Most Effective Break Bar Removal Skills?
If you’re a Chronomancer, don’t use Sig of Domination. The Alacrity gained from Wells will do more damage (paired with the actual damage from the wells, along with the conditions applied) to the breakbar then the stun.
If you do a simple ToT + F5 → TW + All Wells, almost every breakbar will have broken.
Question: does soft cc inflict dmg to breakbars? (Meaning chill, cripple, immob, and so on)
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Question: does soft cc inflict dmg to breakbars? (Meaning chill, cripple, immob, and so on)
Those inflict a DoT on the break bar.
Don’t forget about Diversion. It could be a hefty break i believe, especially with 3 illusions up. (correct me if i’m wrong)
Gravity well also does wonders for the break bar.
Ok, condition damage is only viable when the bar is broken, oops. So I suppose I’ll do away with Sig. of Domination since I don’t run a condition build and I never use it for the active effect.
Condition damage always applies to every mob that doesn’t have the Resistance boon.
Breakbars are explicitly preventing CC, not damage.
I took Mantra of Distraction into the Verdant Brink yesterday, and I found it surprisingly helpful. With Domination slotted, the dazes are applying useful vulnerability, and my ability to break bars is fantastic even without chrono slotted (Diversion, gs5, MoD, sword4), and all but one of my interrupts applies vulnerability.
I even toyed with Rending Shatter to some success, as a 3-illusion Diversion instantly jumps my target to max vulnerability and applies 4 dazes to the breakbar which is often but not always enough to break the bar. When it doesn’t, a quick MoD usually finishes it.
Don’t forget about Diversion. It could be a hefty break i believe, especially with 3 illusions up. (correct me if i’m wrong)
Yes, and the nice thing about Diversion vs Breakbars is that you don’t have to stagger your Illusions to get the most out of it.