Guild Wars 2

Is it comparable to sword now that the channel time on scepter three and the cast time on the third auto-attack have been reduced?

Does it depend on the build? If so, which ones favor the scepter?

Thanks!

We won’t really know until they fix Malicious Sorcery, which is currently bugged and doesn’t give it’s 15% attack speed boost at the moment.

Scepter blows balloons with sword off-hand because the illusion on block via sword doesn’t spawn an illusion. This only occurs if scepter is main hand and sword is offhand.

Base Attack speed increase is nice for clone creation. The 15% increase bug to scepter is discouraging. I’m sure more scepter issues exist that we haven’t found yet.

Condi in general kinda blows without PU propping it up, but everyone wants to nerf that too… so I guess its back to power builds.

Confusing Images is now much more fun and the AA chain is a bit less frustrating to use, but condi Mesmer in general is quite weak at present for the following reasons:

- Torment shatter is insignificant once again
- No clone death compensation
- Duellist’s Discipline is bugged
- Staff clones only apply 1 stack of 1 second burn (this is quite significant for a 1/3 proc chance)
- Mistrust is too weak and competes with far more powerful traits
- Confusion on crit is absent (wasn’t this supposed to be the clone death compensation?)
- Torch phantasm lacks pressure for condi builds

Trying to get a condi interrupt build to work and it’s just so pathetic. Power builds all the way right now.

Scepter is doing well for me, with a condi-shatter build focused on building confusion.
Please don’t tell anyone though, I really don’t want to see it get the nerf bat.