Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

Its been a long time since I last posted but wanted to get some thoughts and feedback here. I love theorycrafting and trying quirky/different builds, because I hate feeling stale in the way I play. I wanted to ask about thoughts for a fun/different build focused on chaos armor itself. Its a highly beneficial aura, giving mesmers boons and weakening foes. So I wanted to consider builds that could keep it up all the time to provide benefits, and constant weakness/cripple on enemies. So I was playing around with the idea of using a full set of Superior Runes of the Radiance to increase its duration and also make use of light aura for extended retaliation with our healing skill like well of eternity at the same time since with the rune and well you would be double-stacking its duration and this would give lots of retaliation and stacked vulnerability.

If combined with chaotic dampening, would potentially mean perma-protection on self with some boon duration buffs. I picture the two weapons being Staff + sword/x for phase retreat and swap to keep the armor always active(with its attendant protection buff). Since you have to be very active with re-applying the armor, I don’t consider it cheese(maybe many will?) but I mostly see it for pve. Also, I haven’t gotten to use light aura (well of eternity combo) with mesmer much and thought it would feel different to use something not normally seen on mesmer much either. Since it throws a lot of boons down, maybe have boon duration food and accessories to increase durations; I wish we had armor that gave concentration with damage buffs only and not defensive toughness as I dislike not having at least reliably good damage when I want it.

Chaotic Dampening was nerfed a while back, because people were able to keep it up a high percentage of the time.

The idea has interesting possibilities. Let us know how it works out.