Guild Wars 2

Why 25 in dueling and not 15 in illusions?

Thanks for letting me know – will change it asap

GS pros:
Not a projectile
Decent autoattack dmg at long range
Boon strip
“AoE” phantasm
Easier push to the wall for single target using #5

GS cons:
Less damage than swords
Less damage than scepter at less than 600 range in autoattack
Less single target damage phantasm compared to sword, focus and pistol phantasms

Just to give you some rough ideas when the GS is preferred/not preferred

If you’re looking for the most amount of damage you can do then going 30 into dueling is the only way to do it. Just my thoughts about that. If this works for you though then it’s fine.

I run something similar. although in dungeons at times ill run with air or centaur or trav runes for the speed. Other then that rubys are good for the deeps, err i would switch out duelist for Warden. Warden is stationary but most of the times stacking or mobs dont run around much so the warden does but damage on top of that proc reflect plus AOE condi cleanse and retaliation from the light combos on curtain from focus. Also can replace that feedback for a nullfield or signet of midnight or defender. Up to you though, I have a signet set up DPS I run for dungeons , its main task is to invul me and regen with ether while dealing high DPS but Im still testing it atm

Axelwarrior.9084:

Why 25 in dueling and not 15 in illusions?

Grumpy.6834:

Thanks for letting me know – will change it asap

This actually baffled me, why would you change that based upon a question from him? He made no point in attempting to explain why 15illu would be better than 25duel.

If you’re going to go into illusions you might aswell go to 20 for Phantasmal Haste even if it doesn’t trigger on the zerker, if I were to actually change my build to something even remotely close to what you’re presenting tho I would replace afew of the traits:

Domination is fine at 10(III) but under inspiration I would change Compounding Celerity for Persisting Images as it synergise better with your choice of compounding power under illusions.

I’d possibly skip all points in illusions and go for a full 30 dueling build with duelists discipline as the additional range for your Phantasmal Duelist is really nice to have for certain fights.

Gear wise I’d exchange one of the sigils of accuracy for a sigil of perception as if you can maintain the 25 stacks, you’re gaining an additional 2% crit chance from doing so.

But whatever works for you.

I mean, this is pretty much just a standard flex phantasm build. 10/20/0/25/15 is the general form for a phantasm build that’s pretty decent in dungeons, open world, some wvw zerging, w/e you want, it’s decent at it. Nothing new or interesting though, to be blunt.