Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I need help regarding build choice for SPvP (solo ques). Lately I have been running with a shatter build (20/20/0/0/30) and am reaching average (give or take depending who I’m up against) results. After the upcoming patch what should i run?

Sadly shatter specs are not as viable as they used to be, and after A-Net are nerfing our vigor uptime (crucial for our shatters – each dodge spawns clones) and critical damage whilst buffing lockdown and condition builds with the new grand master traits i was curious to know what you guys think.

A-Net made it obvious that they are interested in punishing active power specs like shatter and want to replace them with passive specs, so my question is which do you think is most effective/fun/useful and has the lowest/highest skill cap if any in order to master it. My options so far are lockdown specs, phantasm specs, condition specs, and lastly shatter – if you guys think it will still be viable and capable of competing with the other for-mentioned specs. Im curious to hear your opinions regarding builds for solo ques and which i should run, please leave a link to your suggested build so i can test it and reach my own conclusions. Please keep in mind that is solo ques I will be focusing on 1v1’s and my own hide – so team support (although helpful overall) is not a top priority. Thanks in advance for reading this and an even bigger thanks to those who posted an answer below.

I recommend Thief.

Take a look at the Solo Queue guide in my signature. The overall meta really won’t change at all after the patch, so it should still be relevant, and I’ll update it if the torment shatter really somehow is game-changing.

Am I the only one around here who swears he read that crit won’t be changed in sPvP?

crit for pvp wont be changed, only for wvw and pve

You could try a lock down play style. In most 1v1 or sometimes 1v2, it has been good to me. It give you option of front loaded or defensive game play if you do get into some trouble.

It might require a different mind set to you shatter build.

I play 20/20/20/10/0 or 20/30/20/0/0 but prefer the later. There are loads of build variant but the end goal is pretty much the same.

You can get more information from the link. A discussion on what the new GM could add or not add to the play style.

Have fun.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Power-Lock-the-Pure-Lockdown-Mesmer/first#post3807682

Shatter will still be fine, you don’t need to change anything. Lockdown might get a bit more appealing after this patch though, and there are quite a few threads about it in these forums if you’re interested.