Guild Wars 2

Hello mesmers!

I want your opinion on these 2 traits for PVP.

Quick notes: Ineptitude procs its confusion from shatters and chaos armor.The blind+confusion with a CD procs from evades and scepter 2.
Master of Fragmentation gives cripple on frustration for every clone shattered (cleanse protection as well), the same goes for diversion every clone procs daze in aoe. My build doesnt benefit a lot from the improved wrack and distortion since i already play with reflect on my heal.

This is my build

Unless you really, really want AoE Diversion there is no reason to take Master of Fragmentation over Ineptitude or even Malicious Sorcery.

Well this is a condi bomb build, thats why i have Mirror Images. It’s already very strong in 1vs1 with some exceptions. In big fights i can stealth go in the fray and : MI + F2 + F1 + F3, weapon swap (geomancy) + Chaos Storm. Then i usually blink out to scan for low hp trying to escape. I don’t do exactly this every time Depending on the situation i might space my shatters more and with more clones, this is just an example of a shatter bomb.

We can say that MoF is more of a team fight trait? And Ineptitude a far stronger dueling – roaming trait.

ineptitude is for every foe attacking you so if 3 attacks you you can blind 3 of them if you dodge and confuse them

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

Raizoul.8374:

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

yes sure
its 10 icd is for each unique enemy
doom only hits one enemy

messiah.1908:

Raizoul.8374:

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

yes sure
its 10 icd is for each unique enemy
doom only hits one enemy

cool, thanks

On another note what do you guys think about geomancy vs energy. One slot in each weaponset is for Doom. Altho all this depend on the particulars of each build..

Raizoul.8374:

messiah.1908:

Raizoul.8374:

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

yes sure
its 10 icd is for each unique enemy
doom only hits one enemy

cool, thanks

On another note what do you guys think about geomancy vs energy. One slot in each weaponset is for Doom. Altho all this depend on the particulars of each build..

Energy, no contest. It’s without a doubt the strongest sigil in the game unless you absolutely need something really specific from your sigils.

Note too that with Ineptitude, Blinding Dissipation now adds a stack of confusion to each shatter, which helps make up for the loss of aoe stacks from f3.

And per Pyro’s post, Ineptitude is synergizing directly with Sigil of Energy, as the blind/confusion on dodge obviously only works if you can actually dodge.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Note too that with Ineptitude, Blinding Dissipation now adds a stack of confusion to each shatter, which helps make up for the loss of aoe stacks from f3.

And per Pyro’s post, Ineptitude is synergizing directly with Sigil of Energy, as the blind/confusion on dodge obviously only works if you can actually dodge.

it really depends on your timing and game style
i used to run without energy and didnt have much problem and geo sigil are nice but take it on one weapon set.
ineptitude is on 10 sec icd so learn to time right your block/phase retreat/dodge so save some endurance . if you cant like in outnumbered take energy for sure but for dueling you can handle without them

side note, they fixed PU + Desperate Decoy it now triggers at 50% hp. Pretty nice huh? (excluding vampirism combo) i feel like i have a traited utility and it frees me a slot.

This is easy. Pick Ineptitude. I would even pick Ineptitude over MF in a power-based shatter build. The blind on evade/block CD is based on individual targets which means you will have an increased survivability even against multiple targets at once. That alone outshines MF. Now, the confusion application is also really good here when combined with your other blind applications like Blinding Dissipation.

The cripple is OK. The AOE Diversion is pretty legit, but the cooldown on that is so long that you won’t really see its impact as often like you would with Ineptitude.