption depending on the encounter at hand.