Guild Wars 2

I’ve found this to be the best build for the marionette fight.

It deals good burst damage and provides the right kind of support necessary for the encounter:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsdRl4zyoHTTgGa9IypHJH0NdkUoapWJF42FC

In short, it’s a 20/20/0/30/0 Phantasm build with GS/Sw+Focus. I’d recommend 100% zerker gear.

Shatter will AoE remove conditions AND grant AoE vigor. This means shatters are very useful for your group when doing Phase II Champions 3 and 4. 100% Vigor uptime for your entire group is HUGE when fighting Champions 3 and 4. It’s almost a guaranteed win.

For Phase II Champion 5, I’d recommend bringing Signet of Midnight. AoE blind on 4 targets is really pretty big.

If you are a Sylvari, I’d recommend dropping Mantra of Distraction for Grasping Vines. It’s a guaranteed 7 second root for Twisted Champions, and can be helpful against boss Champions as well.

Against Champ 3 you can shatter and give everyone 10-15 seconds of vigor (or more!)

Against Champ 4 you can shatter and rip Confusion off everyone before they kill themselves.

I personally run with 6x Runes of the Centaur and believe it is one of the best hybrid dps/support builds you can run for this encounter. Perma-swiftness means you can lane jump as fast as anyone.

use pistol instead focus , i tried it w focus and the moving ones not gonna get much dmg from warden(or it bugs on them and atks after 5-6 sec or it doesnt atk at all)

Focus #4 is great for slowing all the trash mobs in the lane, or dropping it behind them and pulling them back.

If players are rooting the Champion clockworks correctly, you get lots of damage out from iWarden (when he works). As a Sylvari Mesmer, I’ll pop Grasping Vines, then iWarden and the enemy will eat an entire attack.

Additionally, if you face Champion Boss #5, you can use Focus #4 to help pull the mobs together.

iDueler is decent but has no AoE. Pistol #5 doesn’t have the gross CC ability Focus #4 does.