Guild Wars 2

Dire Set Armor + Runes of Perplexity…

Really.. no probably not. PRECISION IS A MUST

Maybe some day, and I am definitely going to try do make one. The main problem with Dire armor though is without precision we cannot reliably dish out bleeds (through Sharper Images) however this dos not mean a Tank/Interrupt oriented Mesmer couldn’t do well. We will just have to see.

Well I actually just put this gear through the updated calculator
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.0|6.5q.a1s|0.0.0.0.0.0|1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p.1q.71p|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0|k00.k00.u000.0.0|0.0|0.0.0.0.0|e

At 31.4% critical chance, with phantasmal fury those phantams can still apply bleeds reliably, while clones still have a 1/3 chance to apply a bleed, plus the additional conditions staff clones apply if you use a staff. coupled with 18.8K HP and 2884 armor, it should be quite tanky.

This is with dire weapons/armor/perplexity runes and full rabid trinkets. Looks like my 600 CoE tokens will go towards armor if the mesmer community deems this build viable.

I find that I react quick enough to get by with toughness provided by rabid so I’m going to stick with that.

nearlight.3064:

This is with dire weapons/armor/perplexity runes and full rabid trinkets. Looks like my 600 CoE tokens will go towards armor if the mesmer community deems this build viable.

Any build is viable, question is if it is good, heh. How much bleed can you stack?

When I tried something similar (and assumed some more health from rabid) it was awfull compared to the phantasm oriented mantra build I run at the moment. Like shooting blanks, I had zero pressure and not enough survivability, it needed more. The regular build has almost twice the power, more crit chance and 3x crit damage… and of couse the same toughness and more vitality. Needless to say, its noticable

Bleh, probably going to get some gear for it anyway. Might just be poor at conditons. My necro is a condition god in comparison… at level 40 :s

Rune not available in PvP :/

So which vendor sells dire? or is it crafted?

Thanks!

Edit:

Hmm, so far found one vendor “Crucible of Eternity” dungeon . The last set on the bottom of the list.

Dire Armor and weapons.

Dawdler.8521:

nearlight.3064:

This is with dire weapons/armor/perplexity runes and full rabid trinkets. Looks like my 600 CoE tokens will go towards armor if the mesmer community deems this build viable.

Any build is viable, question is if it is good, heh. How much bleed can you stack?

When I tried something similar (and assumed some more health from rabid) it was awfull compared to the phantasm oriented mantra build I run at the moment. Like shooting blanks, I had zero pressure and not enough survivability, it needed more. The regular build has almost twice the power, more crit chance and 3x crit damage… and of couse the same toughness and more vitality. Needless to say, its noticable

Bleh, probably going to get some gear for it anyway. Might just be poor at conditons. My necro is a condition god in comparison… at level 40 :s

well, based on the gear I already have, I can slot in rabid weapons, a rabid chestpiece, and the same rabid trinkets and dire rest of for the armor, and it nets me 41% and 16.7K HP, so not a huge difference for this compromise in stats..

Dire gear probably shines the most in condition builds that don’t go 20 in dueling, which imo really hurts our ability to stack bleeds. I mean we can pick up more health/scepter CD in inspiration or illusionary elasticity in illusions, but without the extra bleed pressure from clones/phantasms, I doubt that such a build would be all that strong.. maybe very tanky, but with a lot less killing power.

I’m glad you found a mantra-phantasm build you like but that type of build is completely different from a condition build, so the fact that you would even bring it up isn’t all that relevant to the discussion. And yeah I used to main necro lol, but it felt to easy to play so its rotting away as my 100% map complete char.

Trinkets might be available from “Temple of Melandru” but I cannot confirm. It is not open on my server.

In WvW, I find that my clones frequently get insta-gibbed, and they don’t end up stacking bleeds much at all. I’ve ended up sacrificing the dueling line for Dom, for Condi duration (looking for two second burns with the staff). For my build, the Dire set will be great – extra Vit is always welcome, and I’m only sacrificing the precision from rabid, something I don’t think I’ll miss much.

The only problem with going full dire is the fact that sharpened images is a lot less useful than it would be with full rabid. However, if you made a condi spec without that trait, It would be much better. I have seen some condis builds do fine without 15/20 in dueling.

I want to use Dire so bad but my build needs healing power as well ><