Disclaimer: I don’t Wvw in zergs on high tier servers so this may fail completely. It’s also an incomplete idea.
Normally, I run a 20/20/0/0/30 with IP basically being mandatory but I was wondering if anyone has ever tried Imbued Diversion instead? With a 30/0/0/0/30 +10, you would be able to stack multiple AOE Dazes, Strip multiple boons AND stack 25 vulnerability in an AOE. 1/2 the dazes would turn into stuns. For any other build, I would say halting strike sucks but I’m not that experienced with Confounding Suggestions. Is there a chance that halting strike can proc twice with confounding causing daze/stun and can halting strike crit? 200 dmg x 2 × 3x crit damage in an aoe might make this trait actually powerful. Then you shatter 2 more times with signet of illusions and 10 in illusions. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQJAssEN0bqHJQ9A8Ag7keYaWf6SF4NA-j0wAECAKBYJtIasRBARA-w
Very incomplete build. sword 4/4 would be another line daze and you could potentially chain 3 F3s for a total of 9 aoe dazes +1 from the sword. I would think this would be a power/tanky build as you are running into a middle of a zerg. For PvE, the lots of daze/stun/vulnerability would also be decent for dungeons. Maybe chaos storm for more aoe dazes/vulernability.
Thoughts?
Edit: After a bit of testing, I don’t think halting strike crits and since its on an actual interrupt not any daze, it only procs once per F3. So halting strike still sucks. Saddly the aoe daze also seems to be smaller than melee range.
Hopefully these are two traits that get changed in the up coming balance patch.
My lock down group version uses thus really well, the only issue is if you want to see its effects new need at least 3+ mesmers coordinating . I’ll see if I can get a video and then watch it get nerfed
