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I have started to dig MtD recently but I lean more toward hybrid. I think it is one of the few traits, if not the only that allow you to use carrion on a mesmer.

But as usual I like experimentig and try my own things. There was a 3D (I think it was from Swish) encouraging to try a double ranged approach, sort of pure power shatter play style, with a mix of berserk+carrion or rabid (talking about wvw though).

I am trying my own version in pvp with GS/sc+focus, carrion, nightmare runes. Still not sure about the offhand. Could be torch though. Tried pistol too but it suffers from the low crit so, not enough bleeds. Discarded the idea.

Anyway, as much as it can sound weird, it does work and it’s so much fun. It is a nice surprise to act as a power mesmer and then drop a load of torment to unsuspecting foes. Watching them run from fear proc loaded with conditions while you are dishing out damage with GS is priceless. Conditions get a nifty 35% duration and direct damage seems hurting enough, also thanks to might from shatters and GS.

I am now curios to see how it all work with rampager.
I know a lot of ppl are skeptical about MtD, let alone hybrids, but how do you see such fusion? Would rampager be any good?

i have tried carrion with gs and sc torch and play like power shatter as my armor is very low

so far my main problem is to burst fast enough to pressure my enemy to stop attacking me (thieves) but it isnt like the power shatter
if i am not being targeted then its fine to work with carrion but again i can contest a point in 1v1 while with rabid its more doable. and if i use hit and run tactic like power shatter then my dmg output is too low compre to a power shatter

i aim for dishing out loads of conditions on a point hitting 3 enemies so my dps can be higher and even pressure for utilities used by my enemies or heal skill thus givving my team advantage

rampeger my conditions dmg is too low

maybe its me but i like most the rabid for the mesmer

mtd so far getting many like in wvw roam style. but in tpvp not at all. the problem is that you need certain team composition around you as you cant play like power shatter
i manage to see that if we played against power team enemy with ele and guardian we won as my conditions after few seconds eat them while the block heal all the direct dmg we did.
while if we played agasint more sustain team with engi ele guard thief and power mesmer we had more problem (we also were 4 and 1 random with no ts) as the thief and mesmer target me first with no help from my team

but i manage all in all to shutdown the LB ranger/ engi/ thief/ bunker guard and did nice even in 1v2 to but my team few 30 seconds while the power shatter just wouldnt tried that

i am still trying different approuch to the playstyle and role and would love to hear other who play it aswel

I see what you mean and I feel the same. However, I still prefer carrion over rabid (did try rampager… ppl were literally melting, but it’s too squishy vs competent players).
So I switched to Staff/sc+torch, carrion+scavenger, 4/4/0/0/6, double energy/poison.
Real fun I think I will stick with it for quite sometime!

Anyway, how do you feel about necromancer runes? Do you still use them even after the nerf? +15% condi duration is still great, but I preferred stronger conditions with the 7% vitality condi damage increase from scavenger. After all, 1 sec fear every 60 sec is kind of meh… what do you think?

Ps: on a side note. I went to www with the same build. Since I am rather poor I used what I have available: zerker armor+travelers, rabid accessories, zerker back, rabid weapons. Again, I am not saying the damage is “insane” but I swear it’s scary. I wish I had recorded some figths… hilarious to see 1v2 and ppl dropping like flyies. In the end I had 2.4k armor, 1.7k attack, 1.6k condi and something around 50% crit. I know it doesn’t mean anything, but dolyaks (since they keep moving) were going down faster than when using power shatter. Same for npcs. Reckless foes have no escape. Goods ones need to stay on their toes. Loving MtD!

trooper.2650:

I see what you mean and I feel the same. However, I still prefer carrion over rabid (did try rampager… ppl were literally melting, but it’s too squishy vs competent players).
So I switched to Staff/sc+torch, carrion+scavenger, 4/4/0/0/6, double energy/poison.
Real fun I think I will stick with it for quite sometime!

Anyway, how do you feel about necromancer runes? Do you still use them even after the nerf? +15% condi duration is still great, but I preferred stronger conditions with the 7% vitality condi damage increase from scavenger. After all, 1 sec fear every 60 sec is kind of meh… what do you think?

Ps: on a side note. I went to www with the same build. Since I am rather poor I used what I have available: zerker armor+travelers, rabid accessories, zerker back, rabid weapons. Again, I am not saying the damage is “insane” but I swear it’s scary. I wish I had recorded some figths… hilarious to see 1v2 and ppl dropping like flyies. In the end I had 2.4k armor, 1.7k attack, 1.6k condi and something around 50% crit. I know it doesn’t mean anything, but dolyaks (since they keep moving) were going down faster than when using power shatter. Same for npcs. Reckless foes have no escape. Goods ones need to stay on their toes. Loving MtD!

scavenger with carrion is better as your base hp higher but the difference to condi dmg is not noticabel as much as you think (maybe +7 to beeld +5 to torment +15 to confusion for one stack)
but the hp steal is nice
nightmare runes even with 1 sec fear is nice as i use mirror trait which is another cc and agasint necro its another fear so if they use stunbreak then i get the upper hand and if they dont the condi is still ticking for 1 free seconds without being cleansed

i dont play it in wvw as i hardly find good players so they get killed very fast and just qq on wisper. or sometime i get only zerg so i get bored with it
in tpvp its much nicer