Guild Wars 2

im having a really tough time deciding what offhand to choose, in both spvp and pve.

- pistol: 2s stun and some single target damage; seems appropriate for 1v1’s in spvp; seems underwhelming in pve

- torch: i love The Prestige, but the phantasm seems AWFUL (correct me if im wrong); pitiful damage, applies 1 stack of confusing at a time.

- focus: veil is really cool for the CC, and the phantasm does very decent PBAOE damage…thus far my favourite choice for pve.

otherwise, im using a GS because i like the pew pew feeling.

thanks!

thanks!

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In PvE I’d definitely go for the Focus. Mobs don’t run around so usually take the entire Whirl from iWarden, and if you take Warden’s Feedback they won’t avoid the reflection either. Temporal Curtain is great for moving around the map.

yea sword/focus is definitely solid. as i thought, and as confirmed by that vid, iMage and scepter suck. thing is i like the Prestige so much that i keep switching to the torch, even though its phantasm is useless.

and big surprise (not), staff is amazing, GS is mediocre. this explain why pretty much everyone rolls with staff, sword/pistol. kind of annoying, i hope ANet buffs Mind Spike and the scepter.

i would love to hear more from torch users!

I use Torch for one PvP build that I have.

It’s a very special (and unfinished) build so I don’t like talking about it except for the fact that Torch can work, and it’s actually the best of the offhands for that particular build.

They actually have improved mind spike since that video was made, it’s much faster now.

cool. now can anyone convince me that iMage is decent? i need some arguments to equip the torch…Prestige is sooo good but i hate having near-useless skills.

Since it keeps 1 non-threatening stack of confusion up on people it becomes easier to pile on more confusion later without drawing attention? That’s all I got.

iMage is easily the weakest Phantasm, although it’s not as horribad as people make it out to be. And it has a longass cooldown to boot, adding insult to injury. There is one thing I need to doublecheck about iMage though … I’ll have to hit up the mists someday. Too much ecto farm.

Focus. Love it with a sword main hand and the phantasm is great.

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Since it keeps 1 non-threatening stack of confusion up on people it becomes easier to pile on more confusion later without drawing attention? That’s all I got.

i tried scepter/torch. scepter is horribad, or just not my style. confusion is meh.

I really think that temporal curtain / into the void is one of the best PvP or WvW crowd control abilities, bar none. I mean, just look at what this ability can do…

1. Grant swiftness to a large amount of people.

2. Cripple a large amount of enemies.

3. Pull OR Knock Back a large amount of enemies, depending on where they are relative to the curtain when you trigger into the void. I think it’s also the longest range pull in the game when you consider that the pull probably goes out like 300 and the curtain itself has a range of 900. Even better, you can essentially move the enemies in whichever direction you want if you are skilled…so if you need to pull them to the right to knock them off a ledge and they are 1000 feet away…can be done!

4. Interrupt enemies (pull does that).

5. Pull enemies off walls.

6. Combo off it as a light field to remove conditions or grant retaliation.

And that is ONE skill. ONE SKILL. Seriously, ridiculously, useful.

Currently torch, using “the Prestige” gets you a 3 second invisibility on a 4 second cool down.

As you may know, when an ability is interrupted during cast, it gets a short 4 second cool down.

The Prestige gives you 3 seconds of invisiblity WHILE you cast it. Activate it, you turn invisible for 3 seconds, at when the cast bar is at 99%, interrupt yourself by casting another ability (like #1 auto attack). This’ll pull you out of stealth after you’ve been invisible for 2.99 seconds, and put The Prestige on just a 4 second cool down.

Pretty imbalanced.

@Narmix – Prestige got a slight nerf in todays patch

The Prestige: This skill now requires full recharge if it’s interrupted at any time.