Guild Wars 2

Anyone tried this kind of build?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQRArf8alwzKqHTTkGbNJipCBH6DXHJFl2rVmBudhA-j0CBINFRjmCAmWAkCJZkIBKHiIjNTCqMsIasaGYqUER1+AFRrWKAImGB-w

I won’t do a Menace and claim this build ROX every time, and that it kills everyone. I’ve run it a couple of times in WvW today, and while it is very explosive, it lacks the survivability of the 20/20/30 build. If you don’t blow up your target, you’ll have to fight for it :P But it does a more violent explosion than the blackwater build.

Starting in Sc/T, with torch #4, cast #6 and switch to s/p (weapon swap doesn’t go to CD) , cast pistol #4, sword #3, dodge roll in to destroy the first clone (and random condition + confusion), sword #3 to port in and immobilize, sword #2, dodge roll out, to destroy 2nd clone and another condi + confusion. F2 for 3×2 confusion. Switch over to Sc/t again, Sc#3 and target is prolly dead.

The amount of confusion you stack up is crazy, and with clone generation it doesn’t feel too bad, occasionally blowing up your clones. The downside is, you don’t really have too much protection and it feels a lot more vulnerable compared to the blackwater build.

Anyone tried this kind of build? Thoughts?

A side note, confusion has 100% duration here and conditions in general have 70%. 25% boon duration. 25% move speed.

Good build you got there man, I really think it is pretty good. But if you didn’t say that I can kill everyone with my build, it would have been a bit better. Yes, most any mesmer builds can kill anyone if played right. That’s what I was emphasizing on. Apparently about 99% of the population thought I literally meant what I said and went on to make fun of me. Whatever. That is their own problem, not mine. Anyways, pretty good build. Hope you have a good future.

It looks like a pretty standard on-clone-death build. One thing I’d note is that your 15 point minor in illusions won’t be getting much use, seeing as you only use cry for the condition application.

Pyroatheist.9031:

It looks like a pretty standard on-clone-death build. One thing I’d note is that your 15 point minor in illusions won’t be getting much use, seeing as you only use cry for the condition application.

I actually also use the others F abilities. 15 in illusions also grant might on shatter, as well as confusion on shatters. That’s actually why I went 15 in illusions, because it “kind of” negates or makes it less painfull to shatter.

A suggestion. This goes toward reducing some CDs since you didn’t go deep enough to get illusoonists celerity. Put the 15 points from illusions into chaos the 25pt trait makes it so that 5% toughness becomes Condi this stacks amazingly well with runes of the undead.
Just a thought on making the Condi damage slightly better.

There’s a big problem and another one smaller I see in this build.

First, you based your build on traits of killed clones, but you also put some points in illusions to improve shatters, which actually have the opposite idea of the other traits. So I see you want to put the 2 ideas in your build, but they don’t synergy.

The second is not that important, but +33% confusion trait works better with runes of Perplexity, since mesmers sources of confusion inflicts very short confusion stacks, so you won’t notice much if a stack lasts 5 or 6 seconds.

With these “problems” I think those 15 points in illusions can be better spent, for example to get Bountiful Interruption and pistol trait.