Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to share with others what I am using post patch, in the event that they might like to try out something that is quite different from the previous status quo. I liked what they have done to GS Imagined Burden and decided to put together a build around it that focuses on not only producing a constant source of might without blasts, but one that will also share those boons and all others you have obtained through passive party buffs. After a few trial runs thus far I have found this to be extremely effective in my eyes, but will reserve further judgement for the rest of the community here.

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Obviously, there are certainly better ways to stack might. My goal here is was to produce something that gives back to the party while additionally amplifying my own combat potential. While I have only tried this for dungeoning thus far, I would love to see what feedback others can provide that might produce variations of the build that improve overall performance throughout game modes. If desired, I can describe in detail (perhaps later) the strategy behind this particular setup. Please enjoy or critique to your liking.

I have serious doubts as to the effectiveness of this build in any way. Reasons:

To maintain might stacks, you’re forced to autoattack with greatsword and use greatsword clones to autoattack. This means that you’ll be doing really poor damage.

The duration of the might stacks is 5 seconds. Even with your 45% might duration, that’s only getting you to 7.5 seconds per application.

Basically what this means is that when you share might at say 15 stacks, your party will have 15 for a second or two, then drop rapidly down to 0 over the next 5 or 6 seconds. This is absolutely abysmal performance for a build that’s supposed to be all about might sharing.

Fay.2357:

To maintain might stacks, you’re forced to autoattack with greatsword and use greatsword clones to autoattack. This means that you’ll be doing really poor damage.

I do agree with you in this respect, the auto attacks fall off rather quickly, but the Mirror Blade stacks are respectable at ~15s. These can be readily amplified very quickly through Mimic and SoI + Phantasm spawning. Between reduced phantasm cd through traits and SotE, the amplification process is frequently reapplying those stacks. But, as I mentioned in the original post there are certainly better ways of doing this through blasting. Are there any recommendations you could provide that might help increase the viability of this in your eyes, or just shelf it as a novelty?

Edit: The Illusions line looks promising over Domination for this particular situation. Would you imagine that Persistence of Memory + Shattered Strength and Master of Misdirection would help to alleviate some of your concerns?