Guild Wars 2

Haven’t seen a thread yet where actual builds for SPvP are being posted, so post them here. Please include

1. the build
2. what it’s used for
3. how efficient you’ve found it so far

Interrupt Mesmer (or whatever it is relying on interupt :/)

• The Build
  http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-RFRZ;1VPV1127BW-71;9;4STU;0038238156;4Uom3L;1KJG4KJG45A

• Variant

— I tried replacing the Lyssa rune for Mad king with Rampager Amulet, the DoT from condis weren’t impressive per say, and no where near a proper condi build, but they did a fair enough job what with pistols and Chaos Storm

— Replacing the berserker amulet for marauder lessens the power of the build, but heighten your vitality by 560, which is not a negligible amount

— You can replace blink for decoy, whatever fits your play style

— Haven’t tried swapping sigils yet, feel free to tweak it.

• How to play

— Not any different from your usual interrupt build, interrupting hurt like a kitten, you can stack vulnerability faster than an ele can stack might, added that your shatters now also hits like a truck, and you have a very impressive build if properly handled.

— Time your interrupt well (you can simply focus on auto-attack for effective yet simple interrupt, after a dodge is also reliable and any channeling skills are easy target (beware of stability)

— Always look at the enemy’s Boon’s bar for retal, aegis and stability before interrupting / stun / daze, saves precious skills.

— Keep your mantra for wide AoE interrupt (rez or stomps) anmd prefer your skill interrupt from pistol over the other two (weapon skills > shatter > mantra)

— If you’re about to get burst down, just shatter for 240 radius aoe blind, not much, but can be quite a life saver)

— If you time your staff skills properly, you should have at least a 50 – 80% protection uptime with Chaos armor (Staff 4, Staff 5 with Staff 2 inside OR Staff 5 with sword 3 leap inside, asking someone to blast when Tqueuing is a nice add also)

— You also have 3% reduce damage for each phatasm/illusion active, do keep as much of them as possible

— Interrupt doesn’t only hurt, but also recharge your pistol skills, making you able to have 2 phantasmal duelist alive in a short span of time.

— Null Field and Lyssa runes (coupled with mass invis) gives you nice clear condis available and even boon ripping, use it wisely…

— BEWARE of Medi/dps guards, Thieves, any condi build (your cleanses are on relatively high CD, any condi burst post your cleanse will make you go down faster than my drunk uncle at christmas (stairs story, lots of blood, no serious wound)

• Efficacity

It’s hard, to pronounce myself this soon into the patch
Haven’t played enough and doesn’t have enough data from others to form a proper opinion, but I feel it is a solid build, though it needs a few tweaks around the edge, but time will let me have a better view on it.

I tried this condi shatter thing out tonight with some guildies and had an interesting time.

It has tons of reflect, stealth, combat mobility, gobs of condition cleansing, stability, protection, regen, and seems to output reasonable condition pressure. There’s no Deceptive Evasion, but I find the illusion generation speed to be sufficient.

Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.