Good Shatter Builds
Shatter builds are all absolute garbage in PvE. If you’re using a shatter build in PvE, you’re making a mistake.
Well, then what would be the closest thing to a shatter mesmer? Fresh air elementalist?
Well, then what would be the closest thing to a shatter mesmer? Fresh air elementalist?
Uh….I guess that sorta depends on what aspects of shatter mesmer you’re looking to be similar to.
Well, then what would be the closest thing to a shatter mesmer? Fresh air elementalist?
Uh….I guess that sorta depends on what aspects of shatter mesmer you’re looking to be similar to.
The fact that as a sustained build as opposed to the pvp burst one, it constantly feels like you’re doing something. There’s always something to do, and the fact that your offense and defense are tied together, so there’s always some degree of decision making on what’s more usable. While simultaneously making sure that the various cooldowns on shatters and clone generation line up well.
Mainly the fact that there’s very little time where you’re just autoattacking for extended periods like say, most thief or revenant builds.
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Well, then what would be the closest thing to a shatter mesmer? Fresh air elementalist?
Uh….I guess that sorta depends on what aspects of shatter mesmer you’re looking to be similar to.
The fact that as a sustained build as opposed to the pvp burst one, it constantly feels like you’re doing something. There’s always something to do, and the fact that your offense and defense are tied together, so there’s always some degree of decision making on what’s more usable. While simultaneously making sure that the various cooldowns on shatters and clone generation line up well.
Mainly the fact that there’s very little time where you’re just autoattacking for extended periods like say, most thief or revenant builds.
So you’ve completely misread shatter builds. Shatter builds are the quintessence of a PvP burst build that’s totally worthless for sustained damage. That’s why they’re garbage in PvE: nobody cares about burst, only your sustained damage during a fight. Honestly, there’s not really any other builds that have offense and defense tied as tightly together as a shatter build, and that’s one of the reasons that other builds are better than shatter builds.
Anyway, I can work with your last statement though. Here’s a list of builds that primarily rotate cooldowns with less of a reliance on autoattacking:
- Condie tempest (sinister/viper)
- FA tempest (zerk, still autoattacks for part of the rotation)
- Burnzerker
- Chronotank/Chrono support (zerk, you still end up autoattacking a lot…but nobody cares about it. You’re there for flawless alacrity/quickness rotations with wells and such).
- Engineer (viper)
I think that’s mostly it. All the other classes are going to be very heavily reliant on autoattacks for their damage output.