Guild Wars 2

3 sec quickness doesn’t really seem like a useful buff on rupt mes for me.

Can we have an extra boon removal effect? Right now, blurred inscription seems like a total given for rupt build (with moa and signet of dom).

• It’s three seconds of quickness every five seconds.
• Even three seconds of quickness once is great for a hyper-concentrated burst. Since you’re in Domination, you’ve got access to Confounding Suggestions, Power Block, and vulnerability-stacking all working to soften up your target for a big burst.
• Right now, there’s an interesting trade-off between Shattered Concentration and Furious Interruption. Furious Interruption is more of an “all-in”/“win-more” skill, while Shattered Concentration helps interrupting builds shore up a weakness (stability).

ASP.8093:

• It’s three seconds of quickness every five seconds.
• Even three seconds of quickness once is great for a hyper-concentrated burst. Since you’re in Domination, you’ve got access to Confounding Suggestions, Power Block, and vulnerability-stacking all working to soften up your target for a big burst.
• Right now, there’s an interesting trade-off between Shattered Concentration and Furious Interruption. Furious Interruption is more of an “all-in”/“win-more” skill, while Shattered Concentration helps interrupting builds shore up a weakness (stability).

Quickness is good only when you’re using combos and setup. It speeds up the process. I’m not arguing on quickness’s effectiveness. my point was about its effectiveness in regard to rupt build. Most of rupt skills are instant cast: diversion, mantra of dist, pistol 5, etc. So the quickness that you get from interrupting is pretty much gonna be spent on auto attack or maybe blurred frenzy? That doesn’t seem like a very useful buff to me (relatively) when compared to blurred inscription which buffs sig of dom and moa, making rupt build a complete hex master on top of mantra of distraction. My point is, for a trait that directly relates to interruption (and CC for that matter), Furious Interruption completely loses to non-direct interrupt trait like Blurred Inscription. Shattered Concentration is completely for another build.

Pistol 5 is not instant. And recharging a mantra benefits as well. Quickness will allow for a rapid duelist summoning + confusing images burst, or a faster mirror blade → mindwrack → iZerker summon. It gives your opponent less time to react and use a stunbreak or condicleanse (or either, if you run CS and CI).

You can also use it to stomp people faster, which works nicely coupled with Blinding dissipation.

Can you explain what you mean when you say “Shattered Concentration is completely for another build”?

For ANY build focusing on interrupts, Shattered Concentration provides huge competition with Furious Interruption. Combining the two would be overkill because it would guarantee you can rip stability and gain quickness. Also, with a 5-second ICD, your uptime for quickness will be quite high with Furious Interruption.

You interrupt them with MoD and then greatsword-shatter them to death. Try it. It’s really, really good.

Not every interrupt trait is for a kitten y never-shatter phant build.

3 seconds of quickness + chronomancer trait (every 3 crits = 2s slow) + gs aa. seems ok for a interupt build. constantly slowing your enemy making easy interupt on any skill.

Realistically, the quickness uptime from FI is quite poor. Yes, theoretically it’s 3s every 5s, but that’s obviously not reflected in reality.

Often, interrupts come in groups (aoe on a ressing group) or chains (rapidly interrupting several skills in a row). Now and then you’ll get slow interrupts spaced out over a period of time, but that’s less common. So in reality, FI is wasted on the significant majority of interrupts you’re doing, only proccing now and then at random.

For that reason, shattered concentration is better than FI in almost any conceivable situation. The stripping offers enormous utility that isn’t subject to the whims of timing RNG.

I disagree with Pyro’s assessment of FI’s usefulness, especially regarding Quickness uptime, but I’ll address that later/tomorrow. I do agree, though, that Shattered Concentration still beats this trait out in usefulness.

If Furious stole a boon, however, it would be a better contender.

ASP.8093:

You interrupt them with MoD and then greatsword-shatter them to death. Try it. It’s really, really good.

Not every interrupt trait is for a kitten y never-shatter phant build.

I’ll have to try this.

FI in theory can be pretty versatile in its use but was kind of hard for me to pull off on a consistent basis which is why I generally just use the buff removal trait. However, some other things you can use FI for besides a quickened shatter:

- Use it as a cover to recharge mantra
- Quickness stomps
- Boon stripping from quickened sword AA

I’ve always thought Furious Interruption should strip 2 boons and gain quickness & fury. I don’t think there are many situations where it would be better to take Furious Interruption over Blurred Inscriptions or Shattered Concentration. That being said, it’s not a bad trait and definitely has some niche uses where you could pull of some amazing plays (stomps, mantras, Confusing Images, GS skills, Frenzy etc). This is in terms of PvP.

For PvE, I see Shattered Concentration being utterly useless. Furious Interruption is much better here but slightly less useful than signets.

Overall, I don’t think it needs much of a change. Stripping boons and gaining fury/quickness would make sense to me, but I think it’s balanced across the game modes.

Furious interruption should not strip boons…

Why?

Because we have shattered concentration. What good is shattered concentration if furious interruption does that?

Makes no sense…

jportell.2197:

Furious interruption should not strip boons…

Why?

Because we have shattered concentration. What good is shattered concentration if furious interruption does that?

Makes no sense…

You wouldn’t be able to strip stability with Furious Interruption. Obviously, there would still be a strongplace for Shattered Concentration which is also AOE and more team-oriented. FI would be more selfish in nature. Additionally, one is shatter and one is interrupt. That makes a world of a difference. See Bountiful Disillusionment vs Chaotic Interruption. One is for builds wanting to shatter more. The other is for those focusing on interrupts..

It makes a lot of sense actually why the two skills would be different in use.