So ifound out yesterday that on kill effects proc if you have 3 illusions up and you summon one more, the one that dies procs the effects. so i made a build quickly to spam alllll the illusions possible while basically all you do is stelth up spam all clones and illusions. each death of a clone = confusion cripple and a 3 stack bleed weakness or vuln just make sure your clones are near your enemy when they explode =p
Yeah this is old news now, but the age old clone on death builds are safe from the patch today. Clones will be allowed to be created if 3 are already out, and the on death traits will proc.
well either way its hella fun and it can burst stack really well. jst not practical in real matches lol but still is fun to watch ppl get 15 stacks of bleed 5 stacks of confusion and 10+ sec of cripple
I don’t intend to be mean… but you’re like months late.
There are many builds which utilize those traits this way (clone spamming builds). Even non-clone spamming builds can benefit from the on death traits as long as the clone generation is high enough.
You should be aware, though, that ANet doesn’t like how those traits can be actively triggered. So even if they don’t change it today it might be changed some time after the feature pack.
It’s got pretty good survival stats still, on top of pretty decent Power, and an extra 3% damage per clone out. So while spamming, you still retain that extra damage up until the point they all die/you shatter. I even considered Signet of (Clone Health +50%) to have better control.
It’s got pretty good survival stats still, on top of pretty decent Power, and an extra 3% damage per clone out. So while spamming, you still retain that extra damage up until the point they all die/you shatter. I even considered Signet of (Clone Health +50%) to have better control.
Viable?
Hate to be nitpicking but…
A clone-spam build, by definition, relies on pumping clones and trigger clone-death traits to deal condition damage. Clone death traits don’t deal direct dmg (although I wish some day they will) thus there is no such thing as power clone-spam build.
Having said that, with your build, you can freely spam clones to stack vulnerability but your main damage output will come from something else.
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Aye, I know condition damage is the main reason for clone spam deaths, but I was thinking maybe a Power based one would work, if you’re only applying Bleed/Vuln stacks, on top of Vuln stacks with Daze Shatter and Mirror Blade. The bleeds would work more as an added pressure/waste of conditional removal. They still actually do some decent damage when you get 7-10 stacks, quite easily with this build.
On top of that, you’d play it as a Power build really, just spamming clones at the same time since Shatter builds are kind of a lost art. The extra 9% damage from having max clones is pretty huge for your base.
Not to mention your survival stats are pretty high too in my linked build.
I’ll have to give it a try. Perhaps a new sort of “Hybrid” WvW/PvE build. It’s not straight glass cannon power for PvE, but I bet it can dish out some good damage still for quick runs.
