Guild Wars 2

I’m still not satisfied with the interupt builds. Sure it does 750-1k dmg non crit now, which is still way too low, and gives you good boons/applies good conditons when interupt, but the movement you’ll have with that build is extremely low. There’s no way you’ll get condition removal, mobility and damage at the same time with this build, while you can get it with phantasm build.

The only way I’ll see this work is in tpvp with 1 lockdown mesmer and if they would make it possible to stacks swiftness with interupt.

I really prefer swiftness instead of 5 stacks might.

what about Chaotic Interruption + Imbued Diversion along with Staff and possibly Focus?

Might works much better for PvE though. I think the balance is nice, the Immobilize is much more useful for PvP, the Might much more useful for PvE.

Helios.3598:

what about Chaotic Interruption + Imbued Diversion along with Staff and possibly Focus?

Theres no way you’ll interupt in group wvw that much to be as effective as playing a shatter build or boon share.
Also, theres no way you’ll be as effective in roaming as a shatter or phantasm build. Probably condition spec is even better.

Chaos Storm would get quite a bit more powerful in an interrupt-traited build — do you agree?

juno.1840:

Chaos Storm would get quite a bit more powerful in an interrupt-traited build — do you agree?

You would at first even hope to get a daze off, then be lucky someone is standing in it without stability and then be lucky to daze while he’s casting a skill.

Not to mention if he’s running -97% cond duration it wont even apply immobilize.

BlackDevil.9268:

juno.1840:

Chaos Storm would get quite a bit more powerful in an interrupt-traited build — do you agree?

You would at first even hope to get a daze off, then be lucky someone is standing in it without stability and then be lucky to daze while he’s casting a skill.

Not to mention if he’s running -97% cond duration it wont even apply immobilize.

This, essentially. While it’s nice to try it, the interrupt works better using pistol to try and time the interrupt when they are casting. I too was hoping I would see lot’s of interrupts on Chaos Storm, I would be lucky to see one if I dropped it on a group that were fighting in that spot.

Using the focus pull to interrupt is even harder since the 1 second delay was added, I found GS Illusionary Wave to be better for generating interrupts than Chaos Storm.

As BlackDevil.9268 said, it’s better to run a Shatter/Condi/phantasm build instead.