Help: WvW Comm. AoE Lockdown Build 4 Patch

Help: WvW Comm. AoE Lockdown Build 4 Patch

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Posted by: Daniel Handler.4816

Daniel Handler.4816

Q:

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Basically you are tanky as kitten. Problems I have are with direct damage (Fresh air). Yes they fixed rune of vampirism+desperate decoy. This is an aoe lockdown build for the new patch. Things I need help with is better armor mixing to preserve healing power but do more damage. You can easily run at the front of a zerg with this and swap decoy for veil and distraction for concentration or blink and you can lead a charge.

tldr; help in anyway possible. no deceptive evasion (unless you can convice me otherwise)

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Help: WvW Comm. AoE Lockdown Build 4 Patch

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Posted by: Daniel Handler.4816

Daniel Handler.4816

Thank you OMFG guild. If you are not in it you should join. It really helps with these posts where you see everyone has seen it but no one responds. I got the help I needed.

“Kentigem”-chief. Born cycle of Dusk. Wyld Hunt:
Learn as much mending and medical info as possible so that it can be added to the Dream.
Become the first Chief of Mending and guide the newly awaken as well as those who want to learn.

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Posted by: Ross Biddle.2367

Ross Biddle.2367

There’s a number of things I’m not liking about this build. I can see you’re going for a healy support role, and that’s fine in and of itself.

  • Sword/sword is odd. Blurred frenzy I understand, though the retal from it will be a killer with so little in exchange. I suspect offhand sword is for the line daze, which is great. Only in a zerg I suspect the riposte will proc before you can fire the daze off.
  • I understand desperate decoy, but personally I wouldn’t take it. You have your vamp runes if your health drops to critical, dd seems unnecessary especialy when you could trait elsewhere. Protected Mantras is also a waste. It’s just a bad trait.
  • I’d replace DD with Mantra Mastery, and Protected Mantras with Retaliatory Shield. Or only put 10 in dueling and just take Retaliatory Shield. There’s really little reason to take 4 in dueling in this build.
  • Illusionary Defense is another wasted trait in this build. In front line zerging you’re going to have zero clones up, so just avoid anything clone related. I’d take Decent into Madness over this. It’s amazing how much damage reduction you get from this trait which comes in handy in all kinds of situations. Even jumping off a wall. Otherwise Debillitating Dissipation will turn your insta killed clones into something useful. Weakness is nothing to shake a stick at, even for a couple seconds.
  • Obviously 4 in Inspiration is for your supporting role. Suite yourself.
  • Doom and int sigils…. weird choice. What about sigil of water on your sword instead for more aoe healing. Superior sigil of renewal too if you want to go heal crazy. If you actually use a second sword, superior sigil of speed is great to stack up 2+ mins of swiftness, which is always handy, even when following a zerg around.

So yeah, some suggestions while keeping your gear, runes, and weapons intact.

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Posted by: BlackDevil.9268

BlackDevil.9268

Clerics armor is also not really…. good. You benifit soooo little from healing power due the low convertion ratio on mantra healing that it’s next to useless.
Memser commander is useless anyway besides for maybe with pug raids, but then guard or warrior is so much better due leap. I can imagine it becoming a lot better next patch due instant teleport with ileap instead of getting stuck everywhere. I guess you could count that as leap.