Guild Wars 2

Been busy at work lately, and I’ve now accepted the changes that are coming. There were some buffs to lockdown and focus, but of course overall buffs to condi. My lockdown build won’t change, my shatter build won’t change, but I do want to see if I can find a new condition build.

What are the alternatives to condi PU? Let’s talk about some, of course the first many will mention is MtD, probably 0/4/4/0/6.

Strengths of MtD are basically you can run full rabid and not be as squish as standard shatter. I think that’s it :-/ But let’s craft some condi shatter builds or nail down exactly why they won’t work.

Probably everyone would take staff, but should other be Sword/ or Scepter/ ? Sword helps land shatters, scepter block is solid torment on 8 sec cd.

Will we put out enough condi pressure from the shatters that land to overpower cleanses? Is it possible to actually condi burst with MtD? Will the ratio of pressure we put out to survivability we have be on par with standard shatter?

I’m going to try MtD after patch and see for myself. What are some other non-PU condi builds people will be trying besides MtD?

build for shatter condi mesmer which i have tried with good success

0,6,2,0,6 mantra mtd shatter with torment or perplexity runes. stack confusion and torment at will with cover of bleeding vulnerability weakness
0,4,4,0,6 staff oriented torment applier rabid armor
0,0,4,4,6 staff/scepter oriented with full dire armor (so strong with perma vigor and regen)
0,4,0,4,6 scepter oriented rabid armor

pu oriented variant

0,0,6,0,6 / 0,0,6,4,4 pu scepter build

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